Living in the Information Age: A New Media Reader Book

	Preface	xi
I	The New Information and Entertainment Ecology	1
1	The Communication Revolution	3
1-1	The Roots of Revolution and The Trendspotter's Guide to New Communications	3
1-2	Beyond the Information Revolution	10
1-3	Harmonic Convergence (digital media timeline)	18
2	New Media Theory	21
2-1	Principles of Mediamorphosis	21
2-2	Medium Theory	30
2-3	Uses of the Mass Media	35
2-4	Mass Communication and Parasocial Interaction: Observations on Intimacy at a Distance	41
II	Convergence and Concentration in the Media Industries	49
3	Print Media	51
3-1	Online or Not, Newspapers Suck	51
3-2	Net Gain: Journalism's Challenges in an Interactive Age	56
3-3	Slate vs. Salon: The Leading Online Magazines Struggle to Get the Net	62
3-4	It's Time to Turn the Last Page	66
4	Radio/TV/Film	69
4-1	The World Streaming In	69
4-2	Radio Squeezes Empty Air Space for Profit	72
4-3	Television's New Voyeurism Pictures Real-Life Intimacy	76
4-4	HDTV Demystified	79
4-5	1999: The Year That Changed Movies	82
5	Telecommunications	88
5-1	Hooking Up the Nation: AT&T-TCI Merger Is Driven by the Internet	88
5-2	AT&T: Breaking Up Again	92
5-3	AOL Time Warner: How Blind Alleys Led Old Media to New	96
5-4	The Threat to the Net	100
5-5	Get Wireless: Spectrum Is the Real Estate on Which the Wealth of the 21st Century Will Be Built	104
6	Advertising and Public Relations	112
6-1	Is Advertising Finally Dead?	112
6-2	Bye-Bye: The Net's Precision Accountability Will Kill Not Only Traditional Advertising, But Its Parasite, Big Media. Sniff	115
6-3	Public Relations	119
6-4	Spin Sisters: Why Is PR the Only High-Tech Field That Women Run?	127
6-5	The Drug War's New Front	131
7	Media Concentration	134
7-1	The New Global Media: It's a Small World of Big Conglomerates	134
7-2	Questions Abound as Media Influence Grows for a Handful	139
7-3	Big Is Beautiful	142
7-4	The Cultural Environment Movement	144
III	New Technologies, the Self, and Social Life	151
8	At the Interface: New Intimacies, New Cultures	153
8-1	Love, Honor, Cherish. But Reveal My Password?	153
8-2	Identity Crisis	155
8-3	I Don't Know Who You Are, But (Click) You're Toast	161
8-4	Cyberpunk!	165
9	Media Acceleration and the Increasing Velocity of Everyday Life	172
9-1	Prest-o! Change-o!	172
9-2	NoChores.com	176
9-3	Talk, Type, Read E-mail: The Trials of Multitasking	179
9-4	You Call This Progress? E-mail Has Become a Steady Drip of Dubious Prose, Bad Jokes, and Impatient Requests	182
IV	Social Impacts of Information and Communications Technologies	185
10	Networked Computing: Promises and Paradoxes	187
10-1	The World Wide Web Unleashed	187
10-2	The Productivity Puzzle	194
10-3	Computer Age Gains Respect of Economists	199
10-4	The Computer Delusion	203
11	Dystopian Views of Information Technology	210
11-1	Further Explorations into the Culture of Computing	210
11-2	The First Law of Data Smog	215
11-3	The Myth of Order. The Real Lesson of Y2K Is That Software Operates Just Like Any Natural System: Out of Control	219
11-4	Researchers Find Sad, Lonely World in Cyberspace	224
V	New Technologies and the Public Sphere	227
12	Electronic Democracy	229
12-1	Birth of a Digital Nation	229
12-2	A Candidate on the Stump Is Surely on the Web	235
12-3	Disinformocracy	238
12-4	Universal Access to E-mail	245
13	The Digital Divide	251
13-1	Mind the Gap: The Digital Divide as the Civil Rights Issue of the New Millennium	251
13-2	Computer Haves and Have-Nots in the Schools	254
13-3	The Rise of the Overclass: How the New Elite Scrambled Up the Merit Ladder--and Wants to Stay There Any Way It Can	257
13-4	Tech Savvy: Educating Girls in the New Computer Age	262
VI	Policing the Electronic World: Issues and Ethics	267
14	Copyright	269
14-1	Who Will Own Your Next Good Idea?	269
14-2	The Next Economy of Ideas	275
14-3	Copyright Questions in a Digital Age	280
15	Privacy and Surveillance	285
15-1	In Defense of the Delete Key	285
15-2	Privacy and the New Technology: What They Do Know Can Hurt You	288
15-3	The Challenge of an Open Society	294
15-4	Europe to U.S.: No Privacy, No Trade	299
16	Hacking and the Digital Underground	304
16-1	Notes from the Virus Underground	304
16-2	Hunting the Hackers	310
16-3	Organized Exploitation of the Information Superhighway	314
	Index	321