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

by Bucy, Erik P.

• ISBN13: 9780534633400
• ISBN10: 0534633404
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-07-12
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

Understand the impact of new technologies on the media landscape with LIVING IN THE INFORMATION AGE with InfoTrac?! Examining the conceptual and practical aspects of life in an information society, this communication text encourages you to consider how the media industries are being transformed through digital convergence and corporate concentration. Each reading is prefaced by a short introduction and three questions for critical thinking and discussion to help you master the material. Each article is followed by suggestions for taking research online using InfoTrac College Edition so that you can enhance your understanding of the material.

Table of Contents

PREFACE	xi
I THE NEW INFORMATION AND ENTERTAINMENT ECOLOGY	1	(64)
1 The Communications Revolution	3	(30)
1-1 The Roots of Revolution	3	(8)
Frances Cairncross
The Trendspotter's Guide to New Communications	7	(1)
Frances Cairncross
1-2 Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society	11	(10)
James R. Beniger
1-3 Renaissance Now! Media Ecology and the New Global Narrative	21	(12)
Douglas Rushkoff
2 New Media Theory	33	(32)
2-1 Principles of Mediamorphosis	33	(9)
Roger Fidler
2-2 A New World (Small Pieces Loosely Joined)	42	(8)
David Weinberger
2-3 Remediation	50	(9)
Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin
2-4 Uses of the Mass Media	59	(8)
Werner J. Severin and James W. Tankard Jr.
II CONVERGENCE AND CONCENTRATION IN THE MEDIA INDUSTRIES	65	(50)
3 Convergence, Content, and Interactivity	67	(25)
3-1 Convergence and Its Consequences	67	(6)
John Pavlik and Shawn McIntosh
3-2 The Civil War Inside Sony	73	(7)
Frank Rose
3-3 The Fast-Forward, On-Demand, Network-Smashing Future of Television	80	(6)
Frank Rose
TiVo's Turning Point: It Redefined Television. Now Comes Competition.	84	(1)
Josh McHugh
3-4 Digital Cinema, Take 2	86	(6)
Michael A. Hiltzik
4 Media Concentration	92	(23)
4-1 The New Global Media	92	(5)
Robert W. McChesney
4-2 Global Media	97	(5)
Benjamin Cormpaine
4-3 The Threat to the Net	102	(4)
Pat Afderheide
4-4 Big World: How Clear Channel Programs America	106	(11)
Jeff Sharlet
III NEW TECHNOLOGIES, THE SELF, AND SOCIAL LIFE	115	(48)
5 At the Interface: New Intimacies, New Cultures	117	(22)
5-1 A Nation of Voyeurs	117	(8)
Neil Swidey
5-2 Toy Soldiers	125	(4)
Mark Frauenfeldcr
5-3 Weblogs: A History and Perspective	129	(4)
Rebecca Blood
5-4 Love.com	133	(6)
Anna Mulrine
6 Media Saturation and the Increasing Velocity of Everyday Life	139	(24)
6-1 Supersaturation, or The Media Torrent and Disposable Feeling	139	(7)
Todd Gitlin
6-2 Prest-o! Change-o!	146	(5)
James Gleick
6-3 Spam Wars	151	(6)
Evan T. Schwartz
6-4 The First Law of Data Smog	157	(8)
David Shenk
IV SOCIAL IMPACTS OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES	163	(56)
7 Networked Computing: Promises and Paradoxes	165	(23)
7-1 The World Wide Web Unleashed	165	(7)
John December
7-2 The Productivity Puzzle	172	(5)
Thomas K. Landaner
7-3 Computer Age Gains Respect of Economists	177	(4)
Steve Lohr
7-4 The Computer Delusion	181	(7)
Todd Oppenheimer
8 Questioning Information Technology	188	(31)
8-1 Further Explorations into the Culture of Computing	188	(5)
Clifford Stoll
8-2 Plan 9 from Cyberspace: The Implications of the Internet for Personality and Social Psychology	193	(12)
Katclyn Y. A. McKenna and John A. Barth
8-3 Absolute PowerPoint: Can a Software Package Edit Our Thoughts?	205	(7)
Ian Parker
8-4 The Myth of Order: The Real Lesson of Y2K	212	(9)
Ellen Ullman
V NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE	219	(64)
9 Electronic Democracy	221	(34)
9-1 Media Participation: A Legitimizing Mechanism of Mass Democracy	221	(10)
Erik P. Bucy and Kimberly S. Gregson
9-2 Smart Mobs: The Power of the Mobile Many	231	(8)
Howard Rheingold
9-3 Universal Access to E-mail	239	(6)
Robert H. Anderson, Torn K. Bikson, Sally Ann Lau, and Bridger M. Mitchell
9-4 Fragmentation and Cybercascades	245	(10)
Cass R. Sunstein
10 The Digital Divide	255	(1)
10-1 Rethinking the Digital Divide	255	(9)
Jennifer S. Light
10-2 Routes to Media Access	264	(8)
John E. Newhagen and Erik P. Bucy
10-3 The Rise of the Overclass: How the New Elite Scrambled Up the Merit Ladder and Wants to Stay There Any Way It Can	272	(5)
Jerry Adler
10-4 Tech Savvy: Educating Girls in the New Computer Age	277	(8)
Sherry Turkle, Patricia Diaz Dennis, et al.
VI POLICING THE ELECTRONIC WORLD: ISSUES AND ETHICS	283	(1)
11 Copyright and Regulation	285	(48)
11-1 Who Will Own Your Next Good Idea?	285	(6)
Charles C. Mann
11-2 The Next Economy of Ideas	291	(5)
John Perry Barlow
11-3 Free	296	(7)
Lawrence Lessig
11-4 The Race to Kill Kazaa	303	(5)
Todd Woody
12 Privacy and Surveillance	308	(1)
12-1 Remembrance of Data Passed: A Study of Disk Sanitization Practices	308	(10)
Simson L. Garfinkel and Abhi Shelat
12-2 In Defense of the Delete Key	318	(4)
James M. Rosenbaum
12-3 Privacy and the New Technology: What They Do Know Can Hurt You	322	(5)
Simson L. Garfinkel
12-4 The Challenge of an Open Society	327	(6)
David Brill
INDEX	333