How is globalization changing both society and the media? De-Westernizing Media Studies brings together leading media critics from around the world to address central questions in the study of the media, breaking away from the narrow Anglo-American perspective that has dominated media studies. In a series of case studies from Asia, Africa, North and South America, Europe, the M...(展开全部)

Communications, philosophy, film and video, digital culture: media studies straddles an astounding array of fields and disciplines and produces a vocabulary that is in equal parts rigorous and intuitive. Critical Terms for Media Studies defines, and at times, redefines, what this new and hybrid area aims to do, illuminating the key concepts behind its liveliest debates and most...(展开全部)

This textbook provides students with a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the field of media studies. Written by two highly experienced lecturers, the volume covers media texts, media institutions and audiences and the media

The contributors to Signal Traffic investigate how the material artifacts of media infrastructure--transoceanic cables, mobile telephone towers, Internet data centers, and the like--intersect with everyday life. Essayists confront the multiple and hybrid forms networks take, the different ways networks are imagined and engaged with by publics around the world, their local effec...(展开全部)

From the “Big Science” of Bell Laboratories to the esoteric world of séance chambers to university media labs to neighborhood makerspaces, places we call “labs” are everywhere—but how exactly do we account for the wide variety of ways that they produce knowledge? More than imitations of science and engineering labs, many contemporary labs are hybrid forms that require a new met...(展开全部)

"John Maeda deconstructs the digital world with the earned authority of an M.I.T.-trained computer scientist and a card-carrying artist. Being ambidextrous with Eastern and Western cultures, he can see things most of us overlook. The result is a humor and expression that brings out the best in computers and art."--Nicholas Negroponte John Maeda is one of the world's leading exp...(展开全部)

作者亚历山大•柯瓦雷（1892-1964），俄裔法国哲学家、科学史家。在科学史方面，柯瓦雷享有不亚于科学史之父乔治•萨顿的地位。柯瓦雷的著作和他在普林斯顿研究院的科学史讲座，揭示了一种新的科学史研究方法，它不同于萨顿百科全书式的大综合，而是以科学思想为线索从整体上展现科 学史，从而使科学史研究具备了极强的思想魅力，吸引了一大群富有才华的学子转向科学史并将之引为毕生的事业。柯瓦雷及其科学思想史学派所描绘的关于“科学革命”的雄伟画卷，深深地影响了并且至今仍强烈地影响着一般社会受众。换言之，为社会受众所普遍接受的是柯瓦雷式的科学史。 译者张卜天，杰出青年译者，有译著近40部。热爱哲学和科学史方面的翻译，研究方向为西方中世纪和近代早期科学思想史，研究领域主要集中在近代科学的起源和科学革命，特别关注现代性的起源，科学与哲学、神学的关系和互动，中世纪晚期和文...(展开全部)

乔治•摩尔(George Moore，1873－1958)，英国哲学家，分析哲学的两位创始人之一（另一位是罗素）。1892年起就读于剑桥大学三一学院，1898年至1904年为该院研究员，1911年起在该院任教，1939年退休。1921年至1947年任《精神》(Mind) 杂志主编。主要著作有：《伦理学原理》（1903）、《哲学研究》（1922）、《哲学的几个主要问题》（1953）和《哲学论文集》（遗著，1959）。