The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in the Digital Age
The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in the Digital Age
Joseph Turow and Lokman Tsui, Editors
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2008
Cloth / 978-0-472-07043-5 / $70.00 ; Paper / 978-0-472-05043-7 / $24.95
Investigates the multi-faceted nature of hyperlinks and their consequences for commerce, communication, and civic discourse in the world of digital media.
"Links" are among the most basic---and most unexamined---features of online life. Bringing together a prominent array of thinkers from industry and the academy, The Hyperlinked Society addresses a provocative series of questions about the ways in which hyperlinks organize behavior online. How do media producers' considerations of links change the way they approach their work, and how do these considerations in turn affect the ways that audiences consume news and entertainment? What role do economic and political considerations play in information producers' creation of links? How do links shape the size and scope of the public sphere in the digital age? Are hyperlinks "bridging" mechanisms that encourage people to see beyond their personal beliefs to a broader and more diverse world? Or do they simply reinforce existing bonds by encouraging people to ignore social and political perspectives that conflict with their existing interests and beliefs?
This pathbreaking collection of essays will be valuable to anyone interested in the now taken for granted connections that structure communication, commerce, and civic discourse in the world of digital media.
"This collection provides a broad and deep examination of the social, political, and economic implications of the evolving, web-based media environment. The Hyperlinked Society will be a very useful contribution to the scholarly debate about the role of the internet in modern society, and especially about the interaction between the internet and other media systems in modern society."
Charles Steinfield, Professor and Chairperson, Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media, Michigan State University.
Joseph Turow is Robert Lewis Shayon Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, and author of nine books, including Niche Envy: Marketing Discrimination in the Digital Age and Breaking up America: Advertisers and the New Media World.
Lokman Tsui is a doctoral candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. His research interests center on new media and global communication.
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Contents
Introduction: On Not Taking the Hyperlink for Granted / Joseph Turow
Part 1: Hyperlinks and the Organization of Attention
Preface to Part 1
Structuring a Marketplace of Attention / James G. Webster
The Hyperlink as Organizing Principle / Alexander Halavais
Hyperlinking and the Forces of “Massification” / Philip M. Napoli
The Hyperlink in Newspapers and Blogs / Lokman Tsui
The Role of Expertise in Navigating Links of Influence / Eszter Hargittai
Google, Links, and Popularity versus Authority / Seth Finkelstein
Part 2: Hyperlinks and the Business of Media
Preface to Part 2
The Hyperlinked News Organization / Martin Nisenholtz
How Hyperlinks Ought to Change the Advertising Business /Tom Hespos
Hyperlinks and Marketing Insight / Stacey Lynn Schulman
Hyperlinking and Advertising Strategy / Eric Picard
From Hyperlinks to Hyperties / Marc A. Smith
Part 3: Hyperlinks, the Individual and the Social
Preface to Part 3
The Morality of Links / David Weinberger
Linked Geographies: Maps as Mediators of Reality / Stefaan G. Verhulst
Will Peasants Map? Hyperlinks, Map Mashups, and the Future of Information / Jeremy W. Crampton
The Social Hyperlink / Lada A. Adamic
Are Hyperlinks “Weak Ties”? / Markus Prior
What Is the Online Public Sphere Good For? / Matthew Hindman
Selected Bibliography
About the Authors
Index
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