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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, …
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- 9780262323482
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 418 pages) :color illustrations
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Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana
This title provides an account of how young people in Ghana's capital city adopt and adapt digital technology in the margins of the global economy. The book captures the flexibility of technology by users in the margins but also highlights how their invisibility puts limits on their full inclusion into a global network society.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262301459
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- 1 online resource (xi, 236 pages) :illustrations.
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Protecting Children Online?: Cyberbullying Policies of Social Media Companies…
This book investigates regulatory and social pressures that social media companies face in the aftermath of high profile cyberbullying incidents. The author's research evaluates the policies companies develop to protect themselves and users. This includes interviews with NGO and social media company reps in the US and the EU. She triangulates these findings against news, policy reports, evaluat…
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- 9780262344098
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- 1 online resource (xv, 280 pages).
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Technically Together: Reconstructing Community in a Networked World
Why we should not accept ""networked individualism"" as the inevitable future of community.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262340861
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To know is to compare :studying social media across nations, media, and platf…
"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…
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Online afterlives :immortality, memory, and grief in digital culture
"Original Italian edition: ?2018 Bollati Boringhiere editore, Torino"--Title page verso."An extended essay exploring how modern digital culture-especially social media-has changed our understanding and experience of death, memory and grieving"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262360470
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Keep calm and log on :your handbook for surviving the digital revolution
"This book offers sensible advice for ordinary people about how to sustain a safe and satifsfying online life. This takes some know-how, given the risks we face each day. This book offers that knowledge and empowers us to shop, share, and connect with one another digitally while protecting ourselves from identity theft, Internet addiction, fake news, and data breaches. This is a chatty, convers…
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- 0262358298
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Waste :a new media primer
Translation of the author's Abfall : das alternative ABC der neuen Medien; first published: Berlin : Matthes & Seitz, 2017.Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 12, 2018)."Series of essay chapters (a number of which first saw publication in German in mainstream newspapers and magazines) addresses how Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and other forms …
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Collaborative society
How networked technology enables the emergence of a new collaborative society. Humans are hard-wired for collaboration, and new technologies of communication act as a super-amplifier of our natural collaborative mindset. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series examines the emergence of a new kind of social collaboration enabled by networked technologies. This new collaborative s…
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- 9780262356442
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- 1 online resource (256 pages).
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Coping with illness digitally
An examination of ""digital coping"" involving the use of communication technologies, particularly social media, in responding to illness.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262347648
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- 1 online resource (230 pages)
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