Communication and new media: from broadcast to narrowcast/
Martin Hirst and John Harrison
- Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
- xix, 420 p. ; 26 cm.
Foreword / Eric Beecher -- Digital futures : how the mobile phone has replaced the television -- Digital dilemmas : contradictions and conflict in thinking about communication -- The political economy of communication and media -- Media and capitalism : the role of technology in production and communication -- From Gutenberg to global news : a brief history of the print media -- Industrial light and magic : a brief history of still and moving pictures -- Telegraphy, the talking wireless and television -- The governance, regulation and ethics of the mass communication media -- From calculation to Cyberia : the 2500 year history of computing -- The golden age of the Internet? -- Who's a journalist now? : the expanded reportorial community -- The techno-legal time gap : can the law keep up with the digital revolution -- I know what you did last summer : the surveillance society has arrived -- That's the way the cookie rumbles : a surveillance economy -- Politics and new media -- Can we influence the future of narrowcasting?