The New Media Theory Reader

by Hassan, Robert; Thomas, Julian

• ISBN13: 9780335217106
• ISBN10: 0335217109
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-01
• Publisher: Open University Press

Summary

The study of new media opens up some of the most fascinating issues in contemporary culture: questions of ownership and control over information and cultural goods; the changing experience of space and time; the political consequences of new communication technologies; and the power of users and consumers to disrupt established economic and business models.The New Media Theory Readerbrings together key readings on new media what it is, where it came from, how it affects our lives, and how it is managed. Using work from media studies, cultural history and cultural studies, economics, law, and politics, the essays encourage readers to pay close attention to the 'new' in new media, as well as considering it as a historical phenomenon. The Reader features a general introduction as well as an editors' introduction to each thematic section, and a useful summary of each reading.The New Media Theory Readeris an indispensable text for students on new media, technology, sociology and media studies courses.Essays by:Andrew Barry, Benjamin R Barber, James Boyle, James Carey, Benjamin Compaine, Noam Cook, Andrew Graham, Nicola Green, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Ian Hunter, Kevin Kelly, Heejin Lee, Lawrence Lessig, Jonathan Liebenau, Jessica Litman, Lev Manovich, Michael Marien Robert W. McChesney David E. Nye, Bruce M Owen Lyman Ray Patterson, Kevin Robins, Ithiel de Sola Pool, David Saunders, Richard Stallman, Cass R. Sunstein, Jeremy Stein, McKenzie Wark, Frank Webster, Dugald Williamson.

Author Biography

Robert Hassan is the Fellow in Media and Communications at the Institute of Social Research, Swinburne University, Australia. He's the author of 'The Chronoscopic Society' and 'Media, Politics and the Network Society', published in March this 2005. .

Professor Julian Thomas is Deputy Director at the Institute for Social Research, Swinburne, Australia. .

Table of Contents

Extracts	viii
Introduction	xvii
Publisher's acknowledgements	xxix
PART 1 Media transitions	1	(62)
Introduction	1	(4)
`What is new media?' in The Language of New Media, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002	5	(6)
Lev Manovich
`Technological revolutions and the Gutenberg Myth' in Internet Dreams. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997	11	(8)
S. D. Noam Cook
`A shadow darkens' in Technologies of Freedom. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003	19	(8)
Ithiel de Sola Pool
`The consumer's sublime' in American Technological Sublime, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996	27	(12)
David E. Nye
`The computational metaphor', Whole Earth, Winter 1998	39	(2)
Kevin Kelly
`New communications technology: a survey of impacts and issues', Telecommunications Policy, 20(5), pp. 375--387, 1996	41	(22)
Michael Marien
PART 2 Governing new media	63	(48)
Introduction	63	(4)
`Historicising obscenity law' in On Pornography: Literature, Sexuality and Obscenity Law. London: Macmillan, 1992	67	(5)
David Saunders
Ian M. Hunter
Dugald Williamson
`The tragedy of broadcast regulation' in The Internet Challenge to Television. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999	72	(7)
Bruce M. Owen
`Broadcasting policy in the digital age' in Charles M. Firestone and Amy Korzick Garmer (eds) Digital Broadcasting and the Public Interest. Washington, DC: Aspen Institute, 1998	79	(13)
Andrew Graham
`From public sphere to cybernetic state' in Times of the Technoculture. New York: Routledge, 1999	92	(9)
Kevin Robins
Frank Webster
`Policing the thinkable', Opendemocracy.net, 2001	101	(5)
Robert W. McChesney
`The myths of encroaching global media ownership', Opendemocracy.net, 2001	106	(5)
Benjamin Compaine
PART 3 Properties and commons	111	(48)
Introduction	111	(2)
`Copyright in historical perspective' in Copyright in Historical Perspective. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 1968	113	(6)
Lyman Ray Patterson
`Intellectual property and the liberal state' in Shamans, Software and Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information Society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996	119	(4)
James Boyle
`Choosing metaphors' in Digital Copyright: Protecting Intellectual Property on the Internet. Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2001	123	(10)
Jessica Litman
`The promise for intellectual property in cyberspace' in Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. New York: Basic Books, 2000	133	(21)
Lawrence Lessig
`Why software should not have owners' in Free Software: Free Society. Boston, MA: Free Software Foundation, 2002	154	(5)
Richard Stallman
PART 4 Politics of new media technologies	159	(62)
Introduction	159	(4)
`On interactivity' in Political Machines: Governing a Technological Society. London: Athlone Press, 2001	163	(25)
Andrew Barry
`Pangloss, Pandora or Jefferson? Three scenarios for the future of technology and strong democracy', in A Passion for Democracy: American Essays, Princeton University Press, pp. 245--257, 2000	188	(15)
Benjamin R. Barber
`Citizens' in Republic.com. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001	203	(9)
Cass Sunstein
`Abstraction/class' in A Hacker Manifesto. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004	212	(9)
McKenzie Wark
PART 5 Time and space in the age of information	221	(58)
Introduction	221	(4)
`Technology and ideology: the case of the telegraph' in Communication as Culture. London: Routledge, 1989	225	(19)
James Carey
`Reflections on time, time--space compression and technology in the nineteenth century' in M. Crang, P. Crang and J. May (eds), Virtual Geographies: Bodies, Space and Relations. New York: Routledge, 1999	244	(5)
Jeremy Stein
`On the move: technology, mobility, and the mediation of social time and space', Time Information Society, 18(4), pp. 281--292, 2002	249	(17)
Nicola Green
`Time and the internet', Time and Society, 9(1), pp. 48--55, 2001	266	(6)
Heejin Lee
Jonathan Liebenau
`Speed in Contagious' in Tyranny of the Moment: Fast and Slow Time in the Age of Information. London: Pluto Press, 2001	272	(7)
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Biographical notes	279	(6)
Bibliography	285	(26)
Index	311