Understanding New Media

Eugenia Siapera is a Professor of Digital Technology, Society and Policy at University College Dublin where she is also the Director of the Centre for Digital Policy (with Elizabeth Farries). Her research interests are in the area of digital media and technologies and their intersections with questions of social justice. She has published widely on topics such as race and digital racism, platform governance, digital journalism, and online misogyny.

Eugenia Siapera’s Understanding New Media has long been essential reading for both students and scholars. The highly anticipated third edition of this landmark book is thoroughly up-to-date, reflecting the rapidly evolving media landscape dominated by digital platforms. Understanding New Media provides a solid foundation in new media theories, empirical research, and critical questions surrounding new media.With a diverse array of perspectives, Siapera examines key topics such as platformization, artificial intelligence and digital wellbeing. Accessible and thought-provoking, it features insightful case studies and activities that deepen the reader’s understanding of the implications of new media on social, political and cultural life.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Media Old and NewChapter 2: Political EconomyChapter 3: Platforms as New MediaChapter 4: Artificial IntelligenceChapter 5: Politics and ActivismChapter 6: Populism and ExtremismChapter 7: Race and GenderChapter 8: Journalism and MisinformationChapter 9: Being Social in a Digital Age, ChapterChapter 10: Uses and AbusesChapter 11: Representation and the VisualChapter 12: Security and Surveillance