Berg is the imprint of Oxford International Publishers Ltd. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the written permission of Berg. Current titles in this series include: Mobile Communications: An Introduction to New Media The Internet: An Introduction to New Media Games and Gaming: An Introduction to New Mediaįorthcoming titles in this series will include: Digital Broadcasting: An Introduction to New Media Digital Arts: An Introduction to New MediaĮnglish edition First published in 2011 by Berg Editorial offices: First Floor, Angel Court, 81 St Clements Street, Oxford OX4 1AW, UK 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA © Larissa Hjorth 2011 All rights reserved. The volumes take a broad approach to the subject, assessing how technologies and issues related to them are located in their social, cultural, political and economic contexts.

The series aims to provide students with historically grounded and theoretically informed studies of significant aspects of new media. Also included is an extensive examination of their popular competitive puzzle game, Magical Drop, and of course, the ninja-fighting, president-saving Bad Dudes and its pseudo-sequel Two Crude Dudes.ISSN 1753-724X Edited by Leslie Haddon, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Sciences, and Nicola Green, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey.

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