"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)

Astucieusement fantaisiste et bizarrement instructif, theoatmeal.com est un site américain extrêmement populaire qui propose des bandes dessinées, des quiz et des histoires. Son auteur, Matthew Inman, a lancé le site theoatmeal.com, en juillet 2009 et bénéficie aujourd'hui de plus de 82 millions de pages vues. Toutes les 15 à 30 secondes, ce blog élu meilleur blog 2010 par le T...(展开全部)

How atmospheric media have come to shape urban Japan Ambient Media examines music, video art, film, and literature as tools of atmospheric design in contemporary Japan. Paul Roquet traces the emergence of ambient styles from the environmental music and Erik Satie boom of the 1960s and 1970s to the more recent therapeutic emphasis on healing and relaxation to make a case for por...(展开全部)

In this era of pervasive automation, Mark Andrejevic provides an original framework for tracing the logical trajectory of automated media and their social, political, and cultural consequences. This book explores the cascading logic of automation, which develops from the information collection process through to data processing and, finally, automated decision making. It argues...(展开全部)

This major new book provides a concise history of optical media from Renaissance linear perspective to late twentieth-century computer graphics. Kittler begins by looking at European painting since the Renaissance in order to discern the principles according to which modern optical perception was organized. He also discusses the development of various mechanical devices, such a...(展开全部)

The mushroom-like growth of new media technologies is radically challenging traditional media outlets. The proliferation of technologies like DVDs, MP3s and the Internet has freed the public from what we used to understand as "mass media." In the face of such seismic shifts and ruptures, the theoretical and pedagogical foundations of film and TV studies are being shaken to th...(展开全部)

Mainstream media, often known simply as MSM, have not yet disappeared in a digital takeover of the media landscape. But the long-dominant MSM--television, radio, newspapers, magazines, and books--have had to respond to emergent digital media. Newspapers have interactive Web sites; television broadcasts over the Internet; books are published in both electronic and print editions...(展开全部)

Evil Media develops a philosophy of media power that extends the concept of media beyond its tried and trusted use in the games of meaning, symbolism, and truth. It addresses the gray zones in which media exist as corporate work systems, algorithms and data structures, twenty-first century self-improvement manuals, and pharmaceutical techniques. Evil Media invites the reader to...(展开全部)

When Marshall McLuhan first coined the phrases global village and the medium is the message in 1964, no-one could have predicted today's information-dependent planet. No-one, that is, except for a handful of science fiction writers and Marshall McLuhan. Understanding Media was written twenty years before the PC revolution and thirty years before the rise of the Internet. Yet Mc...(展开全部)

吉乐·巴士莱，1952年出生于法国，曾在巴黎高等装饰艺术学院学习，后来成为插画家，为报纸，书籍和广告设计插图。他从2001年开始在法国北部冈博莱市的高等艺术学院任教，并进行图画书的创作。2004年，他的图画书《我的超级大笨猫》获得法国儿童书展上颁发的图画书大奖——“面包树奖”。