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New Media & Society

New Media & Society


eISSN: 14617315 | ISSN: 14614448 | Current volume: 26 | Current issue: 12 Frequency: Monthly


"Not only a key resource for keeping up to date in this fast-moving field, this journal is proving a vital resource for wide-ranging, insightful analyses of the social contexts and consequences of new information and communication technologies." Sonia Livingstone

New Media & Society is an international journal that provides an interdisciplinary forum for the examination of the social dynamics of media and information change.

New Media & Society engages in critical discussions of the key issues arising from the scale and speed of new media development, drawing on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives and on both theoretical and empirical research.

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Breadth, Vision and Critical Analysis

New Media & Society engages in critical discussions of the key issues arising from the scale and speed of new media development, drawing on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives and on both theoretical and empirical research.

The journal includes contributions on:

  • the individual and the social, the cultural and the political dimensions of new media
  • the global and local dimensions of the relationship between media and social change
  • contemporary as well as historical developments
  • the implications and impacts of, as well as the determinants and obstacles to, media change
  • the relationship between theory, policy and practice

Multidisciplinary Perspective

New Media & Society
publishes peer-reviewed content from both the social sciences and the humanities and includes contributions from communication, media and cultural studies, as well as sociology, geography, anthropology, economics and the political and information sciences. Topics to be covered include: digitalization and convergence; interactivity and virtuality; consumption and citizenship; innovation, regulation and control; the cultures of the Internet; patterns and inequalities of use; community and identity in electronic space; time and space in global culture and everyday life; the politics of cyberspace.

Editor
Steve Jones University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Reviews Editor
Dave Park Lake Forest College, USA
Editorial Assistant
Diana Casteel University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Previous Editors
Nick Jankowski  
Leah A Lievrouw University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Rohan Samarajiva LIRNEasia, Sri Lanka
Roger Silverstone London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Previous Reviews Editors
Caroline Bassett University of Sussex, UK
Keith Hampton University of Pennsylvania, USA
International Editorial Board
Colin Agur University of Minnesota, USA
Kath Albury Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Meryl Alper Northeastern University, USA
Ang Peng Hwa Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Rajiv Aricat Indian Institute of Management Ranchi, India
Matthew Barnidge University of Alabama, USA
Marco Bastos University College Dublin, Ireland and City, University of London, UK
Nancy Baym Microsoft Research, USA
Anat Ben-David The Open University of Israel, Israel
Lucy Bennett Cardiff University, UK
Sophie Bishop King’s College London, UK
Rena Bivens Carleton University , Canada
Jeffrey Layne Blevins University of Cincinnati, USA
Shelley Boulianne University of Southampton, UK
Nicholas Bowman West Virginia University, USA
Lillian Boxman-Shabtai Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Michael Braun University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Niels Brügger Aarhus University, Denmark
Taina Bucher University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Jean Burgess Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Heidi Campbell Texas A&M University, USA
Scott Campbell University of Michigan, USA
Celeste Campos-Castillo University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Matt Carlson University of Minnesota, USA
Andrew Chadwick Loughborough University, UK
Shira Chess University of Georgia, USA
Lynn Clark University of Denver, USA
Mia Consalvo Concordia University, Canada
Leen d'Heenens KU Leuven, Belgium
Mark Deuze University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
David Domingo Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Brooke Duffy Cornell University, USA
Elizabeth Ellcessor University of Virginia, USA
Charles Ess University of Oslo, Norway
Deen Freelon University of North Carolina, USA
Robert Gehl University of Utah, USA
Tarleton Gillespie Microsoft, USA
Debbie Ging Dublin City University, Ireland
Gerard Goggin Western Sydney University, Australia
Anita Greenhill University of Manchester, UK
David J. Gunkel Northern Illinois University, USA
Andrea Guzman Northern Illinois University, USA
Alex Halavais Arizona State University, USA
Eszter Hargittai University of Zurich, Switzerland
Amy Hasinoff University of Colorado, Denver, USA
Heather Horst University of Sydney, Australia
Tim Jordan University College London, UK
James Katz Boston University, USA
Christian Katzenbach Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Anne Kaun Södertörn University, Sweden
Ulrike Klinger Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Seth Lewis University of Oregon, USA
Christian Licoppe Telecom Paris, and Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
Ben Light University of Salford, UK
Carmen Llorente-Barroso Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Christoph Lutz BI Norwegian Business School, Norway
Bree McEwan University of Toronto – Mississauga, Canada
Andrew McStay Bangor University, UK
Seungahn Nah University of Florida, USA
Lisa Nakamura University of Wisconsin, USA
Susanna Paasonen University of Turku, Finland
Jean-Christophe Plantin London School of Economics, UK
Massimo Ragnedda Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK
Adrian Rauchfleisch National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Ronald Rice University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Sue Robinson University of Wisconsin, USA
Minna Ruckenstein University of Helsinki, Finland
Limor Shifman Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Marko Skoric City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Elizabeth Stoycheff Wayne State University, USA
Ted Striphas University of Colorado, USA
Harsh Taneja University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Maurice Vergeer Radboud University, Netherlands
Ran Wei The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Chris Wells Boston University, USA
Bradley Wiggins Webster Vienna Private University, Austria
Greg Wise Arizona State University, USA
Tamara Witschge University of Groningen, Netherlands
Gabriela Zago MIDIARS, Brazil
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