• Updated and expanded new edition including coverage of recent media developments and the continued impact of technological change
• Newly reworked chapters on media, war, international relations, and new media
• A new "Web 2.0" section explores the role of blogging, social networking, user-generated content, and search media in media landscape

Lyn Gorman is Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Administration) and was previously Dean, Faculty of Arts, Charles Sturt University. Her publications include numerous works on media history and on war and society.

David McLean is Senior Lecturer in History at Charles Sturt University, Australia. He has been a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow, a Harold White Fellow at the National Library of Australia, and a winner of the Stuart L. Bernath Scholarly Article Prize of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.