This text is an essential sourcebook of key statements about transformations in media culture. Focusing on questions of democracy, technology and culture, it provides theoretical approaches to past and present media transformations; and case studies of a range of media, both old media in new times and emerging new media.

PART ONE: MASS COMMUNICATION AND THE MODERN WORLD
The Media and Modernity - John Thompson
Corporate Dynamics and Broadcasting Futures - Graham Murdock
The Technology and the Society - Raymond Williams
When Old Technologies Were New - Carolyn Marvin
Implementing the Future
The Wireless Age - Patrice Flichy
Radio Broadcasting
PART TWO: UNDERSTANDING `TRANSFORMATIONS¿ IN MEDIA CULTURE
No Sense of Place - Joshua Meyrowitz
The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behaviour
Information Technology and the Myth of Abundance - Anthony Smith
What Information Society? - Frank Webster
Cultural Globalisation - John Tomlinson
Placing and Displacing the West
The Global Media in the Late 1990s - Edward Herman and Robert McChesney
Popular Culture on a Global Scale - Simon During
A Challenge for Cultural Studies?
PART THREE: NEW MEDIA FOR NEW TIMES
Broadcasting is Dead. Long Live Digital Choice - Jeanette Steemers
Making Television News in the Satellite Age - Brent MacGregor
The Virtual Community - Howard Rheingold
Finding Connection 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 - David Morley and Kevin Robins
The World Wide Web of Surveillance - David Lyon
The Internet and Off-World Power Flows
In the Realm of Uncertainty - Ien Ang
The Global Village and Capitalist Postmodernity
Remote Control? Politics, Technology and ¿Electronic Democracy¿ - John Street
An Introduction to the Information Age - Manuel Castells