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DiginationIdentity, Organization, and Public Life in the Age of Small Digital Devices and Big DigitalDomains- By R.C. MacDougall

978-1-61147-439-8 $75.00, ClothImprint: Fairleigh Dickinson University PressOctober 2011304ppSize: 6 X 9Category: Technology (Social Aspects)

The Book:Digination offers an inter-disciplinary overview of the psychic, social, and institutional effects of some of the most popular digital communication technologies and applications operating today. The book is written in an engaging style appropriate for non-specialist readers interested in broadening their awareness and enhancing their understanding of popular trends in media use.

The Author:MacDougall is associate professor in the communication department at Curry College.

Table of Contents:Understanding our Digination; Lost Logos: Finding the Art and Argument in McLuhan’s Message; Indigenous E-mail: Identity Construction and the Oral/Textual Interface; Blogs:The 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 Lifeworld:From Sound Track to Narractive 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; Appendix: The Tetrads; References; Index.