Index

Acknowledgments		ix	
List of Figures
xiii	
List of Tables
xv	
Opening		1	
Power in the Network Society
10	
What is Power?
10	
State and Power in the Global Age
17	
Networks
19	
The Global Network Society
24	
The Network State
38	
Power in the Networks
42	
Power and Counterpower in the Network Society
47	
Conclusion: Understanding Power Relationships in the Global Network Society
50	
Communication in the Digital Age
54	
A Communication Revolution?
54	
Technological Convergence and the New Multimedia System: From Mass Communication to Mass Self-communication
58	
The Organization and Management of Communication: Global Multimedia Business Networks
71	
The Politics of Regulatory Policies
99	
Cultural Change in a Globalized World
116	
The Creative Audience
127	
Communication in the Global Digital Age
135	
Networks of Mind and Power
137	
The Windmills of the Mind
137	
Emotion, Cognition, and Politics
146	
Emotion and Cognition in Political Campaigns
150	
The Politics of Beliefs
153	
The Framing of the Mind
155	
Conquering the Minds, Conquering Iraq, Conquering Washington: From Misinformation to Mystification
165	
The Power of the Frame
189	
Programming Communication Networks: Media Politics, Scandal Politics, and the Crisis of Democracy
193	
Power-making by Image-making
193	
The Killing (Semantic) Fields: Media Politics at Work
196	
The Politics of Scandal
240	
The State and Media Politics: Propaganda and Control
264	
The Demise of Public Trust and the Crisis of Political Legitimacy
286	
Crisis of Democracy?
295	
Reprogramming Communication Networks: Social Movements, Insurgent Politics, and the New Public Space
299	
Warming Up to Global Warming: The Environmental Movement and the New Culture of Nature
303	
The Network is the Message: Global Movements against Corporate Globalization
339	
Mobil-izing Resistance: Wireless Communication and Insurgent Communities of Practice
346	
``Yes, We Can!'' The 2008 Obama Presidential Primary Campaign
364	
Reprogramming Networks, Rewiring Minds, Changing the World
412	
Conclusion: Toward a Communication Theory of Power		416	
Appendix		433	
Bibliography		489	
Index		543