In lively, mordantly witty prose, Negroponte decodes the mysteries--and debunks the hype--surrounding bandwidth, multimedia, virtual reality, and the Internet, and explains why such touted innovations as the fax and the CD-ROM are likely to go the way of the BetaMax. "Succinct and readable. . . . If you suffer from digital anxiety . . . here is a book that lays it all out for y...(展开全部)

In lively, mordantly witty prose, Negroponte decodes the mysteries--and debunks the hype--surrounding bandwidth, multimedia, virtual reality, and the Internet, and explains why such touted innovations as the fax and the CD-ROM are likely to go the way of the BetaMax. "Succinct and readable. . . . If you suffer from digital anxiety . . . here is a book that lays it all out for y...(展开全部)

尼古拉·尼葛洛庞帝（Nicholas Negroponte） 美国麻省理工学院教授兼媒体实验室主任。他同时也是数字化生活方式杂志《连线》的资深专栏作家。 尼葛洛庞帝就学于麻省理工学院，1966 年获该院教授席位。此后数年，他同时担任耶鲁大学、密执安大学和加州大学伯克利分校的客座教授。 1968 年，他创立麻省理工学院建筑机械研究组。在此期间，他攥写了若干本颇具影响的书，包括《建筑机械》《柔性建筑机械和计算机对设计及建筑的支持》。 由于尼葛洛庞帝多年来在计算机及大众传播科技发展上的创见与贡献，他每年都应邀到全球各地演讲，为各国政要及企业界提供建议。1980年，国际信息处理联合会聘请他担任在荷兰阿姆斯特丹召开的“日常生活中的计算机”会议组委会主席。两年后，他接受法国政府邀请，成为位于巴黎的“个人计算机与人类发展国际中心”的执行主任。此外，他也是若干个企业...(展开全部)

From the rise of cyberbullying and hactivism to the issues surrounding digital privacy rights and freedom of speech, the Internet is changing the ways in which we govern and are governed as citizens. This book examines how citizens encounter and perform new sorts of rights, duties, opportunities and challenges through the Internet. By disrupting prevailing understandings of cit...(展开全部)

In Being Rational and Being Right, Juan Comesaña argues for a cluster of theses related to the rationality of action and belief. His starting point is that rational action requires rational belief but tolerates false belief. From there, Comesaña provides a novel account of empirical evidence according to which said evidence consists of the content of undefeated experiences. Thi...(展开全部)

In Being Rational and Being Right, Juan Comesaña argues for a cluster of theses related to the rationality of action and belief. His starting point is that rational action requires rational belief but tolerates false belief. From there, Comesaña provides a novel account of empirical evidence according to which said evidence consists of the content of undefeated experiences. Thi...(展开全部)

狄波拉·勒普顿（Deborah Lupton），新南威尔士大学健康社会研究中心和社会政策研究中心教授，澳大利亚社会科学院院士。她拥有社会学、传媒和文化研究的多重学术背景，并在研究中结合了创新式的定性研究方法与社会文化理论。著有《数字社会学》《量化自我》《风险》等。她还是知名学 术博客“社会学生活”（This Sociological Life）的作者。 王明玉，清华大学社会学系博士研究生，研究方向为数字社会学、风险与社会治理。

We now live in a digital society. New digital technologies have had a profound influence on everyday life, social relations, government, commerce, the economy and the production and dissemination of knowledge. People’s movements in space, their purchasing habits and their online communication with others are now monitored in detail by digital technologies. We are increasingly b...(展开全部)

Anthropology has two main tasks: to understand what it is to be human and to examine how humanity is manifested differently in the diversity of culture. These tasks have gained new impetus from the extraordinary rise of the digital. This book brings together several key anthropologists working with digital culture to demonstrate just how productive an anthropological approach t...(展开全部)

A masterful thriller by the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Da Vinci CodeWhen the NSA's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being held hostage-not b...(展开全部)