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List of Figures | p. ix |
Acknowledgments | p. x |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Network Perspective on the Media | p. 2 |
Outline of the Book | p. 8 |
Castells and the Theory of the Network Society | p. 11 |
Intellectual Biography | p. 11 |
Publications and Impact | p. 13 |
Basic Statements on Network Theory | p. 17 |
Media Economics and Life Online | p. 22 |
The Permanently Beta, Network Enterprise | p. 26 |
From Bricks and Mortar to Bandwidth and Servers | p. 28 |
The Changing Nature of Media Work | p. 30 |
The Death of Distance and Long Tails | p. 34 |
The Network Perspective on Economic Life | p. 35 |
Networks of Power and Politics | p. 38 |
Network Campaigns | p. 41 |
Media Networks | p. 45 |
The Politics of Code and Cultural Production | p. 50 |
Privacy and Data Mining | p. 53 |
The Network Perspective on Political Life | p. 55 |
Cultural Industries in a Digital Century | p. 57 |
Transforming Cultural Industries | p. 58 |
Cultures of Digital Media | p. 62 |
Social Networking and Cultural Production | p. 67 |
Mediated and Multiple Identities | p. 69 |
The Network Perspective on Cultural Life | p. 71 |
Mobile and Social Media | p. 73 |
Networked and Mobile | p. 77 |
The Space of Flows and Timeless Time | p. 79 |
Cosmopolitan Culture and Cultural Identity | p. 82 |
Mobile Politics | p. 86 |
The Mobile is the Social | p. 88 |
Conclusion-Media Rules and the Rules of Media | p. 90 |
The Personal and Global Contexts of Networks | p. 91 |
Scientific Inquiry in the Network Society | p. 95 |
Critical Responses and Alternative Approaches | p. 97 |
Remaining Questions and Future Directions of Research | p. 103 |
The New Power of Digital Media | p. 107 |
Appendix | p. 109 |
An Exercise in Visualizing Your Own Digital Networks | p. 110 |
An Exercise in Tracking Your Media and Cultural Consumption | p. 116 |
An Exercise in Surveillance and Sousveillance-Tracking the Trackers | p. 119 |
Notes | p. 123 |
References | p. 126 |
Glossary/Index | p. 131 |
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