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Reinventing the automobile :personal urban mobility for the 21st century
This book provides a long-overdue vision for a new automobile era. The cars we drive today follow the same underlying design principles as the Model Ts of a hundred years ago. In the twenty-first century, cars are still made for twentieth-century purposes. They're well suited for conveying multiple passengers over long distances at high speeds, but inefficient for providing personal mobility wi…
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- 0262288559
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- 1 online resource (x, 227 pages) :color illustrations, color maps
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Your everyday art world
Over the past 20 years, the network has come to dominate the art world, affecting not just interaction among art professionals but the very makeup of the art object itself. The hierarchical and restrictive structure of the museum has been replaced by temporary projects scattered across the globe, staffed by free agents hired on short-term contracts, viewed by spectators defined by their predisp…
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- 9781461941682
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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 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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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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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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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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Progressive enlightenment :the origins of the gaslight industry, 1780-1820
An argument that the gas industry was the first integrated large-scale technological network and that it signaled a new wave of industrial innovation.In Progressive Enlightenment, Leslie Tomory examines the origins of the gaslight industry, from invention to consolidation as a large integrated urban network. Tomory argues that gas was the first integrated large-scale technological network, a de…
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- 9780262301244
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- 1 online resource (x, 348 pages).
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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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Imagery in the 21st century
This volume offers systematic and interdisciplinary reflections on the new imagery world opened by the Internet and the digital world. It offers analytical approaches to the visual.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9781461944409
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- 1 online resource (vi, 410 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color)
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