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| List of illustrations | |
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| List of case studies | |
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| Authors' biographies | |
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| Preface to the second edition | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The book's purpose | |
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| Our approach to the subject | |
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| The book's historical dimension | |
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| The book's emphasis on wider questions of culture and technology | |
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| The book's organisation | |
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| How to use the book | |
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| The book's parts | |
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| New Media and New Technologies | |
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| New media: do we know what they are? | |
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| The characteristics of new media: some defining concepts | |
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| Change and continuity | |
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| What kind of history? | |
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| Who was dissatisfied with old media? | |
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| New media: determining or determined? | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| New Media and Visual Culture | |
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| What happened to Virtual Reality (VR)? | |
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| The virtual and visual culture | |
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| The digital virtual | |
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| Immersion: a history | |
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| Perspective, camera, software | |
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| Virtual images/images of the virtual | |
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| Digital cinema | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Networks, Users and Economics | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What is the Internet? | |
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| Historicising net studies | |
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| Economics and networked media culture | |
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| Political economy | |
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| The social form of new media | |
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| Limits on commercial influence | |
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| Globalisation, neo-liberalism and the Internet | |
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| The digital divide | |
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| Boom and bust in the information economy | |
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| Intellectual property rights, determined and determining | |
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| Music as new media | |
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| The Long Tail | |
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| Going viral | |
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| Fragmentation and convergence | |
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| Wiki worlds and Web 2.0 | |
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| Identities and communities online | |
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| Being anonymous | |
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| Belonging | |
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| Living in the interface | |
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| The Internet and the public sphere | |
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| User-generated content: we are all fans now | |
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| YouTube and post television | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| New Media in Everyday Life | |
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| Everyday life in cyberspace | |
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| Everyday life in a media home | |
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| The technological shaping of everyday life | |
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| The everyday posthuman: new media and identity | |
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| Gameplay | |
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| Conclusion: everyday cyberculture | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Cyberculture: Technology, Nature and Culture | |
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| Cyberculture and cybernetics | |
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| Revisiting determinism: physicalism, humanism and technology | |
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| Biological technologies: the history of automata | |
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| Theories of cyberculture | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |