Understanding Digital Culture 2/e

Vincent Miller is Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent

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)

The first edition of Understanding Digital Culture set a new benchmark as the most comprehensive, scholarly and accessible introduction to the area. This latest edition, thoroughly updated and substantially expanded, is even better - a perfectly balanced book that combines theory and empirical analysis to illuminate the cutting-edge of cultural and social change. -- Majid Yar Vince Miller's new edition of Understanding Digital Culture is a key reading for everyone who wants to come to grips with the complexities of media, the economy, culture, society, privacy, surveillance, politics, the public sphere, identity, crime, terror, war, community, and the body in the digital age. -- Christian Fuchs