30 years after its publication Marshall McLuhan's The Medium is the Massage remains his most entertaining, provocative, and piquant book. With every technological and social "advance" McLuhan's proclamation that "the media work us over completely" becomes more evident and plain. In his words, Uso pervasive are they in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, or unaltered'. McLuhan's remarkable observation that "societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication" is undoubtedly more relevant today than ever before. With the rise of the internet and the explosion of the digital revolution there has never been a better time to revisit Marshall McLuhan. New printing - 2011 - with cover design by Shepard Fairey.

《大众传播模式论》最适合用“经典”来评价了。这本薄薄的册子很轻松地通过述评传播学研究历史上的一些“模式”就把一系列重要的传播理论概括出来，并勾勒了一副完整的图景。除此以外，它还把“模式研究”这一研究方法凸现出来，使其深入人心。这本书可以给你很多东西，对每个模式的述评包括补充与批评意见，恰好能够让你脱离出原理论作者的窠臼，从外部来看看该模式。