"New media" and Marshall McLuhan -- Methodological considerations. McLuhan's methodology -- Five communication ages -- To what extent do the "new media" confirm or contradict McLuhan's predictions? -- The fourteen messages of "new media" -- the "digital economy" -- Scaffolding and cascading technologies and media -- How the new media have impacted the media analyzed in Understanding media (UM). The spoken word : impact of "new media" on the spoken word -- The written word -- Roads and paper routes -- Number -- Clothing -- Housing -- Money -- Clocks -- The print -- Comics -- The printed word and books -- Wheel, bicycle, and airplane -- The photograph -- Press (newspapers) and the news -- Motorcar -- Ads -- Games -- Telegraph -- The typewriter -- The telephone -- The phonograph and new modes of recorded music -- Movies -- Raio -- Television -- Weapons -- Automation (plus the factory -- The analysis of new media not dealt with in UM : are the mass media abating in influence?. Hybrid or convergent technologies -- The multifunction printer, photocopier, scanner, and fax -- The cell phone -- The personal computer -- The PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) -- Computer software -- The Internet -- Email, instant messaging (IM) -- Bulletin boards, Usenets, Listservs, and chat -- The World Wide Web -- Blogs -- Search engines plus Google and libraries -- Video conferencing and web-based collaboration tools -- Virtual reality (VR) and simulations -- Robots, bots, and agents -- Artificial intelligence (AI) and expert systems -- "Smart tags" and dataspace -- Enabling technologies not dealt with in Understanding media.
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