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Article: THE NEW MEDIA BOOK, LONDON
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- Metro : Media & Education Magazine
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- April 1, 2004
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DAN HARRIES, (ED.), THE NEW MEDIA BOOK, LONDON BFI Publishing, 2002.
REVIEWED BY TAMA LEAVER
Dan Harries' edited collection The New Media Book, starts with the very sensible question of what exactly constitutes the newness of new media: 'Is it the new ways in which we interact with media? Is it the new convergences (and bundling) of media technologies? Or is it the increasing interdependence (and overlap) of various media products?' (p.ix) Harries argues that all of these factors make new media new, and his volume clearly explores these elements in five separate but linked sections which seek to explicate some of the ways in which new media operates in and on culture. The five themed ...