New Media

Part I: New Media and New Technologies 1. What are the New Media? 2. The Characteristics of New Media: Some Defining Concepts 3. Change and Continuity 4. What Kind of History? 5. Who Was Dissatisfied with Old Media? 6. What is a Medium: New or Otherwise?: The Williams/Mcluhan Debate. Part II: Virtual Reality and Visual Culture 7. VR, Art and Visual Culture 8. Digital Cinema. Part III: New Media Networks 9. New Media Networks: 'The Information Economy' 10. Economic Epochs and 'Old Media' 11. Political Economy and Postmodernity 12. What is Political Economy ? 13. Political Economy and New Media 14. Post Industrial Economies 15. The Development of the New Economy 16. Technological Agency: Economics and Politics - Inventions and Developments 17. Technological Agency: Economics and Politics - Globalisation and 18. Telecommunications 19. Beyond Economic Determinism 20. New Media and Intellectual Property Rights 21. Fragmentation and Convergence 22. Consumer Surveillance 23. Cyborg Economics Part IV: Culture, Technology, Nature. 24. Revisiting Determinism 25. Technology Evolving: Clockwork, Steam, Cybernetics) Part V: New Media, Cyberspace and Everyday Life 26. Everyday Life in Cyberspace 27. Games and gaming 28. The cybernetic shaping of identity 29. Edutainment