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Spotify teardown :inside the black box of streaming music
An innovative investigation of the inner workings of Spotify that traces the transformation of audio files into streamed experience. Spotify provides a streaming service that has been welcomed as disrupting the world of music. Yet such disruption always comes at a price. Spotify Teardown contests the tired claim that digital culture thrives on disruption. Borrowing the notion of "teardown" from…
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- 9780262349680
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- 1 online resource (ix, 276 pages) :illustrations
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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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Memes in digital culture
"In December 2012, the exuberant video 'Gangnam Style' became the first YouTube clip to be viewed more than one billion times. Thousands of its viewers responded by creating and posting their own variations of the video: 'Mitt Romney Style, ' 'NASA Johnson Style, ' 'Egyptian Style, ' and many others. 'Gangnam Style' (and its attendant parodies, imitations, and derivations) is one of the most fa…
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- 9781461947332
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- 1 online resource (x, 200 pages) :illustrations.
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Literary gaming
A new analytical framework for understanding literary videogames, the literary-ludic spectrum, illustrated by close readings of selected works.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262322034
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- 1 online resource (x, 206 pages) :illustrations
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Carnal resonance :affect and online pornography
Here, Susanna Paasonen moves beyond the usual debates over the legal, political, and moral aspects of pornography to address online porn in a media historical framework, investigating its modalities, its affect, and its visceral and disturbing qualities.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262298813
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- 1 online resource (x, 321 pages) :illustrations
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Digital methods
In Digital Methods, Richard Rogers proposes a methodological outlook for social and cultural scholarly research on the Web that seeks to move Internet research beyond the study of online culture. It is not a toolkit for Internet research, or operating instructions for a software package; it deals with broader questions. How can we study social media to learn something about society rather than …
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- 9781461931867
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- 1 online resource (274 pages) :illustrations
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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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The future of learning institutions in a digital age
In this report, Cathy Davidson and David Theo Goldberg focus on the potential for shared and interactive learning made possible by the Internet. They argue that the single most important characteristic of the Internet is its capacity for world-wide community and the limitless exchange of ideas. The Internet brings about a way of learning that is not new or revolutionary but is now the norm for …
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- 9780262258715
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- 1 online resource (xi, 67 pages) :illustrations.
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Access controlled :the shaping of power, rights, and rule in cyberspace
Report from the OpenNet Initiative.Internet filtering, censorship of Web content, and online surveillance are increasing in scale, scope, and sophistication around the world, in democratic countries as well as in authoritarian states. The first generation of Internet controls consisted largely of building firewalls at key Internet gateways; China's famous "Great Firewall of China" is one of the…
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- 9780262266031
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 617 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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The future of thinking :learning institutions in a digital age
How traditional learning institutions can become as innovative, flexible, robust, and collaborative as the best social networking sites.Over the past two decades, the way we learn has changed dramatically. We have new sources of information and new ways to exchange and to interact with information. But our schools and the way we teach have remained largely the same for years, even centuries. Wh…
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- 1 online resource (xxv, 288 pages) :illustrations.
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