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Virtual Economies: Design and Analysis
Virtual Economies: Design and Analysis Virtual Economies: Design and Analysis By Vili Lehdonvirta, Edward Castronova The MIT Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9525.001.0001 ISBN electronic: 9780262323314 Publication date: 2014 How the basic concepts of economics—including markets, institutions, and money—can be used to create and analyze economies based on virtual goods. …
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Eat, Cook, Grow: Mixing Human-Computer Interactions with Human-Food Interactions
Tools, interfaces, methods, and practices that can help bring about a healthy, socially inclusive, and sustainable food future. Our contemporary concerns about food range from food security to agricultural sustainability to getting dinner on the table for family and friends. This book investigates food issues as they intersect with participatory Internet culture—blogs, wikis, online photo-…
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Vulnerability in Technological Cultures: New Directions in Research and Gover…
Vulnerability in Technological Cultures: New Directions in Research and Governance Inside Technology Vulnerability in Technological Cultures: New Directions in Research and Governance Edited by Anique Hommels, Jessica Mesman, Wiebe E. Bijker The MIT Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9209.001.0001 ISBN electronic: 9780262323130 Publication date: 2014 Analysis and case studies e…
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DIY Citizenship: Critical Making and Social Media
How social media and DIY communities have enabled new forms of political participation that emphasize doing and making rather than passive consumption. Today, DIY—do-it-yourself—describes more than self-taught carpentry. Social media enables DIY citizens to organize and protest in new ways (as in Egypt's “Twitter revolution” of 2011) and to repurpose corporate content (or create new …
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Entrepreneurial Responses to Chronic Adversity: The Bright, the Dark, and the…
This open acess book extends recent work on entrepreneurship in response to adverse events to explore entrepreneurial responses by people who face chronic adversity more deeply. Instead of focusing on the sort of responses intended to destroy the institutions that create and sustain chronic adversity, the authors are interested in how individuals use entrepreneurial action to find a way within …
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Networking Peripheries: Technological Futures and the Myth of Digital Univers…
An exploration of the diverse experiments in digital futures as they advance far from the celebrated centers of technological innovation and entrepreneurship. In Networking Peripheries, Anita Chan shows how digital cultures flourish beyond Silicon Valley and other celebrated centers of technological innovation and entrepreneurship. The evolving digital cultures in the Global South vividly de…
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Pirate Politics: The New Information Policy Contests
Pirate Politics: The New Information Policy Contests Pirate Politics: The New Information Policy Contests By Patrick Burkart The MIT Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9205.001.0001 ISBN electronic: 9780262320146 Publication date: 2014 An examination of the Pirate political movement in Europe analyzes its advocacy for free expression and the preservation of the Internet as a com…
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The Genius Checklist: Nine Paradoxical Tips on How You Can Become a Creative …
What it takes to be a genius: nine essential and contradictory ingredients. What does it take to be a genius? A high score on an IQ test? Brilliant physicist Richard Feynman's IQ was too low for membership in Mensa. Suffering from varying degrees of mental illness? Creativity is often considered a marker of mental health. Be a child prodigy like Mozart, or a later bloomer like Beethoven? Die t…
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The Origins of Musicality
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the capacity to perceive, appreciate, and make music. Research shows that all humans have a predisposition for music, just as they do for language. All of us can perceive and enjoy music, even if we can't carry a tune and consider ourselves “unmusical.” This volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on the capacity to perceive, appreciate, and make mu…
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Russian Cosmism
Crucial texts, many available in English for the first time, written before and during the Bolshevik Revolution by the radical biopolitical utopianists of Russian Cosmism. Cosmism emerged in Russia before the October Revolution and developed through the 1920s and 1930s; like Marxism and the European avant-garde, two other movements that shared this intellectual moment, Russian Cosmism rejected…
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