In an age of connection supercharged by the Internet, we often assume that more people online means a smaller, more cosmopolitan world. In reality, it is easier to ship bottles of water from Fiji to Atlanta than it is to get news from Tokyo to New York. In Rewire Ethan Zuckerman draws on contemporary research in psychology, sociology and his own work on how humans "flock togeth...(展开全部)

The first major illustrated survey of this exciting, new, and experimental field. Building on the traditions of art history and using advanced technologies, digital artists push the boundaries of artistic expression and explore some of the most urgent social, political, and biological issues facing humankind today. Traditional activities such as painting and sculpture have be...(展开全部)

Delete looks at the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and reveals why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. Digital technology empowers us as never before, yet it has unforeseen consequences as well. Potentially humiliating content on Facebook is enshrined in cyberspace for future employers to see. Google remembers everything we've searched ...(展开全部)

Delete looks at the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and reveals why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. Digital technology empowers us as never before, yet it has unforeseen consequences as well. Potentially humiliating content on Facebook is enshrined in cyberspace for future employers to see. Google remembers everything we've searched ...(展开全部)

The internet and the mobile phone have disrupted many of our conventional understandings of our selves and our relationships, raising anxieties and hopes about their effects on our lives. This timely and vibrant book provides frameworks for thinking critically about the roles of digital media in personal relationships. Rather than providing exuberant accounts or cautionary tale...(展开全部)

Is a film watched on a video screen still cinema? Have digital compositing, motion capture, and other advanced technologies remade or obliterated the craft? Rooted in their hypothesis of the "double birth of media," André Gaudreault and Philippe Marion take a positive look at cinema's ongoing digital revolution and reaffirm its central place in a rapidly expanding media landsca...(展开全部)

For every person who reads this text on the printed page, many more will read it on a computer screen or mobile device. It’s a situation that we increasingly take for granted in our digital era, and while it is indicative of the novelty of twenty-first-century capitalism, it is also the key to understanding its driving force: the relentless impulse to commodify our lives in eve...(展开全部)

Renowned media scholar Sherry Turkle investigates how a flight from conversation undermines our relationships, creativity, and productivity—and why reclaiming face-to-face conversation can help us regain lost ground. We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection. Preeminent author and resea...(展开全部)

Light & Lens: Photography in the Digital Age is a groundbreaking introductory book that clearly and concisely provides the instruction and building blocks necessary to create thought-provoking digitally based photographs. It is an adventurous idea book that features numerous classroom-tested assignments and exercises from leading photographic educators to encourage you to criti...(展开全部)

阿兰•柯林斯(Allan Collins)是美国西北大学的教育和社会政策学荣誉退休教授，是美国教育科学院院士、美国人工智能学会会员、认知科学学会成员、美国教育研究学会会员、美国科学促进会会员。他是《认知科学》期刊的创始人之一，认知科学协会第一任主席。他研究教学和学习超过30年，在相关领域著述颇丰。他在心理学领域的成就包括人类如何回答问题，在人工智能领域包括推理和智能导师系统，在教育方面包括情境学习、探究教学、设计研究和认知学徒制。1991年至1994年曾任美国教育部教育技术中心合作主任。最近，他被法国心理学界选为健在的对心理学领域产生过重大影响的37位学者之一。 理查德•哈尔弗森(Richard Halverson)获西北大学博士学位，现为威斯康辛·麦迪逊大学的教育领导和政策分析专业的副教授。Halverson因为其在证实教学领导专长方面的研究而...(展开全部)