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Book SynopsisGlobal Politics in the Information Age presents a provocative and wide-ranging introduction to the notion that information technologies are creating new formations of power, control and resistance across the planet. -- .
Table of ContentsIntroduction: the excess of information - Mark J. Lacy
1. Developing a new speech for global security: exploring the rhetoric of evil in the Bush administration response to 9.11.01 - Timothy W. Luke
2. Shocked and awed: the convergence of military and media discourse - James R. Compton
3. Digital divisions: online reporting and the network society - Stuart Allan
4. The impossibility of technical security: intellectual property and the paradox of informational capitalism - Matthew David and Jamieson Kirkhope
5. Global financial markets and the ICT revolution: perfect market or (im-perfect domination?) - Ngai-Ling Sum
6. Corporate propaganda and global capitalism - selling free enterprise? - Sharon Beder
7. ‘The revolution will now be televised – strategies of communication and class conflict in Brazil’ - Peter Wilkin and Danielle Beswick
8. Global solidarity and the communications revolution – resisting state and capital - John Boyle and Peter Wilkin
9. The global public sphere: fourth estate or new world information disorder? - Brian McNair
