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Playing software :homo ludens in computational culture
"This is Johan Huizinga's Homo Ludens for the 21st century. Miguel Sicart extends Huizinga's argument that play is essential to the generation of culture to the computational culture of today"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262373180
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Digital entrepreneurship in Africa :how a continent is escaping Silicon Valle…
"Digital entrepreneurship has often been viewed as a game changer for African development. Empowered by a single smartphone, the thinking goes, an individual entrepreneur can lay the groundwork for the next Amazon or Apple, and this will jumpstart economic progress on the entire continent. However, the realities of actual African digital entrepreneurship are much more modest. Yes, individual en…
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- 0262362848
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Who wins in a digital world? :strategies to make your organization fit for th…
How organizations can adapt to a constantly changing business environment by being flexible but focused, embracing change, and moving fast. In the new digital world, the unknowns are never-ending. Our ability to embrace the demands of change has become a prerequisite for success. It's not easy. We don't work the way we did last year. Next year, it will all change again. If an organization doesn…
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- 9780262352642
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- 1 online resource (200 pages).
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Dependent, distracted, bored :affective formations in networked media
"Distracted, Frustrated, Bored explores the shifting relations, rhythms, and productivity of media technologies that are not mere instruments, but fundamental methods for making sense of the world"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262363364
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How to be human in the digital economy
An argument in favor of finding a place for humans (and humanness) in the future digital economy. In the digital economy, accountants, baristas, and cashiers can be automated out of employment; so can surgeons, airline pilots, and cab drivers. Machines will be able to do these jobs more efficiently, accurately, and inexpensively. But, Nicholas Agar warns in this provocative book, these developm…
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- 9780262349154
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- 1 online resource (232 pages).
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The technology fallacy :how people are the real key to digital transformation
Why an organization's response to digital disruption should focus on people and processes and not necessarily on technology. Digital technologies are disrupting organizations of every size and shape, leaving managers scrambling to find a technology fix that will help their organizations compete. This book offers managers and business leaders a guide for surviving digital disruptions--but it is …
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- 9780262352307
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- 1 online resource (280 pages).
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Critical perspectives on open development :empirical interrogation of theory …
"Explores whether, for whom, and under what circumstances the free, networked, public sharing of ICT resources contributes to positive social change"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262363327
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Your computer is on fire
"Collection of arguments about STEM fields' blind spots in computing and a deliberately provocative underscoring of humanists' appeals for a "wake up call" in computing culture"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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New romantic cyborgs :romanticism, information technology, and the end of the…
An account of the complex relationship between technology and romanticism that links nineteenth-century monsters, automata, and mesmerism with twenty-first-century technology's magic devices and romantic cyborgs.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262343084
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- 1 online resource (320 pages)
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Monitoring movements in development aid :recursive partnerships and infrastru…
An examination of emerging information infrastructures that are intended to increase accountability and effectiveness in partnerships for development aid.In Monitoring Movements in Development Aid, Casper Jensen and Brit Winthereik consider the processes, social practices, and infrastructures that are emerging to monitor development aid, discussing both empirical phenomena and their methodologi…
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- 9781461942962
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- 1 online resource (xix, 192 pages) :illustrations.
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