Humphrey Jennings (1907-50) was perhaps the most gifted film-maker of the British documentary movement. Involved in the Mass Observation project of the 1930s, Jennings' talent lay in picturing ordinary life in ways that were inventive yet authentic. "Fires Were Started –" (1943) is his major achievement. A film about a day's work for a unit of mainly auxiliary volunteer firemen at the height of the blitz, it blends observation with reconstruction to achieve a particularly poignant...

This text examines the complex forces pushing and constraining technological developments in cinema. It contests the view that technological advance is simply the result of scientific progress. Rather, the author argues that social forces control the media technology agenda at every stage.

Claiming the Real II describes the origins, development and current state of documentary cinema, and the social, political, industrial and ethical factors that determine its production. This new edition addresses the ethical quagmires, digital technologies and proliferating forms that have transformed documentary cinema.

Easy to read, and highly topical, Messages writes a history of mass communication in Europe and its outreaches, as a search for the origins of media forms from print and stage, to photography, film and broadcasting.Arguing that the development of the mass media has been an essential engine driving the western concept of an individual, Brian Winston examines how the right of free expression is under attack, and how the roots of media expression need to be recalled to make a...

Challenging the popular myth of a present-day 'information revolution', Media Technology and Society is essential reading for anyone interested in the social impact of technological change. Winston argues that the development of new media forms, from the telegraph and the telephone to computers, satellite and virtual reality, is the product of a constant play-off between social necessity and suppression: the unwritten law by which new technologies are introduced into society only ...

The 1980s saw constant reports of an information revolution. This book, first published in 1986, challenges this view. It argues that the information revolution is an illusion, a rhetorical gambit, an expression of profound historical ignorance, and a movement dedicated to purveying misunderstanding and disseminating disinformation. In this historically based attack on the information revolution, Professor Winston takes a had look at the four central information technologies – telephones, ...

A collection of 67 original recordings of speeches significant in United States and world history. Hear presidents, politicians, activists, sports figures and more in their own words as they talk about some of the most important events in the 20th century.

【以人類基因組故事，闡述科學與人權的關係】◎基因編輯技術應用的規範與世界和平的可能◎基因重組人類的公共財富與拒絕商業化的重要性反思基因編輯背後的倫理問題──揭示基因重組興起背後的科學與文化現象！▎編輯生命：基因科技改變未來在這個充滿科技與創新的時代，基因科技正以前所未有的速度和深度改變著我們的生活和未來。藉由基因編輯技術的突破，人類開始探索著修改基因的可能性，這不僅是一場科學革命，更是一場重新定義生命的革命。從基因組成人類的公共財富如何拒絕商業化，到如何規範基因編輯技術的應用，再到基因終結衝突如何帶來世界和平，基因科技的應用與倫理議題交織出一幅引人深思的畫面。▎探索基因世界的奇妙之旅人類基因組不僅是生物學上的一大奇蹟，更是一部...

Documentary has never attracted such audiences, never been produced with such ease from so many corners of the globe, never embraced such variety of expression. The very distinctions between the filmed, the filmer and the spectator are being dissolved. The Act of Documenting addresses what this means for documentary's 21st century position as a genus in the “class” cinema; for its foundations as, primarily, a scientistic, eurocentric and patriarchal discourse; for its future in a ...

你以為，乳糖不耐症是先天缺乏某種抗體，遺傳學告訴你，成年人耐受乳糖才是基因突變？！☆★《生物駭客？基因啟迪時代來臨，DNA也可以被編輯》作者再一力作☆★褪去傳統上認為基因學是一門硬專業的傳統印象，任博文教授這次將以小說的形式，帶領各位讀者隨著女主人公陳莉莉的日誌，展開一趟前所未有的遺傳學之旅！◎來到祖輩曾經生活過的地方，真的會有適應優勢嗎？第五代美國華裔女性陳莉莉，因為工作緣故舉家搬到北京，人生地不熟的環境，卻因為自己長著一張東方臉，加上華人血統，大家先入為主認為她應該說一口流利的中文，或比其他人更快學會中文……◎是好好先生還是笑裡藏刀？莉莉的工作夥伴愛德華，工作能力極強、人緣好、深得上司信賴，表面上一副關心則亂的模樣，背地裡似乎在謀劃著什麼？

本书旨在通过主人公陈莉莉的故事让读者更清楚地意识到：基因可以帮助人们从一个全新的角度去更好地认识自己、更好地认识自己的身体。主人公陈莉莉是一位华裔职场女性，在初来北京的打拼的这段日子理，经历了尝试继而迷茫、迷茫后不断尝试的波澜曲折，最后居然在基因组学专家斯坦利和伯特的帮助下找到了人生的终极答案。

The Roots of Fake News argues that ‘fake news’ is not a problem caused by the power of the internet, or by the failure of good journalism to assert itself. Rather, it is within the news’s ideological foundations – professionalism, neutrality, and most especially objectivity – that the true roots of the current ‘crisis’ are to be found.Placing the concept of media objectivity in a fuller historical context, this book examines how current perceptions of a crisis in journalis...