Marshall McLuhan, whose insights about the impact of media have been compared in importance to the work of Darwin, Einstein, and Freud, died at the doorstep of the digital age in 1980. Paul Levinson - author of "The Soft Edge" - delves into the lessons McLuhan holds for the new millennium. This text highlights and explains the prophetic nature of McLuhan's theories. Levinson sh...(展开全部)

Marshall McLuhan died on the last day of 1980, on the doorstep of the personal computer revolution. Yet McLuhan's ideas anticipated a world of media in motion, and its impact on our lives on the dawn of the new millennium. Paul Levinson examines why McLuhan's theories about media are more important to us today than when they were first written, and why the Wired generation is n...(展开全部)

'Understanding New Media' is a necessary and up to date upgrade of Marshall McLuhan's theories in the context of a new digital media ecology. Bob Logan is one of the best interpreters of McLuhan's 360 vision of media, technology and culture, and he has enriched this wide- angle perspective by including categories from biology, complexity and evolution fields. In a historical mo...(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。

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)

Interested in digital moviemaking and want to focus on the directorial and storytelling functions of the media? DIGITAL MOVIEMAKING underscores the creative process--the kinds of decisions that are made and the strategies that are developed. Further, Gross and Ward stress the forethought and care that must go into all aspects of production, including the technical information t...(展开全部)

DIGITAL MOVIEMAKING, International Edition 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 o...(展开全部)

From the bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code comes the gripping story of the ultimate code. It's powerful, dangerous--and unbreakable . . . When the NSA's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant and beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through ...(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)

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)