Table of Contents

Part One: New Media, Culture and Society
Interpersonal Life Online - Nancy Baym
Creating Community with Media: History, Theories and Scientific Investigations - Nicholas W Jankowski
Children and New Media - David Buckingham
Perspectives on Internet Use - Ronald E Rice and Caroline Haythornthwaite
Access, Involvement and Interaction
New Media and Small Group Organizing - Andrea B Hollingshead and Noshir S Contractor
Culture and New Media: A Historical View - Mark Poster
Cultural Studies and Communication Technology - Jennifer Daryl Slack and J Macgregor Wise
Power and Political Culture - Timothy W Luke
Part Two: Technology Systems, Design and Industries - Patrice Flichy
New Media History
Exploring Models of Interactivity from Multiple Research Traditions - Sally J McMillan
Users, Documents, Systems
How to Infrastructure - Susan Leigh Star and Geoffrey C Bowker
New Media Design and Development - Leah A Lievrouw
Diffusion of Innovations vs Social Shaping of Technology
New Media and New Economy Cluster Dynamics - Philip Cooke
Globalization and the Structure of New Media Industries - Terry Flew and Stephen McElhinney
Universal Access to the New Information Infrastructure - Heather E Hudson
Part Three: New Media, Institutions and Governance - Stefaan G Verhulst
The Regulation of Digital Content
From Hierarchies to Network Firms - François Bar with Caroline Simard
New Media and the Economics of Information - Don Lamberton
New Media and Trade Policy - Anders Henten and Knud Erik Skouby
The Governance of Media Markets - Bella Mody, Harry M Trebing and Laura Stein
New Global Media and The Role of the State - Laura Stein and Nikhil Sinha
The Information Society Revisited - Frank Webster

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