Table Of Contents:
Extracts viii
Introduction xvii
Publisher's acknowledgements xxix

PART 1 Media transitions 1(62)

Introduction 1(4)

`What is new media?' in The Language of New Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002 5(6)

Lev Manovich

`Technological revolutions and the Gutenberg Myth' in Internet Dreams. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997 11(8)

S.D. Noam Cook

`A shadow darkens' in Technologies of Freedom. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003 19(8)

Ithiel de Sola Pool

`The consumer's sublime' in American Technological Sublime. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996 27(12)

David E. Nye

`The computational metaphor', Whole Earth, Winter 1998 39(2)

Kevin Kelly

`New communications technology: a survey of impacts and issues', Telecommunications Policy, 20(5), pp. 375--387, 1996 41(22)

Michael Marien

PART 2 Governing new media 63(48)

Introduction 63(4)

`Historicising obscenity law' in On Pornography: Literature, Sexuality and Obscenity Law. London: Macmillan, 1992 67(5)

David Saunders

Ian M. Hunter

Dugald Williamson

`The tragedy of broadcast regulation' in The Internet Challenge to Television. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999 72(7)

Bruce M. Owen

`Broadcasting policy in the digital age' in Charles M. Firestone and Amy Korzick Garmer (eds) Digital Broadcasting and the Public Interest. Washington, DC: Aspen Institute, 1998 79(13)

Andrew Graham

`From public sphere to cybernetic state' in Times of the Technoculture. New York: Routledge, 1999 92(9)

Kevin Robins

Frank Webster

`Policing the thinkable', Opendemocracy.net, 2001 101(5)

Robert W. McChesney

`The myths of encroaching global media ownership', Opendemocracy.net, 2001 106(5)

Benjamin Compaine

PART 3 Properties and commons 111(48)

Introduction 111(2)

`Copyright in historical perspective' in Copyright in Historical Perspective. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 1968 113(6)

Lyman Ray Patterson

`Intellectual property and the liberal state' in Shamans, Software and Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information Society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996 119(4)

James Boyle

`Choosing metaphors' in Digital Copyright: Protecting Intellectual Property on the Internet. Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2001 123(10)

Jessica Litman

`The promise for intellectual property in cyberspace' in Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. New York: Basic Books, 2000 133(21)

Lawrence Lessig

`Why software should not have owners' in Free Software: Free Society. Boston, MA: Free Software Foundation, 2002 154(5)

Richard Stallman

PART 4 Politics of new media technologies 159(62)

Introduction 159(4)

`On interactivity' in Political Machines: Governing a Technological Society. London: Athlone Press, 2001 163(25)

Andrew Barry

`Pangloss, Pandora or Jefferson? Three scenarios for the future of technology and strong democracy', in A Passion for Democracy: American Essays, Princeton University Press, pp. 245--257, 2000 188(15)

Benjamin R. Barber

`Citizens' in Republic.com. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001 203(9)

Cass Sunstein

`Abstraction/class' in A Hacker Manifesto. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004 212(9)

McKenzie Wark

PART 5 Time and space in the age of information 221(58)

Introduction 221(4)

`Technology and ideology: the case of the telegraph' in Communication as Culture. London: Routledge, 1989 225(19)

James Carey

`Reflections on time, time--space compression and technology in the nineteenth century' in M. Crang P. Crang and J. May (eds), Virtual Geographies: Bodies, Space and Relations. New York: Routledge, 1999 244(5)

Jeremy Stein

`On the move: technology, mobility, and the mediation of social time and space', The Information Society, 18(4), pp. 281--292, 2002 249(17)

Nicola Green

`Time and the internet', Time and Society, 9(1), pp. 48--55, 2001 266(6)

Heejin Lee

Jonathan Liebenau

`Speed is contagious' in Tyranny of the Moment: Fast and Slow Time in the Age of Information. London: Pluto Press, 2001 272(7)

Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Biographical notes 279(6)
Bibliography 285(26)
Index 311