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Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics
"How has the Internet, a medium that thrives on control, been accepted as a medium of freedom? Why is freedom increasingly indistinguishable from paranoid control? In Control and Freedom, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun explores the current political and technological coupling of freedom with control by tracing the emergence of the Internet as a mass medium. The parallel (and paranoid) myths of the Intern…
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Aligning modern business processes and legacy systems :a component-based pers…
Distributed business component computing--the assembling of business components into electronic business processes, which interact via the Internet--caters to a new breed of enterprise systems that are flexible, relatively easy to maintain and upgrade to accommodate new business processes, and relatively simple to integrate with other enterprise systems. Companies with unwieldy, large, and hete…
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 206 pages) :illustrations.
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Alternative pathways in science and industry :activism, innovation, and the e…
In Alternative Pathways in Science and Industry, David Hess examines how social movements and other forms of activism affect innovation in science, technology, and industry. Synthesizing and extending work in social studies of science and technology, social movements, and globalization, Hess explores the interaction of grassroots environmental action and mainstream industry and offers a concept…
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- 9780262275323
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- 1 online resource (ix, 334 pages).
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American hegemony and the postwar reconstruction of science in Europe
How the United States used its position as the world's leading scientific and technological power to rebuild European scientific practices and institutions and align them with American interests during the first two decades of the Cold War.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (viii, 376 pages).
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Democracy and new media
Digital technology is changing our politics. The World Wide Web is already a powerful influence on the public's access to government documents, the tactics and content of political campaigns, the behavior of voters, the efforts of activists to circulate their messages, and the ways in which topics enter the public discourse. The essays collected here capture the richness of current discourse ab…
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- 1 online resource (x, 385 pages).
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The Good Drone: how social movements democratize surveillance
"'This is a short, engagingly written academic trade-style book looking at aerial technologies-with particular emphasis on drones, followed by satellites, and some bits about balloons and kites-and how those technologies are/have been used for the public good, particularly by the activist and social movement crowd. The author argues that social movements regularly use technology to challenge po…
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- 026235845X
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- 1 online resource (xv, 308 pages) :illustrations (black and white).
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Participatory IT design :designing for business and workplace realities
Title from title screen.Title from book cover on Web Page (viewed Sept. 8, 2005)."The goal of participatory IT design is to set sensible, general, and workable guidelines for the introduction of new information technology systems into an organization. Reflecting the latest systems-development research, this book encourages a business-oriented and socially sensitive approach that takes into cons…
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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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Trading Zones and Interactional Expertise: Creating New Kinds of Collaboration
Cross-disciplinary collaboration increasingly characterizes today's science and engineering research. The problems and opportunities facing society do not come neatly sorted by discipline. Difficulties arise when researchers from disciplines as different as engineering and the humanities work together and find that they speak largely different languages. This book explores a new framework for f…
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- 1 online resource (viii, 302 pages) :illustrations.
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Technologies of choice? :ICTs, development, and the capabilities approach
Information and communication technologies (ICTs)--especially the Internet and the mobile phone--have changed the lives of people all over the world. These changes affect not just the affluent populations of income-rich countries but also disadvantaged people in both global North and South, who may use free Internet access in telecenters and public libraries, chat in cybercafes with distant fam…
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