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Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana
This title provides an account of how young people in Ghana's capital city adopt and adapt digital technology in the margins of the global economy. The book captures the flexibility of technology by users in the margins but also highlights how their invisibility puts limits on their full inclusion into a global network society.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262301459
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- 1 online resource (xi, 236 pages) :illustrations.
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Protecting Children Online?: Cyberbullying Policies of Social Media Companies…
This book investigates regulatory and social pressures that social media companies face in the aftermath of high profile cyberbullying incidents. The author's research evaluates the policies companies develop to protect themselves and users. This includes interviews with NGO and social media company reps in the US and the EU. She triangulates these findings against news, policy reports, evaluat…
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- 9780262344098
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- 1 online resource (xv, 280 pages).
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Technically Together: Reconstructing Community in a Networked World
Why we should not accept ""networked individualism"" as the inevitable future of community.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262340861
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Newsgames: Journalism at Play
Journalism has embraced digital media in its struggle to survive. But most online journalism just translates existing practices to the Web: stories are written and edited as they are for print; video and audio features are produced as they would be for television and radio. The authors of Newsgames propose a new way of doing good journalism: videogames. Videogames are native to computers rather…
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Artificial communication :how algorithms produce social intelligence
"Argues that what makes AI socially relevant and useful is not intelligence at all but something even more human: communication. If machines are going to improve their ability to address ever more important human issues, it will not be because they have learned to think like people, but because we have learned to communicate with them"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262368865
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Algorithms of resistance :the everyday fight against platform power
"Bonini and Trere explore how people all around the world use different tactics to interfere with the algorithms behind the platforms they use to work, entertain, and inform themselves"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262377485
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To know is to compare :studying social media across nations, media, and platf…
"The authors argue that scholarship on social media has been limited by an over-reliance on single country studies that focus on one platform at a time, without considering the ties between platforms and other media. To overcome these limitations, the authors propose that social media are better understood by comparing processes of development and use across nations, media, and platforms"--OCLC…
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- 9780262374972
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The politics of dating apps :gender, sexuality, and emergent publics in urban…
"How dating apps are empowering women and sexual minorities in China, even as they reveal and reproduce systematic sexism and heteronormativity"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262363389
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Online afterlives :immortality, memory, and grief in digital culture
"Original Italian edition: ?2018 Bollati Boringhiere editore, Torino"--Title page verso."An extended essay exploring how modern digital culture-especially social media-has changed our understanding and experience of death, memory and grieving"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262360470
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- 1 online resource.
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Keep calm and log on :your handbook for surviving the digital revolution
"This book offers sensible advice for ordinary people about how to sustain a safe and satifsfying online life. This takes some know-how, given the risks we face each day. This book offers that knowledge and empowers us to shop, share, and connect with one another digitally while protecting ourselves from identity theft, Internet addiction, fake news, and data breaches. This is a chatty, convers…
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- 0262358298
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