Filter by
Mechanisms :new media and the forensic imagination
"In Mechanisms, Matthew Kirschenbaum examines new media and electronic writing against the textual and technological primitives that govern writing, inscription, and textual transmission in all media: erasure, variability, repeatability, and survivability. Mechanisms is the first book in its field to devote significant attention to storage--the hard drive in particular--arguing that understandi…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262302746
- Collation
- 1 online resource (xvii, 296 pages) :illustrations
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
A History of Communications Media and Society from the Evolution of Speech t…
A History of Communications advances a theory of media that explains the origins and impact of different forms of communication - speech, writing, print, electronic devices and the Internet - on human history in the long term. New media are 'pulled' into widespread use by broad historical trends and these media, once in widespread use, 'push' social institutions and beliefs in predictable direc…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780511976919
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Social engineering :how crowdmasters, phreaks, hackers, and trolls created a …
"From the phone phreaks of the 1970s to Anonymous, how how hackers deploy persuasion, helpfulness, manipulation, and deception to gain access to sensitive information"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 0262368927
- Collation
- 1 online resource.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Sharenthood: how the digital tech habits of parents, teachers, and other tru…
OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262354080
- Collation
- 1 online resource (232 pages).
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The social machine: Designs for living online
New ways to design spaces for online interaction—and how they will change society. Computers were first conceived as “thinking machines,” but in the twenty-first century they have become social machines, online places where people meet friends, play games, and collaborate on projects. In this book, Judith Donath argues persuasively that for social media to become truly sociable media, …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262323482
- Collation
- 1 online resource (xiv, 418 pages) :color illustrations
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Media technologies :essays on communication, materiality, and society
Scholars from communication and media studies join those from science and technology studies to examine media technologies as complex, sociomaterial phenomena. In recent years, scholarship around media technologies has finally shed the assumption that these technologies are separate from and powerfully determining of social life, looking at them instead as produced by and embedded in distinc…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262319461
- Collation
- 1 online resource (xii, 325 pages) :illustrations (some color).
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Homebrew Gaming and the Beginnings of Vernacular Digitality
"A history of "homebrew" gaming, focusing explicitly on the Australian and New Zealand contexts"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 0262365618
- Collation
- 1 online resource.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with N…
An examination of young people's everyday new media practices—including video-game playing, text-messaging, digital media production, and social media use. Conventional wisdom about young people's use of digital technology often equates generational identity with technology identity: today's teens seem constantly plugged in to video games, social networking sites, and text messaging. Yet t…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262258920
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
New Digital Media and Learning as an Emerging Area and "Worked Examples" as O…
A proposal to move the academic area of digital media and learning toward more coherence. In this report, noted scholar James Paul Gee discusses the evolution of digital media and learning (DMAL) from its infancy as an “academic area” into a more organized field or coherent discipline. Distinguishing among academic areas, fields, disciplinary specializations, and thematic disciplines, Ge…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262288255
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Quest to Learn: Developing the School for Digital Kids
The design for Quest to Learn, an innovative school in New York City that offers a “game-like” approach to learning. Quest to Learn, an innovative school for grades 6 to 12 in New York City, grew out of the idea that gaming and game design offer a promising new paradigm for curriculum and learning. The designers of Quest to Learn developed an approach to learning that draws from what gam…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262294164
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography