Table of Contents

PART 1: New media and New Technologies 1. What are the New Media? 2. The Characteristic s of New Media: some defining concepts 3. Change and Continuity 4. What Kind of History? 5. Who was Dissatisfied with Old Media? 6. What is a Medium: New or Otherwise?: The Williams/Mcluhan Debate. PART 2: Virtual Reality and Visual Culture 7. VR, Art and Visual Culture 8. Digital Cinema. PART 3: New Media Networks 9. New Media Networks: 'The Information Economy' 10. Economic Epochs and 'Old Media' 11. Political Economy and Postmodernity 12. What is Political Economy ? 13. Political Economy and New Media 14. Post Industrial Economies 15. The Development of the New Economy 16. Technological Agency: Economics and Politics - Inventions and Developments 17. Technological Agency: Economics and Politics - Globalisation and 18. Telecommunications 19. Beyond Economic Determinism 20. New Media and Intellectual Property Rights 21. Fragmentation and convergence 22. Consumer Surveillance 23. Cyborg Economics PART 4: Culture, Technology, Nature. 24. Revisiting Determinism 25. Technology Evolving: Clockwork, Steam, Cybernetics) PART 5: New Media, Cyberspace and Everyday Life 26. Everyday Life in Cyberspace 27. Games and gaming 28. The cybernetic shaping of identity 29. Edutainment

Reviews

'The breadth and scope and critical awareness is impressive and it succeeds in systematically linking the main issues in the field to a cultural and media studies perspective.' - Tiziana Terranova, University of Essex 'A comprehensive and significant account of the origins and consequences of 'new media'. This book will prove invaluable to all theorists and practitioners and provides thought provoking insights into the relationships between media technologies, their makers and users.' N - Mark Banks, Manchester Metropolitan University