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Danielle Cliche (ed.), Cultural Ecology: the Changing Dynamics of Communication (London: International Institute of Communications, 1997), 251pp. ISBN 0-904-776220

ecology as a short-hand designed to help bring together various disparate disciplines and discourses. This collection of papers comes from a conference held in Munich in 1996, with a further one taking place in September 1997 in Sydney, Australia, focusing on digitalisation and the commodification of culture. Cees J. Hamelink, one of the contributors, is of course correct when he worries out loud at the impossibility of creating a coherent range of discussions around the all-encompassing cultural notion of ecology, especially when the scientific discipline itself is characterised by various conflicting views. This dilemma is exacerbated when you look at the range of issues and debates addressed: subjects as diverse as the Internet and new technology, law, finance, health, Third World development, politics, privacy and urban planning among others.