cybernetics, 55–7, 192
cybersex, 161
cybersociety, xi, 44–82
cyberspace, xiii, 1, 2, 4, 9, 11, 18n, 42, 44–7,
49, 51–2, 54–5, 57, 60–2, 72, 82n, 84, 89,
101, 117, 119, 133, 138, 140, 150, 175,
177, 186, 189–93, 195, 196, 203, 222, 223n
as electronic agora, 60, 195, 197, 199–200
as new public sphere, 72–5, 120n
as routine, 177
as revelation, 190
and ‘cyberbrats’, 187
and global telecommunications, 46
and the Internet, 4, 46–7, 48, 50, 114
Judaeo-Christian narratives of, 190
and virtual flânerie, 199–201
and virtual reality, ix, 44–6, 49, 122, 201
cyber-terrorism, 11
cyber-utopia, 52, 75, 83, 115, 120n, 191, 194Dallas Smythe, 43n
datacasting, 84, 103–5, 106, 120n
Dayan, D., 107, 208, 216
Debord, Guy, 5, 27, 53, 68, 90
spectacle, 31–4, 89, 118
deconstruction, 5, 6
Deleuze, Gilles, rhizome, 10
democracy, 23, 43n, 73, 76, 77, 82n, 134,
207, 208
and cyberspace, 24, 72–5, 80, 191
and interaction, 80–1
democratization, 9–11, 23, 84, 207, 220
Dempsey, Ken, 175, 194
Derrida, Jacques, 6, 20, 51, 121n, 129, 131,
133, 165n, 223n
dissemination, 126–8
‘hermeneutic deciphering’, 126, 131
logocentrism, 6, 11, 75, 123–4, 127–9,
130–2, 135, 138, 141, 146, 166n
phonocentrism, 6, 124, 129, 132,
135–6, 139
polysemia, 126–8
writing-as-language, 131
Dery, Mark, 100
‘escape velocity’, 187
dialogicity, 40, 77–9, 136, 137, 146–7, 164,
203, 205
digital, ‘digital age’, 10
digital divide, 58, 187
‘digital nation’, 73
technology, 2, 7, 8, 19n, 45, 49, 60, 64,
65–6, 82n, 100, 103, 108, 114, 115,
130, 183–184
digitalization, 65–6, 164
disembedding, 162–3disembodiment, 36, 100, 157, 159–161, 178,
200, 207
disembodied communities, 194, 225n
‘disintermediation’, 137–8
dot.com stocks, 96–7
Durkheim, Emile, 52, 59, 121n, 133, 152–3,
154, 189
community, 167–9, 175–6, 182, 194
conscience collective, 110, 167–70, 175
cult of the individual, 29, 110
‘organic solidarity’, 168
DVD, 65–6, 100e-commerce, 114
economy, 173
effects analysis, 4, 21, 42n, 56, 58, 82n, 102,
115, 119, 123, 133, 136, 166n
electrical-analogue time-worlds, 49
electronically based communications, 8
electronically extended relations, 3, 39,
49, 54, 55
email, 3, 17n, 47, 50, 55, 60, 61, 78, 79, 94,
97, 104, 116, 120n, 132, 143–4, 145,
150, 166n, 204, 207
embodiment, xiii, 2, 12, 14, 16, 36, 42, 47,
55, 60–3, 67, 69, 73, 78, 80, 84, 90, 92,
94, 99, 137, 138, 141, 145–146, 154,
157–8, 160–1, 170, 188, 192, 196, 200,
203, 207, 210, 217, 223n, 224n, 225n
emoticons, 16, 55, 82n, 161
Endemol Corporation, 219
Erdring, R., 90, 194, 224n
European traditions in media studies, 4face-to-face interactions, x, xii, 2, 8, 11–12,
14, 15–17, 17n, 49, 54, 63, 71–2, 78, 81n,
85, 87, 92, 94, 99–100, 108, 111, 114,
116, 118, 119n, 123n, 132, 135, 136–9,
144–6, 148–51, 154–6, 158–9, 161, 164,
166n, 178–80, 194–5, 197–9, 204–5, 207,
211, 221–2, 224n, 225n
extended by CMC, 54–5, 63, 106, 118, 203
fandom, 87, 112, 153, 211, 212–13, 214
on-line fan clubs, 87
Featherstone, Mike, the flâneur, 197, 199–201
MTV, 201
Feenberg, A., 140
Felski, Rita, 75
Fidonet, 47
Fiore, Quentin and Marshall McLuhan,
41, 72, 99, 103, 118, 121n,186
first media age, 6, 34, 95, 120n, 140
and the second media age, ix, 4, 7–11,
12, 17, 43n, 44, 50, 52, 67, 69, 71,
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