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Spotify teardown :inside the black box of streaming music
An innovative investigation of the inner workings of Spotify that traces the transformation of audio files into streamed experience. Spotify provides a streaming service that has been welcomed as disrupting the world of music. Yet such disruption always comes at a price. Spotify Teardown contests the tired claim that digital culture thrives on disruption. Borrowing the notion of "teardown" from…
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- 9780262349680
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- 1 online resource (ix, 276 pages) :illustrations
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A natural history of natural theology :the cognitive science of theology and …
"Questions about the existence and attributes of God form the subject matter of natural theology, which seeks to gain knowledge of the divine by relying on reason and experience of the world. Arguments in natural theology rely largely on intuitions and inferences that seem natural to us, occurring spontaneously--at the sight of a beautiful landscape, perhaps, or in wonderment at the complexity …
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- 0262326833
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 246 pages)
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Why architects still draw :two lectures on architectural drawing
"Why would an architect reach for a pencil when drawing software and AutoCAD are a click away? Use a ruler when 3D scanners and GPS devices are close at hand? In Why Architects Still Draw, Paolo Belardi offers an elegant and ardent defense of drawing by hand as a way of thinking. Belardi is no Luddite; he doesn't urge architects to give up digital devices for watercolors and a measuring tape. R…
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- 9780262321426
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- 1 online resource (133 pages)
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The globalization of clean energy technology :lessons from China
The development and deployment of cleaner energy technologies have become globalized phenomena. Yet despite the fact that energy-related goods account for more than ten percent of international trade, policy makers, academics, and the business community perceive barriers to the global diffusion of these emerging technologies. Experts point to problems including intellectual property concerns, t…
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- 0262322099
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- 1 online resource (xi, 261 pages) :illustrations.
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Stealth assessment :measuring and supporting learning in video games
An approach to performance-based assessments that embeds assessments in digital games in order to measure how students are progressing toward targeted goals.To succeed in today's interconnected and complex world, workers need to be able to think systemically, creatively, and critically. Equipping K-16 students with these twenty-first-century competencies requires new thinking not only about wha…
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- 0262315211
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- 1 online resource (vi, 244 pages) :illustrations.
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Enjoying machines
The dominant feature of modern technology is not how productive it makes us, or how it has revolutionized the workplace, but how enjoyable it is. We take pleasure in our devices, from smartphones to personal computers to televisions. Whole classes of leisure activities rely on technology. How has technology become such an integral part of enjoyment? In this book, Barry Brown and Oskar Juhlin ex…
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- 9780262326896
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- 1 online resource (viii, 219 pages)illustrations.
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"Raw data" is an oxymoron
We live in the era of Big Data, with storage and transmission capacity measured not just in terabytes but in petabytes (where peta- denotes a quadrillion, or a thousand trillion). Data collection is constant and even insidious, with every click and every "like" stored somewhere for something. This book reminds us that data is anything but "raw," that we shouldn't think of data as a natural reso…
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- 0262312328
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- 1 online resource (vi, 182 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color).
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Monitoring movements in development aid :recursive partnerships and infrastru…
An examination of emerging information infrastructures that are intended to increase accountability and effectiveness in partnerships for development aid.In Monitoring Movements in Development Aid, Casper Jensen and Brit Winthereik consider the processes, social practices, and infrastructures that are emerging to monitor development aid, discussing both empirical phenomena and their methodologi…
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- 9781461942962
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- 1 online resource (xix, 192 pages) :illustrations.
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The outsourcer :the story of India's IT revolution
Originally published as: The long revolution.A history of how India became a major player in the global technology industry, mapping technological, economic, and political transformations.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 274 pages) :illustrations.
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Eat, cook, grow :mixing human-computer interactions with human-food interacti…
"Our contemporary concerns about food range from food security to agricultural sustainability to getting dinner on the table for family and friends. This book investigates food issues as they intersect with participatory Internet culture--blogs, wikis, online photo- and video-sharing platforms, and social networks--in efforts to bring about a healthy, socially inclusive, and sustainable food fu…
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- 9780262026857
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- 1 online resource (x, 303 pages) :illustrations
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