Includes bibliographical references and index.

Theories of media evolution / W. Russell Neuman -- Newspaper culture and technical innovation, 1980-2005 / Pablo J. Boczkowski -- From the telegraph and telephone to the Negroponte switch / Rich Ling -- Hollywo od 2.0 : how Internet distribution will affect the film industry / Eli Noam -- The evolution of radio / John Carey -- Inventing television : c itizen Sarnoff and one Philo T. Farnsworth / Evan I. Schwartz -- The ca ble fables : the innovative imperative of excess capacity / Harmeet Saw hney -- Some say the Internet should never have happened / Paul N. Edwa rds -- Privacy and security policy in the digital age / Amitai Etzioni -- Who controls content? the future of digital rights management / Gigi Sohn and Timothy Schneider.