Description |
xxx, 326 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents |
Pt. 1 Media transitions -- What is new media? / Lev Manovich -- Technological revolutions and the Gutenberg myth / S. D. Noam Cook -- A shadow darkens / Ithiel de Sola Pool -- The consumer's sublime / David E. Nye -- The computational metaphor / Kevin Kelly -- New communications technology : a survey of impacts and issues / Michael Marien -- Pt. 2 Governing new media -- Historicising obscenity law / David Saunders, Ian M. Hunter and Dugald Williamson -- The tragedy of broadcast regulation / Bruce M. Owen -- Broadcasting policy in the digital age / Andrew Graham -- From public sphere to cybernetic state / Kevin Robins and Frank Webster -- Policing the thinkable / Robert W. McChesney -- The myths of encroaching global media ownership / Benjamin Compaine -- Pt. 3 Properties and commons -- Copyright in historical perspective / Lyman Ray Patterson -- Intellectual property and the liberal state / James Boyle -- Choosing metaphors / Jessica Litman -- The promise for intellectual property in cyberspace / Lawrence Lessig -- Why software should not have owners / Richard Stallman -- Pt. 4 Politics of new media technologies -- On interactivity / Andrew Barry -- Pangloss, Pandora or Jefferson? Three scenarios for the future of technology and strong democracy / Benjamin R. Barber -- Citizens / Cass Sunstein -- Abstraction/class / McKenzie Wark -- Pt. 5 Time and space in the age of information -- Technology and ideology : the case of the telegraph / James Carey -- Reflections on time, time-space compression and technology in the nineteenth century / Jeremy Stein -- On the move : technology, mobility, and the mediation of social time and space / Nicola Green -- Time and the internet / Heejin Lee and Jonathan Liebenau -- Speed is contagious / Thomas Hylland Eriksen |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-309) and index |
Subject |
Mass media -- Technological innovations.
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Mass media -- Social aspects.
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Mass media -- Political aspects.
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Author |
Hassan, Robert, 1959-
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Thomas, Julian, 1963-
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ISBN |
0335217109 paperback |
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0335217117 hardback |
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