When Marshall McLuhan first coined the phrases global village and the medium is the message in 1964, no-one could have predicted today's information-dependent planet. No-one, that is, except for a handful of science fiction writers and Marshall McLuhan. Understanding Media was written twenty years before the PC revolution and thirty years before the rise of the Internet. Yet Mc...(展开全部)

This title includes access to 3 exclusive ebooks for hardcover readers only! The secret to successful word-of-mouth marketing on the social web is easy: be Likeable. "Dave Kerpen's insights and clear, how-to instructions on building brand popularity by truly engaging with customers on Facebook, Twitter, and the many other social media platforms are nothing short of brilliant". ...(展开全部)

This book is about technological change within human communication and the media. However, it is not technical but an overview and evaluation of new communication technologies. Roger Fidler demystifies emerging media technologies and provides a structure for understanding their potential influences on the popular forms of mainstream media such as newspapers, magazines, televisi...(展开全部)

Media critics remain captivated by the modernist myth of the new: they assume that digital technologies such as the World Wide Web, virtual reality, and computer graphics must divorce themselves from earlier media for a new set of aesthetic and cultural principles. In this richly illustrated study, Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin offer a theory of mediation for our digital ...(展开全部)

Media critics remain captivated by the modernist myth of the new: they assume that digital technologies such as the World Wide Web, virtual reality, and computer graphics must divorce themselves from earlier media for a new set of aesthetic and cultural principles. In this richly illustrated study, Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin offer a theory of mediation for our digital ...(展开全部)

贾森•安奈兹：阿伯特邓迪大学社会学系学科带头人，已出版多本有关家庭问题、性健康等方面的研究著作。亚历克斯•劳：阿伯特邓迪大学社会学系高级讲师，已出版《经典社会理论中的关键概念》等书。华莱士•麦克尼希：阿伯特邓迪大学社会学与行为科学项目带头人。

麦克卢汉 (1911-1980)，加拿大文学批评家、传播学家、传播学媒介环境学派一代宗师，被誉为20世纪的“思想家”、“先知”、“圣人”。以“地球村”和“媒介即是讯息”等论断名震全球。代表作有《机器新娘》、《理解媒介》、《谷登堡星汉》、《媒介定律》等。 评注者 特伦斯·戈登，加拿大语言学家、传播学家，麦克卢汉和乔伊斯专家，著有《麦克卢汉入门》、《人人必读麦克卢汉》、《轻松理解麦克卢汉》、《麦克卢汉入门解谜》、《麦克卢汉传》、《人人必读乔伊斯》等，编有《理解媒介》(增订评注本)、《托马斯·纳什在他那个时代学术里的地位》（麦克卢汉博士论文）、《麦克卢汉文集》等。 译者 何道宽，深圳大学英语及传播学教授，曾任中国跨文化交际研究会副会长，现任中国传播学会副理事长、深圳市翻译协会高级顾问，从事文化学、人类学、传播学研究三十年，著译逾一千两百万字。著作有《中华文...(展开全部)

with a new introduction by Lewis H. Lapham This reissue of Understanding Media marks the thirtieth anniversary (1964-1994) of Marshall McLuhan's classic expose on the state of the then emerging phenomenon of mass media. Terms and phrases such as "the global village" and "the medium is the message" are now part of the lexicon, and McLuhan's theories continue to challenge our sen...(展开全部)

Described as the biggest migration in human history, an estimated 250 million Chinese people have left their villages in recent decades to live and work in urban areas. Xinyuan Wang spent 15 months living among a community of these migrants in a small factory town in southeast China to track their use of social media. It was here she witnessed a second migration taking place: a...(展开全部)