Book reviews

Robert W. McChesney, Ellen Meiksins Wood and John Bellamy Foster (eds), Capitalism and the Information Age: The Political Economy of the Global Communications Revolution (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1998), pp. 254, ISBN 0–85345–989–4 (pbk) $16 ISBN 0–85345–988–6 (hbk).

B. Winston, Media Technology and Society: A History from the Telegraph to the Internet (London and New York: Routledge, 1998), pp. xiv + 374, ISBN 0–415–14229–6 (hbk) £50, ISBN 0–15–14230‐X (pbk) £16.99.

Dorothy E. Denning and Peter J. Denning (eds), Internet Besieged: Countering Cyberspace Scofflaws (NY: ACM Press (Addison‐Wesley), 1998), pp. xii + 547, ISBN 0–201–30820–7 (pbk).

Christine Bellamy and John A. Taylor, Governing in the Information Age (Buckingham and Philadelphia, PA: Open University Press, 1998), pp. 208, ISBN 0–335–19450–8 (pbk) £18.99, ISBN 0–335–19451–6 (hbk) £55.00 (Public Policy and Management Series, Series Editor: R.A.W. Rhodes).

Fay Sudweeks, Margaret L. McLaughlin and Sheizaf Rafaeli (eds), Network and Netplay: Virtual Groups on the Internet (Cambridge, MA: American Association for Artificial Intelligence/MIT Press, 1998), pp. 313, ISBN 0–262–69206–6 £27.95.

European Integration online Papers (published by the Executive Committee of the European Communities Studies Association (ECSA‐Austria); first published 5 November 1996), http://olymp.wu‐wien.ac.at/eiop/eiop/‐e.htm