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Subversion, conversion, development : cross-cultural knowledge exchange and t…
This volume explores alternative cultural encounters with and around information technologies, encounters that counter dominant, Western-oriented notions of media consumption. The contributors include media practices as forms of cultural resistance and subversion, 'DIY cultures', and other non-mainstream models of technology production and consumption. The contributors - leading thinkers in sci…
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The digital dialectic: new essays on new media
The Digital Diolectic is an interdisciplinary jam session about our visual and intellectual cultures as the computer recodes technologies, media, and art forms. Unlike purely academic texts on new media, the book includes contributions by scholars, artists, and entrepreneurs, who combine theoretical investigations with hands-on analysis of the possibilities (and limitations) of new technology. …
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- 9780262278645
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 298 pages) :illustrations.
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Digital mantras: the languages of abstract and virtual worlds
Holtzman synthesizes ideas from music, computing, art, and philosophy with biographical and historical anecdotes and a thread of mysticism to arrive at a new philosophy of creativity for the digital age.
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- 0262291169
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- 1 online resource (x, 321 pages) :illustrations (some color)
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Digital Nation: Toward an Inclusive Information Society
The long-term social benefits of building an inclusive information society: a national action plan.As our social institutions migrate into cyberspace, the digitally disenfranchised face increasing hardships. What happens when--in search of quick and cheap fixes--a government office shuts down and is replaced by a public Web site? What happens when a company accepts only online job applications?…
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A New History of Modern Computing
"Bringing the history of modern computing fully up to date, from new applications to scientific computation to video games and the ubiquitous smartphone"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262366487
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Philosophy and AI :essays at the interface
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262315951
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What algorithms want imagination in the age of computing
The gap between theoretical ideas and messy reality, as seen in Neal Stephenson, Adam Smith, and Star Trek.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262338837
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- 1 online resource (viii, 257 pages) :illustrations.
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The imaginary app
The mobile app as technique and imaginary tool, offering a shortcut to instantaneous connection and entertainment.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262320795
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- 1 online resource (xxxvi, 279 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color).
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Portraits in silicon
Short biographies of: Charles Babbage, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, Claude Shannon, Konrad Zuse, John V. Atanasoff, John V. Mauchly, J. Presper Eckert, Howard Aiken, Jay W. Forrester, Thomas J. Watson, Sr., William Norris, H. Ross Perot, William Shockley, Robert Noyce, Jack Kilby, Marcian E. (Ted) Hoff, Gene Amdahl, Seymour Cray, Gordon Bell, Grace Murray Hopper, John Backus, John Kemeny, Tho…
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- 9780262291422
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 374 pages) :illustrations, portraits
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Regulating Code: Good Governance and Better Regulation in the Information Age
The case for a smarter “prosumer law” approach to Internet regulation that would better protect online innovation, public safety, and fundamental democratic rights. Internet use has become ubiquitous in the past two decades, but governments, legislators, and their regulatory agencies have struggled to keep up with the rapidly changing Internet technologies and uses. In this groundbreakin…
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