Media Rituals rethinks our accepted concepts of ritual behavior for a media-saturated age. It connects ritual directly with questions of power, government, and surveillance and explores the ritual space which the media construct and where their power is legitimated. Drawing on sociological and anthropological approaches to the study of ritual, Nick Couldry applies the work of...(展开全部)

New Media: A Critical Introduction is a comprehensive introduction to the culture, history, technologies and theories of new media. Written especially for students, the book considers the ways in which 'new media' really are new, assesses the claims that a media and technological revolution has taken place and formulates new ways for media studies to respond to new technologies...(展开全部)

Good Reasoning Matters uses an innovative approach to critical thinking by teaching students how to argue effectively rather than just point out the short comings of ineffective arguments.

Communications, philosophy, film and video, digital culture: media studies straddles an astounding array of fields and disciplines and produces a vocabulary that is in equal parts rigorous and intuitive. Critical Terms for Media Studies defines, and at times, redefines, what this new and hybrid area aims to do, illuminating the key concepts behind its liveliest debates and most...(展开全部)

李利安·H.史密斯（Lillian H.Smith, 1887—1983） 加拿大学者，1912年起担任多伦多公立图书馆儿童部主任，终生投入发展儿童文学的事业中。她对儿童书籍的要求十分严格，为儿童选书也极审慎，毫不吝啬对优秀作品的赞扬，对拙劣之作则不予评论介绍。她不遗余力地培养新生力量，并在多伦多大学教育学院开设儿童文学讲座。在她的坚持与努力下，加拿大的儿童图书馆事业和儿童文学推广事业取得了飞速的发展。1953年，美国图书馆协会出版其著作《欢欣岁月》。为了表彰史密斯“鼓励热爱书籍与阅读的杰出工作”，1962年，美国图书馆协会为她颁发了最高荣誉“克拉伦斯·戴”奖。

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)

The contributors to Signal Traffic investigate how the material artifacts of media infrastructure--transoceanic cables, mobile telephone towers, Internet data centers, and the like--intersect with everyday life. Essayists confront the multiple and hybrid forms networks take, the different ways networks are imagined and engaged with by publics around the world, their local effec...(展开全部)

Eight years after it was first published, Photography: A Critical Introduction still has no direct competitor. Carefully structured, it identifies key debates in photographic theory, is user-friendly and is ideal for stimulating discussion and evaluation of the critical use of photographic images and ways of seeing. This new edition retains the thematic structure and text featu...(展开全部)

The culmination of forty years of teaching, researching, and advising on political economy, Ben Fine’s Microeconomics offers a clear and concise exposition of mainstream microeconomics from a heterodox perspective. Covering topics from consumer and producer theory to general equilibrium to perfect competition, it sets the emergence and evolution of microeconomics in both its hi...(展开全部)