In the post-9/11 era, media technologies have become increasingly intertwined with vertical power as airwaves, airports, air space, and orbit have been commandeered to support national security and defense. In this book, Lisa Parks develops the concept of vertical mediation to explore how audiovisual cultures enact and infer power relations far beyond the screen. Focusing on TV...(展开全部)

Operation Valhalla collects eighteen texts by German media theorist Friedrich Kittler on the close connections between war and media technology. In these essays, public lectures, interviews, literary analyses, and autobiographical musings, Kittler outlines how war has been a central driver of media’s evolution, from Prussia’s wars against Napoleon to the so-called War on Terror...(展开全部)

Always connect—that is the imperative of today’s media. But what about those moments when media cease to function properly, when messages go beyond the sender and receiver to become excluded from the world of communication itself—those messages that state: “There will be no more messages”? In this book, Alexander R. Galloway, Eugene Thacker, and McKenzie Wark turn our usual und...(展开全部)

Blinded by a concept 11:06 AM PDT, August 31, 2006 The failure of Israel to subdue Hezbollah demonstrates the many weaknesses of the war-on-terror concept. One of those weaknesses is that even if the targets are terrorists, the victims are often innocent civilians, and their suffering reinforces the terrorist cause. In response to Hezbollah's attacks, Israel was justified in at...(展开全部)

The legendary financier-and founder of the Open Society Institute-offers crucial insight into the real meaning of freedom, and how societies can best promote it After reflecting on his support of a losing Democrat for president, George Soros steps back to revisit his views on why George Bush's policies around the world fall short in the arenas most important to Soros: democr...(展开全部)

The rise of China has brought about a dramatic increase in the rate of migration from mainland China. At the same time, the Chinese government has embarked on a full-scale push for the internationalisation of Chinese media and culture. Media and communication have therefore become crucial factors in shaping the increasingly fraught politics of transnational Chinese communities....(展开全部)

乔纳森·科恩（Jonathan Cohn） 密歇根大学福特公共政策学院的公共政策讲师，《赫芬顿邮报》的高级国内新闻记者，长期报道社会福利方面的政治和政策话题，被《华盛顿邮报》誉为“美国顶尖卫生政策专家之一”。他曾为《新共和》《美国展望》工作，并为《大西洋月刊》《纽约时报》杂志等刊物撰稿。他的新闻工作获得了西德尼·希尔曼基金会、医疗卫生记者协会、世界饥饿年、全国妇女政治核心小组等颁发的奖项。

Forget everything you think you know about Blackwater. And get ready for a thrilling, true story that will make you rethink who the good guys and bad guys have been since 9/11. http://www.amazon.com/Civilian-Warriors-Inside-Blackwater-Unsung/dp/1591847214

Roger Silverstone's compelling new book places the global media at the heart of the moral future of civilisation. It argues that the media (the press, broadcasting, the Internet and increasingly peer-to-peer technologies and networks) have a profound significance for the way in which the world is understood by its citizens. It also argues that without a clear understanding of t...(展开全部)