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Waste :a new media primer
Translation of the author's Abfall : das alternative ABC der neuen Medien; first published: Berlin : Matthes & Seitz, 2017.Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 12, 2018)."Series of essay chapters (a number of which first saw publication in German in mainstream newspapers and magazines) addresses how Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and other forms …
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Slab City :dispatches from the last free place
An architect and a photographer explore a community of squatters, artists, snowbirds, migrants, and survivalists inhabiting a former military base in the California desert. Under the unforgiving sun of southern California's Colorado Desert lies Slab City, a community of squatters, artists, snowbirds, migrants, survivalists, and homeless people. Called by some "the last free place" and by others…
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- 9780262347853
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- 1 online resource (192 pages).
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Data feminism
A new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of intersectional feminism. Today, data science is a form of power. It has been used to expose injustice, improve health outcomes, and topple governments. But it has also been used to discriminate, police, and surveil. This potential for good, on the one hand, and harm, on the other, makes it essential to ask…
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- 9780262358521
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- 1 online resource (328 pages).
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Trump and the media
The election of Donald Trump and the great disruption in the news and social media.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (x, 257 pages)
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Spontaneous venturing :an entrepreneurial approach to alleviating suffering i…
Identifying a new approach to disaster response: spontaneous, compassionate, and impromptu actions to alleviate suffering. In Spontaneous Venturing , Dean Shepherd and Trenton Williams identify and describe a new approach for responding to disaster and suffering: the local organizing of spontaneous, compassionate, and impromptu actions -- the rapid emergence of a compassionate venture. This app…
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- 1 online resource (248 pages).
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Collaborative society
How networked technology enables the emergence of a new collaborative society. Humans are hard-wired for collaboration, and new technologies of communication act as a super-amplifier of our natural collaborative mindset. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series examines the emergence of a new kind of social collaboration enabled by networked technologies. This new collaborative s…
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- 1 online resource (256 pages).
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Coping with illness digitally
An examination of ""digital coping"" involving the use of communication technologies, particularly social media, in responding to illness.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262347648
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The social fact :news and knowledge in a networked world
How the structure of news, information, and knowledge is evolving and how news media can foster social connection. While the public believes that journalism remains crucial for democracy, there is a general sense that the news media are performing this role poorly. In The Social Fact, John Wihbey makes the case that journalism can better serve democracy by focusing on ways of fostering social c…
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Digital countercultures and the struggle for community
Whether by accidental keystroke or deliberate tinkering, technology is often used in ways that are unintended and unimagined by its designers and inventors. Jessa Lingel offers an account of digital technology use that looks beyond Silicon Valley and college dropouts-turned-entrepreneurs. Instead, Lingel tells stories from the margins of countercultural communities that have made the Internet m…
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- 9780262340151
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- 1 online resource (viii, 178 pages) :illustrations.
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Digital economies at global margins
Investigations of what increasing digital connectivity and the digitalization of the economy mean for people and places at the world's economic margins. Between 2012 and 2017, more than one billion people became new Internet users. Once, digital connectivity was confined to economically prosperous parts of the world; now Internet users make up a majority of the world's population. In this book,…
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