本书揭示了数码信息时代的电子传媒与赛博空间为人类历史的发展提供的新的可能性。本书第一部分“通向未来的高速公路”，涉及无线想象、政治技术和极权主义在赛博空间的消解等题旨；第二部分“赛博空间的想象” ，讨论空间文学探索简史、电影和文化的数码化；第三部分”可能的世界” ，关涉世界观的信息化、数码复制时代的世界、数码此在等层面；第四、五部分探讨主页时代的身份、虚拟人类学、虚拟多神论、赛博空间的进化、超人文主义等问题。全书观念新颖、信息丰富，具有显而易见的思想前沿性。
本书诞生于一次神游，它记录了一个几乎延续十年的穿越赛博空间的旅程。起程之际与20世纪90年代初万维网和虚拟现实的出现时间大致巧合，那时，图像浏览器已经把单维的、文本中心的互联网变成了一种双维的多媒体工具，虚拟现实已经成为可能，使用者可以通过电脑屏幕进入三维世界。数年之中，曾经是科幻小说的非非之想，已经变成千百万使用者日常生活中的现实。许多人都见证了这些变化，虽然其中某些事物的影响尚未完全呈现出来，但也无可置疑地提示着，这个世界和我们自己都因此而正在发生基本的改变。

Contrary to the usual image of the press as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in its search for truth, Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They skilfully dissect the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news. They reveal how issues are framed and topics chosen, and contrast the double standards underlying accounts of free elections, a free press, and governmental repression between Nicaragua and El Salvador; between the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and the American invasion of Vietnam; between the genocide in Cambodia under a pro-American government and genocide under Pol Pot. What emerges from this groundbreaking work is an account of just how propagandistic our mass media are, and how we can learn to read them and see their function in a radically new way.

Get a life,' William Shatner told Star Trek fans. Yet, as Textual Poachers argues, fans already have a life,' a complex subculture which draws its resources from commercial culture while also reworking them to serve alternative interests. Rejecting stereotypes of fans as cultural dupes, social misfits, and mindless consumers, Jenkins represents media fans as active producers and skilled manipulators of program meanings, as nomadic poachers constructing their own culture from borrowed materials, as an alternative social community defined through its cultural preferences and consumption practices. Written from an insider's perspective and providing vivid examples from fan artifacts, Textual Poachers offers an ethnographic account of the media fan community, its interpretive strategies, its social institutions and cultural practices, and its troubled relationship to the mass media and consumer capitalism. Drawing on the work of Michel de Ceteau, Jenkins shows how fans of Star Trek, Blake's 7, The Professionals, Beauty and the Beast, Starsky and Hutch, Alien Nation, Twin Peaks , and other popular programs exploit these cultural materials as the basis for their stories, songs, videos, and social interactions.