Understanding Digital Culture (Paperback)

'Introduction Revolutionary Technologies? Determinisms The Social Determinism of Technology Technological Enablement Base, Superstructure, Infrastructure The Structure of the Book Chapter 1: Key Elements of Digital Media Technical Processes Digital Networked Interactive Hypertextual/Hypermediated Automated Databased Cultural Forms Context (or Lack of It) Variability Rhizome Process Immersive Experiences Telepresense Virtuality Simulation Case Study: What Are Video Games? A Conundrum of Digital Culture Are Video Games 'Narratives'? Are Video Games 'Games'? Are Video Games 'Simulations'? Chapter 2: The Economic Foundations of the Information Age Post-Industrialism Problems with the Post-Industrial Thesis The Information Society Post-Fordism and Globalization Informationalism and the Network Society The Structure of Networks The Space Flows and Timeless Time Network Economy and network Enterprise Weightless Economies, Intellectual Property and the Commodification of Knowledge Weightless Money Weightless Services Weightless Products The Advantages of a Weightless Economy (Intellectual) Property in a Weightless Economy Information Feudalism Chapter 3: Convergence and the Contemporary Media Experience Technological Convergence Regulatory Convergence Media Industry Convergence Concerns about Media Convergence Convergence Culture and the New Media Experience The Creation of Cross-Media Experiences Participatory Media Culture Collective Intelligence Producers, Consumers and 'Produsage'Case Study: The Changing Culture Industry of Digital Music The Digitalization of Music and Its Discontents'Mash-Ups' and the Crisis of Authorship in Digital Culture Digital Music Cultures and Music Consumption Chapter 4: Digital Inequality: Social, Political and Infrastructural Contexts'Digital Divides' and 'Access'Domestic Digital Divides Global Digital Divides Mobile Phones, Access and the Developing World Economic Reasons Social Reasons Legislative Reasons The Benefits of Mobile Telephony for the Developing World Chapter 5: 'Everyone Is Watching': Privacy and Surveillance in Digital Life The Changing Cultural Contexts of Privacy Privacy as a Legal Construction: A Contradiction Digital Surveillance: Spaces, Traces and Tools Key Tools of Digital Surveillance The Rise of Surveillance: Causes and Processes Security Imperatives: Surveillance and the Nation State Surveillance, Control Imperatives and Bureaucratic Structures Techno-Logic Commercial Imperatives and the Political Economy of Surveillance Marketing and Personal Data Collection Databases, Data-Mining, and Discourses The Power of Profiling Databases and Profiling: Pro's and Con's Why Care about Surveillance Society? Chapter 6: Information Politics, Subversion and Warfare The Political Context of Information Politics ICT-Enabled Politics Visibility Internal Organisation and Mobilisation External Collaboration and Coordination Flexible Organisation and 'Smartmobs'Permanent Political Campaigns: Linear CollaborationAn Internet Public Sphere? Digital Disobedience: ICT-Based Activism ICTs and Mainstream Politics Cyber Politics by Another Means: Cyber Warfare Cyber Warfare as Network-Centric Warfare Cyber Warfare as Information Warfare Cyber Warfare as Espionage Cyber Warfare as Economic Sabotage Cyber Warfare as Critical Infrastructure Attack Adjunct Attacks Chapter 7: Digital Identity'Objects to Think With': Early Internet Studies and Post-Structuralism Personal Home Pages and the 'Re-Centring' of the Individual Personal Blogging, Individualisation and the Reflexive Project of the Self Social Networks, Profiles and Networked Identity Avatar and Identity Case Study: Cybersex, Online Intimacy and the Self The Late-Modern Context of Love and Intimacy Cybersex: A Novel Form of Intimacy Chapter 8: Social Media and the Problem of Community: Space, Relationships, Networks Searching for Lost Community: Urba