"This book provides a model for teaching computational thinking to middle and high school students across a broad range of school subjects"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A short philosophy of language book on quotation that maps out the history of the topic and offers a new approach to it"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
An examination of ""digital coping"" involving the use of communication technologies, particularly social media, in responding to illness.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
How the essential democratic values of diversity and free expression can coexist on campus.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
An exploration of moral stress, distress, and injuries inherent in modern society through the maps that pervade academic and public communications worlds.In Ethics in Everyday Places, ethicist and geographer Tom Koch considers what happens when, as he puts it, "you do everything right but know you've done something wrong." The resulting moral stress and injury, he argues, are pervasive in moder…
How RFID, a ubiquitous but often invisible mobile technology, identifies tens of billions of objects as they move through the world. RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is ubiquitous but often invisible, a mobile technology used by more people more often than any flashy smartphone app. RFID systems use radio waves to communicate identifying information, transmitting data from a tag that carri…
"How human technological interventions into death and the dead body since the nineteenth century have had a profound impact on today's (and future) end-of-life and human mortality realities. As Director of the Centre for Death and Society, the world's only interdisciplinary studies centre dedicated to researching death, dying, and the dead body, and the son of an American Funeral Director who g…
An exploration of the Dark Web--websites accessible only with special routing software--that examines the history of three anonymizing networks, Freenet, Tor, and I2P.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
How the structure of news, information, and knowledge is evolving and how news media can foster social connection. While the public believes that journalism remains crucial for democracy, there is a general sense that the news media are performing this role poorly. In The Social Fact, John Wihbey makes the case that journalism can better serve democracy by focusing on ways of fostering social c…
Tracing the thread of ""decreation"" in Chinese thought, from constantly changing classical masterpieces to fake cell phones that are better than the original.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.