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The global internet economy
By 2002, all but a handful of countries were connected to the Internet. The intertwining of the Internet and the globalization of finance, corporate governance, and trade raises questions about national models of technology development and property rights. The sudden ability of hundreds of millions of users to gain access to a global communication infrastructure spurred the creation of new firm…
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- 9780262277365
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 520 pages) : illustrations
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Working-Class Network Society: Communication Technology and the Information H…
This is an examination of how the availability of low-end information and communication technology has provided a basis for the emergence of a working-class network society in China.
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- 9780262255073
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The Paradox of Scientific Authority: The Role of Scientific Advice in Democra…
The authors assess the influence of scientific advice in societies that increasingly question scientific authority & expertise. This paradox is explored through an ethnographic study of the scientific advisory committee, one of the key sites for the interaction of science, policy & society.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262258609
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- 1 online resource (viii, 223 pages).
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Revolutionizing innovation :users, communities, and open innovation
The last two decades have witnessed an extraordinary growth of new models of managing and organizing the innovation process that emphasizes users over producers. Large parts of the knowledge economy now routinely rely on users, communities, and open innovation approaches to solve important technological and organizational problems. This view of innovation, pioneered by the economist Eric von Hi…
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- 9780262331524
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- 1 online resource (xv, 577 pages) :illustrations
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The techno-human condition
A provocative analysis of what it means to be human in an era of incomprehensible technological complexity and change.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295666
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- 1 online resource (xi, 222 pages) :illustrations
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Technoscience and environmental justice: Expert cultures in a grassroots move…
This book argues that the environmental justice movement has also begun to transform science and engineering. The chapters present case studies of technical experts' encounters with environmental justice and activists and issues.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298407
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- 1 online resource (viii, 298 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Lonely Ideas: Can Russia Compete?
When have you gone into an electronics store, picked up a desirable gadget, and found that it was labeled "Made in Russia"? Probably never. Russia, despite its epic intellectual achievements in music, literature, art, and pure science, is a negligible presence in world technology. Despite its current leaders' ambitions to create a knowledge economy, Russia is economically dependent on gas and o…
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- 9781461942979
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Beyond Imported Magic: Essays on Science, Technology, and Society in Latin Am…
The essays in this volume study the creation, adaptation, and use of science and technology in Latin America. They challenge the view that scientific ideas and technology travel unchanged from the global North to the global South - the view of technology as 'imported magic'. They describe not only alternate pathways for innovation, invention, and discovery but also how ideas and technologies ci…
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- 9780262325509
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Screen Ecologies: Art, Media, and the Environment in the Asia-Pacific Region
Images of environmental disaster and degradation have become part of our everyday media diet. This visual culture focusing on environmental deterioration represents a wider recognition of the political, economic, and cultural forces that are responsible for our ongoing environmental crisis. And yet efforts to raise awareness about environmental issues through digital and visual media are riddle…
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- 9780262334013
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- 1 online resource (vii, 210 pages) :illustrations.
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Biopolitical Screens: Image, Power, and the Neoliberal Brain
"In Biopolitical Screens, Pasi V?aliaho charts and conceptualizes the imagery that composes our affective and conceptual reality under twenty-first-century capitalism. V?aliaho investigates the role screen media play in the networks that today harness human minds and bodies--the ways that images animated on console game platforms, virtual reality technologies, and computer screens capture human…
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