How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development ideology collapses? To answer these questions, Arturo Escobar shows how developme...(展开全部)

Facebook's algorithms shaping the news. Self-driving cars roaming the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live in a world constructed of code--and coders are the ones who built it for us. From acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson comes a brilliant anthropological reckoning with the most powerful tribe in the world today, computer programmers, in a book that...(展开全部)

From best-selling author David Morley, this book presents a set of interlinked essays which discuss and examine some of the key debates in the fields of media and cultural studies. Spanning the last decade, this fascinating and readable book is based on interdisciplinary work on the interface of media and cultural studies, cultural geography and anthropology. Clearly structured...(展开全部)

In this book Lev Manovich offers the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media. He places new media within the histories of visual and media cultures of the last few centuries. He discusses new media's reliance on conventions of old media, such as the rectangular frame and mobile camera, and shows how new media works create the illusion of reality, address the viewer, a...(展开全部)

Featuring a new introduction by the author that considers the impact of technology and the electronic environment, this seminal history of mass marketing is an account of how the United States became the world's first and foremost consumer society. Traces the emergence of standardized brand-name products for the mass market through corporate confrontations, shrewd financial agr...(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)

The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-?ve years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization. Vastly more progressive than his European or Asian counterparts, Genghis Khan abolished torture...(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)

爱德华·S．赫尔曼(Edward S．Herman)，美国宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿学院金融学荣誉教授。著有《企业控制》(Corporate Control)、《企业权力》(Corporate Power)、《真正的恐怖网络：现实中的恐怖主义与宣传>(The Real Network of Terrorism: Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda)、《示范选举：美国在多米尼加共和国、越南和萨尔瓦多操控的选举》(Demonstration Elections：U．S．-Staged Elections in the Dominican Republic, Vietnam, and El Salvador)等。 诺姆·乔姆斯基(Noam Chomsky)，美国麻省理工学院语言学与哲学系教授。著述顿丰，包括《乔姆斯基读本》(The C...(展开全部)