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The Stuff of Bits: An Essay on the Materialities of Information
An argument that the material arrangements of information--how it is represented and interpreted--matter significantly for our experience of information and information systems.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262340120
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- 1 online resource (xi, 244 pages) :illustrations
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Public access ICT across cultures : diversifying participation in the network…
Shared public access to computers and the Internet in developing countries is often hailed as an effective, low-cost way to share the benefits of digital technology. Yet research on the economic and social effects of public access to computers is lacking. This volume offers the first systematic assessment of the impact of shared public access in the developing world, with findings from ten coun…
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- 9780262328548
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 476 pages)
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Worried about the wrong things youth risk and opportunity in the digital world
It's a familiar narrative in both real life and fiction, from news reports to television storylines: a young person is bullied online, or targeted by an online predator, or exposed to sexually explicit content. The consequences are bleak; the young person is shunned, suicidal, psychologically ruined. Jacqueline Ryan Vickery argues that there are other urgent concerns about young people's online…
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- 9780262339339
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 339 pages) :illustrations.
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Advancing Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy
"Inspired by a panel on the transformation of knowledge at the Transforming Enterprise conference"--Page x.The revolution in information technology transforms not only information and its uses but, more important, knowledge and the ways we generate and manage it. Knowledge is now seen as input, output, and capital, even if imperfectly accounted for or understood. Many businesses and public agen…
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- 9780262256452
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- 1 online resource (x, 503 pages) :illustrations
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Human Rights in the Age of Platforms
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- 9780262353946
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- 1 online resource (360 pages).
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An aesthesia of networks :conjunctive experience in art and technology
"Today almost every aspect of life for which data exists can be rendered as a network. Financial data, social networks, biological ecologies: all are visualized in links and nodes, lines connecting dots. A network visualization of a corporate infrastructure could look remarkably similar to that of a terrorist organization. In An Aesthesia of Networks, Anna Munster argues that this uniformity ha…
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- 9780262313506
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Digital Lifeline?: ICTs for Refugees and Displaced Persons
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the role of new information technologies, including mobile phones, wireless networks, and biometric identification, in the global refugee crisis.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262346191
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Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World
An examination of the uses of data within a changing knowledge infrastructure, offering analysis and case studies from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities."'Big Data' is on the covers of Science, Nature, the Economist, and Wired magazines, on the front pages of the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. But despite the media hyperbole, as Christine Borgman points out in this exam…
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- 9780262327862
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- 1 online resource (xxv, 383 pages)
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Gaia's web :how digital environmentalism can combat climate change, restore b…
"This book explores how tools of the Digital Age might be mobilized to solve our most pressing environmental challenges, from climate change to biodiversity loss. It argues that digital technology might accelerate environmental sustainability and that engaging with environmental issues may transform Big Tech for the better, if the sector successfully addresses spiraling energy use, pollution, p…
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- 9780262377683
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Insolvent :how to reorient computing for just sustainability
"This book proposes a framework for the design of systems that will advance social and environmental justice along with technical and economic objectives"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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