In China’s popular live-streaming showrooms, three millennials – a karaoke singer, a migrant worker and a rags-to-riches comedian – seek fame, fortune and human connection, ultimately finding the same promises and perils online as in their real lives.

How do you put a life into 500 words? Ask the staff obituary writers at the New York Times. OBIT is a first-ever glimpse into the daily rituals, joys and existential angst of the Times obit writers, as they chronicle life after death on the front lines of history.

本书是一部媒介文化研究的经典著作。作者认为，电话、电报、广播、电视等电子媒介的广泛使用，塑造了一个新的文化形态和传播方式。通过对不同媒介的比较，以及与种种文化现象的关联，作者勾画了一种电子媒介文化社会的图景，并对其发展趋向作出了某些预言

2017 film directed by Steven Spielberg

The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.

《娱乐至死》是对20世纪后半叶美国文化中最重大变化的探究和哀悼：印刷术时代步入没落，而电视时代蒸蒸日上；电视改变了公众话语的内容和意义；政治、宗教、教育和任何其他公共事务领域的内容，都不可避免的被电视的表达方式重新定义。电视的一般表达方式是娱乐。一切公众话语都日渐以娱乐的方式出现，并成为一种文化精神。一切文化内容都心甘情愿地成为娱乐的附庸，而且毫无怨言，甚至无声无息，“其结果是我们成了一个娱乐至死的物种”。

This film showcases Noam Chomsky, one of America's leading linguists and political dissidents. It also illustrates his message of how government and big media businesses cooperate to produce an effective propaganda machine in order to manipulate the opinions of the United States populous. The key example for this analysis is the simultaneous events of the massive coverage of the communist atrocities of Khmer Rouge regime of Cambodia and the suppression of news of the US supported Indonesian invasion and subjugation of East Timor.