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.

本书通过梳理英国文学中有关乡村与城市的种种论断和描述，对当代文学及文化研究中一些错误的乡村观念和城市观念进行了剖析，指出其谬误。作者集中驳斥了部分学者所坚持的“消逝的农村经济”、“快乐的英格兰”、“黄金时代”等缅怀旧日农村的错误观念，指出这些观念只是作者的想象，无论是历 史事实，还是部分作家的作品，都显示出昔日的英国农村充满了苦难，相对于城市而言，农村既不等同于落后和愚昧，也不是充满欢乐的故园；同理，城市虽然是在新的生产方式确立后兴盛起来的，但城市并不必然代表了进步，城市也面临太多的问题。简言之，城市无法拯救乡村，乡村也拯救不了城市。城市与乡村的这种矛盾与张力反映了资本主义发展模式遇到的一场全面而重的危机，要化解这场不断加深的危机，人类必须抵抗资本主义。
全书共二十五章。第一章具有前言的性质，概括了历史上人们围绕“乡村”和“城市”所形成的各种观念，指出英国经验对于研究“乡村”和“城市”关系所具有的重要意义。第二十五章为全书的总结。主体部分二十三章以英国文学中根深蒂固的乡村怀旧为起点，回顾了十六至二十世纪多部英国文学作品（包括诗歌、戏剧、小说、散文、随笔等）中对于“乡村”和“城市”的描写以及有关“乡村”和“城市”观点的发展变化，并将之与资本主义社会的整体发展过程联系起来，揭示出“乡村”和“城市”对立的实质及其所反映的现代大都市和工业化生活方式的危机。
雷蒙·威廉斯是一个世纪来最伟大的文学批评家之一，这是他最好的著作。对于英国文学和历史方面的课程而言，这是一本理想读物。
——布里·汤普森，加州大学
书中有第一手的文本材料，行文风格简明扼要，具有强烈的感染力。因为书中流露出作者对其论述主题的真切关注。
——纳奥米 布利文，《纽约客》

»Aufgabe der vorliegenden Untersuchung ist die Analyse des Typus ›bürgerliche Öffentlichkeit‹.« Um dieser komplexen Aufgabe gerecht zu werden, integriert Habermas Aspekte aus soziologischen, ökonomischen, staatsrechtlichen, politologischen sowie sozial- und ideengeschichtlichen Untersuchungen. ›Bürgerliche Öffentlichkeit‹ begreift er als eine epochaltypische Kategorie, die sich nicht aus der spezifischen Entwicklungsgeschichte der im europäischen Hochmittelalter entspringenden ›bürgerlichen Gesellschaft‹ herauslösen läßt. ›Öffentlichkeit‹ faßt er als eine historische Kategorie und zeigt beispielsweise, daß in einem präzisen Sinn etwa von ›öffentlicher Meinung‹ erst im England des späten 17. und im Frankreich des 18. Jahrhunderts die Rede sein kann.

This volume brings together the best--known and most influential articles on sensemaking in organizations by one of its most distinguished exponents, Karl Weick. * Brings together the best most influential articles written by one of the gurus of sensemaking -- Karl Weick. * Helps readers develop a thorough understanding of the sensemaking process -- essential for effective management.

比较难读，但是不愧为组织论的经典，

Making Sense of the Organization elaborates on the influential idea that organizations are interpretation systems that scan, interpret, and learn. These selected essays represent a new approach to the way managers learn and act in response to their environment and the way organizational change evolves. Readers of this volume will find a wealth of examples and insights which go well beyond thinking and cognition to explain action. The author's ideas are at the forefront of our thinking on leadership, teams, and the management of change. “This book engages the puzzle of impermanence in organizing. Through rich examples, evocative language, artful literature citing, and imaginative connecting, Weick re-introduces core ideas and themes around attending, interpreting, acting and learning to unlock new insights about impermanent organizing. The wisdom in this book is timeless and timely. It prods scholars and managers of organizations to complicate their views of organizing in ways that enrich thought and action.” - Jane E. Dutton, Robert L. Kahn Distinguished University Professor, University of Michigan

The author of the breakout hit Here Comes Everybody reveals how new technology is changing us from consumers to collaborators, unleashing a torrent of creative production that will transform our world.
For decades, technology encouraged people to squander their time and intellect as passive consumers. Today, tech has finally caught up with human potential. In Cognitive Surplus , Internet guru Clay Shirky forecasts the thrilling changes we will all enjoy as new digital technology puts our untapped resources of talent and goodwill to use at last.
Since we Americans were suburbanized and educated by the postwar boom, we've had a surfeit of intellect, energy, and time-what Shirky calls a cognitive surplus. But this abundance had little impact on the common good because television consumed the lion's share of it-and we consume TV passively, in isolation from one another. Now, for the first time, people are embracing new media that allow us to pool our efforts at vanishingly low cost. The results of this aggregated effort range from mind expanding-reference tools like Wikipedia-to lifesaving-such as Ushahidi.com, which has allowed Kenyans to sidestep government censorship and report on acts of violence in real time.
Shirky argues persuasively that this cognitive surplus-rather than being some strange new departure from normal behavior-actually returns our society to forms of collaboration that were natural to us up through the early twentieth century. He also charts the vast effects that our cognitive surplus-aided by new technologies-will have on twenty-first-century society, and how we can best exploit those effects. Shirky envisions an era of lower creative quality on average but greater innovation, an increase in transparency in all areas of society, and a dramatic rise in productivity that will transform our civilization.
The potential impact of cognitive surplus is enormous. As Shirky points out, Wikipedia was built out of roughly 1 percent of the man-hours that Americans spend watching TV every year. Wikipedia and other current products of cognitive surplus are only the iceberg's tip. Shirky shows how society and our daily lives will be improved dramatically as we learn to exploit our goodwill and free time like never before.

Celebrated scientists Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler explain the amazing power of social networks and our profound influence on one another's lives.

Your colleague's husband's sister can make you fat, even if you don't know her. A happy neighbor has more impact on your happiness than a happy spouse. These startling revelations of how much we truly influence one another are revealed in the studies of Dr. Christakis and Fowler, which have repeatedly made front-page news nationwide.

In Connected , the authors explain why emotions are contagious, how health behaviors spread, why the rich get richer, even how we find and choose our partners. Intriguing and entertaining, Connected overturns the notion of the individual and provides a revolutionary paradigm-that social networks influence our ideas, emotions, health, relationships, behavior, politics, and much more. It will change the way we think about every aspect of our lives.

In this 1992 book John Zaller develops a comprehensive theory to explain how people acquire political information from elites and the mass media and convert it into political preferences. Using numerous specific examples, Zaller applies this theory to the dynamics of public opinion on a broad range of subjects, including domestic and foreign policy, trust in government, racial equality, and presidential approval, as well as voting behaviour in U.S. House, Senate, and presidential elections. The thoery is constructed from four basic premises. The first is that individuals differ substantially in their attention to politics and therefore in their exposure to elite sources of political information. The second is that people react critically to political communication only to the extent that they are knowledgeable about political affairs. The third is that people rarely have fixed attitudes on specific issues; rather, they construct 'preference statements' on the fly as they confront each issue raised. The fourth is that, in constructing these statements, people make the greatest use of ideas that are, for various reasons, the most immediately salient to them. Zaller emphasizes the role of political elites in establishing the terms of political discourse in the mass media and the powerful effect of this framing of issues on the dynamics of mass opinion on any given issue over time.

《我们的性》，现在是它的第7版，生物、社会心理、行为和文化诸多方面以对个人有意义的方式，对性做出了全面、学术观点鲜明的介绍。我们非常高兴读者对本书前几版一直反应热烈且热心；这些反应激励着我们为你们的学生提供更加有效的学习工具。本书是美国最负盛名的性学教科书，它给我们描绘了一幅十分完整、科学、全面的人类性学图景，把性科学与色情、诲淫彻底区分开来：本书提供一种工具，帮您探讨自己对性问题的观点，增进个人的理解，促进个人的发展。
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全球知名的品牌营销大师马丁·林斯特龙有一天突然对品牌感到厌倦，他决定以一个普通消费者的身份对品牌进行为期一年的“戒毒”——不购买新的品牌商品。但是，在坚持了6个月之后，他失败了。懊悔之余，他决定来一个大揭秘，全面批露世界著名品牌只做不说的营销秘密。
马丁拉上窗帘，向我们 揭示了广告商和品牌是如何让我们觉得“如果不买新的产品，我就好像缺了点什么、愚蠢或跟不上时代了”；展示了营销者们为了让我们掏钱而使用的最卑劣的策略和诡计，包括从众心理、激起并不存在的幼年回忆、性暗示、健康谎言等等。马丁把我们带到世界各地，分享他和广告界、营销界高管以及业内人士对话，并且进行了幽默的讽刺和调侃。
马丁惊人地揭露了营销者、广告商、零售商如何利用数据挖掘，借助复杂的新工具和科技，追踪和分析我们留下的种种“电子足迹”：包括在商店刷会员卡、用信用卡购物或在网上查看商品，通过复杂的算法预测出我们的个性和我们可能会购买的东西，然后为我们提供适合于个人独特心理特点的商品，对于“我们应该买什么”产生看不见又实质性的影响。
最后，马丁发现，我们在被“洗脑”的同时也在给别人“洗脑”，并且提出了他的终极营销秘诀。