There's lots of debate about the role of the media. Now you can read the best presentations from each side and decide for yourself. MEDIA DEBATES: GREAT ISSUES FOR THE DIGITAL AGE sets up experts to debate the pro or the con side of twenty issues that are central to today's media. You'll not only learn more about the media, you'll also discover your own opinion along the way.

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)

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)

大卫·罗杰斯（David L.Rogers） 哥伦比亚大学商学院高管教育项目主任，BRITE（品牌、创新和技术）大会创始人。他是互联网商业战略及数字营销专家，为谷歌、通用、丰田、Visa、中国东方航空等公司进行互联网战略的指导，他为64个国家的上百家公司开办了企业战略方面的高管班课程，广受好评。他在许多国际大型会议上发表了主题演讲，也是 CNN、ABC新闻、CNBC 等的演讲嘉宾，主要演讲领域是新技术对商业的影响、数字营销和大数据。

This book examines the implications of new communication technologies in the light of the most recent work in social and cultural theory and argues that new developments in electronic media, such as the Internet and Virtual Reality, justify the designation of a "second media age".

This book examines the implications of new communication technologies in the light of the most recent work in social and cultural theory. Poster critically evaluates the concepts of media and technology in various traditions of cultural theory with the aim of rethinking the relations of humans to machines.

Media are poetic forces. They produce and reveal worlds, representing them to our senses and connecting them to our lives. While the poetic powers of media are perceptual, symbolic, social and technical, they are also profoundly moral and existential. They matter for how we reflect upon and act in a shared, everyday world of finite human existence. The Poetics of Digital Media ...(展开全部)