Media history is millions, even billions, of years old. That is the premise of this pioneering and provocative book, which argues that to adequately understand contemporary media culture we must set out from material realities that precede media themselves—Earth’s history, geological formations, minerals, and energy. And to do so, writes Jussi Parikka, is to confront the profou...(展开全部)

Media history is millions, even billions, of years old. That is the premise of this pioneering and provocative book, which argues that to adequately understand contemporary media culture we must set out from material realities that precede media themselves—Earth’s history, geological formations, minerals, and energy. And to do so, writes Jussi Parikka, is to confront the profou...(展开全部)

Tied to the profundity of life and death, media are and have always been existential. Yet, as they are deeply embedded in the life-world on both individual and global scales, they currently capitalize on human existence seemingly without limit, while being mythologized as boundless harbingers of the future and as solutions to the predicaments of a world now poised on the edge. ...(展开全部)

The public generally regards the media with suspicion and distrust. Therefore, the media's primary concern is to regain that trust through the production of sincerity. Advancing the field of media studies in a truly innovative way, Boris Groys focuses on the media's affect of sincerity and its manufacture of trust to appease skeptics. Groys identifies forms of media sincerity a...(展开全部)

The public generally regards the media with suspicion and distrust. Therefore, the media's primary concern is to regain that trust through the production of sincerity. Advancing the field of media studies in a truly innovative way, Boris Groys focuses on the media's affect of sincerity and its manufacture of trust to appease skeptics. Groys identifies forms of media sincerity a...(展开全部)

The Anthropology of Media: A Reader Brings together key writings in the emergent field of the anthropology of media for the first time Integrates key themes in the anthropology of media by means of editorial commentary Explores the theoretical issues that have arisen from ethnographic studies of media offers a critical overview of how mass media represents and constructs both ...(展开全部)

"This book is comprehensive and magisterial, and at the same time enormously readable. It will undoubtedly become one of the very few definitive texts in the rapidly growing field of media and cultural studies, providing a crucial link to critical theory and to social theory as a whole." Professor William Outhwaite, University of Sussex "An extremely powerful and sustained diag...(展开全部)

"This book is comprehensive and magisterial, and at the same time enormously readable. It will undoubtedly become one of the very few definitive texts in the rapidly growing field of media and cultural studies, providing a crucial link to critical theory and to social theory as a whole." Professor William Outhwaite, University of Sussex "An extremely powerful and sustained diag...(展开全部)

戴维·R.奥尔德罗伊德，澳大利亚新南威尔大学科学史与科学哲学学院名誉教授，澳大利亚人文科学院院士，国际地质学史委员会前秘书长（任期1996-2004年），现任该会副主席。他还是大洋洲科学史、科学哲学和科学社会学会会长，国际科学史研究院通信院士。他因在地质学史研究方面的卓越成就，荣获1994年英国伦敦地质学会颁发的弗里德曼奖章、1999年美国地质学会的科学史研究奖、2003年澳大利亚联邦政府授予的“世纪奖”。奥尔德罗伊德的著作包括《达尔文主义的影响》、《知识之弓》和《高地论占》，主编了《地球之内外——20世纪地质学之主要贡献》等书。

戴维·R.奥尔德罗伊德，澳大利亚新南威尔大学科学史与科学哲学学院名誉教授，澳大利亚人文科学院院士，国际地质学史委员会前秘书长（任期1996-2004年），现任该会副主席。他还是大洋洲科学史、科学哲学和科学社会学会会长，国际科学史研究院通信院士。他因在地质学史研究方面的卓越成就，荣获1994年英国伦敦地质学会颁发的弗里德曼奖章、1999年美国地质学会的科学史研究奖、2003年澳大利亚联邦政府授予的“世纪奖”。奥尔德罗伊德的著作包括《达尔文主义的影响》、《知识之弓》和《高地论占》，主编了《地球之内外——20世纪地质学之主要贡献》等书。