The shitstorm represents an authentic phenomenon of digital communication. -- from In the Swarm Digital communication and social media have taken over our lives. In this contrarian reflection on digitized life, Byung-Chul Han counters the cheerleaders for Twitter revolutions and Facebook activism by arguing that digital communication is in fact responsible for the disintegratio...(展开全部)

Encompassing new technologies, research methods, and opportunities for collaborative scholarship and open-source peer review, as well as innovative ways of sharing knowledge and teaching, the digital humanities promises to transform the liberal arts—and perhaps the university itself. Indeed, at a time when many academic institutions are facing austerity budgets, digital humanit...(展开全部)

The book publishing industry is going through a period of profound and turbulent change brought about in part by the digital revolution. What is the role of the book in an age preoccupied with computers and the internet? How has the book publishing industry been transformed by the economic and technological upheavals of recent years, and how is it likely to change in the future...(展开全部)

The internet and the mobile phone have disrupted many of our conventional understandings of our selves and our relationships, raising anxieties and hopes about their effects on our lives. This timely and vibrant book provides frameworks for thinking critically about the roles of digital media in personal relationships. Rather than providing exuberant accounts or cautionary tale...(展开全部)

The internet and the mobile phone have disrupted many of our conventional understandings of our selves and our relationships, raising anxieties and hopes about their effects on our lives. This timely and vibrant book provides frameworks for thinking critically about the roles of digital media in personal relationships. Rather than providing exuberant accounts or cautionary tale...(展开全部)

Many people deploy photo media tools to document everyday events and rituals. For generations we have stored memories in albums, diaries, and shoeboxes to retrieve at a later moment in life. Autobiographical memory, its tools, and its objects are pressing concerns in most people’s everyday lives, and recent digital transformation cause many to reflect on the value and meaning o...(展开全部)

Featuring 28 leading international media scholars, Technics rethinks technology for the contemporary digital era, with cutting-edge theoretical, historiographical, and methodological interventions. The volume’s contributors explore the ideas of Walter Benjamin, Ursula Le Guin, Bernhard Siegert, Gilbert Simondon, and Sylvia Wynter in conjunction with urgent questions concerning ...(展开全部)

~ 本世紀最波濤洶湧的小說 ~ 當大海有了智慧，第一個念頭竟是殺人…… 狂銷300萬冊的德國出版史奇蹟！連續104週排行榜冠軍！即將開拍電影 最厚，也最賣的小說！ 在秘魯，一名漁夫從海上消失。 法國頂級餐廳「三個胖子」的廚房裡，鮮美的龍蝦用牠黑色的眼睛盯住大廚，然後，自己爆炸了。來自海底的訊息，從都市下水道流瀉蔓延…… 加拿大沿海的鯨群遲到了好幾個星期，受到賞鯨民眾歡喜相迎時，竟反常地聯手展開攻擊。 蚌類開始擁有導航的本領、湧向行駛中的貨輪，直到船舵被絞碎成堆的蚌殼堵到動彈不得為止；墨西哥梭子蟹引發了中毒恐慌；一群群劇毒的水母聚集岸邊，威脅著澳洲和印尼。 交織在深海中的電纜被扯斷了，大西洋兩岸完全失去連繫，電話、網路頓時成了廢物；直布羅陀海峽、麻六甲海峽和英吉利海峽，地球上最重要的貿易命脈一一癱瘓。 這一切之間似乎沒有任何聯繫，但身為生物學家，西谷．...(展开全部)