Beschreibung:
Emphasizing the perspective of ordinary users, this book compares the uses of the internet in three centers of the global economy and world politics: China, Europe, and the United States. It examines the internet as the current centerpiece of communication systems.
1 From media systems to communication systems 2 The comminicative state of states 3 The internet and other media of communication 4 Being social 5 How to do things with media 6 What media still do to people 7 Communication systems as scientific and normative agendas 8 Methodological appendix