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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. -- .
Trade ReviewAn insightful book that uses the intersection between International Politics and Media Studies to pose timely questions about the changing terrain of global communication. The wide-ranging topics covered in the book - including military rhetoric, online reporting and intellectual property rights - remind us that the everyday practices of global politics exceed traditional debates about war, peace and security. Indeed, this book makes a persuasive case that information and communication technologies are central to any analysis that seeks to
make sense of the post 9-11 international sphere.'
…this book must be lauded for its versatility, accesibility and for achieving its objectives to reveal the complexities of communication. Thanks to its wide empirical and theoretical coverage it makes for interesting, thought provoking reading and, being well written and well referenced throughout, it provides an excellent background for further studies in the individual areas of exploration'
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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
