Tim Wu: 8 books
The Master Switch
The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
A New Yorker and Fortune Best Book of the Year
Analyzing the strategic maneuvers of today’s great information powers–Apple, Google, and an eerily resurgent AT&T–Tim Wu uncovers a time-honored pattern in which invention begets industry and industry begets empire.
It is easy...
Der Master Switch
Aufstieg und Niedergang der Informationsimperien
Language: German
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Tim Wu nimmt uns in diesem Buch mit auf eine informative Reise durch das Reich der Kommunikationstechnologien beginnend bei Telefon über Radio, Fernsehen bis hin zum Internet. Dabei analysiert er gründlich die Entwicklung der Kommunikationsmöglichkeiten und deren Auswirkungen in Bezug auf die Möglichkeiten...
The Attention Merchants
The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
One of the Best Books of the Year
**The San Francisco Chronicle * The Philadelphia Inquirer * Vox * The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
From Tim Wu, author of the award-winning The Master Switch ( a New Yorker and Fortune Book of the Year) and who coined the term "net neutrality”—a revelatory,...
Who Controls the Internet? : Illusions of a Borderless World
Illusions of a Borderless World
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2006
Is the Internet erasing national borders? Will the future of the Net be set by Internet engineers rogue programmers the United Nations or powerful countries? Who's really in control of what's happening on the Net? In this provocative new book Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu tell the fascinating story of...
注意力商人: 他們如何操弄人心? 揭密媒體、廣告、群眾的角力戰
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
Language: Chinese
Release Date: April 2, 2018
電子郵件，免費！照片分享，無上限！
你是否想過，隨手可得的免費內容、便利的免費服務，到底都是誰在付費？
如果商品免費，那你就不是消費者，而是商品！
你我可能都不知不覺地把自己賣給了注意力商人！
「『媒體轉型、網路演化與資訊浪潮」此一主題最具洞見的作者。』──黃哲斌（資深媒體人）
「這是少有的關注產業發展的傳播史，對現在或未來的『注意力產業』」中人來說，不可不讀。」──游梓翔（世新大學新聞傳播學院院長）
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The Curse of Bigness
Antitrust in the New Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
The political mood is turning against big tech, and the backlash is bipartisan. So too is the populist outrage against economic inequality and political influence. Everyone from unionists to farmers, to Google users angry about private data, Facebook users angry about fake news, to broadband customers...
Rhetorics of Whiteness
Postracial Hauntings in Popular Culture, Social Media, and Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Winner, CCCC Outstanding Book Award in the Edited Collection Category, 2018
With the election of our first black president, many Americans began to argue that we had finally ended racism, claiming that we now live in a postracial era. Yet near-daily news reports regularly invoke white as a...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of maize Volume 1
From improved varieties to local applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Maize is one of the most important and widely grown cereal crops in the world and is a staple food for almost a billion people, particularly in the developing world. It has been estimated that maize yields need to increase by 60% by 2050. There is an urgent need to increase yields in the face of such...