"Very enlightening and thought provoking"
(Prof. Chris Arney in Mathematics and Computer Education Journal)
 

"Definitely worth processing, in any media form"
(Prof. Greg Kearsley in Educational Technology Magazine)

 

The Digital Turn

 

How the Internet Transforms Our Existence

 

Wim Westera
 

Buy the book, or just download the free PDF!  

 

Home preface.htm table_of_contents.htm Excerpts.htm author.htm

 
    

What The Digital Turn is about

The Digital Turn provides a helicopter view of digital media and their impact on our lives. It explains how the ever-growing flood of digital media affects our understanding of the world. The book analyses the world of Twitter, Apple, Facebook and Google and describes how our digitally-enhanced biotope alters our behaviours, social interactions, the economy, and culture as a whole. It explains the mechanisms and consequences of engaging in online spaces and investigates how we can avoid losing grip of our identity, friendship, social engagement, and eventually life at large. The book offers an accessible means for attaining a better understanding of the ways digital media influence our existence. It is a compact guide to becoming media literate and to preparing us for the advanced digital services that are yet to come. This makes the book an indispensable aid for every twenty-first century citizen.

 

Also visit my personal web site for papers and articles

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Digital Turn is available as hardcopy on multiple online booksellers.
ISBN: 978-1-4772-5032-7 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-4772-5033-4 (e)
310 pages

Order now at Authorhouse UK Online Book Shop, £12.95 ($19.76)

 

E-book version: $3.99

For Kindle, NOOK, iPhone, iPad, Ipod, KOBO eReader, Bluefire, Stanza, Sony eReader, and PDF