What fuels technology change? -- Technology adoption and diffusion -- Domestication of technologies -- Fragmenting mass media in the postmodern information society -- Information policy in the information society -- The public interest and the information divide -- Mass media and the public sphere -- Communication policy and regulation -- Popular culture in technoculture -- Gender, power and technology -- Making sense of being in cyberspace -- Technoculture and social organisation
Summary:
Lelia Green looks at what drives technological change, showing that the adoption of new technologies is not inevitable. She also explores how a variety of technology cultures coexist and interact.