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The Internet and American business
When we think of the Internet, we generally think of Amazon, Google, Hotmail, Napster, MySpace, and other sites for buying products, searching for information, downloading entertainment, chatting with friends, or posting photographs. In the academic literature about the Internet, however, these uses are rarely covered. The Internet and American Businessfills this gap, picking up where most scho…
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- 9780262255677
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- 1 online resource (viii, 596 pages) :illustrations.
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Always already new :media, history and the data of culture
An analysis of the ways that new media are experienced and studied as the subjects of history, using the examples of early recorded sound and digital networks.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262273893
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 205 pages) :illustrations
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Entangled :technology and the transformation of performance
"Each chapter in Entangled focuses on a different form: theater scenography, architecture, video and image making, music and sound composition, body-based arts, mechanical and robotic art, and interactive environments constructed for research, festivals, and participatory urban spaces. Salter's exhaustive survey and analysis shows that performance traditions have much to teach other emerging pr…
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- 9780262315104
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- 1 online resource (xxxix, 460 pages) :illustrations
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Bandwagon effects in high-technology industries
Economists use the term "bandwagon effect" to describe the benefit a consumer enjoys as a result of others' using the same product or service. The history of videocassettes offers a striking example of the power of bandwagon effects. Originally there were two technical standards for videocassettes in the United States: Beta and VHS. Beta was widely regarded to have better picture quality, but V…
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- 9780262256889
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 256 pages) :illustrations
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Art and innovation :the Xerox PARC artist-in-residence program
"The idea behind Xerox's interdisciplinary Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) is simple: if you put creative people in a hothouse setting, innovation will naturally emerge. PARC Artist-in-Residence Program (PAIR) brings artists who use new media to PARC and pairs them with researchers who often use the same media, though in different contexts. This is radically different from most corporate suppo…
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- 0585331766
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 293 pages, 6 pages of plates) :illustrations (some color).
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Economics of knowledge
The economics of knowledge is a rapidly emerging subdiscipline of economics that has never before been given the comprehensive and cohesive treatment found in this book. Dominique Foray analyzes the deep conceptual and structural transformation of our economic activities that has led to a gradual shift to knowledge-intensive activities. This transformation is the result of the collision of a lo…
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- 9780262272926
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- 1 online resource (xii, 275 pages) :illustrations
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The languages of Edison's light
"Charles Bazerman tells the story of the emergence of electric light as a story of symbols and communication. He examines how Edison and his colleagues represented light and power to themselves and to others as the technology was transformed from an idea to a daily fact of life. He looks at the rhetoric used to create meaning and value for the emergent technology in the laboratory, in patent of…
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- 9780262267946
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- 1 online resource (416 pages) :illustrations.
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Knowing machines :essays on technical change
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- 9780262278812
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- 1 online resource (viii, 338 pages) :illustrations.
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MediaArtHistories
Leading scholars take a wider view of new media, placing it in the context of art history and acknowledging the necessity of an interdisciplinary approach in new media art studies and practice.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262274256
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- 1 online resource (xii, 475 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color).
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Meaning in technology
"In Meaning in Technology, Arnold Pacey explores how an individual's sense of purpose and meaning in life can affect the shape and use of technology. He argues against reductionism in interpreting technology in a human context, and for acknowledgment of the role of the human experience of purpose when it helps to express meaning in technology. In the first part of the book, Pacey analyzes the d…
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- 9780262281140
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- 1 online resource (viii, 264 pages)
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