Front Cover; Half title ; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Extracts; Introduction; Publisher's acknowledgements; PART 1 Media transitions; 1.1 Lev Manovich: 'What is new media?' in The Language of New Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002; 1.2 S.D. Noam Cook: 'Technological revolutions and the Gutenberg Myth' in Internet Dreams. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997; 1.3 Ithiel de Sola Pool: 'A shadow darkens' in Technologies of Freedom. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003; 1.4 David E. Nye: 'The consumer's sublime' in American Technological Sublime. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996.
1.5 Kevin Kelly: 'The computational metaphor', Whole Earth, Winter 19981.6 Michael Marien: 'New communications technology: a survey of impacts and issues', Telecommunications Policy, 20(5), pp. 375-387, 1996; PART 2 Governing new media; 2.1 David Saunders, Ian M. Hunter and Dugald Williamson: 'Historicising obscenity law' in On Pornography: Literature, Sexuality and Obscenity Law. London: Macmillan, 1992; 2.2 Bruce M. Owen: 'The tragedy of broadcast regulation' in The Internet Challenge to Television. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.
2.3 Andrew Graham: '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, 19982.4 Kevin Robins and Frank Webster: 'From public sphere to cybernetic state' in Times of the Technoculture. New York: Routledge, 1999; 2.5 Robert W. McChesney: 'Policing the thinkable', Opendemocracy.net, 2001; 2.6 Benjamin Compaine: 'The myths of encroaching global media ownership', Opendemocracy.net, 2001; PART 3 Properties and commons.
3.1 Lyman Ray Patterson: 'Copyright in historical perspective' in Copyright in Historical Perspective. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 19683.2 James Boyle: '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; 3.3 Jessica Litman: 'Choosing metaphors' in Digital Copyright: Protecting Intellectual Property on the Internet. Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2001.
3.4 Lawrence Lessig: 'The promise for intellectual property in cyberspace' in Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. New York: Basic Books, 20003.5 Richard Stallman: 'Why software should not have owners' in Free Software: Free Society. Boston, MA: Free Software Foundation, 2002; PART 4 Politics of new media technologies; 4.1 Andrew Barry: 'On interactivity' in Political Machines: Governing a Technological Society. London: Athlone Press, 2001.
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The study of new media opens up some of the most fascinating issues in contemporary culture: questions of ownership and control over information and cultural goods; the changing experience of space and time; the political consequences of new communication technologies; and the power of users and consumers to disrupt established economic and business models. "The New Media Theory Reader" brings together key readings on new media - what it is, where it came from, how it affects our lives, and how it is managed. Using work from media studies, cultural history and cultural studies, economics, law, and politics, the essays encourage readers to pay close attention to the 'new' in new media, as well as considering it as a historical phenomenon. The Reader features a general introduction as well as an editors' introduction to each thematic section, and a useful summary of each reading. "The New Media Theory Reader" is an indispensable text for students on new media, technology, sociology and media studies courses.; It includes essays by: Andrew Barry, Benjamin R Barber, James Boyle, James Carey, Benjamin Compaine, Noam Cook, Andrew Graham, Nicola Green, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Ian Hunter, Kevin Kelly, Heejin Lee, Lawrence Lessig, Jonathan Liebenau, Jessica Litman, Lev Manovich, Michael Marien Robert W. McChesney David E. Nye, Bruce M Owen Lyman Ray Patterson, Kevin Robins, Ithiel de Sola Pool, David Saunders, Richard Stallman, Cass R. Sunstein, Jeremy Stein, McKenzie Wark, Frank Webster, and Dugald Williamson.