"Companies like Amazon, Upwork, Apple's App Store, and Ebay are shaping the world and the prospects of millions of people who depend on them for their livelihoods. This book explores the implications of this power and shows how it compares with traditional statecraft"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A leading researcher explores digital disparity and the pandemic and asks: how did people of different backgrounds use digital media to negotiate the challenges of isolation, unemployment, home schooling, remote work, and COVID-19 itself? And how did digital technology intersect with existing social and economic disparities? Although it is undeniable that technologies helped facilitate numerou…
"Digital Lethargy is a book about decentering digital technologies. His definition of the digital is expansive; it includes workers, servers and infrastructures, environments, as well as users. It also includes historical contexts. It's the kind of far-reaching exploration that new media studies (as it's come to be known) is lacking and sorely needs. By exploring digital technology through art,…
"Looks at the role of media in post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation, with Cambodia as the central case study"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Analyzing the transformation of photography by computation - and the transformation of human perception by algorithmically-driven images, from CGI to AI - The Perception Machine brings together media theory and neuroscience to understand what it means to live surrounded by image flows and machine eyes"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"This book proposes blockchain-based currencies, open algorithms, and data cooperatives as the foundation of a new economy that is decentralized, resilient, and secure"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A look at the role technology (ICTs) plays in the lives of Brazilian favela dwellers, which the author explores through his own notion of "mundane technologies""--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A guide for business leaders to understand how to make use of data for competitive advantage"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Argues for a holistic view of the digital environment in which many of us now live, as neither determined by the features of technology nor uniformly negative for society"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"This book tells the story of how the internet and digital technologies disrupted the recorded music, newspaper, film, and television industries"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.