The study of new media has, over the past decade or so, developed within a wide range of academic disciplines and theoretical paradigms. It has generated a great deal of excitement, hype, and confusion. "The New Media & Technocultures Reader" presents key texts which encapsulate and/or challenge and extend, the issues, debates and theoretical positions that do the most work in mapping and critically addressing the cultural implications of new media. "The New Media & Technoculture Reader" will offer students further reading on key issues and debates raised in the introductory textbook "New Media: A Critical Introduction", and explication of these debates through the selected texts. It will critically and theoretically contextualise the various disciplinary stances (visual culture; media and cultural history; media theory; media production; philosophy and the history of the sciences; and, political economy and sociology, etc.), offering students a rich and interdisciplinary resource. Critical editorial commentary will guide the reader through the debates, and between the extracts.

- The first book to map out the whole field on internet psychology, covering the key areas in this burgeoning area
- Presents cutting edge research from leading researchers in the field
- Will lay the foundations for a science of internet psychology
- Part of the successful and critically praised Oxford Handbooks series
Over one billion people use the Internet globally. Psychologists are beginning to understand what people do online, and the impact being online has on behaviour. It's making us re-think many of our existing assumptions about what it means to be a social being. For instance, if we can talk, flirt, meet people and fall in love online, this challenges many of psychology's theories that intimacy or understanding requires physical co-presence.
"The Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology" brings together many of the leading researchers in what can be termed 'Internet Psychology'. Though a very new area of research, it is growing at a phenomenal pace. In addition to well-studied areas of investigation, such as social identity theory, computer-mediated communication and virtual communities, the volume also includes chapters on topics as diverse as deception and misrepresentation, attitude change and persuasion online, Internet addiction, online relationships, privacy and trust, health and leisure use of the Internet, and the nature of interactivity.
With over 30 chapters written by experts in the field, the range and depth of coverage is unequalled, and serves to define this emerging area of research. Uniquely, this content is supported by an entire section covering the use of the Internet as a research tool, including qualitative and quantitative methods, online survey design, personality testing, ethics, and technological and design issues. While it is likely to be a popular research resource to be 'dipped into', as a whole volume it is coherent and compelling enough to act as a single text book.
"The Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology" is the definitive text on this burgeoning field. It will be an essential resource for anyone interested in the psychological aspects of Internet use, or planning to conduct research using the 'net'.

在本书中，作者对中国互联网的历史做了一次突破性的研究，细致又全面地观察了中国互联网对于国家和社会的影响，发现互联网给中国的社会—政治变革带来了新的动力。政府权力和社会力量在以互联网为媒介的公共领域中转换。
从大量的数据梳理和事实分析中，作者得出了四重的研究结论。首先，互联网给政府和社会都增加了权力。互联网在促进政治自由化中扮演了重要的角色，使政府更加开放、透明和负责任。第二，互联网产生了大量的影响，高度分散和超越了政府权力的限度。第三，互联网为政府和社会彼此间的契约和分离创造了一个新的基础结构。第四，互联网创造了一种政府和社会的回归关系。政府和社会之间在互联网上相互作用，最终重塑了政府和社会。

In lively, mordantly witty prose, Negroponte decodes the mysteries--and debunks the hype--surrounding bandwidth, multimedia, virtual reality, and the Internet, and explains why such touted innovations as the fax and the CD-ROM are likely to go the way of the BetaMax. "Succinct and readable. . . . If you suffer from digital anxiety . . . here is a book that lays it all out for you."--Newsday.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

早在印刷术发明之前，人们就渴望信息。在前工业时代，人们通过谈话、八卦、庆祝活动、布道和公告来收集和分享新闻。印刷时代催生了小册子、期刊和最早的新闻纸，将新闻社区从地方扩展到世界。本书追踪了1400年到1800年四个世纪以来多个欧洲国家的新闻史，展示了控制新闻的力量，新闻在政治、宗教改革和社会事件中的角色，新闻的娱乐性和时效性，记者的可信度，以及人们在推开新闻的世界之窗后发生的改变。
今天，在一个被信息淹没的时代，人们如何在这种信息规模中相互沟通？读者或将在书中得到新的思考。本书荣获2015年哈佛大学金匠奖。