Contemporary developments in communications technologies have overturned key aspects of the global political system and transformed the media landscape. Yet interlocking technological, informational, and political revolutions have occurred many times in the past. In China, radio first arrived in the winter of 1922-23, bursting into a world where communication was slow, disjoint...(展开全部)

Contemporary developments in communications technologies have overturned key aspects of the global political system and transformed the media landscape. Yet interlocking technological, informational, and political revolutions have occurred many times in the past. In China, radio first arrived in the winter of 1922-23, bursting into a world where communication was slow, disjoint...(展开全部)

We often invoke the “magic” of mass media to describe seductive advertising or charismatic politicians. In The Mana of Mass Society, William Mazzarella asks what happens to social theory if we take that idea seriously. How would it change our understanding of publicity, propaganda, love, and power? Mazzarella reconsiders the concept of “mana,” which served in early anthropolog...(展开全部)

In this new and thoroughly revised edition the author brings his work right up to date both with new theoretical work and with social and technological changes - such as the rapid growth of the internet and accelerated globalization - and re-assesses the work of key theorists in light of these changes. This book will be essential reading for students of contemporary social theo...(展开全部)

A dictionary for a world whose cities are linked by fiber optic cables and whose citizens are virtually global, a world where airports are meeting places and meetings take place via web conference, the Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture identifies a new architectural will and a new social and cultural panorama. From "abduction" to "zoom," radical definitions abound. ...(展开全部)

"An original contribution to media studies. Beautifully organized, well written and incisive."--James Carey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "The best collection of current thinking in the field."--Elihu Katz, Israel Institute of Applied Social Research "A valuable and stimulating collection for students of the mass media--a very worthy successor to the editors' earl...(展开全部)

James Curran is Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Michael Gurevitch is Professor in the College of Journalism at the University of Maryland.

"An original contribution to media studies. Beautifully organized, well written and incisive."--James Carey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "The best collection of current thinking in the field."--Elihu Katz, Israel Institute of Applied Social Research "A valuable and stimulating collection for students of the mass media--a very worthy successor to the editors' earl...(展开全部)

In this wide-ranging study, Sucheta Mazumdar offers a new answer to the fundamental question of why China, universally acknowledged as one of the most developed economies in the world through the mid-eighteenth century, paused in this development process in the nineteenth. Focusing on cane-sugar production, domestic and international trade, technology, and the history of consum...(展开全部)

In this wide-ranging study, Sucheta Mazumdar offers a new answer to the fundamental question of why China, universally acknowledged as one of the most developed economies in the world through the mid-eighteenth century, paused in this development process in the nineteenth. Focusing on cane-sugar production, domestic and international trade, technology, and the history of consum...(展开全部)