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Digital Youth with Disabilities
An examination of media and technology use by school-aged youth with disabilities, with an emphasis on media use at home. Most research on media use by young people with disabilities focuses on the therapeutic and rehabilitative uses of technology; less attention has been paid to their day-to-day encounters with media and technology—the mundane, sometimes pleasurable and sometimes frustrating…
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- 9780262527156
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Reconstructions of Gender and Information Technology
This open access book explores what makes women decide to pursue a career in male-dominated fields such as information technology (IT). It reveals how women experience gendered stereotypes but also how they bypass, negotiate, and challenge such stereotypes, reconstructing gender-technology relations in the process. Using the example of Norway to illuminate this challenge in Western countries, t…
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- 978-981-99-5186-4
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- XV, 133
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Alterung und Pflege als kommunale Aufgabe
Die Beiträge in diesem Open-Access-Sammelband beschreiben und analysieren aus multidisziplinärer Sicht die Herausforderungen und Bewältigungsstrategien von Alterung und Pflege in japanischen und deutschen Gemeinden. Thematisiert werden rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen, zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement, Pflegekräftemangel, Technologiekonzepte für die Pflege und schließlich auch der Einfluss …
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- 978-3-658-36844-9
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- 3 b/w illustrations, 37 illustrations in colour
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- XV, 364
Integrated Treatment Technology of Rural Domestic Sewage
This open access book provides integrated treatment technology of rural domestic sewage, and highlights ten typical cases in China. The integrated sewage treatment system (ISTE) combine sewage pretreatment, biological treatment, sedimentation, and disinfection, which particularly suitable for decentralized domestic wastewater treatment in rural areas without pipe networks. The main advantages o…
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- 978-981-99-5905-1
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- XIII, 140
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Design Things
Thomas Binder, Giorgio De Michelis, Pelle Ehn, Giulio Jacucci, Per Linde, and Ina Wagner."A new perspective on design thinking and design practice: beyond products and projects, toward participatory design things.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298254
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 239 pages) :illustrations.
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World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities
Here, experts examine ways in which the use of increasingly powerful and versatile digital information and communication technologies are transforming research activities across all disciplines.
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- 9780262272087
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Gurus and Oracles: The Marketing of Information
An examination of the information industry, from Reuters to Facebook, and the special characteristics of information and knowledge markets. We live in an “Information Age” of overabundant data and lightning-fast transmission. Yet although information and knowledge represent key factors in most economic decisions, we often forget that data, information, and knowledge are products created …
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Between Reason and Experience: Essays in Technology and Modernity
A leading philosopher of technology calls for the democratic coordination of technical rationality with everyday experience.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262265959
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- 1 online resource (xxv, 257 pages).
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Simulation and Its Discontents
How the simulation and visualization technologies so pervasive in science, engineering, and design have changed our way of seeing the world.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262254847
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 217 pages).
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Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets: The Political Econ…
Innovation in information and communication technology (ICT) fuels the growth of the global economy. This examination of ICT from a political economy perspective argues that innovation and economic growth require new approaches in global governance that will reconcile diverse interests and enable competition to flourish.
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