Imagining the Internet

This book brings together and reviews different disciplinary approaches to digital information and communication systems across the social sciences. It synthesises the developments of the Internet Age, and the micro and macro consequences of these developments.

1. Introduction ; 2. Fast Forwarding through the Information Society ; 3. Social Imaginaries of the Information Society ; 4. Communication, Complexity, and Paradox ; 5. Communication Systems in Everyday Life ; 6. Emergence and Communication Systems ; 7. Political Firestorms in Communication Policy ; 8. Conclusion