Table of Contents

Introduction - Leah A Lievrouw and Sonia Livingstone
The Social Shaping and Consequences of ICTs
PART ONE: THE CHANGING SOCIAL LANDSCAPE
Introduction - Sonia Livingstone
The Information Society Revisited - Frank Webster
Creating Community with Media - Nicholas W Jankowski
History, Theories and Scientific Investigations
Politics and New Media - Sara Bentivegna
Interpersonal Life Online - Nancy K Baym
The Electronic Generation? - David Buckingham
Children and New Media
New Media and New Literacies - Douglas Kellner
Reconstructing Education for the New Millennium
Primary Issues in Internet Use - Ronald E Rice
Access, Civic and Community Involvement, and Social Interaction and Expression
PART TWO: TECHNOLOGY DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
Introduction - Leah A Lievrouw
New Media History - Patrice Flichy
How to Infrastructure - Susan Leigh Star and Geoffrey C Bowker
Exploring Models of Interactivity from Multiple Research Traditions - Sally J McMillan
Users, Documents and Systems
Determination and Contingency in New Media Development - Leah A Lievrouw
Diffusion of Innovations and Social Shaping of Technology Perspectives
PART THREE: NEW MEDIA AND ORGANIZING
Introduction - Noshir S Contractor
Smart Agents and Organizations of the Future - Kathleen M Carley
New Media and Organizing at the Group Level - Andrea B Hollingshead and Noshir S Contractor
The Social Construction of Technology in Studies of the Workplace - Mich[gr]ele H Jackson, Marshall Scott Poole and Tim Kuhn
New Media Implementation and Industrial Organization - Fran[ce]cois Bar with Caroline Simard
PART FOUR: SYSTEMS, INDUSTRIES AND MARKETS
Introduction - John Ure
The Development and Use of Online Newspapers - Pablo J Boczkowski
What Research Tells Us and What We Might Want to Know
New Media and New Economy Cluster Dynamics - Philip Cooke
Globalization and the Structure of New Media Industries - Terry Flew and Stephen McElhinney
Information Society, Trade and Industry Policy - Anders Henten and Knud Erik Skouby
The Economics of Information and Industrial Change - Don Lamberton
The New Economy - Peter Lovelock and John Ure
Internet, Telecommunications and Electronic Commerce?
Universal Access to the New Information Infrastructure - Heather E Hudson
PART FIVE: POLICY AND REGULATION
Introduction - Bella Mody, Harry M Trebing and Laura Stein
The Governance of Media Markets
Wired Cities and Transnational Communications - Dwayne Winseck
New Forms of Governance for Telecommunications and the New Media
New Global Media and Communication Policy - Laura Stein and Nikhil Sinha
The Role of the State in the Twenty-First Century
About Scarcities and Intermediaries - Stefaan G Verhulst
The Regulatory Paradigm Shift of Digital Content Reviewed
The Real Digital Divide - Oscar H Gandy Jr
Citizens versus Consumers
Labour and New Media - Gwen Urey
PART SIX: CULTURE AND NEW MEDIA
Introduction - Mark Poster
Cultural Studies and Technology - Jennifer Daryl Slack and J Macgregor Wise
Discursive Displacement and the Seminal Ambiguity of Space and Place - Michael R Curry
Power and Political Culture - Timothy W Luke
Social Relationships and Identity Online and Offline - Don Slater

About the Author

Sonia Livingstone DPhil (Oxon), OBE, FBA, FBPS, FAcSS, FRSA, is a professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Taking a comparative, critical and contextualised approach, her research examines how changing conditions of mediation reshape everyday practices and possibilities for action. She has published 20 books on media audiences, children and young people’s risks and opportunities, media literacy and rights in the digital environment, including “Parenting for a Digital Future: How hopes and fears about technology shape children’s lives” (OUP 2020). Since founding the EC-funded 33 country “EU Kids Online” research network, and Global Kids Online (with UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti), she has advised DCMS, UKCIS, Ofcom, European Commission, European Parliament, UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, OECD, ITU and UNICEF. She chaired LSE’s Truth, Trust and Technology Commission and is currently leading the Digital Futures Commission with the 5Rights Foundation. See www.sonialivingstone.net

Reviews

′A landmark volume that provides a foundation stone for a new subject - the study of new media. It is stunningly well-edited, offering a very high standard of original contributions in a skilfully orchestrated and organised textbook′ - James Curran, Goldsmiths College, University of London `This is the first major review of interactive technologies and their cultural and social context. This is more than a welcome addition to one′s library; it is the authoritative overview of international research perspectives on interactive media technologies by leading scholars around the world′ - Ellen Wartella, University of Texas, Austin `The Handbook of New Media is a landmark for the study of information and communication technologies within the field of communication. Its international team of editors and authors has brought together insights gained from over two decades of scholarly research. This indispensable reference demonstrates an increased maturity and stature for "new media" research within the field′ - William H Dutton, University of Southern California `A truly comprehensive and authoritative volume. This Handbook will be an absolutely essential text for anyone concerned with social aspects of the new media′ - Kevin Robins, Goldsmiths College, University of London `Not only has the New Media grown explosively, so has research in the field. This book admirably provides the needed stock-taking from leading authorities in the field′ - Barry Wellman, University of Toronto