近日，由瑞士卢加诺大学中国媒体观察中心主任Gabriele Balbi教授和意大利帕多瓦大学博士后Paolo Magaudda合著的《数字媒介史：一个跨媒介和全球的视野》（A History of Digital Media: An Intermedia and Global Perspective）一书，由Routledge出版。
该书全面梳理了数字媒介的发展历史，以及数字媒介与政治、商业、技术、社会和文化的互动关系。以全球和跨媒介视野为特征，本书可以作为教材，帮助学生和学者深入理解和反思数字传播及其社会意义。
本书的内容结构如下：
Introduction
Chapter 1 – Why Study the History of Digital Media and How?
1.1. Contextualizing Digital in Contemporary Societies
1.2. Theoretical Paths
1.3. A Few of the Benefits of a Digital Media History
Chapter 2 – The Computer
2.1. The "Mother" of All Digital Devices
2.2. The Mechanical Computer Age and the Social Need for Calculation
2.3. The Birth of the Computer and the Mainframe Age
2.4. The Age of Personal Computers
2.5. The post-PC Age from a Global Perspective
Chapter 3 – Internet
3.1. What We Mean by the Internet
3.2. The Military Influence
3.3. The Academic Influence
3.4 The Counter-cultural Influence
3.5. The Public Service Influence
3.6. The Commercial Influence
3.7. The Social Influence
3.8. Re-reading the Internet in Historical Perspective
Chapter 4 – The Mobile Phone
4.1. The Origins of the Mobile Phone
4.2. Digital Rebirth and Growing up
4.3. The European Digital-Bureaucratic Miracle
4.4. The Power of Routine. A Concise History of Text Messaging
4.5. A New Mobile Phone Paradigm: 3G, Smartphones and Mobile Internet
4.6. The Global Mobile Phone Fever
4.7. Sociocultural Implications of Mobile Connectivity
Chapter 5 – The Digitization of Analog Media
5.1. Intermediality and the Digital Media Pattern
5.2. Music
5.3. Publishing: Books and Newsmaking
5.4. Cinema and Video
5.5. Photography
5.6. Television
5.7. Radio
5.8. Digitization and the Interweaving of Different Media
Conclusion
Myths and Counter-hegemonic Narratives in the History of Digitization
Chronology
Appendix: Statistical and Quantitative Data
Acronyms
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