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Every chapter includes “Questions for Discussion” and “Comprehension.”
Preface.
Change and Uncertainty.
Time’s “Person of the Year.”
An Event and a Nonevent.
The Digital Age Is Here.
The Real Digital Age: Dot-Com Maturity.
Endnotes.
1. An Overview of Digital Media.
Factors Leading to a Digital Media Environment.
2. Networks and Infrastructures.
Early Communication and Information Networks.
Electricity and the Rise of Modern Telecommunications.
Telecommunication Networks Today.
3. Changes Affecting Traditional Mass Media.
Digitizing the Traditional Mass Media.
Traditional Mass Media and Digital Media.
Ethics and Standards.
From Books to eBooks.
Newspapers and Magazines.
Radio and Television.
4. Knowing the Lingo.
The Net Lingo.
The Basics.
Hardware and Software.
Networking and Digital Media.
We're Watching You.
5. Digital Media in Our Lives.
Quiet Revolutions.
Digital Media as the Norm?
The Digital "Groundwork."
Convergence.
6. Digital Media and the Economy.
The Digital Economy.
A More “Equal Playing Field?”
Institutions, Commerce, and Technology.
The Importance of Networks.
7. Government Policies and Regulations.
Rules and Regulations.
History of Federal Regulations.
Digital Media and Regulation.
Free Speech versus Copyright Infringement.
International Regulations.
8. News Media and Society.
Role of the News Media.
Civil Society and Digital Media.
Digital Empowerment.
9. Research and Inquiry.
Mass Communication Research in General.
Effects Research and Digital Media.
Digital Media Research.
10. The Critical View.
Fear and Fiction.
Social Criticism: Penetrating the Surface.
Criticism.
Framework for Critical Inquiry.
11. The Future.
Rethinking the Digital Future.
Lessons and Insights.
The Current Situation.
Regrouping but Not Departing.
Conclusion.
Bibliography.
Index.
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Gary Hendershot
reviewed Media and Society in the Digital Age on June 01, 2014
Media and Society in the Digital Age
Lévy has some excellent criticisms of current modes of governance, mainly centering around the fact that the world is changing too fast for current modes of governance to be able to keep up with. He advocates digitally mediated direct democracy using cyberspace technologies, which is not without its set of problems. However, the book was written in 1994, before the world wide web explosion, so I have to give him a little slack here.
Much of the book was written in this lofty, ethereal style that was more like poetry than prose, and was pretty much incomprehensible nonsense. ("Divine acts and human rituals are the gestures and songs that support the world.")
He argues that a knowledge space is emerging (on top of the earth, the territorial space, and the commodity space) where collective intelligence is possible, which is the interaction between human beings in real time that is digitally mediated. I think that this space has indeed emerged, and is evidenced by such innovations as Wikipedia and others. In this sense, Lévy was somewhat visionary.
The challenge now is how to make systems of direct democracy possible without abuses of power and without oppression of the minority. Lévy tends to brush these criticisms aside, but they need significantly more analysis and critique.
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