Communication power

	Communication power

Acknowledgments ....IX

List of Figures ....XIII
List of Tables ....XV

Opening ....1

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

2 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

3 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

4 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

5 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