An eye-opening look at the invisible workers who protect us from seeing humanity’s worst on today’s commercial internet Social media on the internet can be a nightmarish place. A primary shield against hateful language, violent videos, and online cruelty uploaded by users is not an algorithm. It is people. Mostly invisible by design, more than 100,000 commercial content modera...(展开全部)

A revealing and gripping investigation into how social media platforms police what we post online—and the large societal impact of these decisions Most users want their Twitter feed, Facebook page, and YouTube comments to be free of harassment and porn. Whether faced with “fake news” or livestreamed violence, “content moderators”—who censor or promote user-posted content—have n...(展开全部)

The advent of new media presents a serious challenge to our understanding of visual representation, of narrative and indeed the whole art of the moving image. New media forms are emerging in hypertext, multimedia, computer games, interactive broadcast and screen media. These are constantly redefining the relationship between story and text and between the creators of art and th...(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)

As the Internet grows more sophisticated, it is creating new threats to democracy. Social media companies such as Facebook can sort us ever more efficiently into groups of the like-minded, creating echo chambers that amplify our views. It’s no accident that on some occasions, people of different political views cannot even understand each other. It’s also no surprise that terro...(展开全部)

著者 卡韦赫·法鲁赫：于不列颠哥伦比亚大学取得博士学位，历史学者，对伊朗历史研究颇有造诣。他出身于伊朗的显赫家族，其家族对近现代伊朗历史具有一定影响。他的祖父马赫迪·法鲁赫曾任驻华大使，受到蒋介石的接见。 译者 高万博：1990出生，研究生毕业，现就职于某研究所。自幼喜爱历史，大学时因偶然的契机涉足翻译，自此将翻译作为个人兴趣。 李达：山东大学在读博士生，史学爱好者，主要方向为古代世界军事史与地中海政治史及制度史，参与翻译的作品逾百万字。

著者 卡韦赫·法鲁赫：于不列颠哥伦比亚大学取得博士学位，历史学者，对伊朗历史研究颇有造诣。他出身于伊朗的显赫家族，其家族对近现代伊朗历史具有一定影响。他的祖父马赫迪·法鲁赫曾任驻华大使，受到蒋介石的接见。 译者 高万博：1990出生，研究生毕业，现就职于某研究所。自幼喜爱历史，大学时因偶然的契机涉足翻译，自此将翻译作为个人兴趣。 李达：山东大学在读博士生，史学爱好者，主要方向为古代世界军事史与地中海政治史及制度史，参与翻译的作品逾百万字。

This bilingual edition of the contemporary master's fifth work, Ce qui fut sans lumi, re, will delight, engage, and stir all lovers of poetry. Included here is an extensive new interview with the poet in English translation. "Included here is a very helpful and touchingly personal interview with the poet. . . . For readers with no prior knowledge of Bonnefoy's work, this volu...(展开全部)

A reclusive writer of detective stories, Oe Shundei, has gone missing, leaving behind a suspicious trail of blackmailing letters to a former lover. Another detective novelist, his rival, is the only one who can find him.

E.H.贡布里希 E.H.Gombrich (1909-2001)，艺术史家。生于维也纳，后移居英国。1959年起，任伦敦瓦尔堡研究院院长，直至1976年退休。1972年，获封爵士；1988年，获功绩勋章。著有脍炙人口、影响深广的《艺术的故事》和 《世界小史》等书。 译者 王立秋，北京大学国际关系学院比较政治学系政治思想专业博士生，出版有《潜能》（与严和来等合译）等译著。