Holding On to Reality: The Nature of Information at the ...
 Amazon.com Review: It's remarkable how far we've traveled into the Information Age without coming up with a very good idea of what information actually is. Technologists define information as bits and bytes, but that seems too precise somehow to get at [... more]
$22.00
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Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the ...
Amazon.com Review: What's up, doc? Information scientist David M. Levy wants us to look at the documents that fill our lives, and his book Scrolling Forward is a thoughtful reflection on their near-omnipresence. Levy has the perfect résumé [... more]
$24.95
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The Murdoch Mission: The Digital Transformation of a ...
Poorly edited puff piece: Wow - a big-time publisher like John Wiley and they don't even hire a decent editor to cull through Wendy Goldman's galleys? Page after page of errors litter this book. One page, Rupert is walking into his third floor office - [... more]
$39.95
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The Global Village: Transformations in World Life and ...
FIGURING OUT THE GROUND: This book is for the McLuhan enthusiast who would like to figure out the ground on which McLuhan stands. It is chock full of McLuhan's ideas, but not presented in McLuhan's typical style. Published 9 years after McLuhan's death, [... more]
$29.95
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Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
A WORLD WITHOUT WALLS: With all the ink spilt over UNDERSTANDING MEDIA it is easy to forget that it is just a book full of printed words, one of the media McLuhan discussed. Wait one second, if the message, in itself, doesn't really matter, if the media [... more]
$24.95
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The Essential Mcluhan
Amazon.com Review: Given the profound influence that the writings and teachings of Marshall McLuhan have had in the Information Age, it is surprising how few people have read anything more than context-free excerpts printed in indecipherable day-glo [... more]
$23.50
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Media Studies: A Reader - 2nd Edition
a very good reader: This is a well chosen and very well edited selection. It gives short 4-5 page samples of some of the most valuable things that have been written on media in the past fifty years. Compared to its 1997 predecessor, the 2000 American [... more]
$35.00
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The Language of New Media
Factually lazy: Lev Manovich claims to have been trained in computer science. If he had any respect for the field, he would not have filled his book with deliberate misstatements about the nature of digital media. He uses these misstatements to fill out [... more]
$34.95
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Visual Language: Global Communication for the 21st Century
Amazon.com Review: Uh-oh, McLuhan was right. As our information stream meets a confluence of new media, our language has changed accordingly. Stanford scholar Robert E. Horn lays it all out for us in Visual Language, incorporating visual elements with [... more]
$35.00
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Information Anxiety 2 (Hayden/Que)
Amazon.com Review: Information might want to be free; but, why should we free it? We've got enough trouble keeping track of all the petabits that already run around untethered, and risk a computer counterrevolution if we let the situation get much [... more]
$29.99
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A History of Mass Communication: Six Information Revolutions
A History of Mass Communication: Six Information Revolutions: This was an excellent book. This book should make a great Textbook in "Media Studies" or "History of Technology." Author: Irving Fang Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal [... more]
$66.95
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No More Teams!: Mastering the Dynamics of Creative ...
Schrage writes like he never worked in a company before.: I started out this book being frustrated by the assumptions Schrage makes. For example, at the beginning of the book he talks about collaboration and seems to be making the assumption that people [... more]
$19.00
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