MacDougall, Robert C.

Digination : identity, organization, and public life in the age of small digital devices and big digital domains / Robert C. MacDougall. - Madison [N.J.] : Lanham, Md. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Rowman & Littlefield, c2012. - x, 309 p. ; 24 cm. - The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in communication studies . - Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in communication studies. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Understanding our digination -- Lost logos: finding the art and argument in McLuhan's message -- Indigenous e-mail: identity construction at the oral/textual interface -- Blogs: the new news medium -- Information, interactivity, and the denizen of digination -- Search engineering and the emerging information ecology -- Portable digital music devices and the sound-tracked lifeworld -- Podcasting and the lifeworld: from sound track to narrative track -- Knitting, napping, and notebook computers (and other mnemotechnical systems) -- Ebay ethics: prefiguring the "digital democracy" -- Media ecology and a biological approach to understanding our digination.

9781611474398 (cloth : alk. paper) 1611474396 (cloth : alk. paper) 9781611474404 (ebook) 161147440X (ebook)

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Information technology--Social aspects.
Digital media--Social aspects.
Mass media--Technological innovations.
Telecommunication--Social aspects.
Information society.

HM 851 / .M325 2012