Why do we feel insulted or exasperated when our friends and family don't answer their mobile phones? If the Internet has allowed us to broaden our social world into a virtual friend-net, the mobile phone is an instrument of a more intimate social sphere. The mobile phone provides a taken-for-granted link to the people to whom we are closest; when we are without it, social and d...(展开全部)

Communication plays a vital and unique role in society-often blamed for problems when it breaks down and at the same time heralded as a panacea for human relations. A sweeping history of communication, Speaking Into the Air illuminates our expectations of communication as both historically specific and a fundamental knot in Western thought.

In contemporary debates, communication is variously invoked as a panacea for the problems of both democracy and love, as a dream of a new information society brought about by new technologies, and as a wistful ideal of human relations. How, and why, did communication come to shoulder the load it carries? In John Durham Peters's work, the teachings of Socrates and Jesus, the the...(展开全部)

In contemporary debates, communication is variously invoked as a panacea for the problems of both democracy and love, as a dream of a new information society brought about by new technologies, and as a wistful ideal of human relations. How, and why, did communication come to shoulder the load it carries? In John Durham Peters's work, the teachings of Socrates and Jesus, the the...(展开全部)

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伊尼斯，生于加拿大安大略省，受业于加拿大麦克马斯特大学，获硕士学位，后转美国芝加哥大学，师从著名社会学家帕克，获博士学位。1920年起直至去世，执教于多伦多大学，任政治经济学教授、政治经济系系主任、研究生院院长。他在政治经济学、文明史和传播学诸领域的成就，使他成为世界级的著名学者、多伦多传播学派的先驱。前期的代表作聚焦于加拿大经济史和文明史，要者有《加拿大的皮货贸易》、《加拿大经济史》、《鳕鱼业》。后期的两本代表作成为传播学的经典，它们是《传播的偏向》和《帝国与传播》。

One of the most influential books ever published in Canada, Harold A. Innis's The Bias of Communication has played a major part in reshaping our understanding of history, communication, and media theory. First published in 1951, this masterful collection of essays explores the relationship between a society's communication media and that community's ability to maintain control ...(展开全部)

One of the most influential books ever published in Canada, Harold A. Innis's The Bias of Communication has played a major part in reshaping our understanding of history, communication, and media theory. First published in 1951, this masterful collection of essays explores the relationship between a society's communication media and that community's ability to maintain control ...(展开全部)

伊尼斯，生于加拿大安大略省，受业于加拿大麦克马斯特大学，获硕士学位，后转美国芝加哥大学，师从著名社会学家帕克，获博士学位。1920年起直至去世，执教于多伦多大学，任政治经济学教授、政治经济系系主任、研究生院院长。他在政治经济学、文明史和传播学诸领域的成就，使他成为世界级的著名学者、多伦多传播学派的先驱。前期的代表作聚焦于加拿大经济史和文明史，要者有《加拿大的皮货贸易》、《加拿大经济史》、《鳕鱼业》。后期的两本代表作成为传播学的经典，它们是《传播的偏向》和《帝国与传播》。

A compelling account of the relations between high and mass culture, across various genres Shakespearean tragedy and Dracula, Sherlock Holmes and Ulysses, Frankenstein and The Waste Land—all are celebrated “wonders” of modern literature, whether in its mandarin or popular form. However, it is the fact that these texts are so central to our contemporary notion of literature that...(展开全部)