Constituting a new television genre, live broadcasts of "historic" events have become world rituals which, according to Dayman and Katz, have the potential for transforming societies even as they transfix viewers around the globe. Analyzing such public spectacles as the Olympic games, the moon landing, and Pope John Paul II's visits to Poland, they offer an ethnography of how m...(展开全部)

斯坦利·科伦(Stanlev Coren)，畅销小说作家，不列颠哥伦比亚大学心理学教授及著名犬类行为学专家，多年来一直站在犬类研究的最前沿，曾主持电视节目《好狗》(Good Dog)。他和家人居住在加拿大温哥华，和他们一起生活的还有他妻子的猫和他的一只比格犬、一只查理土王小猎犬和一只斯科舍诱鸭寻回犬。

Social media has come to deeply penetrate our lives: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and many other platforms define many of our daily habits of communication and creative production. The Culture of Connectivity studies the rise of social media in the first decade of the twenty-first century up until 2012, providing both a historical and a critical analysis of the emergence of major...(展开全部)

Social media has come to deeply penetrate our lives: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and many other platforms define many of our daily habits of communication and creative production. The Culture of Connectivity studies the rise of social media in the first decade of the twenty-first century up until 2012, providing both a historical and a critical analysis of the emergence of major...(展开全部)

This book contains several contributions on the most outstanding events in the development of twentieth century mathematics, representing a wide variety of specialities in which Russian and Soviet mathematicians played a considerable role. The articles are written in an informal style, from mathematical philosophy to the description of the development of ideas, personal memorie...(展开全部)

With a continued emphasis on interpretation and analysis, The Press and America remains the classic authority on the history of mass media in the United States. Recognizing that the development of America's journalism is inherently and integrally related to the cultural identity of its people, the heart of this book is an examination of American life and the American media. Th...(展开全部)

Sean Bowden shows you how the Deleuzian event should be understood in terms of the broader metaphysical thesis that fixed things or substances are always secondary with respect to events. He achieves this through a reconstruction of Deleuze's relation to the history of thought from the Stoics through to Simondon, taking account of Leibniz, Lautman, structuralism and psychoanaly...(展开全部)

珍•罗伯兹（Jane Roberts，1929—1984），美国作家、诗人，20世纪最重要的通灵作家，其最著名的著作是赛斯书系列。从1963年起，珍为赛斯口述了本书及《灵魂永生》《个人实相的本质》《心灵的本质》《未知的实相》《梦与意识的投射》等书。这些资料探讨了人类心灵的本质，涵盖了心理学、超心理学、医学、物理学等领域，被认为新时代运动的基石，被西方人誉为有史以来最全面系统的修行体系。这些作品与她的诗歌和小说目前均保存在耶鲁大学图书馆。

In this book Lev Manovich offers the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media. He places new media within the histories of visual and media cultures of the last few centuries. He discusses new media's reliance on conventions of old media, such as the rectangular frame and mobile camera, and shows how new media works create the illusion of reality, address the viewer, a...(展开全部)

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)