1. Introduction What is information? The foundations of the information society The internet as a driver of change The big challenges of big data What about the information providers? New ways of creating information Where do we put all this information? Why information matters 2. New models of information production Introduction Blogs: the state of the blogosphere Blogging 2.0 Who can you trust? Blogs and social media as agents of change Blogging for money The economics of print media The transition to digital news Digital-Only News Publishers The new generation of news consumers Case Study - BuzzFeed Business publishing Case Study - Gigaom Wikis and collaborative publishing Search engines and what they know Gaming Google Does Google know too much? Our social graphs What are we worth? Case Study - Klout The challenge of big data Data types When everything is connected Data as the new currency Concluding comments 3. New models of information storage Introduction Preserving the internet How organizations store information Academia Case study - DSpace institutional repository software Legal requirements Data mining Case study - Tesco Clubcard Collection digitization Keeping it all safe Storage at the personal level Putting it in the cloud Our digital footprints The future of storage Concluding comments 4. New models of information distribution Introduction The architecture of the internet Distribution and disintermediation Case Study - DataSift The new intermediaries Intermediaries in the shadows Copyright-friendly intermediaries Online video - we''re all celebrities now Case Study - Netflix The Video Classroom Case Study - The Khan Academy Open government and the internet Proactive government Defensive government Offensive Government Helping the information ow both ways Making money from public information Threats to the open web Concluding comments 5. New models of information consumption Introduction Information consumption devices Mobile consumption devices Looking beyond the artefact It''s all about the apps Case Study - Amazon Information ecosystems: gilded cages or innovation hotbeds? Fair dealing Resale Lending Returning to an open web HTML5 - an antidote to appiFication? The experiential web Case Study - Oculus Rift Rent or buy? Case Study - Spotify Making sense of it all Information literacy Information overload Implications for information professionals Concluding comments 6. Conclusion Introduction The struggle for control in a networked world Implications for information professionals The knowledge management opportunity The future of search Ninja librarians Implications for publishers The copyright challenge Hooked on tablets Implications for society Internet everywhere Nowhere to hide Concluding comments.