A call to redefine mobility so that it is connected, heterogeneous, intelligent, and personalized, as well as sustainable, adaptable, and city-friendly.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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"This book provides a model for teaching computational thinking to middle and high school students across a broad range of school subjects"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
An examination of ""digital coping"" involving the use of communication technologies, particularly social media, in responding to illness.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
How RFID, a ubiquitous but often invisible mobile technology, identifies tens of billions of objects as they move through the world. RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is ubiquitous but often invisible, a mobile technology used by more people more often than any flashy smartphone app. RFID systems use radio waves to communicate identifying information, transmitting data from a tag that carri…
"How human technological interventions into death and the dead body since the nineteenth century have had a profound impact on today's (and future) end-of-life and human mortality realities. As Director of the Centre for Death and Society, the world's only interdisciplinary studies centre dedicated to researching death, dying, and the dead body, and the son of an American Funeral Director who g…
An exploration of the Dark Web--websites accessible only with special routing software--that examines the history of three anonymizing networks, Freenet, Tor, and I2P.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
How the structure of news, information, and knowledge is evolving and how news media can foster social connection. While the public believes that journalism remains crucial for democracy, there is a general sense that the news media are performing this role poorly. In The Social Fact, John Wihbey makes the case that journalism can better serve democracy by focusing on ways of fostering social c…
"A sober, but polemical text on how the linguistics and language field has lost sight of the fact that syntactic structure remains crucial"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"The book considers the rates and conditions of women's participation in the public sphere and explores the implications for politics, democracy, and society"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.