In the past 20 years, 'new media' has emerged as one of the most dynamic research fronts in media and communication, addressing the diversity and proliferation of new information and communication technologies and their social contexts. This growing field is both international and transdisciplinary. The editors have mined a rich collection of published material covering the historical, economic, social and behavioural issues at stake to trace the development and implications of new media."Vol 1. Visions and Histories" - The first volume offers an historical overview, as well as the 'visions' of a society influenced by new media put forward by such influential scholars as McLuhan, Innis and Debord. "Vol. 2 Technology: Artefacts, Systems, Design" - The second evolume introduces new media as comprised of artifacts (technologies, hardware, systems themselves and how they're designed and made. "Vol. 3 Social Institutions, Structures, Arrangements" - The third volume covers the social 'arrangements' behind new media: institutions, social structures, and culture broadly conceived). "Vol.4 Practices: Interaction, Identity, Organizing, Culture" - The fourth volume focuses on practices, or what people do, covering human interaction, organizing, identity and cultural practices.
VOLUME 1: VISIONS, HISTORIES, MEDIATION Visions The Medium Is the Message - Marshall McLuhan Automation: Learning a Living - Marshall McLuhan The Ecstasy of Communication - Jean Baudrillard The Society of the Spectacle - Guy Debord Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy - Arjun Appadurai The Culture of Underdetermination - Mark Poster Histories Annihilating Space, Time, and Difference: Experiments in Cultural Homogenization - Carolyn Marvin Conclusions: Control as Engine of the Information Society - James R. Beniger Introduction: A Storm from Paradise: Technological - Brian Winston Innovation, Diffusion and Suppression Private Communication - Patrice Flichy From Kaleidoscomaniac to Cybernerd: Notes toward an Archaeology of the Media - Erkki Huhtamo Where the Counterculture Met the New Economy: The WELL and the Origins of Virtual Community - Fred Turner Mediation Mediated Interpersonal Communication: Toward a New Typology - Robert Cathcart and Gary Gumpert Cultural Approach to Communication - James W. Carey Communication and Mediation - Josiane Jouet The Internet as Mass Medium - Merrill Morris and Christine Ogan Immediacy, Hypermediacy, and Remediation - J.D. Bolter and R. Grusin Cultural Change: The Perception of the Media and the Mediation of Its Images - Jesus Martin Barbero VOLUME 2: TECHNOLOGY: ARTEFACTS, SYSTEMS, DESIGN Technology and Society The Technology and the Society - Raymond Williams Do Artifacts Have Politics? - Langdon Winner The Ethnography of Infrastructure - Susan Leigh Star Technologies, Texts and Affordances - Ian Hutchby Communication Technologies in Transition Farewell to the Information Age - Geoffrey Nunberg The Telephone System: Creator of Mobility and Social - Colin Cherry Youth Culture and the Shaping of Japanese Mobile Media: Personalization and the Keitai Internet as Multimedia - Tomoyuki Okada "Should One Applaud?" Breaches and Boundaries in the Reception of New Technology in Music - Trevor J. Pinch and Karin Biksterveld The Third Era of Television: Plenty - John Ellis New Media Design and Development: Diffusion of Innovations v Social Shaping of Technology - Leah A. Lievrouw Continuity and Change in Conceptions of the Wired City - William H. Dutton, Jay G. Blumler and Kenneth L. Kraemer Computers as Media The Computer as a Communication Device - J.C.R. Licklider and Robert W. Taylor Epistemological Pluralism: Styles and Voices within the Computer Culture - Sherry Turkle and Symour Papert Popularizing the Internet - Jane Abbate Shaping the Web:Why the Politics of Search Engines Matters - Lucas D. Introna and Helen Nissenbaum The Development of Interactive Games - Leslie Haddon Designing Genres for New Media: Social, Economic, and Political Contexts - Philip E. Agre VOLUME 3: PRACTICES: INTERACTION, IDENTITY, CULTURE Interaction/Computer-Mediated Communication Social Psychological Aspects of Computer-Mediated Communication - Sara Kiesler, Jane Siegel and Timothy W. McGuire Interactivity: From New Media to Communication - Sheizaf Rafaeli Genres of Organizational Communication: A Structurational Approach to Studying Communication and Media - Joanne Yates and Wanda J. Orlikowski 'Connected' Presence: The Emergence of a New Repertoire for Managing Social Relationships in a Changing Communication Technoscape - Christian Licoppe New Media and Community The Emergence of Community in Computer-Mediated Communication - Nancy K. Baym A Nation of Strangers - James E. Katz and Philip Aspden Neighboring in Netville: How the Internet Supports Community and Social Capital in a Wired Suburb - Keith Hampton and Barry Wellman Identity and Self Where Have We Been,Where Are We Going? - Joshua Meyrowitz Intelligent Agency - J. Macgregor Wise 'Where Do You Want to Go Today?' Cybernetic Touris