Digital Dilemmas

M.I Franklin is Professor of Global Media and Politics and Director of the Global Media and Transnational Communications MA Program at the University of London

• List of Figures ; Acknowledgements ; Chapter One. Digital Dilemmas? ; Chapter Two. Paradigm Resets: Real-Life & Virtual Reconnections ; Chapter Three. Who Rules in the 'Internet Galaxy'? Battle of the Browsers and Beyond ; Chapter Four. Can the Subaltern Speak in Cyberspace? Homelessness and the Internet ; Chapter Five. Who Should Control the Internet? Emerging Publics and Human Rights ; Chapter Six. Paradigm Reboot: Decolonizing Futures ; Notes ; Literature List ; Index

Digital Dilemmas addresses an important current field of media studies. Its principal strength and originality lies in its ability to bridge social, technological and cultural approaches to the internet and to new media generally, in a space in which major studies are typically one-dimensional. Franklin's strong and broad-ranging grounding in social theory is evident in her clear explication of the paradox dilemma of a globally distributed technology which is, at the same time, controlled by a small number of hardware and software interests.