Understanding digital culture / Vincent Miller

Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Revolutionary Technologies? ; The Structure of the Book -- 1. Key Elements of Digital Media: Technical Processes ; Cultural Forms ; Immersive Experiences ; Case study: What are video games? A conundrum of digital culture ; Conclusion ; Further reading ; Notes -- 2. The Economic Foundations of the Information Age: Post-Industrialism ; The Information Society ; Post-Fordism and Globalisation ; Informationalism and the Network Society ; Weightless Economies, Intellectual Property and the Commodification of Knowledge -- 3. Convergence and the Contemporary Media Experience: Technological Convergence ; Regulatory Convergence ; Media Industry Convergence ; Convergence Culture ad the Contemporary Media Experience ; Producers, Consumers, Prosumers and 'Produsage' ; Case study: The changing culture industry of digital music ; Conclusion ; Further reading ; Notes -- 4. 'Everyone is Watching': Privacy and Surveillance in Digital Life: The Changing Cultural Contexts of Privacy ; Digital Surveillance: Spaces, Traces and Tools ; The Rise Surveillance: Causes and Processes ; Commercial Imperatives and the Political Economy of Surveillance ; Case study: Control societies, "dividuals" and big data ; Why Care about a Surveillance Society? ; Conclusion ; Further reading ; Notes -- 5. Information Politics and the Online Public Sphere: The Poltical Context of Information Politics ; ICT-Enabled Politics ; An Internet Public Sphere? ; Conclusion ; Further reading ; Notes -- 6. Cybercrime, Cyberterrorism and Cyberware: Cybercrime: A Muddy Field ; The Tools and Techniques of Cybercrime, Cyberactivism and Cyberwarfare ; Cyber Politics by Another Means: Cyber Warfare ; Conclusion ; Further reading ; Notes -- 7. Digital Identity: 'Objects to Think with': Early Internet Studies and Poststructuralism ; Personal Homepages and the 'Re-Centring' of the Individual ; Personal Blogging, Individualisation and the Reflexive Project of the Self ; Avatar and Identity ; Social Networks, Profiles and Networked Identity ; Who needs Identity? ; Case study: Selfies - more than just the self ; Conclusion ; Further reading ; Notes -- 8. Digital Community? Space, Networks and Relationships: Searching for Lost Community: Urbanisation, Space and Scales of Experience ; Globalisation, Technology and the Rise of Individualism ; 'Virtual' Communities Over Before they Began? ; Network Societies, Network Socialities and Networked Individualism ; Being Together Online: Networks, Instrumentalism and Intimacy ; Case study: Language, technology and phatic communion ; Conclusion ; Further reading ; Notes -- 9. The Body and Information Technology: The Body, Technology and Society ; The Posthuman ; Technology, Embodiment Relations and 'Homo Faber' ; Conclusion ; Further reading ; Notes -- Conclusion: Base, Superstructure, Infrastructure (Revisited) -- References -- Index