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Bioethics in the age of new media / Computation, Aesthetics, and Space
Joanna Zylinska examines the ethical challenges presented by technology to the allegedly sacrosant idea of the human & makes a proposal for a new ethics of life rooted in the philosophy of
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- 1 online resource (xv, 230 pages)
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A widening sphere: evolving cultures at MIT
How MIT's first nine presidents helped transform the Institute from a small technical school into a major research university.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295406
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- 1 online resource (xi, 508 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations
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Touch
A Bradford book."An essay on the importance of touch to children's growth and development and to the physical and mental well-being of people of all ages.The first sensory input in life comes from the sense of touch while a baby is still in the womb, and touch continues to be the primary means of learning about the world throughout infancy, well into childhood. Touch is critical for children's …
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- 9780262272599
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- 1 online resource (x, 181 pages) :illustrations.
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Inter/vention: Free Play in the Age of Electracy
Chiefly concerned with MMRPGs (Massively Multiplayer Role-Playing Games) and the communities that they give rise to.In today's complex digital world, we must understand new media expressions and digital experiences not simply as more technologically advanced forms of "writing" that can be understood and analyzed as "texts" but as artifacts in their own right that require a unique skill set. Jus…
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- 9780262301657
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 204 pages) :illustrations
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Ecstatic worlds :media, utopias, ecologies
When media translate the world to the world: twentieth-century utopian projects including Edward Steichen's ""Family of Man, "" Jacques Cousteau's underwater films, and Buckminster Fuller's geoscope.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262341141
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- 1 online resource (x, 355 pages) :illustrations.
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The more we know :NBC news, educational innovation, and learning from failure
"In 2006, young people were flocking to MySpace, discovering the joys of watching videos of cute animals on YouTube, and playing online games. Not many of them were watching network news on television; they got most of their information online. So when NBC and MIT launched iCue, an interactive learning venture that combined social networking, online video, and gaming in one multimedia education…
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- 9780262305624
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 205 pages) :illustrations
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Mens et mania :the MIT nobody knows
A memoir of MIT life, from being Noam Chomsky's boss to negotiating with student protesters.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262300063
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 223 pages)
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New media, 1740-1915
"Reminding us that all media were once new, this book challenges the notion that to study new media is to study exclusively today's new media. Examining a variety of media in their historic contexts, it explores those moments of transition when new media were not yet fully defined and their significance was still in flux. Examples range from familiar devices such as the telephone and phonograph…
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- 9780262273909
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- 1 online resource (xxxiii, 271 pages) :illustrations.
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Schools and screens :a watchful history
"Cain chronicles twentieth-century schools' experiments with screen media and investigates the contests over citizenship and civic education that emerged in reaction"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262366267
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Underground :the secret life of videocassettes in Iran
"First book length study of home video in Iran during the 1980s and 1990s, and the informal distribution infrastructure that developed in reaction to the ban on all video technology"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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