本书是批判传播学领域内的经典之作。它首次联系大传播的两大功能——政治功能和经济功能，全面剖析美国大众传播的结构与政策。作者以其国际主义和人道主义的独立立场，紧扣现实问题，广泛地从工业和政府方面汲取信息，批判地研究美国的信息机构和产品如何被用来支持其在全球的帝国政治。此书有助我们理解美国文化帝国主义的发展和转变，进而理解美国大众传媒的功能，及其政治、经济和外交的议程设置结构。

《信息时代的世界工厂》，最关切我们未来的“思想@网络.中国”丛书之一，互联网中国传媒参考书。
我们生活在“信息时代”。我们的国家是“世界工厂”。但你是否想过，“信息时代”与“世界工厂”之间有何联系？本书认为，回答此问题必须了解网吧、短信、小灵通、山寨机等中低端信息传播工具，必须走进城中村、厂矿宿舍、工殇医院，以及各式各样的新媒体事件——因为那里的流动打工者，那里的老与少，正在构建方兴未艾的新工人阶级，因为他们的网络社会才是“世界工厂”的支柱和“信息时代”的基础。
关于新工人阶级的网络社会，本书经十年积累，内容分三部分。上编“网络之普及”讨论网吧与手机的技术扩散及其相关文化现象、制度问题与社会影响。中编“信息中下阶层”梳理流动人口、劳工、青少年及老年人如何在社会大转型背景下，利用网络科技，应对生存议题，进行草根创新。下编“新工人阶级之雏形”在空间和时间的维度上考察新工人阶级形成的特点，包括网络条件下的控制与颠覆、文化表达及重大社会事件。
2009年麻省理工学院出版社推出英文版以来，本书得到国际学术界广泛关注，并获“简•雅各布斯城市传播图书奖”提名。牛津大学互联网研究所主任比尔•达顿教授如此评价：“互联网及相关信息传播技术如何在经济高速发展的中国产生社会作用？迄今为止，此书的探讨最有洞见，且以实证为根基。”

该书展现了一个崭新的领域：在这里新媒体和旧媒体相互碰撞、草根媒体和公司化大媒体相互交织、媒体制作人和媒体消费者的权利相互作用，所有这一切都是以前所未有、无法预测的方式进行的。

《性属、媒介与权力再生产:消费社会背景下电视对男性气质的表征研究》是研究电视与男性气质的理论专著。在我门下学习的六年时间里，吕鹏表现了很强的学术个性与学术能力，选题的视角非常独到，总能找到电视研究中值得关注但还没有被关注的问题，并进行深入细致的研究。这些选题乍看起来让人有些疑虑，而细细品味却叫人心生佩服。这在他硕士毕业论文的选题与写作中就得到了表现。当时吕鹏研究的是比较偏门的电视公益广告问题，他将其放置在消费社会背景下进行讨论。不曾想，如此冷门的问题竞做出一篇质量还不错的论文。于是，在其选择电视与男性气质作为他博士论文研究选题的时候，虽然有一些老师与同学表示担忧，但出于对其学术研究能力的信任，我一直鼓励他从自己兴趣出发做相关的研究。最后呈现的博士论文确实也没有辜负我的信任。

本书收录了作者十余年来论及传播与社会问题的大量倾心之作。这些论文不仅展现了跨文化传播政治经济研究的广阔知识视野，更提供了一种将文化传播放在“外部”社会权力关系中考察的理论路径。
通过讨论“帝国时代”世界传播的新自由主义逻辑和中国媒介商业转型的历史困境，作者不仅在传播研究中清晰地确立了“权力”与“社会”这两个富有解释力的柱心范畴而且用一种整体性的历史视野覆盖了全球化、主权、民主平等、公共性、多样性等现代政治中最重娶的议题，
本书昭示，一旦突破了寻求“内部”规律的“去政治化”窠臼，传播研究将释放出理解当代世界与中国问题的巨大潜力。在这个意义上，这部著作既剖析了媒介景观背后的权力结构．也挑战了当下传播研究的典型知识症侯。

《娱乐至死》是对20世纪后半叶美国文化中最重大变化的探究和哀悼：印刷术时代步入没落，而电视时代蒸蒸日上；电视改变了公众话语的内容和意义；政治、宗教、教育和任何其他公共事务领域的内容，都不可避免的被电视的表达方式重新定义。电视的一般表达方式是娱乐。一切公众话语都日渐以娱乐的方式出现，并成为一种文化精神。一切文化内容都心甘情愿地成为娱乐的附庸，而且毫无怨言，甚至无声无息，“其结果是我们成了一个娱乐至死的物种”。

兴起于当今西方世界的媒介民主公共运动方兴未艾，它的政治意义何在？
20世纪90年代在西方兴起的萨帕特主义以及独立媒体运动引发了学界和政治界对批判性传播的关注。这股学术浪潮的主要关注点在另类媒体’和社会运动的“媒介策略”之上，如“通过媒介推进民主化进程”。《暨南新闻传播学术系列·媒介重构：公共传播的民主化运动》乘这股学术浪潮之势，分析媒介自身的民主化问题，并将媒介作为对其他社会运动产生关键性影响的特殊领域，对新闻报道机制的改革问题进行探讨。
《暨南新闻传播学术系列·媒介重构：公共传播的民主化运动》假设大众传播领域中存在着巨大的“民主赤字”，是“民主赤字”推动了全球化中心地带（北大西洋地区）的公共传播改革。《暨南新闻传播学术系列·媒介重构：公共传播的民主化运动》的聚焦点是激进主义运动如何对资本主义国家的媒介内容、媒介业界、媒介结构和媒介政策提出挑战并促使其改革。
《暨南新闻传播学术系列·媒介重构：公共传播的民主化运动》的创新之处是捕捉到了在文化与政治激烈交锋的边缘刚刚兴起的社会运动，它根植于三种传统学术性理论，即民主政治理论、媒介批判研究和社会学之社会运动理论，这些理论成为我们诠释媒介民主公共运动的理论依据。通过对这些理论的深入思考和综合分析，我们为读者提供了对当代西方传播民主化运动独特而又新颖的思想见地。

This authoritative study explores China's rapidly evolving polity, economy, and society through the prism of its communication system. Yuezhi Zhao offers a multifaceted, interdisciplinary analysis of communication in China and its central role in the struggle for control during the country's rise to global power. The industry in all its forms-ranging from the news media to entertainment outlets to the Internet-has been a critical battleground among different social forces in this period of wrenching change. The author explores alterations in the structure and content of Chinese communication in light of the rapid evolution of state-society relations to reveal the profoundly contradictory, conflicted, and uncertain nature of China's ongoing transformation.

The Internet in China examines the cultural and political ramifications of the Internet for Chinese society. The rapid growth of the Internet has been enthusiastically embraced by the Chinese government, but the government has also rushed to seize control of the virtual environment. Individuals have responded with impassioned campaigns against official control of information. The emergence of a civil society via cyberspace has had profound effects upon China--for example, in 2003, based on an Internet campaign, the Chinese Supreme People's Court overturned the ruling of a local court for the first time since the Communist Party came to power in 1949.
The important question this book asks is not whether the Internet will democratize China, but rather in what ways the Internet is democratizing communication in China. How is the Internet empowering individuals by fostering new types of social spaces and redefining existing social relations?

Manuel Castells is one of the world's leading thinkers on the new information age, hailed by The Economist as "the first significant philosopher of cyberspace," and by Christian Science Monitor as "a pioneer who has hacked out a logical, well-documented, and coherent picture of early 21st
century civilization, even as it rockets forward largely in a blur." Now, in The Internet Galaxy, this brilliantly insightful writer speculates on how the Internet will change our lives.
Castells believes that we are "entering, full speed, the Internet Galaxy, in the midst of informed bewilderment." His aim in this exciting and profound work is to help us to understand how the Internet came into being, and how it is affecting every area of human life--from work, politics,
planning and development, media, and privacy, to our social interaction and life in the home. We are at ground zero of the new network society. In this book, its major commentator reveals the Internet's huge capacity to liberate, but also its ability to marginalize and exclude those who do not
have access to it. Castells provides no glib solutions, but asks us all to take responsibility for the future of this new information age.
The Internet is becoming the essential communication and information medium in our society, and stands alongside electricity and the printing press as one of the greatest innovations of all time. The Internet Galaxy offers an illuminating look at how this new technology will influence business,
the economy, and our daily lives.

《信息时代三部曲：经济、社会与文化》包括《网络社会的崛起》《认同的力量》《千年终结》，由英国Blackwell Publishers Ltd. 授权出版，据原书1997版和2000版译出。2001年和2006年版《网络社会的崛起》也使用了同一ISBN。

本书触及了网络政治学中的一个重大话题——网络空间中的私域与公域。随着科技的进步，在信息时代的开端，公与私的含义和边界都出现了不容忽视的游移。《众声喧哗》主要探讨，经由新的共有媒体的作用，传统的公私两分如何在社会和政治的双重压力下产生消长和易位。在这里，公域与私域不能看做结构性的东西，而必须视之为一种流和一种过程。在网络时代，我们既要追求生机勃勃的公共生活，又要保证私人领域一定的自主性。共有媒体也许不能一夜之间改变中国政治，但是却能够促进独立于国家的社会力量的发展。

Since the mid-1990s, the Internet has revolutionized popular expression in China, enabling users to organize, protest, and influence public opinion in unprecedented ways. Despite efforts to control these activities, online activism has been an agent of immense social change, allowing common citizens to disseminate content and openly challenge the authority of political and economic elites.
Guobin Yang’s pioneering study follows the rise of this dynamic protest and the forces that keep it relevant and unique. Online activism encompasses an innovative range of rituals, genres, and styles, and state efforts to constrain it have only led to more creative acts of subversion. Internet businesses have encouraged these contentious activities, generating an unusual synergy between capitalism and civil organizations that sponsor critique. Based on ten years of meticulous research and grounded in theories of social movements and the public sphere, Yang’s study emphasizes the mutual shaping of technology and society and highlights the important role of a transnational diaspora in the making of a Chinese Internet culture. In conclusion, Yang argues that online activism reflects important structural changes in contemporary China and points to a new era of informational politics.

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. In We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People, nationally known business and technology columnist Dan Gillmor tells the story of this emerging phenomenon, and sheds light on this deep shift in how we make and consume the news. We the Media is essential reading for all participants in the news cycle:

Consumers learn how they can become producers of the news. Gillmor lays out the tools of the grassroots journalist's trade, including personal Web journals (called weblogs or blogs), Internet chat groups, email, and cell phones. He also illustrates how, in this age of media consolidation and diminished reporting, to roll your own news, drawing from the array of sources available online and even over the phone.
Newsmakers politicians, business executives, celebrities get a wake-up call. The control that newsmakers enjoyed in the top-down world of Big Media is seriously undermined in the Internet Age. Gillmor shows newsmakers how to successfully play by the new rules and shift from control to engagement.
Journalists discover that the new grassroots journalism presents opportunity as well as challenge to their profession. One of the first mainstream journalists to have a blog, Gillmor says, "My readers know more than I do, and that's a good thing." In We the Media, he makes the case to his colleagues that, in the face of a plethora of Internet-fueled news vehicles, they must change or become irrelevant. At its core, We the Media is a book about people. People like Glenn Reynolds, a law professor whose blog postings on the intersection of technology and liberty garnered him enough readers and influence that he became a source for professional journalists. Or Ben Chandler, whose upset Congressional victory was fueled by contributions that came in response to ads on a handful of political blogs. Or Iraqi blogger Zayed, whose Healing Irag blog (healingiraq.blogspot.com) scooped Big Media. Or acridrabbit, who inspired an online community to become investigative reporters and discover that the dying Kaycee Nichols sad tale was a hoax. Give the people tools to make the news, We the Media asserts, and they will. Journalism in the 21st century will be fundamentally different from the Big Media that prevails today. We the Media casts light on the future of journalism, and invites us all to be part of it.

本书是传播学领域的奠基之作，它第一次对公众舆论做了全景式的描述，自1922年问世以来，已被翻译成几十种文字，至今仍然保持着这个领域中的权威地位。其影响力经久不衰的奥秘在于，它卓有成效地梳理了舆论研究中一系列难以回避的问题．比如舆论从哪里来，它是怎样形成的?它能造成什么样的结果?谁是公众?公众舆论是什么意思?它是仅仅在公众中传播还是由公众自己形成的?它什么时候才能成为独立的力量?它对成见、兴趣、公意的形成和民主形象等问题做了精辟而深刻的探讨，完成了新闻史上对舆论传播现象的首次全面论述，为后人的研究奠定了基础。

我不止一次地发现具备一定背景知识的学生——尤其是高年级本科和研究生——特别欣赏本书的明白晓畅。……第七版仍然坚持了高标准的读者定位。本书不是写级那些对传播理论一无所知的入门者。虽然我可以把本书的写作“降低”到这种最基础的层次，但那些高年级本科生和研究生更需要一本传播学理论进行概观式介绍的教科书。这本《人类传播理论》旨在为这些学生提供一本高质量的教科书，帮助他们完成本科的专业学习，为他们开始研究生阶段的学习打好基础。
在林林总总的传播学著述中，这部《人类传播理论》堪称上乘之作。本书自1987年第一版问世，迄今为止已经出到第七版，对传播学这门二战后兴起的新学科来说，一部学术著作能连续25年高居“排行榜”，其地位与价值也就可想而知了。

《一个自由而负责的新闻界》是美国名叫新闻自由委员会或称哈钦斯委员会的团体发表的报告。这一团体接受了当时时代公司的亨利·卢斯的建议和资助，对美国新闻自由的现状和前景展开了一项调查，其研究范围包括了当时美国的广播、报纸、电影、杂志和图书等主要的大众传播媒介，同时对新闻界的业主的良知、责任，以及这些责任对于形成公众舆论的普遍益处进行了讨论。最终形成了一个总报告，这便是《一个自由而负责的新闻界》。