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Development of linguistic linked open data resources for collaborative data-i…
Making diverse data in linguistics and the language sciences open, distributed, and accessible: perspectives from language/language acquistiion researchers and technical LOD (linked open data) researchers. This volume examines the challenges inherent in making diverse data in linguistics and the language sciences open, distributed, integrated, and accessible, thus fostering wide data sharing an…
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Email and the everyday :stories of disclosure, trust, and digital labor
"Email and the Everyday : Stories of Disclosure, Trust, and Digital Labor focuses on email in its own right as a standalone media form in order to examine its technical and material infrastructure, its iconography and GUI, its affordances, and its languages"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Traversing digital Babel :information, e-government, and exchange
Alon Peled offers a groundbreaking approach for enabling information sharing among public sector agencies: using selective incentives to 'nudge' agencies to exchange information assets.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262319861
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Birdsong, speech, and language :exploring the evolution of mind and brain
Scholars have long been captivated by the parallels between birdsong and human speech and language. In this book, leading scholars draw on the latest research to explore what birdsong can tell us about the biology of human speech and language and the consequences for evolutionary biology. They examine the cognitive and neural similarities between birdsong learning and speech and language acquis…
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- 0262313820
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The civic potential of video games
This report focuses on the civic aspects of video game play among youth. According to a 2006 survey, 58 percent of young people aged 15 to 25 were civically "disengaged," meaning that they participated in fewer than two types of either electoral activities (defined as voting, campaigning, etc.) or civic activities (for example, volunteering). Kahne and his coauthors are interested in what role …
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- 9780262258975
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 94 pages) :illustrations.
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The cosmetic gaze :body modification and the construction of beauty
If the gaze can be understood to mark the disjuncture between how we see ourselves and how we want to be seen by others, the cosmetic gaze--in Bernadette Wegenstein's groundbreaking formulation--is one through which the act of looking at our bodies and those of others is already informed by the techniques, expectations, and strategies (often surgical) of bodily modification. It is, Wegenstein s…
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- 9780262301114
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- 1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) :illustrations
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Evolution of communicative flexibility :complexity, creativity, and adaptabil…
Experts investigate communicative flexibility (in both form and usage of signals) as the foundation of the evolution of complex communication systems, including human language.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262281027
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- 1 online resource (x, 356 pages) :illustrations.
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Systematics as cyberscience :computers, change, and continuity in science
For all the use scientists make of computers in their work, we still know little about how computing affects their working methods and the knowledge they produce. Christine Hine explores these questions by examining the developing use of information technology in one discipline, systematics (the classification of organisims).OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262275408
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- 1 online resource (x, 307 pages) :illustrations.
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Psychological agency :theory, practice, and culture
A multidisciplinary exploration of agency as a central psychological phenomenon based on the affective, embodied, and relational processing of human experience. Agency is a central psychological phenomenon that must be accounted for in any explanatory framework for human action. According to the diverse group of scholars, researchers, and clinicians who have contributed chapters to this book, p…
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- 9780262273220
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The art of agent-oriented modeling
A new approach for conceptualizing and modeling multi-agent systems that consist of people, devices, and software agents.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262259217
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- 1 online resource (xix, 367 pages) :illustrations.
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