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Interface Fantasy: A Lacanian Cyborg Ontology
Behind our computer screens we are all cyborgs: through fantasy we can understand our involvement in virtual worlds.Cyberspace is first and foremost a mental space. Therefore we need to take a psychological approach to understand our experiences in it. In Interface Fantasy, Andre Nusselder uses the core psychoanalytic notion of fantasy to examine our relationship to computers and digital techno…
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- 9780262259095
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- 1 online resource (xi, 169 pages).
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Human Information Retrieval
Julian Warner offers a comprehensive overview of information retrieval, synthesizing theories from different disciplines and incorporating such disparate systems as WorldCat and Google into a single, robust theoretical framework.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262259262
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- 1 online resource (viii, 189 pages) :illustrations.
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Georeferencing : the geographic associations of information
An introduction to the principles of unified georeferencing, which uses placename and geospatial referencing interchangeably across all types of information storage and retrieval systems.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 026208354X
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 260 pages) : illustrations, maps.
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- Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing
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- 005 HIL g
The global internet economy
By 2002, all but a handful of countries were connected to the Internet. The intertwining of the Internet and the globalization of finance, corporate governance, and trade raises questions about national models of technology development and property rights. The sudden ability of hundreds of millions of users to gain access to a global communication infrastructure spurred the creation of new firm…
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- 9780262277365
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 520 pages) : illustrations
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- 001 GLO
Information and Living Systems: Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives
'Information and Living Systems' offers a collection of papers in which scientists & philosophers discuss the informational nature of biological organization at levels ranging from the genetic to the cognitive and linguistic.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295246
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- 1 online resource (xliii, 414 pages) :illustrations.
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Working-Class Network Society: Communication Technology and the Information H…
This is an examination of how the availability of low-end information and communication technology has provided a basis for the emergence of a working-class network society in China.
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- 9780262255073
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Wirelessness: Radical Empiricism in Network Cultures
This title provides an account of the sensations associated with being entangled with wireless technologies that draws on the philosophical techniques of William James's radical empiricism.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262289597
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- 1 online resource (255 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Evil media
A philosophical manual of media power for the network age."Evil Media develops a philosophy of media power that extends the concept of media beyond its tried and trusted use in the games of meaning, symbolism, and truth. It addresses the gray zones in which media exist as corporate work systems, algorithms and data structures, twenty-first century self-improvement manuals, and pharmaceutical te…
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- 9780262305327
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- 1 online resource (viii, 235 pages)
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Vision: A computational investigation into the human representation and proce…
"David Marr's posthumously published Vision (1982) influenced a generation of brain and cognitive scientists, inspiring many to enter the field. In Vision, Marr describes a general framework for understanding visual perception and touches on broader questions about how the brain and its functions can be studied and understood. Researchers from a range of brain and cognitive sciences have long v…
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- 9780262289610
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 403 pages) :illustrations
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The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace
Interpreting the myths of the digital age: why we believed in the power of cyberspace to open up a new world.The digital era promises, as did many other technological developments before it, the transformation of society: with the computer, we can transcend time, space, and politics-as-usual. In The Digital Sublime, Vincent Mosco goes beyond the usual stories of technological breakthrough and e…
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