Global politics in the information age presents a provocative and wide-ranging introduction to the notion that information technologies are creating new formations of power, control and resistance across the planet. The essays - ranging from the language used by the Bush administration to shape the war on terror, the attempts to control the circulation of informational products, the strategies of media management deployed to shape how the war in Iraq during 2003 was presented in the public sphere, through to the attempts to 'brand' economic globalisation and strategies of resistance developed by the anti-globalisation movement - unearth the new transformations that are unfolding in the twenty first century.

Introduction: the excess of information - Mark J. Lacy
1. Developing a new speech for global security: exploring the rhetoric of evil in the Bush administration response to 9.11.01 - Timothy W. Luke
2. Shocked and awed: the convergence of military and media discourse - James R. Compton
3. Digital divisions: online reporting and the network society - Stuart Allan
4. The impossibility of technical security: intellectual property and the paradox of informational capitalism - Matthew David and Jamieson Kirkhope
5. Global financial markets and the ICT revolution: perfect market or (im-perfect domination?) - Ngai-Ling Sum
6. Corporate propaganda and global capitalism - selling free enterprise? - Sharon Beder
7. 'The revolution will now be televised - strategies of communication and class conflict in Brazil' - Peter Wilkin and Danielle Beswick
8. Global solidarity and the communications revolution - resisting state and capital - John Boyle and Peter Wilkin
9. The global public sphere: fourth estate or new world information disorder? - Brian McNair