Before there were Instagram likes, Twitter hashtags, or TikTok trends, there were bloggers who seemed to have the passion and authenticity that traditional media lacked. The Influencer Industry tells the story of how early digital creators scrambling for work amid the Great Recession gave rise to the multibillion-dollar industry that has fundamentally reshaped culture, the flow...(展开全部)

Consciousness is one of science's last great unsolved mysteries. How can the salty taste and crunchy texture of potato chips, the unmistakable smell of dogs after they have been in the rain, or the exhilarating feeling of hanging on tiny fingerholds many feet above the last secure foothold on a cliff, emerge from networks of neurons and their associated synaptic and molecular p...(展开全部)

汤姆·斯丹迪奇(Tom Standage)，毕业于牛津大学，学习工程和电脑科技，目前是《经济学人》杂志的数字编辑，掌管杂志的网站及其移动端版本，此前还在《经济学人》担任过商业编辑、科技编辑和科学记者。他同时还是专栏作家、BBC时事评论员，也为《卫报》《每日电讯报》《纽约时报》等媒体撰稿。其历史著作还包括《人类食物的历史》《六个杯子中的世界史》，以及畅销书《维多利亚时代的互联网》。

汤姆·斯丹迪奇(Tom Standage)，毕业于牛津大学，学习工程和电脑科技，目前是《经济学人》杂志的数字编辑，掌管杂志的网站及其移动端版本，此前还在《经济学人》担任过商业编辑、科技编辑和科学记者。他同时还是专栏作家、BBC时事评论员，也为《卫报》《每日电讯报》《纽约时报》等媒体撰稿。其历史著作还包括《人类食物的历史》《六个杯子中的世界史》，以及畅销书《维多利亚时代的互联网》。

"This book is comprehensive and magisterial, and at the same time enormously readable. It will undoubtedly become one of the very few definitive texts in the rapidly growing field of media and cultural studies, providing a crucial link to critical theory and to social theory as a whole." Professor William Outhwaite, University of Sussex "An extremely powerful and sustained diag...(展开全部)

Bayesian methods are increasingly being used in the social sciences, as the problems encountered lend themselves so naturally to the subjective qualities of Bayesian methodology. This book provides an accessible introduction to Bayesian methods, tailored specifically for social science students. It contains lots of real examples from political science, psychology, sociology, an...(展开全部)

SNA techniques are derived from sociological and social-psychological theories and take into account the whole network (or, in case of very large networks such as Twitter -- a large segment of the network). Thus, we may arrive at results that may seem counter-intuitive -- e.g. that Jusin Bieber (7.5 mil. followers) and Lady Gaga (7.2 mil. followers) have relatively little actua...(展开全部)

SNA techniques are derived from sociological and social-psychological theories and take into account the whole network (or, in case of very large networks such as Twitter -- a large segment of the network). Thus, we may arrive at results that may seem counter-intuitive -- e.g. that Jusin Bieber (7.5 mil. followers) and Lady Gaga (7.2 mil. followers) have relatively little actua...(展开全部)