Bucy, Erik P.

Living in the Information Age : A New Media Reader (with Infotrac) [With Infotrac]

PREFACE xi I THE NEW INFORMATION AND ENTERTAINMENT ECOLOGY 1(64) 1 The Communications Revolution 3(30) 1-1 The Roots of Revolution 3(8) Frances Cairncross The Trendspotter's Guide to New Communications 7(1) Frances Cairncross 1-2 Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society 11(10) James R. Beniger 1-3 Renaissance Now! Media Ecology and the New Global Narrative 21(12) Douglas Rushkoff 2 New Media Theory 33(32) 2-1 Principles of Mediamorphosis 33(9) Roger Fidler 2-2 A New World (Small Pieces Loosely Joined) 42(8) David Weinberger 2-3 Remediation 50(9) Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin 2-4 Uses of the Mass Media 59(8) Werner J. Severin and James W. Tankard Jr. II CONVERGENCE AND CONCENTRATION IN THE MEDIA INDUSTRIES 65(50) 3 Convergence, Content, and Interactivity 67(25) 3-1 Convergence and Its Consequences 67(6) John Pavlik and Shawn McIntosh 3-2 The Civil War Inside Sony 73(7) Frank Rose 3-3 The Fast-Forward, On-Demand, Network-Smashing Future of Television 80(6) Frank Rose TiVo's Turning Point: It Redefined Television. Now Comes Competition. 84(1) Josh McHugh 3-4 Digital Cinema, Take 2 86(6) Michael A. Hiltzik 4 Media Concentration 92(23) 4-1 The New Global Media 92(5) Robert W. McChesney 4-2 Global Media 97(5) Benjamin Cormpaine 4-3 The Threat to the Net 102(4) Pat Afderheide 4-4 Big World: How Clear Channel Programs America 106(11) Jeff Sharlet III NEW TECHNOLOGIES, THE SELF, AND SOCIAL LIFE 115(48) 5 At the Interface: New Intimacies, New Cultures 117(22) 5-1 A Nation of Voyeurs 117(8) Neil Swidey 5-2 Toy Soldiers 125(4) Mark Frauenfeldcr 5-3 Weblogs: A History and Perspective 129(4) Rebecca Blood 5-4 Love.com 133(6) Anna Mulrine 6 Media Saturation and the Increasing Velocity of Everyday Life 139(24) 6-1 Supersaturation, or The Media Torrent and Disposable Feeling 139(7) Todd Gitlin 6-2 Prest-o! Change-o! 146(5) James Gleick 6-3 Spam Wars 151(6) Evan T. Schwartz 6-4 The First Law of Data Smog 157(8) David Shenk IV SOCIAL IMPACTS OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES 163(56) 7 Networked Computing: Promises and Paradoxes 165(23) 7-1 The World Wide Web Unleashed 165(7) John December 7-2 The Productivity Puzzle 172(5) Thomas K. Landaner 7-3 Computer Age Gains Respect of Economists 177(4) Steve Lohr 7-4 The Computer Delusion 181(7) Todd Oppenheimer 8 Questioning Information Technology 188(31) 8-1 Further Explorations into the Culture of Computing 188(5) Clifford Stoll 8-2 Plan 9 from Cyberspace: The Implications of the Internet for Personality and Social Psychology 193(12) Katclyn Y. A. McKenna and John A. Barth 8-3 Absolute PowerPoint: Can a Software Package Edit Our Thoughts? 205(7) Ian Parker 8-4 The Myth of Order: The Real Lesson of Y2K 212(9) Ellen Ullman V NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE 219(64) 9 Electronic Democracy 221(34) 9-1 Media Participation: A Legitimizing Mechanism of Mass Democracy 221(10) Erik P. Bucy and Kimberly S. Gregson 9-2 Smart Mobs: The Power of the Mobile Many 231(8) Howard Rheingold 9-3 Universal Access to E-mail 239(6) Robert H. Anderson, Torn K. Bikson, Sally Ann Lau, and Bridger M. Mitchell 9-4 Fragmentation and Cybercascades 245(10) Cass R. Sunstein 10 The Digital Divide 255(1) 10-1 Rethinking the Digital Divide 255(9) Jennifer S. Light 10-2 Routes to Media Access 264(8) John E. Newhagen and Erik P. Bucy 10-3 The Rise of the Overclass: How the New Elite Scrambled Up the Merit Ladder and Wants to Stay There Any Way It Can 272(5) Jerry Adler 10-4 Tech Savvy: Educating Girls in the New Computer Age 277(8) Sherry Turkle, Patricia Diaz Dennis, et al. VI POLICING THE ELECTRONIC WORLD: ISSUES AND ETHICS 283(1) 11 Copyright and Regulation 285(48) 11-1 Who Will Own Your Next Good Idea? 285(6) Charles C. Mann 11-2 The Next Economy of Ideas 291(5) John Perry Barlow 11-3 Free 296(7) Lawrence Lessig 11-4 The Race to Kill Kazaa 303(5) Todd Woody 12 Privacy and Surveillance 308(1) 12-1 Remembrance of Data Passed: A Study of Disk Sanitization Practices 308(10) Simson L. Garfinkel and Abhi Shelat 12-2 In Defense of the Delete Key 318(4) James M. Rosenbaum 12-3 Privacy and the New Technology: What They Do Know Can Hurt You 322(5) Simson L. Garfinkel 12-4 The Challenge of an Open Society 327(6) David Brill INDEX 333