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Introduction 1

Revolutionary Technologies？ 2

Determinisms 3

The social determination of technology 4

Technological enablement 5

Base，superstructure，infrastructure 7

The structure of the book 9

1 Key Elements of Digital Media 12

Technical Processes 14

Digital 14

Networked 15

Interactive 15

Hypertextual/Hypermediated 17

Automated 19

Databased 20

Cultural Forms 21

Context （or lack of it） 22

Variability 24

Rhizome 26

Process 29

Immersive Experiences 30

Telepresence 31

Virtuality 32

Simulation 33

Case Study：What Are Video Games？A Conundrum of Digital Culture 39

Are video games ‘narratives’？ 40

Are video games ‘games’？ 41

Are video games ‘simulations’？ 42

Conclusion 43

Further Reading 44

Notes 44

2 The Economic Foundations of the Information Age 46

Post-industrialism 49

Problems with the post-industrial thesis 51

The Information Society 52

Post-Fordism and Globalisation 54

Informationalism and the Network Society 57

The structure of networks 60

The space of flows and timeless time 61

Network economy and network enterprise 62

Weightless Economies，Intellectual Property and the Commodification of Knowledge 64

Weightless money 64

Weightless services 65

Weightless products 66

The advantages of a weightless economy 66

（Intellectual） property in a weightless economy 67

Information feudalism 69

Conclusion 70

Further Reading 71

3 Convergence and the Contemporary Media Experience 72

Technological Convergence 73

Regulatory Convergence 75

Media Industry Convergence 77

Concerns about media convergence 79

Convergence Culture and the New Media Experience 81

The creation of cross-media experiences 82

Participatory media culture 83

Collective intelligence 85

Producers，Consumers and ‘Produsage’ 86

Case Study：The Changing Culture Industry of Digital Music 88

The diginisation of music and its discontents 89

‘Mash-ups’ and the crisis of authorship in digital culture 90

Digital music cultures and music consumption 92

Conclusion 93

Further Reading 94

4 Digital Inequality：Social，Political and Infrastructural Contexts 95

‘Digital Divides’ and ‘Access’ 98

Domestic Digital Divides 99

Global Digital Divides 101

Mobile Phones，Access and the Developing World 104

Economic reasons 106

Social reasons 106

Legislative reasons 107

The Benefits of Mobile Telephony for the Developing World 107

Conclusion 109

Further Reading 109

5 ‘Everyone is Watching’：Privacy and Surveillance in Digital Life 111

The Changing Cultural Contexts of Privacy 113

Privacy as a legal construction：a contradiction？ 114

Digital Surveillance：Spaces，Traces and Tools 116

Key tools of digital surveillance 117

The Rise of Surveillance：Causes and Processes 119

Security imperatives：surveillance and the nation-state 120

Surveillance，control imperatives and bureaucratic structures 121

Techno-logic 122

Commercial Imperatives and the Political Economy of Surveillance 122

Marketing and personal data collection 122

Databases，data-mining，and discourses 124

The power of profiling 125

Databases and profiling：pro’s and con’s 127

Why Care About a Surveillance Society？ 128

Conclusion 132

Further Reading 133

6 Information Politics，Subversion and Warfare 134

The Political Context of Information Politics 135

ICT-Enabled Politics 138

Visibility 139

Internal organisation and mobilisation 141

External collaboration and coordination 141

Flexible organisation and ‘smart mobs’ 143

Permanent political campaigns：linear collaboration 143

An internet public sphere？ 144

Digital Disobedience：ICT-Based Activism 147

ICTs and Mainstream Politics 148

Cyber Politics by Another Means：Cyber Warfare 151

Cyber warfare as network-centric warfare 152

Cyber warfare as information warfare 153

Cyber warfare as espionage 154

Cyber warfare as economic sabotage 154

Cyber warfare as critical infrastructure attack 155

Adjunct attacks 155

Conclusion：Networks and Power 156

Further Reading 157

Notes 158

7 Digital Identity 159

‘Objects to Think With’：Early Internet Studies and Poststructuralism 162

Personal Home Pages and the ‘Re-Centring’ of the Individual 164

Personal Blogging，Individualisation and the Reflexive Project of the Self 168

Social Networks，Profiles and Networked Identity 170

Avatar and Identity 173

Case Study：Cybersex，Online Intimacy and the Self 176

The late-modern context of love and intimacy 177

Cybersex：a novel from of intimacy 178

Conclusion 181

Further Reading 183

Notes 183

8 Social Media and the Problem of Community：Space，Relationships，Networks 184

Searching for Lost Community：Urbanisation，Space and Scales of Experience 185

Community，Globalisation，Technology and Individualism 187

‘Virtual’ Communities：The Next Step？ 189

The virtues of virtual communities 190

The vices of virtual community 192

The reality of the situation 195

Network Societies，Network Socialities and Networked Individualism 197

The network society revisited 197

Networked individualism 199

The truth about networks 199

Case Study：Social Networking，Microblogging，Language and Phatic Culture 201

Technology，presence and the post-social 202

Language，technology and phatic communication 203

Conclusion 205

Further Reading 206

Notes 206

9 The Body and Information Technology 207

The Body，Technology and Society 208

The Posthuman 210

Cyborgs 211

Material as information 1：extropianism and disembodiment，or‘flesh made data’ 214

Material as information 2：technological embodiment or ‘data made flesh’ 216

Technology，Embodiment Relations and ‘Homo Faber’ 218

Embodiment relation and mobile technologies 220

Conclusion 222

Further Reading 223

Notes 223

Conclusion：Base，Superstructure and Infrastructure （Revisited） 224

References 227

Index 249