Contents -- Introduction -- Notes on Usage -- 1. The Information Society -- Audiences and Producers in the Information Society -- New Models of News and Readership -- A New Medium -- Shovelware and 'Getting' the Web -- Content Providers and Aggregators -- New Audiences -- Conclusion -- 2. The Nature of News -- Impartiality and Objectivity -- Truth -- Interactivity -- Disintermediation -- Immediacy -- The Columbine School Killings -- 3. From Photosetting to XML -- Hypertext, New Ways of Writing and Narrative -- Design and HTML -- The Virtual Newsroom -- The Online Journalist -- 4. Armageddon.com: Home Pages and Refugees -- News from Open Sources -- The Allegory of the Good War -- An Allegory for Kosovo -- The Virtual Caravelle -- News from the Front -- The Information War -- A Wired Country -- 5. 'Too Fresh to be True': Acceleration, Ethics and the Spectacle -- The Spectacularisation of News -- Myfirsttime.com: the Banalisation of News -- Journalism Ethics on the Web and the Crisis of Legitimacy -- The Return of the Real -- Conclusion -- 6. 'Undertakings of Great Advantage' -- The News Online -- The Free Content Revolution -- Church and State -- The Media Oligopoly -- The Privatisation of the Internet -- Electronic Capitalism -- Conclusion -- 7. 'That Balance' and the New World Information Order -- Gatekeepers in the Machine -- Censorship -- Privacy and Surveillance -- Censorship or Constraint -- Copyright and Intellectual Property -- The World Information Order -- 8. The (Re)construction of Reality: Local and Global Journalisms -- Global Journalisms -- The Loss of the Peripheral -- The Global Information Society and the Media Cartel -- The Planetary News -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Web -- Index.