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New Perspectives on Technology, Values, and Ethics
This book focuses on a key issue today: the role of values in technology, with special emphasis on ethical values. This topic involves the analysis of internal values in technology (as they affect objectives, processes, and outcomes) and the study of external values in technology (social, cultural, economic, ecological, etc.). These values — internal and external — are crucial to the decisi…
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- 1
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- 0068-0346
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- XIV, 219
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- Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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New Media, Knowledge Practices and Multiliteracies
This volume highlights key aspects of new media, knowledge practices and multiliteracies in communication and education, providing readers with a range of empirical findings, novel theories and applications. The reports also include best practices, case studies, innovative solutions and lessons learned with regard to three core fields: (1) New media: discussions on the effects of traditional an…
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- 978-981-287-208-1
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- XIII, 270
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New Media and Learning in the 21st Century
This volume brings together conceptualizations and empirical studies that explore the socio-cultural dimension of new media and its implications on learning in the 21st century classroom. The authors articulate their vision of new-media-enhanced learning at a global level. The high-level concept is then re-examined for different degrees of contextualization and localization, for example how a s…
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- 978-981-287-325-5
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- XII, 216
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- Education Innovation Series
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New Information and Communication Technologies for Knowledge Management in Or…
This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 5th Annual Global Innovation and Knowledge Academy, GIKA 2015, held in Valencia, Spain, in July 2015. The theme of the conference was “New Knowledge Impacts on Designing Implementable Innovative Realities.” The GIKA conference offers a unique opportunity for researchers, professionals, and students to present and exchange ideas concerning m…
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- 978-3-319-22203-5
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- VIII, 137
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- Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
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Effects of Herbicide-Tolerant Crop Cultivation Investigating the Durability …
Overall, this work identifies key points to be taken into account when drawing up guidelines that govern the use of herbicide-tolerant (HT) crops in order to preserve the effectiveness of this innovation over time. This multidisciplinary expert report, based on an international literature review, assesses the effects of the cultivation of crops possessing HT traits. HT crops may appear to be u…
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- 978-94-024-1007-5
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Advanced Engagement
In this course, participants will focus on creating engaging materials for their courses. Different forms of engagement will be explored and content created that is relevant to the courses that they teach.
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- 371.33 BEA a
The New World of Transitioned Media: Digital Realignment and Industry Transfo…
Similar to the first “Transitioned Media” book, Transitioned Media: A Turning Point into the Digital Realm, this book combines media industry leaders and academics to explore various transformative trends and issues. Themes include measuring cross-platform behaviour, artificial intelligence in journalism, the evolution of video games, digital media and physical space, the mobile use trends,…
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- 978-3-319-09009-2
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- XIII, 151
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- The Economics of Information, Communication, and Entertainment
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Advances in Water Distribution Networks
The Special Issue on Advances in Water Distribution Networks (WDNs) explores four important topics of research in the framework of WDNs, namely simulation and optimization modelling, topology and partitioning, water quality, and service effectiveness. With regard to the first topic, the following aspects are addressed: pressure-driven formulations, algorithms for the optimal location of control…
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- 978-3-03897-557-1
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- 628 ADV
Geomicrobiology and Biogeochemistry of Precious Metals
Precious metals continue to have economic and sociocultural importance, as their usage evolves and diversifies over time. Today, the industrial application of precious metals is increasing with the development of scientific and technological innovations. Especially, the biological cycling of these metals is receiving more and more attention, as the microbiota may be key to a range of issues reg…
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- 978-3-03897-347-8
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- 551 GEO
eGIRLS, eCITIZENS : Putting Technology, Theory and Policy into Dialogue with …
eGirls, eCitizens is a landmark work that explores the many forces that shape girls’ and young women’s experiences of privacy, identity, and equality in our digitally networked society. Drawing on the multi-disciplinary expertise of a remarkable team of leading Canadian and international scholars, as well as Canada’s foremost digital literacy organization, MediaSmarts, this collection pre…
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- 305 BAI e
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