I. The information and entertainment ecology -- 1. The new communication revolution -- 2. New media theory -- -- II. Convergence and concentration in the media industries -- 3. Print media -- 4. Radio/TV/ film -- 5. Telecommunications -- 6. Advertising and public relations -- 7. Media concentration -- -- III. New technologies, the self, and social life -- 8. At the interface : new intimacies, new cultures -- 9. Media acceleration and the increasing velocity of everyday life -- -- IV. Social impacts of information and communications technologies -- 10. Networked computing : promises and paradoxes -- 11. Dystopian views of information technology -- -- V. New technologies and the public sphere -- 12. Electronic democracy -- 13. The digital divide -- -- VI. Policing the electronic world : issues and ethics -- 14. Copyright -- 15. Privacy and surveillance -- 16. Hacking and the digital underground