Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-309) and index.

Pt. 1. Media transitions -- What is new media? / Lev Manovich -- Technological revolutions and the Gutenberg myth / S. D. Noam Cook -- A shadow darkens / Ithiel de Sola Pool -- The consumer's sublime / David E. Nye -- The computational metaphor / Kevin Kelly -- New communications technology : a survey of impacts and issues / Michael Marien -- Pt. 2. Governing new media -- Historicising obscenity law / David Saunders, Ian M. Hunter and Dugald Williamson -- The tragedy of broadcast regulation / Bruce M. Owen -- Broadcasting policy in the digital age / Andrew Graham -- From public sphere to cybernetic state / Kevin Robins and Frank Webster --

Policing the thinkable / Robert W. McChesney -- The myths of encroaching global media ownership / Benjamin Compaine -- Pt. 3. Properties and commons -- Copyright in historical perspective / Lyman Ray Patterson -- Intellectual property and the liberal state / James Boyle -- Choosing metaphors / Jessica Litman -- The promise for intellectual property in cyberspace / Lawrence Lessig -- Why software should not have owners / Richard Stallman -- Pt. 4. Politics of new media technologies -- On interactivity / Andrew Barry -- Pangloss, Pandora or Jefferson? Three scenarios for the future of technology and strong democracy / Benjamin R. Barber -- Citizens / Cass Sunstein --

Abstraction/class / McKenzie Wark -- Pt. 5. Time and space in the age of information -- Technology and ideology : the case of the telegraph / James Carey -- Reflections on time, time-space compression and technology in the nineteenth century / Jeremy Stein -- On the move : technology, mobility, and the mediation of social time and space / Nicola Green -- Time and the internet / Heejin Lee and Jonathan Liebenau -- Speed is contagious / Thomas Hylland Eriksen.