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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 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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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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- 9780262266529
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- 1 online resource (xxv, 288 pages) :illustrations.
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Cosmopolitan commons :sharing resources and risks across borders
"With the advent of modernity, the sharing of resources and infrastructures rapidly expanded beyond local communities into regional, national, and even transnational space -- nowhere as visibly as in Europe, with its small-scale political divisions. This volume views these shared resource spaces as the seedbeds of a new generation of technology-rich bureaucratic and transnational commons. Drawi…
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Wired for innovation :how information technology is reshaping the economy
Two experts on the information economy explore the true economic value of technology and innovation.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262258661
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 154 pages) :illustrations
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Living and learning with new media :summary of findings from the digital yout…
This report summarizes the results of an ambitious three-year ethnographic study, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, into how young people are living and learning with new media in varied settings--at home, in after school programs, and in online spaces. It offers a condensed version of a longer treatment provided in the book Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Ou…
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- 9780262258937
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- 1 online resource (xx, 98 pages) :illustrations.
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The civic potential of video games
This report focuses on the civic aspects of video game play among youth. According to a 2006 survey, 58 percent of young people aged 15 to 25 were civically "disengaged," meaning that they participated in fewer than two types of either electoral activities (defined as voting, campaigning, etc.) or civic activities (for example, volunteering). Kahne and his coauthors are interested in what role …
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- 9780262258975
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 94 pages) :illustrations.
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Sonic interaction design
An overview of emerging topics, theories, methods, and practices in sonic interactive design, with a focus on the multisensory aspects of sonic experience.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262313308
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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.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262288255
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- 1 online resource (vi, 81 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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- 1 online resource (xvi, 383 pages) :illustrations, maps
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