The advantages of networking are widely known in many areas, i.e. from business to personal areas. One particular area where networks have also proved their benefi ts is education. Taking the Higher Education level into consideration, it is easy to fi nd many successful and fruitful examples of networks both in the long and short past. More recently, the advent and wide use of the Internet has ...

The recent emergence of new media, or better, new communication technologies, has afforded substantial commentary regarding societal effects, the latest chapter in a decades-old trend that rises and falls with each new communication technology. Whereas this article does not deny that the current generation of communication technologies differs from predecessors, it argues against the need for w...

There is an explosion of digital means by which people can shape and share stories about themselves. New media and new conditions of telling ‘my’ or ‘our’ story are open to more individuals and groups in society.This special section of New Media & Society relates to such self-representational uses of the new means. Digital stories made by amateurs may encourage social participation in those con...

The emergence of network forms of organization on many business markets has led to the development of new management activities. One core activity is the management of a company's relationships with partners in strategic alliances. Responsibilities for alliance management are increasingly attributed to a new type of formal position, the alliance manager. Based on empirical data from the IT sect...

This chapter gives an exploratory overview of the emergence and growth of new media in Uganda and how the alternative nature of new media is scaffolding the notion of citizenship and deliberative democracy. The chapter also suggests that despite the new found vigour, it is too early to say whether the Ugandan new media landscape have so far become a true alternative or complementary participato...

Changing customer demands, fuelled by the emergence of digital technologies, are compelling enterprises to rethink their product strategy—concept and development. Products are evolving at an unprecedented pace and comprise more digital components than ever before. Digital technologies are enabling products to express themselves, monitor their own actions, and connect with each other. This is le...

This paper studies the emergence of cooperation in the NPlayer Prisoner’s Dilemma (NPD) using a tag-mediated interaction model. Tags have been widely used to bias agent pairwise interactions which facilitates the emergence of cooperation. This paper shows some of the key parameters that influence the emergence of cooperation in an evolutionary setting. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate th...

I had the pleasure of reviewing Action Research and New Media (Hearn, G., Tacchi, J., Foth, M., & Lennie, J., 2009) and found it to provide a timely discussion of how action research methodology can be integrated into the exploration, development, and application of today’s new media. I found this text to be both relevant to my own research interests around the use of action research to better ...

New media are often addressed within the growing field of surveillance studies, but technologies predating the late twentieth century are rarely considered. This essay challenges conventional histories of modern surveillance by highlighting the cultural impact of three ‘old’ new media: photography, the phonograph, and the telephone. Drawing upon the work of historian Carlo Ginzburg (1990), I ar...

This paper presents a case study of a community technology center (CTC) located in a lower income neighborhood of a high-tech city. Participant observation and interview-based research determined that while the CTC was popular among its targeted constituents, its use was not consistent with what the center’s supporters and policymakers envisioned. The emergent discrepancy between policymaker rh...