During the mid-1990s, the O.J. Simpson murder trials dominated the media in the United States and were circulated throughout the world via global communications networks. The case became a spectacle of race, gender, class and violence, bringing in elements of domestic melodrama, crime drama and legal drama. According to this fascinating new book, the Simpson case was just one e...(展开全部)

During the mid-1990s, the O.J. Simpson murder trials dominated the media in the United States and were circulated throughout the world via global communications networks. The case became a spectacle of race, gender, class and violence, bringing in elements of domestic melodrama, crime drama and legal drama. According to cultural critic and scholar Douglas Kellner, the Simpson...(展开全部)

康在镐，首尔大学传播学院批判理论与文化研究副教授，剑桥大学媒介社会学博士。先后任教于纽约新学院大学与伦敦大学亚非学院，曾受洪堡基金会资助赴德国法兰克福大学从事博士后研究。

"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)

"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)

The Das Kapital of the 20th century. An essential text, and the main theoretical work of the situationists. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960's up to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism, and ...(展开全部)

居伊·德波于1931年12月28日出生在巴黎。1950年德波开始了与字母主义国际(LI)的交往。1957年字母主义国际与名为包豪斯印象运动国际的艺术家们一起建立了情境主义国际(SI)，德波自任该组织的领袖。 1967年德波出版了他的重要著作《景观社会》，他还于1973年制作了《景观社会》的电影版本(德波称自己是导演)。 他阐发了马克思关于商品拜物教的概念，将其应用在当代大众传媒身上。而关于资本 主义社会中生活已经演变成一种景观的分析，可以看作是对马克思早期异化理论的修正。《景观社会》对1968年的学生运动产生了巨大影响。 1994年居伊·德波在Champot, Upper Loire自杀身亡，此时他刚度过自己63岁生日几周时间。

居伊·德波于1931年12月28日出生在巴黎。1950年德波开始了与字母主义国际(LI)的交往。1957年字母主义国际与名为包豪斯印象运动国际的艺术家们一起建立了情境主义国际(SI)，德波自任该组织的领袖。 1967年德波出版了他的重要著作《景观社会》，他还于1973年制作了《景观社会》的电影版本(德波称自己是导演)。 他阐发了马克思关于商品拜物教的概念，将其应用在当代大众传媒身上。而关于资本 主义社会中生活已经演变成一种景观的分析，可以看作是对马克思早期异化理论的修正。《景观社会》对1968年的学生运动产生了巨大影响。 1994年居伊·德波在Champot, Upper Loire自杀身亡，此时他刚度过自己63岁生日几周时间。

In a society saturated by mass media, from newspapers and magazines, television and radio, to digital video projects and the Internet, iPods and TiVo, most students possess a great deal of media knowledge and experience before they ever enter the classroom. What they often lack, however, is a broader framework for understanding the relationship between media and society. Media/...(展开全部)

Media/Society: Industries, Images, and Audiences, Fifth Edition, by David Croteau and William Hoynes provides a framework for understanding the relationship between media and society and helps readers develop skills for critically evaluating both conventional wisdom and their own assumptions about the social role of the media. Retaining its acclaimed sociological framework, the...(展开全部)