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The Stuff of Bits: An Essay on the Materialities of Information
An argument that the material arrangements of information--how it is represented and interpreted--matter significantly for our experience of information and information systems.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262340120
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- 1 online resource (xi, 244 pages) :illustrations
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Public access ICT across cultures : diversifying participation in the network…
Shared public access to computers and the Internet in developing countries is often hailed as an effective, low-cost way to share the benefits of digital technology. Yet research on the economic and social effects of public access to computers is lacking. This volume offers the first systematic assessment of the impact of shared public access in the developing world, with findings from ten coun…
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- 9780262328548
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 476 pages)
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Power lines electricity in American life and letters 1882-1952
How electricity became a metaphor for modernity in the United States, inspiring authors from Mark Twain to Ralph Ellison.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262340816
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Rational Accidents: Reckoning with Catastrophic Technologies
An unflinching look at the unique challenges posed by complex technologies we cannot afford to let fail—and why the remarkable achievements of civil aviation can help us understand those challenges. Nuclear reactors, deep-sea drilling platforms, deterrence infrastructures—these are all complex and formidable technologies with the potential to fail catastrophically. In Rational Accidents,…
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- 9780262377010
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- 629.133349
Worried about the wrong things youth risk and opportunity in the digital world
It's a familiar narrative in both real life and fiction, from news reports to television storylines: a young person is bullied online, or targeted by an online predator, or exposed to sexually explicit content. The consequences are bleak; the young person is shunned, suicidal, psychologically ruined. Jacqueline Ryan Vickery argues that there are other urgent concerns about young people's online…
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- 9780262339339
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 339 pages) :illustrations.
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The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
"Excerpts from the Preface and Chapter 8: Materials Science, wedged as it is between the two better-known fields of Chemistry and Physics, teaches us that everything in our world is due to the interactions of atoms. If you can find out how they interact to make up the physical world, then you can also change the way that atoms act to make them do new things and, as we develop new materials, we …
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- 0262358077
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Shifting practices reflections on technology practice and innovation
What happens in an established practice or work setting when a novel artifact or tool for doing work changes the familiar work routines? Any unexpected event, or change, or technological innovation creates a discontinuity; organizations and individuals must reframe taken-for-granted assumptions and practices and reposition themselves. To study innovation as a phenomenon, then, we must search fo…
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- 9780262332309
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 287 pages).
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The fabric of interface mobile media design and gender
Tracing the genealogy of our physical interaction with mobile devices back to textile and needlecraft culture.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262343305
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- 1 online resource (x, 191 pages)
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Life after New Media: Mediation as a Vital Process
A call for a "rigorous cross-disciplinary interventions and inventions that will be equally at home with critical theory and media practice and will be prepared and able to make a difference--academically, institutionally, politically, ethically, and aesthetically" (p. 201).OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262305358
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- 1 online resource (268 pages)
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Vulnerability in Technological Cultures: New Directions in Research and Gover…
Novel technologies and scientific advancements offer not only opportunities but risks. Technological systems are vulnerable to human error and technical malfunctioning that have far-reaching consequences: one flipped switch can cause a cascading power failure across a networked electric grid. Yet, once addressed, vulnerability accompanied by coping mechanisms may yield a more flexible and resil…
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- 0262323133
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- 1 online resource (xi, 382 pages).
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