"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…
"How modern technology is influencing how humans connect with each other, how it is creating gaps in need-fulfillment, and how genuine connections can be forged in a time where technology paradoxically creates both an abundance of opportunities for connection, but fewer opportunities for real intimacy"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Bonini and Trere explore how people all around the world use different tactics to interfere with the algorithms behind the platforms they use to work, entertain, and inform themselves"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"The authors argue that scholarship on social media has been limited by an over-reliance on single country studies that focus on one platform at a time, without considering the ties between platforms and other media. To overcome these limitations, the authors propose that social media are better understood by comparing processes of development and use across nations, media, and platforms"--OCLC…
"Presents a teen-level view of stresses and joys behind digital screens, including peer relationships, conflict, digital footprints, and civic life"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"This book shows how confusion resulting from conflicts in Ukraine have repeatedly created the urgent need for meaning in a chaotic situation. Focusing on Ukraine in the aftermath of the so-called Euromaidan revolution in late 2013 and up through the present Russian invasion, this book analyzes how meaning is made as a nation seeks to control its image at home and especially abroad"--OCLC-licen…
"A guide for business leaders to understand how to make use of data for competitive advantage"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"This book critiques and complicates the stereotypes of autistic youth by presenting the first in-depth ethnographic study of their everyday uses of media and technology"--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.