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Artifacts :an archaeologist's year in Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley, a small place with few identifiable geologic or geographic features, has achieved a mythical reputation in a very short time. The modern material culture of the Valley may be driven by technology, but it also encompasses architecture, transportation, food, clothing, entertainment, intercultural exchanges, and rituals.Combining a reporter's instinct for a good interview with trad…
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- 1 online resource (xlix, 246 pages) :illustrations, map
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The Terror of Evidence
Meditations, maxims, aphorisms, notes, and comments address topics that range from pathos and genius to careerism and club sandwiches.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262339896
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 157 pages).
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Subversion, conversion, development : cross-cultural knowledge exchange and t…
This volume explores alternative cultural encounters with and around information technologies, encounters that counter dominant, Western-oriented notions of media consumption. The contributors include media practices as forms of cultural resistance and subversion, 'DIY cultures', and other non-mainstream models of technology production and consumption. The contributors - leading thinkers in sci…
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The digital dialectic: new essays on new media
The Digital Diolectic is an interdisciplinary jam session about our visual and intellectual cultures as the computer recodes technologies, media, and art forms. Unlike purely academic texts on new media, the book includes contributions by scholars, artists, and entrepreneurs, who combine theoretical investigations with hands-on analysis of the possibilities (and limitations) of new technology. …
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 298 pages) :illustrations.
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Digital Nation: Toward an Inclusive Information Society
The long-term social benefits of building an inclusive information society: a national action plan.As our social institutions migrate into cyberspace, the digitally disenfranchised face increasing hardships. What happens when--in search of quick and cheap fixes--a government office shuts down and is replaced by a public Web site? What happens when a company accepts only online job applications?…
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A social history of engineering (Second Edition)
How social and economic conditions have precipitated advances in engineering. A Social History of Engineering shows how social and economic conditions in each age have precipitated advances in engineering. There are, in short, economic, political, and philosophical implications in changing technologies. While the book begins with the Stone Age, the Greeks, and the Romans, the bulk of the vol…
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- 9780262310932
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- 1 online resource (410 pages).
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Energy and civilization a history
Extensively updated and expanded edition of the author's Energy in world history (Boulder : Westview Press, 1994).Energy is the only universal currency; it is necessary for getting anything done. The conversion of energy on Earth ranges from terra-forming forces of plate tectonics to cumulative erosive effects of raindrops. Life on Earth depends on the photosynthetic conversion of solar energy …
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- 1 online resource (vii, 552 pages) :illustrations
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The imaginary app
The mobile app as technique and imaginary tool, offering a shortcut to instantaneous connection and entertainment.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262320795
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- 1 online resource (xxxvi, 279 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color).
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Phantasmal Media: An Approach to Imagination, Computation, and Expression
"In Phantasmal Media, D. Fox Harrell considers the expressive power of computational media. He argues, forcefully and persuasively, that the great expressive potential of computational media comes from the ability to construct and reveal phantasms -- blends of cultural ideas and sensory imagination. These ubiquitous and often-unseen phantasms -- cognitive phenomena that include sense of self, m…
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- 1 online resource (xix, 420 pages) :illustrations
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An aesthesia of networks :conjunctive experience in art and technology
"Today almost every aspect of life for which data exists can be rendered as a network. Financial data, social networks, biological ecologies: all are visualized in links and nodes, lines connecting dots. A network visualization of a corporate infrastructure could look remarkably similar to that of a terrorist organization. In An Aesthesia of Networks, Anna Munster argues that this uniformity ha…
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