Handbook of new media : social shaping and social consequences of ICTs / edited by Leah A. Lievrouw and Sonia Livingstone.

Previous edition: 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Interpersonal life online / Nancy K. Baym -- Creating community with media : history, theories, and scientific investigations / Nicholas W. Jankowski -- Children and new media / David Buckingham -- Perspectives on Internet use : access, involvement, and interaction / Ronald E. Rice and Caroline Haythornthwaite -- New media and small group organizing / Andrea B. Hollingshead and Noshir S. Contractor -- Culture and new media : a historical view / Mark Poster -- Cultural studies and communication technology / Jennifer Daryl Slack and J. Macgregor Wise -- Power and political culture / Timothy W. Luke -- New media history / Patrice Flichy -- Exploring models of interactivity from multiple research traditions : users, documents, and systems / Sally J. McMillan -- How to infrastructure / Susan Leigh Star and Geoffrey C. Bowker -- New media design and development : diffusion of innovations v. social shaping of technology / Leah A. Lievrouw -- New media and new economy cluster dynamics / Philip Cooke -- Globalization and the structure of new media industries / Terry Flew and Stephen McElhinney -- Universal access to the new information infrastructure / Heather E. Hudson -- The regulation of digital content / Stefaan G. Verhulst -- From hierarchies to network firms / Francois Bar with Caroline Simard -- New media and the economics of information / Don Lamberton -- New media and trade policy / Anders Henten and Knud Erik Skouby -- The governance of media markets / Bella Mody, Harry M. Trebing and Laura Stein -- New global media and the role of the state / Laura Stein and Nikhil Sinha -- The information society revisited / Frank Webster.

'Handbook of New Media' sets out boundaries of new media research and scholarship and provides a definitive statement of the current state of the art.