New Media & Society - Out next month Volume 1 Issue 1 - Publication Date: 1 April 1999 Table of Contents: Editorial Themed Section What's New About New Media? Introduction Roger Silverstone London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Underdetermination Mark Poster University of California, Irvine, USA New media and knowledge Kevin Robins University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Artifacts and paradoxes in new media Ronald E. Rice Rutgers University, Newark, USA The construction of new digital media Patrice Flichy Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) / Laboratoire Techniques Territoires et Soci`t`s (LATTS) Human captital in information economies William H. Melody Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands The language and nature of the Internet : the meaning of global Cheris Kramarae University of Oregon, Eugene, USA New media and news : implications for the future of journalism John V. Pavlik Columbia University, New York, USA New media, new audiences? Sonia Livingstone London School of Economics and Political Science, UK The new media and democratic politics Stephen Coleman The Hansard Society for Parliamentary Government, London The public at the table : from public access to public participation Lana F. Rakow North Dakota State University, USA Articles (including abstracts) Abstracts: The domestication of video-on-demand : folk understanding of a new technology Rich Ling, Siri Nilsen and Stephan Granhaug Telnor R&D, Norway This article describes several of the elements that have relevance in the integration of video-on-demand into the home. The specific case examined here involves a trial carried out in Oslo, Norway. Using qualitative methods, the study describes how a selection of users integrated the technology into the mental and physical contexts of their everyday lives. Video-on-demand is a technology that is outside our taken-for-granted experience and thus its integration presents a chance to observe the domestication of technology in everyday life. Understanding the development of online newspapers : using computer-mediated communication theorizing to study Internet publishing Pablo Boczkowski Cornell University, New York, USA The central argument of this article is that the social study of computer-mediated communication (CMC) has generated knowledge about at least four issues that have figured prominently in the development of online newspapers. Thus, CMC scholarship becomes relevant to analyzing the electronic version of a medium that has traditionally been the almost exclusive province of mass communication theorizing. Four issues are identified: (1) the social consequences of the increased anonymity of interlocutors; (2) the reconfiguration of territorially- and interest-based associations; (3) the processes that mediate between the introduction of new artifacts and their social outcomes; and (4) the mutual shaping of consumers and technologies. The role each has had in the construction of online newspapers is explicated and potential avenues for further research are suggested. Finally, Boczkowski maintains that the work outlined in this article fosters two dialogues crucial to the future of communication in increasingly networked societies: those between CMC and mass communication scholarship, and between media theory and practice. Review Essay The one-dimensional network society of Manuel Castells Jan A.G.M. Van Dijk University of Utrecht, Netherlands Book Reviews Not nearly smart enough: Artificial Intelligence under feminist scrutiny Alison Adam, Artificial Knowing: Gender and the Thinking Machine Little Brother Facing Up To Big Brother? Philip Agre and Marc Rotenberg (eds), Technology and Privacy: The New Landscape, reviewed by Paul Baker Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau, Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption Visit our website for further details: http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/j0182.html For further information about subscribing or contributing to the journal please contact: Jane Makoff, [log in to unmask] Sage Publications ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite