The Jewel of Annual Astrology = A Parallel Sanskrit-English Critical Edition …

Authored in 1649 CE by Mughal court astrologer Balabhadra Daivajña, The Jewel of Annual Astrology is an encyclopaedic treatise on Tājika or Sanskritized Perso-Arabic astrology. Martin Gansten’s scholarly edition and translation is the first ever of a Tājika text.

The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews

In The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews the author explains how Christians with Jewish ancestry went within less than forty years from having a leading role in the foundation and development of the Society of Jesus to being prohibited from membership in it.

Reality Lost: Markets of Attention, Misinformation and Manipulation

This open access book looks at how a democracy can devolve into a post-factual state. The media is being flooded by populist narratives, fake news, conspiracy theories and make-believe. Misinformation is turning into a challenge for all of us, whether politicians, journalists, or citizens. In the age of information, attention is a prime asset and may be converted into money, power, and influ…

Tech giants, artificial intelligence, and the future of journalism

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Facebook Democracy : The Architecture of Disclosure and the Threat to Public …

Drawing on a number of disciplines and an ethnographic analysis of 250 Facebook political groups, Marichal explores how Facebook's emphasis on social connection impacts key dimensions of political participation: e.g. mobilization, deliberation, and attitude formation.

Crowdsourced health :how what you do on the Internet will improve medicine

Most of us have gone online to search for information about health. What are the symptoms of a migraine? How effective is this drug? Where can I find more resources for cancer patients? Could I have an STD? Am I fat? A Pew survey reports more than 80 percent of American internet users have logged on to ask questions like these. But what if the digital traces left by our searches could show doct…

Mood and mobility :navigating the emotional spaces of digital social networks

We are active with our mobile devices; we play games, watch films, listen to music, check social media, and tap screens and keyboards while we are on the move. In Mood and Mobility, Richard Coyne argues that not only do we communicate, process information, and entertain ourselves through devices and social media; we also receive, modify, intensify, and transmit moods. Designers, practitioners, …

This is why we can't have nice things :mapping the relationship between onlin…

Why the troll problem is actually a culture problem: how online trolling fits comfortably within today's media landscape.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

The Tuning of Place: Sociable Spaces and Pervasive Digital Media

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Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia

Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, is built by a community - a community of Wikipedians who are expected to "assume good faith" when interacting with one another. In Good Faith Collaboration, Joseph Reagle examines this unique collaborative culture;Wikipedia, says Reagle, is not the first effort to create a freely shared, universal encyclopedia; its early twentieth-century ancestors include Pa…