The work of digital design guru John Maeda as an educator and director of the Aesthetics and Computation Group at the MIT Media Lab has never before been fully revealed. Seven years of intensive research with gifted students has resulted in incredible advances in digital and interaction design, and many of the programme's graduates are now considered leaders in their field. This book presents the most fascinating work, arranged by themes that apply to today's digital design issues: programmatic space, living information, typography, tools, interaction design and education. Each section also features two essays by leading names in the field of interaction and digital design, such as Casey Reas, David Small, Yogo Nakamura, Joshua Davis and Gillian Crampton-Smith. Red Burns contributes a foreword.

Corporate executives are struggling with a new trend: people using online social technologies (blogs, social networking sites, YouTube, podcasts) to discuss products and companies, write their own news, and find their own deals. This groundswell is global, it s unstoppable, it affects every industry and it s utterly foreign to the powerful companies running things now. When consumers you ve never met are rating your company s products in public forums with which you have no experience or influence, your company is vulnerable. In Groundswell, Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff of Forrester, Inc. explain how to turn this threat into an opportunity. Using tools and data straight from Forrester, you ll learn how to: -Evaluate new social technologies as they emerge -Determine how different groups of consumers are participating in social technology arenas -Apply a four-step process for formulating your future strategy -Build social technologies into your business including monitoring your brand value, talking with the groundswell through marketing and PR campaigns, and energizing your best customers to recruit their peers Timely and insightful, this book is required reading for executives seeking to protect and strengthen their company s public image.

媒介分析技巧：中文版，ISBN：9787300067186，作者：（美）阿瑟·阿萨·伯杰（Arthur Asa Berger）；李德刚，何玉译

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.

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.

That market forces drive the news is not news. Whether a story appears in print, on television, or on the Internet depends on who is interested, its value to advertisers, the costs of assembling the details, and competitors' products. But in All the News That's Fit to Sell, economist James Hamilton shows just how this happens. Furthermore, many complaints about journalism--media bias, soft news, and pundits as celebrities--arise from the impact of this economic logic on news judgments. This is the first book to develop an economic theory of news, analyze evidence across a wide range of media markets on how incentives affect news content, and offer policy conclusions. Media bias, for instance, was long a staple of the news. Hamilton's analysis of newspapers from 1870 to 1900 reveals how nonpartisan reporting became the norm. A hundred years later, some partisan elements reemerged as, for example, evening news broadcasts tried to retain young female viewers with stories aimed at their (Democratic) political interests. Examination of story selection on the network evening news programs from 1969 to 1998 shows how cable competition, deregulation, and ownership changes encouraged a shift from hard news about politics toward more soft news about entertainers.

すごい！日本創意文案 一本不可不敗的廣告祕笈，帶你透視文案背後的祕密！ 以中文創作部落格的奇妙日本人，「全球華文部落格大獎」首位外國得獎者， 給你最在地、專業的日本新奇事物報告！ 透視東京23區24小時的創意生活！ 一則廣告的誕生，靠的不只是創意而已，其背後一定會有這樣的邏輯－－目前社會的現況是○○，想必人們應該會有○○的想法，所以要向這群人，根據○○ 的道理，用○○的表現呼籲的話，必定會對他們的意識產生○○的影響……那怕只是海報上的一張圖片、一句文案，都是經過如此的深思熟慮才能夠完成。 於是，仔細觀察廣告，並思考「這則廣告為什麼會用這樣的方式來表現」，就可以推測、想像（或瞎猜）該廣告製作人員對當今消費型態的看法，而這也將代表著現代人的思考模式和行動方式。 本書將以一位日本廣告人的觀點出發，透過廣告文案、新聞時事、語言生活等新奇事物，帶你透視東京23區24小時的生活創意，發現你從未發現的日本吸引力！ 如果你來到東京搭電車的時候，看到一個男人盯著車廂裡的廣告，有時還會拿筆做筆記的話，那個人很可能就是uedada。

麥克魯漢暢銷經典作，全球銷量突破100萬本 《媒體即訊息》是被稱為「媒體先知」、「傳播怪傑」的麥克魯漢的暢銷經典作品，從1967年首度出版，迄今全球銷售量超過一百萬本。 原文書名The Medium is the Massage(媒體即按摩)，根據他兒子艾瑞克的說法，是排字工人將message的m”e”誤植為m”a”，麥克魯漢「將錯就錯」，認為「媒體即按摩」恰好貼切地說明了他的「媒體即訊息」(the medium is the message)的理論。 麥克魯漢認為，社會的塑造與其說是取決於溝通內容，不如說是取決於人們藉以溝通之媒體的本質。他指出，「媒體在個人、政治、經濟、美學、心理學、道德、倫理和社會等方面具有普遍的影響力，以致我們沒有一個部分不被媒體所觸及、影響、改變。媒體即訊息。如果不瞭解媒體環境的運作方式，便不可能理解社會和文化變遷。」而且所有媒體都是人類感官的延伸，進而改變了我們的行為與思考模式。本書在網際網路前身ARPANET出現前兩年首次問世時，針對電子資訊時代生活所提出的驚人預言式觀點，地球村、集體即時涉入、從印刷術發明後的視覺導向回歸至前字母時期的聽覺世界……，更是領先時代三十餘年，一言中的，成了資訊時代最真實的預言。 本書特色 1. 經典重現，歷久彌新 《媒體即訊息》堪稱麥克魯漢，最受歡迎、最精鍊的經典作品(全書一萬餘字)，從1967年出版至今，書中「媒體即訊息」、「媒介是人類感官的延伸」、「地球村」……的觀點，歷時四十餘年，到了數位網路時代，更突顯其真知灼見。 2.領先時代的新穎前衛設計風格 在1960年代，本書即採取大膽前衛的圖文設計風格，以充滿實驗性、拼貼的視覺手法製作，譬如一些頁面的圖像文字反向呈現，必須透過鏡子閱讀；某些則有意留白。現代與歷史圖像並陳，展現驚人的視覺印象。

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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 McLuhan's insights into our engagement with a variety of media led to a complete rethinking of our entire society. He believed that the message of electronic media foretold the end of humanity as it was known. In 1964, this looked like the paranoid babblings of a madman. In our twenty-first century digital world, the madman looks quite sane. Understanding Media: the most important book ever written on communication. Ignore its message at your peril.

The creation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1920s saw the birth of some of the most exciting and challenging writings of the twentieth century. It is out of this background that the great critic Theodor Adorno emerged. His finest essays are collected here, offering the reader unparalleled insights into Adorno's thoughts on culture. He argued that the culture industry commodified and standardized all art. In turn this suffocated individuality and destroyed critical thinking. At the time, Adorno was accused of everything from overreaction to deranged hysteria by his many detractors. In today's world, where even the least cynical of consumers is aware of the influence of the media, Adorno's work takes on a more immediate significance. The Culture Industry is an unrivalled indictment of the banality of mass culture.

我们的身体正陷落在名头繁多的圈子中,看得见的叫做会所、俱乐部，看不见的叫做圈子。漂浮在圈子上的空的气息里面聚集了人的恩与爱，成与败，这样的圈子叫江湖。而这本书是关于一个名利江湖上的行走：为什么要去？如何去？与谁去？谁最有资格？江湖上的风险与光荣……

For the first time, Guy Debord's pivotal work Society of the Spectacle appears in a definitive and authoritative English translation. Originally published in France in 1967, Society of the Spectacle offered a set of radically new propositions about the nature of contemporary capitalism and modern culture. At the same time it was one of the most influential theoretical works for a wide range of political and revolutionary practice in the 1960s. Today, Debord's work continues to be in the forefront of debates about the fate of consumer society and the operation of modern social power. In a sweeping revision of Marxist categories, the notion of the spectacle takes the problem of the commodity from the sphere of economics to a point at which the commodity as an image dominates not only economic exchange but the primary communicative and symbolic activity of all modern societies.Guy Debord was one of the most important participants in the activities associated with the Situationist International in the 1960s. Also an artist and filmmaker, he is the author of Memoires and Commentaires sur la societe du spectacle. A Swerve Edition, distributed for Zone Books.

This critical edition features an appendix that makes available for the first time the core of the research project that spawned the book and individual chapter notes are supported by a glossary of terms, indices of subjects, names, and works cited. There is also a complete bibliography of McLuhan's published works.

You've seen it all before. A malicious online rumor costs a company millions. A political sideshow derails the national news cycle and destroys a candidate. Some product or celebrity zooms from total obscurity to viral sensation. What you don't know is that someone is responsible for all this. Usually, someone like me. I'm a media manipulator. In a world where blogs control and distort the news, my job is to control blogs-as much as any one person can. In today's culture...: blogs like Gawker, Buzzfeed and the Huffington Post drive the media agenda; bloggers are slaves to money, technology, and deadlines; manipulators wield these levers to shape everything you read, see and watch-online and off. Why am I giving away these secrets? Because I'm tired of a world where blogs take indirect bribes, marketers help write the news, reckless journalists spread lies, and no one is accountable for any of it. I'm pulling back the curtain because I don't want anyone else to get blindsided. I'm going to explain exactly how the media really works. What you choose to do with this information is up to you.