Paschal Preston 
Reshaping Communications [PDF ebook] 
Technology, Information and Social Change

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
Information Superhighways or Super-Hypeways
PART TWO: COMPETING THEORIES OF THE CONTEMPORARY
Third Wave Visions
Technology as Social Transformer
An Archeology of Imformation (Sector) Matters
′Information Society′ Theories
Culture and Information
Postmodernisms and the Public Sphere
PART THREE: MAPPING A NEW MILLENNIUM AND MULTIMEDIA ORDER
Changes, Continuities and Cycles
Towards a More Realist(ic) Theory
The ′Atoms and Bits′ of Informational Capitalism
Polarities
New Modes of Work, Consumption and State Regimes
′Content Is King′?
New Media and ′Mature′ Media Innovations
Information as New Frontier
Commofication and Consumption Stakes
PART FOUR: ALTERNATIVE PROSPECTS AND POSSIBILITIES
Beyond Technological Fetishism
Towards a New Social and Media Order @Y2K+

Paschal Preston holds a research professorship in the School of Communications in Dublin City University.
Paschal Preston is the founding director of the COMTEC research unit. Founded in 1991, COMTEC was one of the first social science research centres in the Irish university sector. COMTEC now has a distinguished 20-year record of successful collaborative and multi-country research projects. For more on COMTEC, click here.
Paschal Preston is also a member of the Society, Information and Media (SIM) research centre. SIM was established in 2005 to embrace the broad research interests of staff in the School of Communication, including those engaged in media practice as well as academic research on media production, policy and consumption issues.