A provocative, eye-opening look at the way media shapes every aspect of our lives.

Just when you thought there was nothing new to say about the media, along comes a book that transcends the conventional wisdom with an original vision, one that unites our most intimate personal concerns with far-reaching historical trends in an accessible way. From Princess Diana's funeral to the prospect of mass terror, from oral sex in the Oval Office to cowboy politics in distant lands, from high school cliques to marital therapy, from hip-hop nation to climbing Mt. Everest, from blogs to reality TV to the Weather Channel, Mediated takes us on a tour of every department of our media-saturated society. And at every turn we see ourselves as we are, immersed in options, surrounded by representations, driven to unprecedented levels of self-consciousness-and obliged by these circumstances to transform our very lives into performances.

Sophisticated, satirical, sometimes searing, ultimately forgiving, Mediated tackles everything we take for granted and reintroduces us to it all as if for the first time. You'll laugh, you'll squirm, you'll agree, you'll object-but you'll find more Aha! moments packed into fewer pages than you've ever come across before.

詹戈帝塔（Thomas de Zengotita）

一九四四年生。擁有哥倫比亞人類學博士頭銜，現為哈潑雜誌特約編輯，並於紐約大學教授「現代主義與形式異化」、「海德格與維根斯坦」和「傳媒理論史」等課程。

席玉蘋

筆名平鬱，政治大學國貿係畢業，美國德州理工大學企業管理碩士，四度獲得文建會梁實鞦文學獎譯文、譯詩獎。現居高雄，專事譯作、寫作。譯著有《贏傢通吃的社會》、《匠心獨具》、《愛因斯坦檔案》等三十餘部。