With a continued emphasis on interpretation and analysis, The Press and America remains the classic authority on the history of mass media in the United States. Recognizing that the development of America's journalism is inherently and integrally related to the cultural identity of its people, the heart of this book is an examination of American life and the American media. Th...(展开全部)

With a continued emphasis on interpretation and analysis, The Press and America remains the classic authority on the history of mass media in the United States. Recognizing that the development of America's journalism is inherently and integrally related to the cultural identity of its people, the heart of this book is an examination of American life and the American media. Th...(展开全部)

E.拉德福德·伯恩斯（E．Bradford Burns，1932—1995年），曾任美国拉美史学会主席、洛杉矶加州大学历史系教授，专攻巴西史、中美洲各国史和19世纪拉美史。获得巴西里约·布朗库勋章。著有：《巴西民族主义》（1968）、《巴西史》（1970、1980）、《l9世纪拉丁美洲进步的贫困》（1980）和《在尼加拉瓜的战争》（1987）等十余部著作和几十篇论文。 朱莉·阿·查利普(Julie A．Charlip)，惠特曼学院历史学教授。著有《种植咖啡：1880～1930年尼加拉瓜卡拉索省的农民》(2002)等。

n The Reality of the Mass Media, Luhmann extends his theory of social systems -- applied in his earlier works to the economy, the political system, art, religion, the sciences, and law -- to an examination of the role of mass media in the construction of social reality. Luhmann argues that the system of mass media is a set of recursive, self-referential programs of communicatio...(展开全部)

American democracy is beset by a sense of crisis. Seismic shifts during a single generation have created a country of winners and loser s, allowing unprecedented freedom while rending the social contract, driving the political system to the verge of breakdown, and setting citizens adrift to find new paths forward. In The Unwinding, George Packer, author of The Assassins’ Gate: ...(展开全部)

乔治·帕克，美国作家，记者。 1960年生，毕业于耶鲁大学。自2003年起连续十五年担任《纽约客》专职作者，两获海外记者俱乐部奖。现为《大西洋月刊》专职作者。 作为长期观察员和一线写作者，乔治·帕克深谙美国的历史变迁、经济发展和社会结构，深入从华盛顿到绣带工厂的生命世界 ，被视为最了解当代美国的作家之一。其作品《刺客之门》《我们的人》先后入围普利策奖，《下沉年代》于2013年因“撕开美国的破碎裂痕”获美国国家图书奖。 2019年，乔治·帕克获希钦斯奖，该奖旨在表彰“为自由表达和追求真理而不顾个人或职业后果”的作家。 ———— 刘冉，香港中文大学社会学学士、硕士，宾夕法尼亚大学社会学博士，曾任职于硅谷某科技公司，现为威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校教育政策研究系助理教授，译有《文凭社会》《暴力：一种微观社会学理论》等书。

乔治·帕克，美国作家，记者。 1960年生，毕业于耶鲁大学。自2003年起连续十五年担任《纽约客》专职作者，两获海外记者俱乐部奖。现为《大西洋月刊》专职作者。 作为长期观察员和一线写作者，乔治·帕克深谙美国的历史变迁、经济发展和社会结构，深入从华盛顿到绣带工厂的生命世界 ，被视为最了解当代美国的作家之一。其作品《刺客之门》《我们的人》先后入围普利策奖，《下沉年代》于2013年因“撕开美国的破碎裂痕”获美国国家图书奖。 2019年，乔治·帕克获希钦斯奖，该奖旨在表彰“为自由表达和追求真理而不顾个人或职业后果”的作家。 ———— 刘冉，香港中文大学社会学学士、硕士，宾夕法尼亚大学社会学博士，曾任职于硅谷某科技公司，现为威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校教育政策研究系助理教授，译有《文凭社会》《暴力：一种微观社会学理论》等书。

American democracy is beset by a sense of crisis. Seismic shifts during a single generation have created a country of winners and loser s, allowing unprecedented freedom while rending the social contract, driving the political system to the verge of breakdown, and setting citizens adrift to find new paths forward. In The Unwinding, George Packer, author of The Assassins’ Gate: ...(展开全部)

Setting the Agenda describes the mass media’s significant and sometimes controversial role in determining which topics are at the centre of public attention and action. Although Walter Lippman captured the essence of the media’s powerful influence early in the last century with his phrase, “the world outside and the pictures in our heads,” a detailed, empirical elaboration of t...(展开全部)

In this pathbreaking work, now with a new introduction, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political agendas of the privileged groups that dominate domestic society, th...(展开全部)