As media environments and communication practices evolve over time, so do theoretical concepts as well as research approaches. This book analyses some of the most known and discussed concepts of the digital age with a historical perspective, enlightening how a few of them were born in the analogue times and how they have been changed and are constantly changing in digital times. The book has three main parts: media and technologies, agency and politics, uses and practices. Chapters, written by by leading authors in media and communication studies, focus on concepts that have become central in the literature dealing with digital media, like for example “networks”, “fandom”, “interactivity”, “artificial intelligence”, “datafication”, “echo chambers”, “fake news” and many others. This edited book aims to better understand how concepts emerge and are co-shaped, circulated, used and reappropriated in different contexts. It allows to reveal the new without concealing the continuities and how analogue and digital are false dichotomies.weiterlesen