A provocative and wide-ranging introduction to the notion that information technologies are creating new formations of power, control and resistance across the planet Offers clearly explained theoretical insight into the debates that are shaping discussion on global politics and information society Case studies include the.

A provocative and wide-ranging introduction to the notion that information technologies are creating new formations of power, control and resistance across the planet Offers clearly explained theoretical insight into the debates that are shaping discussion on global politics and information society Case studies include the strategies of media management deployed to shape how the 2003 war in Iraq was presented in the public sphere Provides the reader with a number of different perspectives on the way that flows of images, capital, ideologies and informational goods are creating global spaces of control and resistance

Introduction: 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.