Journalism is in the middle of sweeping changes in its relationships with the communities it serves, and the audiences for news and public affairs it seeks to address. Changes in technology have blurred the lines between professionals and citizens, partisan and objective bystanders, particularly in the emerging public zones of the blogosphere. This volume examines these changes and the new concepts needed to understand them in the days and years ahead.

With contributions from up-and-coming scholars, this collection identifies key issues and paves the way for further research on the...

Every new technology invites its own sets of hopes and fears, and raises as many questions as it answers revolving around the same theme: Will technology fundamentally alter the essence of what it means to be human? Focusing on human augmentics, artificial intelligence, and sentience, this volume draws inspiration from the work of the many luminaries who approach augmented, alternative forms of intelligence and consciousness. Scholars contribute their thoughts on how human augmentic technologies and artificial or sentient forms of intelligence can be used to enable, reimagine, and...

Every new technology invites its own sets of hopes and fears, and raises as many questions as it answers revolving around the same theme: Will technology fundamentally alter the essence of what it means to be human? Focusing on human augmentics, artificial intelligence, and sentience, this volume draws inspiration from the work of the many luminaries who approach augmented, alternative forms of intelligence and consciousness. Scholars contribute their thoughts on how human augmentic technologies and artificial or sentient forms of intelligence can be used to enable, reimagine, and...

We are born, live, and die with technologies. Choices we make about technology do not involve turning technology off, but rather choosing between media and media rituals, and striving for balance in those choices. Divided into three sections, the book first examines how technologies connect, disrupt, or help us reimagine narratives of parenting and nuturing life. The second section, on life and the networked self, examines how technology sustains our ways of thinking and being, considering who we want to be and the distance between the two. Contributors also address the role technology...

We are born, live, and die with technologies. Choices we make about technology do not involve turning technology off, but rather choosing between media and media rituals, and striving for balance in those choices. Divided into three sections, the book first examines how technologies connect, disrupt, or help us reimagine narratives of parenting and nuturing life. The second section, on life and the networked self, examines how technology sustains our ways of thinking and being, considering who we want to be and the distance between the two. Contributors also address the role technology...