Living in the Information Age A New Media Reader (with InfoTrac)

by Bucy, Erik P.

• ISBN13: 9780534590499
• ISBN10: 0534590497
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-11-21
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Table of Contents

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