What is the real effect of globalization - and media’s part in it - on our everyday lives? Are new media fundamentally more democratic, participatory and accessible than television and radio? How are these media being used by people in developing countries to access global information and project their voices to reach beyond the local? In what ways do new media exemplify and impact other aspects of the globalization phenomenon, such as the interdependence between Third World and First World, transnational migration, and the gendered commodification of the human body? How do new media extend our abilities not only to imagine but to realize the not yet possible, the not yet conceived?"

Artists and New Technologies: Imagining a New Global Community," by Elizabeth Donovan Stuelke – is a group of artists using new media to create projects that not only question the uses and abuses of media and globalization, but that actually enact and prescribe alternatives.

"Bridging the Digital Divide: New Media Use in Developing Countries," by Nicole Cordier explores new media as it enables individual and collective agency across a multitude of diverse cultural voices, facilitates the development of sustainable communities, and allows people to represent themselves on a global scale.

"Media and Migration: International Adoption, Globalization, and the Internet," by J. M. Weimer contextualizes the impact of new media on the development of contemporary international adoption as a form of global migration.

"Global Network, Local Connection and the Interface Between," by Jeremy Wood examines the global and the local in the material and conceptual design and construction of web technology and new media.

New media help us to frame the way we look at, understand, communicate about, and visualize our world. New media are not merely to be seen as a simulacrum of the "real" world, but must be taken in their own right: as a dynamic experience - emotional and real, as a changing environment, as a changing set of technologies, as a potent force in shaping - and being shaped by society, culture, and the material world, and as a set of material practices carried out by real human agents, with symbolic meanings and material and cultural effects on our own lived human experiences.