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PART ONE: MASS COMMUNICATION AND THE MODERN WORLD The Media andModernity - John Thompson Corporate Dynamics and Broadcasting Futures -Graham Murdock The Technology and the Society - Raymond Williams When OldTechnologies Were New - Carolyn Marvin Implementing the Future TheWireless Age - Patrice Flichy Radio Broadcasting PART TWO: UNDERSTANDING'TRANSFORMATIONS' IN MEDIA CULTURE No Sense of Place - Joshua MeyrowitzThe Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behaviour Information Technology andthe Myth of Abundance - Anthony Smith What Information Society? - FrankWebster Cultural Globalisation - John Tomlinson Placing and Displacing theWest The Global Media in the Late 1990s - Edward Herman and Robert McChesneyPopular Culture on a Global Scale - Simon During A Challenge for CulturalStudies? PART THREE: NEW MEDIA FOR NEW TIMES Broadcasting is Dead. Long LiveDigital Choice - Jeanette Steemers Making Television News in the SatelliteAge - Brent MacGregor The Virtual Community - Howard Rheingold FindingConnection 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 - DavidMorley and Kevin Robins The World Wide Web of Surveillance - David LyonThe Internet and Off-World Power Flows In the Realm of Uncertainty - Ien AngThe Global Village and Capitalist Postmodernity Remote Control? Politics,Technology and 'Electronic Democracy' - John Street An Introduction to theInformation Age - Manuel Castells