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Four shades of gray :the amazon kindle platform
"Four Shades of Gray analyses the Kindle's impact from a technological, bibliographical and social perspective to ask why Amazon succeeded when many previous ebook manufacturers had failed"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Computational thinking
An introduction to computational thinking that traces a genealogy beginning centuries before the digital computer. A few decades into the digital era, scientists discovered that thinking in terms of computation made possible an entirely new way of organizing scientific investigation; eventually, every field had a computational branch: computational physics, computational biology, computational …
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- 9780262353410
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- 1 online resource (272 pages) :illustrations
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All data are local :thinking critically in a data-driven society
How to analyze data settings rather than data sets, acknowledging the meaning-making power of the local. In our data-driven society, it is too easy to assume the transparency of data. Instead, Yanni Loukissas argues in All Data Are Local , we should approach data sets with an awareness that data are created by humans and their dutiful machines, at a time, in a place, with the instruments at han…
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Shadow libraries :access to educational materials in global higher education
This collection looks at how university students in Russia, Argentina, South Africa, Poland, Brazil, India, and Uruguay get the books and articles they need for their education. The death of Aaron Swartz and the more recent controversy around the SciHub and Libgen repositories have drawn attention to the question of access to knowledge, particularly for students facing financial and other const…
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- 9780262345699
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- 1 online resource (313 pages) :illustrations
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Digital economies at global margins
Investigations of what increasing digital connectivity and the digitalization of the economy mean for people and places at the world's economic margins. Between 2012 and 2017, more than one billion people became new Internet users. Once, digital connectivity was confined to economically prosperous parts of the world; now Internet users make up a majority of the world's population. In this book,…
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- 0262349485
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- 1 online resource (392 pages).
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Email and the everyday :stories of disclosure, trust, and digital labor
"Email and the Everyday : Stories of Disclosure, Trust, and Digital Labor focuses on email in its own right as a standalone media form in order to examine its technical and material infrastructure, its iconography and GUI, its affordances, and its languages"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262362775
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Traversing digital Babel :information, e-government, and exchange
Alon Peled offers a groundbreaking approach for enabling information sharing among public sector agencies: using selective incentives to 'nudge' agencies to exchange information assets.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Kids and credibility :an empirical examination of youth, digital media use, a…
Overview: How well do children navigate the ocean of information that is available online? The enormous variety of Web-based resources represents both opportunities and challenges for Internet-savvy kids, offering extraordinary potential for learning and social connection but little guidance on assessing the reliability of online information. This book reports on the first large-scale survey to…
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- 026226658X
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 135 pages) :illustrations.
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Surveillance or security? :the risks posed by new wiretapping technologies
In this book, the author argues that in embarking on an unprecedented effort to build surveillance capabilities deeply into communications infrastructure, the U.S. government is opting for short-term security and creating dangerous long-term risks. Landau describes what makes communications security hard, warrantless wiretapping and the role of electronic surveillance in the war on terror, the …
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- 9780262295581
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 383 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Software studies :a lexicon
This collection of short expository, critical and speculative texts offers a field guide to the cultural, political, social and aesthetic impact of software. Experts from a range of disciplines each take a key topic in software and the understanding of software, such as algorithms and logical structures.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262273343
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- 1 online resource (xii, 334 pages) :illustrations.
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