Consuming Technologies opens for analysis some crucial but rarely examined areas of social, cultural and economic life. At its core is a concern with the complex set of relationships that mark and define the place of the domestic in the modern world, and an explanation of the relationship between the domestic and public spheres as they are mediated by consumption and technology...(展开全部)

Table of Contents List of contributors Foreword: The mirror of technology / Marilyn Strathern Acknowledgements Introduction / Roger Silverstone, Eric Hirsch 1 Pt. I Conceptual and thematic issues 1 Information and communication technologies and the moral economy of the household / Roger Silverstone, Eric Hirsch, David Morley 15 2 The circuit of technology: gender, identity and ...(展开全部)

Table of Contents List of contributors Foreword: The mirror of technology / Marilyn Strathern Acknowledgements Introduction / Roger Silverstone, Eric Hirsch 1 Pt. I Conceptual and thematic issues 1 Information and communication technologies and the moral economy of the household / Roger Silverstone, Eric Hirsch, David Morley 15 2 The circuit of technology: gender, identity and ...(展开全部)

John Urry has been discussing and writing on these and similar questions for the past fifteen years. In Consuming Places , he gathers together his most significant contributions. Urry begins with an extensive review of the connections between society, time and space. The concept of 'society', the nature of 'locality', the significance of 'economic restructuring', and the concep...(展开全部)

John Urry has been discussing and writing on these and similar questions for the past fifteen years. In Consuming Places , he gathers together his most significant contributions. Urry begins with an extensive review of the connections between society, time and space. The concept of society', the nature of locality', the significance of economic restructuring', and the concept o...(展开全部)

What are you drawn to like, to watch, or even to binge? What are you free to consume, and what do you become through consumption? These questions of desire and value, Kathryn Lofton argues, are questions for the study of religion. In eleven essays exploring soap and office cubicles, Britney Spears and the Kardashians, corporate culture and Goldman Sachs, Lofton shows the concep...(展开全部)

Contributors: Madeleine Brainerd, Joe Conway, Fraser Easton, Christopher GoGwilt, Shari Goldberg, Melanie D. Holm, Sarah Kay, Kaori T. Kitao, Holt V. Meyer, Isabel A. Moore, Fawzia Mustafa, Gavin Sour

In a masterly synthesis of history, law, and technology, Pool analyzes the confrontation between the regulators of the new communications technology and the First Amendment. (Technology)

伊锡尔·德·索拉·普尔（Ithiel de Sola Pool），20世纪著名的政治科学家、传播学专家，曾任美国国家科学院院士，多次出任美国和其他国家政府顾问。1952年于芝加哥大学取得博士学位，随后先后任教于斯坦福大学和麻省理工学院，参与创办麻省理工学院国际研究中心及政治科学系。普尔的研究成果几乎涉及了政治科学的各个分支，他在传播技术对全球政治、社会通信及大众文化的影响领域的研究牢牢树立了其学术声誉，代表作有：《传播学手册》（The Handbook of Communication，编著，1973）、《电话的社会影响》（The Social Impact of the Telephone，编著，1976）、《自由的技术》（Technologies of Freedom，1983）等。 译者简介： 胡泳，北京大学新闻与传播学院教授，政治学博士，国内...(展开全部)

Lithic Technologies in Sedentary Societies examines lithic technology from ancient societies in Mesoamerica, the Near East, South Asia, and North America, showcasing the important contributions in-depth lithic analysis can make to the study of sedentary societies around the world. Using cutting-edge analytical techniques these case studies address difficult anthropological ques...(展开全部)