The Media Reader

Dr Hugh Mackay is an Honorary Associate of the Faculty of Sociology at Open University

PART ONE: MASS COMMUNICATION AND THE MODERN WORLD The Media and Modernity - John Thompson Corporate Dynamics and Broadcasting Futures - Graham Murdock The Technology and the Society - Raymond Williams When Old Technologies Were New - Carolyn Marvin Implementing the Future The Wireless Age - Patrice Flichy Radio Broadcasting PART TWO: UNDERSTANDING `TRANSFORMATIONS' IN MEDIA CULTURE No Sense of Place - Joshua Meyrowitz The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behaviour Information Technology and the Myth of Abundance - Anthony Smith What Information Society? - Frank Webster Cultural Globalisation - John Tomlinson Placing and Displacing the West The Global Media in the Late 1990s - Edward Herman and Robert McChesney Popular Culture on a Global Scale - Simon During A Challenge for Cultural Studies? PART THREE: NEW MEDIA FOR NEW TIMES Broadcasting is Dead. Long Live Digital Choice - Jeanette Steemers Making Television News in the Satellite Age - Brent MacGregor The Virtual Community - Howard Rheingold Finding Connection in a Computerised World Identity in the Age of the Internet - Sherry Turkle The Development of Interactive Games - Leslie Haddon PART FOUR: FUTURE PERFECT? Reimagined Communities? New Media, New Possibilities - David Morley and Kevin Robins The World Wide Web of Surveillance - David Lyon The Internet and Off-World Power Flows In the Realm of Uncertainty - Ien Ang The Global Village and Capitalist Postmodernity Remote Control? Politics, Technology and 'Electronic Democracy' - John Street An Introduction to the Information Age - Manuel Castells

`This book represents a valuable resource in helping students make sense of the rapid and perplexing changes in media technologies and institutions from a range of perspectives.... I shall certainly be recommending The Media Reader to my students' - Convergence "Alertness to the chaning terms of debate, familiarity with the latest scholarship and a shrewd, practical sense of what works in teaching makes this collection a very worthwhile addition to course reading lists." -- John Corner