"This study of the political economy of rural broadband combines critical policy analysis with stories of rural Americans and offers solutions for solving the rural-urban digital divide"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Offers a roadmap that will address the gap between the current workforce and the new jobs requiring significant upskilling, with a focus on the sectors of manufacturing, retail, and healthcare"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Examines the intimate connection between property and its social and material context through PARK(ing) Day, a loosely-organised international event to reclaim street space from cars"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Insights from the history of numerical notation suggest that how humans write numbers is an active choice involving cognitive and social factors. Over the past 5,000 years, more than 100 methods of numerical notation--distinct ways of writing numbers--have been developed and used by specific communities. Most of these are barely known today; where they are known, they are often derided as cogni…
"An accessible overview of the threats and opportunities inherent in automated decision making in academia, government, and industry"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"This book addresses basic and advanced questions surrounding the idea of levels or organization in the biological sciences"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A novel analysis of social media network manipulation that shows how everyday users can limit the spread of harmful, misleading, and objectively false information"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Selections from FBI files on political activists including Betty Friedan, Abbie Hoffman, Martin Luther King, Aaron Swartz, and Malcolm X. The FBI has always kept tabs on political activists. During the directorship of J. Edgar Hoover, it was a Bureau-wide obsession. Did you see that guy who didn't quite look like a journalist, taking pictures at a demonstration He was probably FBI. Did you say …
"A look at technical debt in software that focuses on the practical implications of technical debt for the entire software lifecycle"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
An argument that social, political, and economic systems maintain power by discarding certain people, places, and things. Discard studies is an emerging field that looks at waste and wasting broadly construed. Rather than focusing on waste and trash as the primary objects of study, discard studies looks at wider systems of waste and wasting to explore how some materials, practices, regions, and…