"New media" and Marshall McLuhan
Methodological considerations. McLuhan's methodology
Five communication ages
To what extent do the "new media" confirm or contradict McLuhan's predictions?
The fourteen messages of "new media"
the "digital economy"
Scaffolding and cascading technologies and media
How the new media have impacted the media analyzed in Understanding media (UM). The spoken word : impact of "new media" on the spoken word
The written word
Roads and paper routes
Number
Clothing
Housing
Money
Clocks
The print
Comics
The printed word and books
Wheel, bicycle, and airplane
The photograph
Press (newspapers) and the news
Motorcar
Ads
Games
Telegraph
The typewriter
The telephone
The phonograph and new modes of recorded music
Movies
Raio
Television
Weapons
Automation (plus the factory
The analysis of new media not dealt with in UM : are the mass media abating in influence?. Hybrid or convergent technologies
The multifunction printer, photocopier, scanner, and fax
The cell phone
The personal computer
The PDA (Personal Digital Assistant)
Computer software
The Internet
Email, instant messaging (IM)
Bulletin boards, Usenets, Listservs, and chat
The World Wide Web
Blogs
Search engines plus Google and libraries
Video conferencing and web-based collaboration tools
Virtual reality (VR) and simulations
Robots, bots, and agents
Artificial intelligence (AI) and expert systems
"Smart tags" and dataspace
Enabling technologies not dealt with in Understanding media.