Understanding Digital Culture

Introduction Revolutionary Technologies? The Structure of the Book Chapter 1: Key Elements of Digital Media Technical Processes Cultural Forms Immersive Experiences Chapter 2: The Economic Foundations of the Information Age Post-Industrialism The Information Society Post-Fordism and Globalisation Informationalism and the Network Society Weightless Economies, Intellectual Property and the Commodification of Knowledge Chapter 3: Convergence and the Contemporary Media Experience Technological Convergence Regulatory Convergence Media Industry Convergence Convergence Culture ad the Contemporary Media Experience Producers, Consumers, Prosumers and 'Produsage' Chapter 4: 'Everyone is Watching': Privacy and Surveillance in Digital Life The Changing Cultural Contexts of Privacy Digital Surveillance: Spaces, Traces and Tools The Rise Surveillance: Causes and Processes Commercial Imperatives and the Political Economy of Surveillance Why Care about a Surveillance Society? Chapter 5: Information Politics and the Online Public Sphere The Poltical Context of Information Politics ICT-Enabled Politics An Internet Public Sphere? Chapter 6: Cybercrime, Cyberterrorism and Cyberware Cybercrime: A Muddy Field The Tools and Techniques of Cybercrime, Cyberactivism and Cyberwarfare Cyber Politics by Another Means: Cyber Warfare Chapter 7: Digital Identity 'Objects to Think with': Early Internet Studies and Poststructuralism Personal Homepages and the 'Re-Centring' of the Individual Personal Blogging, Individualisation and the Reflexive Project of the Self Avatar and Identity Social Networks, Profiles and Networked Identity Who needs Identity? Chapter 8: Digital Community? Space, Networks and Relationships Searching for Lost Community: Urbanisation, Space and Scales of Experience Globalisation, Technology and the Rise of Individualism 'Virtual' Communities Over Before they Began? Network Societies, Network Socialities and Networked Individualism Being Together Online: Networks, Instrumentalism and Intimacy Chapter 9: The Body and Information Technology The Body, Technology and Society The Posthuman Technology, Embodiment Relations and 'Homo Faber' Conclusion: Base, Superstructure, Infrastructure (Revisited)