Hi all, Some colleagues may be interested in this new book by me and Sherman Young, published today. Introduction and TOC available at the 'download sample chapter' link here: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=344515 "Media are what we do. With this deceptively simple yet particularly powerful assertion, Meikle and Young successfully benchmark contemporary media" -- Mark Deuze. "Meikle and Young's 'Media Convergence' is intelligent, sensible, precise and timely" -- David Gauntlett. This book is about how networked digital media are being used to bring together people and ideas, images and texts, industries and technologies in new ways < media convergence. The book explores the development of the Internet, the rise of social media, the global expansion and consolidation of the major media corporations, and the new opportunities for audiences to create, remix, collaborate upon and share their own media. The book focuses on how everyday media < such as Facebook, iTunes, Google and the BBC iPlayer < can be understood in new ways for the twenty-first century through ideas of convergence. Best regards, gm Dr Graham Meikle ---------------------- Senior Lecturer, Communications, Media & Culture, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Stirling, FK9 4LA, Scotland. T: +44 (0) 1786 466222 F: +44 (0) 1786 466855 E: <graham.meikle@stir.ac.uk> W: <http://www.fmj.stir.ac.uk/staff/graham-meikle/graham-meikle.php> -- The Sunday Times Scottish University of the Year 2009/2010 The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.