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| Introduction | |
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| Revolutionary Technologies? | |
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| Determinisms | |
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| The Social Determinism of Technology | |
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| Technological Enablement | |
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| Base, Superstructure, Infrastructure | |
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| The Structure of the Book | |
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| Key Elements of Digital Media | |
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| Technical Processes | |
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| Digital | |
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| Networked | |
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| Interactive | |
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| Hypertextual/ Hypermediated | |
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| Automated | |
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| Databased | |
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| Cultural Forms | |
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| Context (or lack of it) | |
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| Variability | |
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| Rhizome | |
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| Process | |
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| Immersive Experiences | |
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| Telepresense | |
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| Virtuality | |
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| Simulation | |
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| Case Study: What Are Video Games? a Conundrum of Digital Culture | |
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| Are Video Games 'Narratives'? | |
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| Are Video Games 'Games'? | |
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| Are Video Games 'Simulations'? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Economic Foundations of the Information Age | |
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| Post-Industrialism | |
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| Problems With The Post-Industrial Thesis | |
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| The Information Society | |
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| Post-Fordism and Globalization | |
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| Informationalism and the Network Society | |
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| The Structure of Networks | |
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| The Space Flows and Timeless Time | |
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| Network Economy and network Enterprise | |
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| Weightless Economies, Intellectual Property and the Commodification of Knowledge | |
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| Weightless Money | |
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| Weightless Services | |
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| Weightless Products | |
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| The Advantages of a Weightless Economy | |
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| (Intellectual) Property in a Weightless Economy | |
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| Information Feudalism | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Convergence and the Contemporary Media Experience | |
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| Technological Convergence | |
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| Regulatory Convergence | |
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| Media Industry Convergence | |
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| Concerns About Media Convergence | |
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| Convergence Culture and the New Media Experience | |
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| The Creation of Cross-Media Experiences | |
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| Participatory Media Culture | |
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| Collective Intelligence | |
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| Producers, Consumers and 'Produsage' | |
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| Case Study: The Changing Culture Industry of Digital Music | |
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| The Diginisation of Music and its Discontents | |
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| 'Mash-Ups' and the Crisis of Authorship in Digital Culture | |
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| Digital Music Cultures and Music Consumption | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Digital Inequality: Social, Political and Infrastructural Contexts | |
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| 'Digital Divides' and 'Access' | |
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| Domestic Digital Divides | |
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| Global Digital Divides | |
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| Mobile Phones, Access and the Developing World | |
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| Economic Reasons | |
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| Social Reasons | |
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| Legislative Reasons | |
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| The Benefits of Mobile Telephony for the Developing World | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| 'Everyone is Watching': Privacy and Surveillance in Digital Life | |
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| The Changing Cultural Contexts of Privacy | |
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| Privacy as a Legal Construction: a Contradiction | |
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| Digital Surveillance: Spaces, Traces and Tools | |
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| Key Tools of Digital Surveillance | |
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| The Rise of Surveillance: Causes and Processes | |
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| Security Imperatives: Surveillance and The Nation-State | |
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| Surveillance, Control Imperatives and Bureaucratic Structures | |
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| Techno-logic | |
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| Commercial Imperatives and the Political economy of Surveillance | |
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| Marketing and Personal Data Collection | |
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| Databases, Data-mining, and Discourses | |
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| The Power of Profiling | |
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| Databases and Profiling: Pro's and con's | |
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| Why Care About Surveillance Society? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Information Politics, Subversion and Warfare | |
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| The Political Context of Information Politics | |
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| ICT-Enabled Politics | |
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| Visibility | |
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| Internal Organisation and Mobilisation | |
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| External Collaboration and Coordination | |
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| Flexible Organisation and 'Smartmobs' | |
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| Permanent Political Campaigns: Linear Collaboration | |
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| An Internet Public Sphere? | |
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| Digital Disobedience: ICT-Based Activism | |
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| ICTs and Mainstream Politics | |
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| Cyber Politics by Another Means: Cyber Warfare | |
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| Cyber Warfare as Network-Centric Warfare | |
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| Cyber Warfare as Information Warfare | |
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| Cyber Warfare as Espionage | |
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| Cyber Warfare as Economic Sabotage | |
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| Cyber Warfare as Critical Infrastructure Attack | |
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| Adjunct Attacks | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Digital Identity | |
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| 'Objects to Think With': Early Internet Studies and Poststructuralism | |
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| Personal Home Pages and the 'Re-Centring' of the Individual | |
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| Personal Blogging, Individualisation and the Reflexive Project of the Self | |
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| Social Networks, profiles and networked Identity | |
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| Avatar and Identity | |
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| Case Study: Cybersex, Online Intimacy and the Self | |
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| The Late-Modern Context of Love and Intimacy | |
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| Cybersex: a Novel Form of Intimacy | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Social Media and the Problem of Community: Space, Relationships, Networks | |
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| Searching for Lost Community: Urbanisation, Space and Scales of Experience | |
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| Community, Globalisation, Technology and Individualism | |
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| 'Virtual' Communities: The Next Step? | |
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| The Virtues of Virtual Communities | |
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| The Vices of Virtual Community | |
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| The Reality of the Situation | |
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| Network Societies, Network Socialities and Networked Individualism | |
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| The Network Society Revisited | |
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| Networked Individualism | |
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| The Truth About the Networks | |
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| Case Study: Social Networking, Microblogging, Language and Phatic Culture | |
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| Technology, Presence and the Post-Social | |
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| Language, technology and Phatic Communication | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Body and Information Technology | |
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| The Body, Technology and Society | |
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| The Posthuman | |
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| Cyborgs | |
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| Material as Information 1: Extropianism and disembodiment, or 'Flesh Made Data' | |
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| Material as Information 2: Technological Embodiment or 'Data Made Flesh' | |
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| Technology, Embodiment Relations and the 'Homo Faber' | |
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| Embodiment Relation and Mobile Technologies | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Conclusion: Base, Superstructure and Infrastructure (Revisited) | |