Preface
List of Figures and Tables

Chapter 1. Introduction
The Rise of New Technological Social Formation

Section Ⅰ Structural Problematics
Chapter 2. From Hierarchy to Boundary: IT-based Social Inequality
Chapter 3. A Critical Reexamination of Digital Divide

Section Ⅱ Life-world Transformation
Chapter 4. Cyberculture
Emergence of New Cultural Consciousness
Chapter 5. Online Buddhist Community
An Alternative Religious Organization

Section Ⅲ Changing Self and Identity
Chapter 6. Lifelogging and Changing Nature of Self
Chapter 7. Avatars and the Formation of ‘Net Identity’

Section Ⅳ Topics in Risk Management
Chapter 8. Surveillance Technology, Privacy and Social Control
Chapter 9. Dialectics of Risk, Security and Surveillance in a High-Tech Society

Section Ⅴ New Media and Society
Chapter 10. New Media and the Social Reconstruction of Reality
Chapter 11. Policy Measures in the Age of New Media
Chapter 12. Closing
Toward a Convergence Civilization

References
Index