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Looking at how maturing digital media and network technologies are transforming place, culture, politics and infrastructure in our everyday life this book provides a synoptic overview as well as illustrative case studies.;"Digital media and network technologies are now part of everyday life. The Internet has become the backbone of communication, commerce, and media; the ubiquitous mobile phone …
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Adaptive Governance: The Dynamics of Atlantic Fisheries Management
This title develops and applies an innovative theoretical framework that links domestic economic vulnerabilities to national policy positions and international management in the context of Atlantic fisheries.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262285872
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 391 pages) :illustrations, map.
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At Your Service: Service-Oriented Computing from an EU Perspective
Presents results of collaborative research projects of the European Community's Information Society Technologies Programme about service-oriented computing.Service-Oriented Applications and Architectures (SOAs) have captured the interest of industry as a way to support business-to-business interaction, and the SOA market grew by $4.9 billion in 2005. SOAs and in particular service-oriented comp…
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- 1 online resource (xii, 564 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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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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Communications Under the Seas: The Evolving Cable Network and Its Implications
This title looks at the technology of undersea communications from stranded-wire telegraph cables in the 1850s to fibre-optic cables at the end of the 20th century, and its social political, economic impact.
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Texture: Human expression in the age of communications overload
"Our workdays are so filled with emails, instant messaging, and RSS feeds that we complain that there's not enough time to get our actual work done. At home, we are besieged by telephone calls on landlines and cell phones, the beeps that signal text messages, and work emails on our BlackBerrys. It's too much, we cry (or type) as we update our Facebook pages, compose a blog post, or check to see…
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- 1 online resource (ix, 303 pages)
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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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Distributed Work
Multidisciplinary research on dynamics, problems, and potential of distributed work.
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The Politics of Invisibility: Public Knowledge about Radiation Health Effects…
Before Fukushima, the most notorious large-scale nuclear accident the world had seen was Chernobyl in 1986. The fallout from Chernobyl covered vast areas in the Northern Hemisphere, especially in Europe. Belarus, at the time a Soviet republic, suffered heavily: nearly a quarter of its territory was covered with long-lasting radionuclides. Yet the damage from the massive fallout was largely impe…
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