The poetics of communication / Bill Schwarz -- Globalisation and cultural imperialism reconsidered / David Morley -- The push and pull of global culture / James Lull -- Post feminism and popular culture / Angela McRobbie -- A nation and its immigration / Arvind Rajagopal -- Thinking experiences / Kevin Robins and Asu Aksoy -- Peckham tales / Gareth Stanton -- Media as conversation, conversation as media / John Durham Peters -- Media and cultural theory in the age of market liberalism / James Curran -- Placing promotional culture / Aeron Davis -- International agreements and the regulation of world communication / Ted Magder -- Transvaluing media studies / Nick Couldry -- Rethinking creative production: away from the cultural industries / Keith Negus -- Inventing the psychological / Lisa Blackman -- Discussing quality / Christine Geraghty -- Doing technoscience as (new) media / Sarah Kember -- Synthespians among us / Jonathan Burston -- Digital film and late capitalism / Janet Harbord -- Internet transformations / Des Freedman.