The scientific study of networks, including computer networks, social networks, and biological networks, has received an enormous amount of interest in the last few years. The rise of the Internet and the wide availability of inexpensive computers have made it possible to gather and analyze network data on a large scale, and the development of a variety of new theoretical tool...(展开全部)

Networks pervade social and economic life, and they play a prominent role in explaining a huge variety of social and economic phenomena. Standard economic theory did not give much credit to the role of networks until the early 1990s, but since then the study of the theory of networks has blossomed. At the heart of this research is the idea that the pattern of connections betwee...(展开全部)

In Media Ecologies, Matthew Fuller asks what happens when media systems interact. Complex objects such as media systems --understood here as processes, or elements in a composition as much as "things" -- have become informational as much as physical, but without losing any of their fundamental materiality. Fuller looks at this multiplicitous materiality -- how it can be sensed,...(展开全部)

New Media: An Introduction looks at the forces shaping new media technologies, and their social, cultural, political, and economic impacts. It approaches new media as social and cultural forms that are transforming everything from commerce to communities, and from creative industries to cyberpolitics.

In The End of Japanese Cinema Alexander Zahlten moves film theory beyond the confines of film itself, attending to the emergence of new kinds of aesthetics, politics, temporalities, and understandings of film and media. He traces the evolution of a new media ecology through deep historical analyses of the Japanese film industry from the 1960s to the 2000s. Zahlten focuses on th...(展开全部)

Dr Jussi Parikka is Reader in Media & Design at the Winchester School of Art (University of Southampton). Parikka is also Adjunct Professor in Digital Culture Theory at the University of Turku, Finland. He has a PhD in Cultural History (University of Turku), and teaches and writes on network culture, digital media theory and media archaeology. Personal website at: http://www.ju...(展开全部)

Since the early nineteenth century, when entomologists first popularized the unique biological and behavioral characteristics of insects, technological innovators and theorists have proposed insects as templates for a wide range of technologies. In Insect Media, Jussi Parikka analyzes how insect forms of social organization-swarms, hives, webs, and distributed intelligence-have...(展开全部)

一九七零至八零年代是香港經濟快速增長的年代，社會資源也較戰後初期充裕。現代建築技術的應用，使城市的面貌煥然一新：核心區域摩天大廈林立，就算是一般的住宅區，樓高也有二十多層，新市鎮亦逐漸都市化。城市藉著各式各樣的現代設施如啟德機場的跑道、過海隧道、高速公路、地下鐵路等等成為國際知名的大都會；而社會貧富懸殊的情況，也好像其他大城市一樣，日趨嚴重。

《香港歷史明信片精選》姊妹篇。全書收戰後至七十年代香港明信片約一百五十幅，分三個時期：戰時及復甦的年代、奠基的年代以及飛躍的年代，反映當時香港的面貌。其中以五十年代的明信片最豐富，既有黑白照片明信片，也有色彩艷麗的塗彩和彩色明信片。這些罕有的收藏，既記錄了昔日香港的景物，同時也展示了香港印刷術發展的歷程。