The aesthetic nature and purposes of computer culture in the contemporary world are investigated in this book. Sean Cubitt casts a cool eye on the claims of cybertopians, tracing the globalization of the new medium and enquiring into its effects on subjectivity and sociality. Drawing on historical scholarship, philosophical aesthetics and the literature of cyberculture, the au...(展开全部)

Patrick Jagoda is professor of English and cinema and media studies at the University of Chicago. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and executive editor of Critical Inquiry. He is the author of Network Aesthetics, also published by the University of Chicago Press, and coauthor of The Game Worlds of Jason Rohrer.

Jennifer Dorothy Lee is Associate Professor of East Asian Art in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

尼古拉斯·伯瑞奥德，法国策展人和艺术批评家。从1996 年至2006 年，他是当代艺术空间巴黎东京宫的联合总监。他曾是当代艺术杂志Documents sur l'art 的创办者和负责人，也是2009 年第四届泰特三年展的策展人。2011年12月起，担任巴黎高等美术学院院长。

The term “network” is now applied to everything from the Internet to terrorist-cell systems. But the word’s ubiquity has also made it a cliché, a concept at once recognizable yet hard to explain. Network Aesthetics, in exploring how popular culture mediates our experience with interconnected life, reveals the network’s role as a way for people to construct and manage their worl...(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。

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)

Digital technology has revolutionized the way we produce and experience art today. Not only have traditional forms of art such as printing, painting, photography and sculpture been transformed by digital techniques and media, but entirely new forms such as net art, software art, digital installation and virtual reality have emerged as recognized artistic practices, collected by...(展开全部)

Digital technology has revolutionized the way we produce and experience art today. Not only have traditional forms of art such as printing, painting, photography, and sculpture been transformed by digital techniques and media, but the emergence of entirely new forms such as internet and software art, digital installation, and virtual reality has forever changed the way we defin...(展开全部)

DIGITAL MOVIEMAKING guides students of any level through the technical and aesthetic aspects of moviemaking by highlighting the decisions that are made throughout the creative process as well as the strategies filmmakers develop to bring their vision to life. Throughout the text, author Lynn S. Gross emphasizes the directorial and storytelling functions of narrative film and be...(展开全部)