Reshaping Communications —— Technology, Information and Social Change

----- 重塑沟通：技术、信息和社会变革

ISBN: 9780803985636 出版年：2001 页码：315 Preston, Paschal SAGE Publications Ltd

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW Information Superhighways or Super-Hypeways PART TWO: COMPETING THEORIES OF THE CONTEMPORARY Third Wave Visions Technology as Social Transformer An Archeology of Imformation (Sector) Matters 'Information Society' Theories Culture and Information Postmodernisms and the Public Sphere PART THREE: MAPPING A NEW MILLENNIUM AND MULTIMEDIA ORDER Changes, Continuities and Cycles Towards a More Realist(ic) Theory The 'Atoms and Bits' of Informational Capitalism Polarities New Modes of Work, Consumption and State Regimes 'Content Is King'? New Media and 'Mature' Media Innovations Information as New Frontier Commofication and Consumption Stakes PART FOUR: ALTERNATIVE PROSPECTS AND POSSIBILITIES Beyond Technological Fetishism Towards a New Social and Media Order @Y2K+