Becoming-Social in a Networked Age

This book examines the semiotic effects of protocols and algorithms at work in popular social media systems, bridging philosophical conversations in human-computer interaction (HCI) and information systems (IS) design with contemporary work in critical media, technology and software studies. Where most research into social media is sociological in scope, Neal Thomas shows how the underlying mat…

Intelligent Computing for Cultural Heritage: Global Achievements and China's …

This book offers a global perspective on the latest advancements and trends in digital humanities and intelligent computing of cultural heritage, covering both academic research and case studies within cultural institutions. This edited volume brings together views and practices from different regions, including Asia, Europe, Africa, North America, and Australia. It offers innovative approache…

Facebook Democracy : The Architecture of Disclosure and the Threat to Public …

Drawing on a number of disciplines and an ethnographic analysis of 250 Facebook political groups, Marichal explores how Facebook's emphasis on social connection impacts key dimensions of political participation: e.g. mobilization, deliberation, and attitude formation.

Digital Synergy

In an era where technological progress redefines the boundaries of business and management, ‘Digital Synergy - Innovative Management in the ICT Era’ emerges as a guide for current and aspiring leaders. This book delves into the heart of modern management practices, illuminated by the transformative power of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and digital synergy. Facing the rel…

State-sponsored disinformation around the globe: how politicians deceive thei…

Introduction : deceiving from the top : state-sponsored disinformation as a contemporary global phenomenon / Martin Echeverría and Sara García Santamaría -- Theoretical understanding of state-sponsored disinformation / Petros Iosifidis -- Rethinking disinformation for the global South : towards a particular research agenda / Grisel Salazar Rebolledo -- Statistics and state-sponsored disin…

Counterspeech: multidisciplinary perspectives on countering dangerous speech

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Entity Alignment

This open access book systematically investigates the topic of entity alignment, which aims to detect equivalent entities that are located in different knowledge graphs. Entity alignment represents an essential step in enhancing the quality of knowledge graphs, and hence is of significance to downstream applications, e.g., question answering and recommender systems. Recent years have witnessed …

Technologies of vision :the war between data and images

An investigation of the computational turn in visual culture, centered on the entangled politics and pleasures of data and images.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Updating to remain the same :habitual new media

What it means when media moves from the new to the habitual -- when our bodies become archives of supposedly obsolescent media, streaming, updating, sharing, saving.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Self-tracking

People keep track. In the eighteenth century, Benjamin Franklin kept charts of time spent and virtues lived up to. Today, people use technology to self-track: hours slept, steps taken, calories consumed, medications administered. Ninety million wearable sensors were shipped in 2014 to help us gather data about our lives. This book examines how people record, analyze, and reflect on this data, l…