This book examines the implications of new communication technologies in the light of the most recent work in social and cultural theory and argues that new developments in electronic media, such as the Internet and Virtual Reality, justify the designation of a "second media age".

This book examines the implications of new communication technologies in the light of the most recent work in social and cultural theory. Poster critically evaluates the concepts of media and technology in various traditions of cultural theory with the aim of rethinking the relations of humans to machines.

Featuring 28 leading international media scholars, Technics rethinks technology for the contemporary digital era, with cutting-edge theoretical, historiographical, and methodological interventions. The volume’s contributors explore the ideas of Walter Benjamin, Ursula Le Guin, Bernhard Siegert, Gilbert Simondon, and Sylvia Wynter in conjunction with urgent questions concerning ...(展开全部)

There's lots of debate about the role of the media. Now you can read the best presentations from each side and decide for yourself. MEDIA DEBATES: GREAT ISSUES FOR THE DIGITAL AGE sets up experts to debate the pro or the con side of twenty issues that are central to today's media. You'll not only learn more about the media, you'll also discover your own opinion along the way.

作者简介： 亨利·卡门（Henry Kamen，1936— ），英国历史学家。曾在英国、美国和西班牙等地任教或讲学。他的著述颇丰，代表作有：《凤凰与火焰：加泰罗尼亚与反宗教改革》（1993年）、《西班牙宗教裁判所：一项基于史实的修正》（1998年）和《西班牙国王菲利普 五世：两度统治之王》（2001年）等。 译者简介： 吕浩俊，1985年生，武汉大学历史学院博士研究生。研究方向为宗教改革史，撰有《法国沦陷时期吕西安·费弗尔的文化“抗争”》、《中世纪至近代早期巴黎守护神问题探析》等，译有《黎塞留的三种面相：一项历史编纂学的考察》（约瑟夫·伯金著）、《罗贝尔伯爵的“宠物”狼：中世纪欧洲贵族与农民的关系问题透视》（威廉·切斯特·乔丹著）等。

As the Internet grows more sophisticated, it is creating new threats to democracy. Social media companies such as Facebook can sort us ever more efficiently into groups of the like-minded, creating echo chambers that amplify our views. It’s no accident that on some occasions, people of different political views cannot even understand each other. It’s also no surprise that terro...(展开全部)

As the Internet grows more sophisticated, it is creating new threats to democracy. Social media companies such as Facebook can sort us ever more efficiently into groups of the like-minded, creating echo chambers that amplify our views. It’s no accident that on some occasions, people of different political views cannot even understand each other. It’s also no surprise that terro...(展开全部)

Grassroots journalists are dismantling Big Media's monopoly on the news, transforming it from a lecture to a conversation. Not content to accept the news as reported, these readers-turned-reporters are publishing in real time to a worldwide audience via the Internet. The impact of their work is just beginning to be felt by professional journalists and the newsmakers they cover....(展开全部)

Grassroots journalists are dismantling Big Media's monopoly on the news, transforming it from a lecture to a conversation. Not content to accept the news as reported, these readers-turned-reporters are publishing in real time to a worldwide audience via the Internet. The impact of their work is just beginning to be felt by professional journalists and the newsmakers they cover....(展开全部)