INFORMATION SCIENCE/Communications & Telecommunications

Interfaces on trial 2.0

by Band, Jonathan, Katoh, Masanobu

fromInformation society series

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This title investigates an often overlooked factor in the development of today's interoperable world - the evolution of copyright law. The book examines the debates surrounding the use of copyright law to prevent competition and interoperability in the global software industry i…

The qualified self: social media and the accounting of everyday life

by Humphreys, Lee

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How sharing the mundane details of daily life did not start with Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube but with pocket diaries, photo albums, and baby books.

Networked press freedom: creating infrastructures for a public right to he…

by Ananny, Mike

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Reimagining press freedom in a networked era: not just a journalist's right to speak but also a public's right to hear.

Out of the shadows, into the streets!: transmedia organizing and the immigrant rights mo…

by Castells, Manuel, Costanza-Chock, Sasha

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"For decades, social movements have vied for attention from the mainstream mass media--newspapers, radio, and television. Today, many argue that social media power social movements, from the Egyptian revolution to Occupy Wall Street. Yet, as Sasha Costanza-Chock reports, communi…

Out of the shadows, into the streets!: transmedia organizing and the immigrant rights mo…

by Castells, Manuel, Costanza-Chock, Sasha

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"For decades, social movements have vied for attention from the mainstream mass media--newspapers, radio, and television. Today, many argue that social media power social movements, from the Egyptian revolution to Occupy Wall Street. Yet, as Sasha Costanza-Chock reports, communi…

Trump and the media

fromMIT Press Ser

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The election of Donald Trump and the great disruption in the news and social media.

Left to our own devices: hacking technology to reclaim our relationships, …

by Morris, Margaret E., M.I.T. Press

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Unexpected ways that individuals adapt technology to reclaim what matters to them, from working through conflict with smart lights to celebrating gender transition with selfies.We have been warned about the psychological perils of technology: distraction, difficulty empathizing,…

Left to our own devices: outsmarting technology to reclaim our relationshi…

by Morris, Margaret E.

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Unexpected ways that individuals adapt technology to reclaim what matters to them, from working through conflict with smart lights to celebrating gender transition with selfies. We have been warned about the psychological perils of technology: distraction, difficulty empathizing…

Remaking the news: essays on the future of journalism scholarship in…

fromInside technology

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"The use of digital technology has transformed the way news is produced, distributed, and received. Just as media organizations and journalists have realized that technology is a central and indispensable part of their enterprise, scholars of journalism have shifted their focus …

Communications under the seas: the evolving cable network and its implications

by Finn, Bernard S., Yang, Daqing

fromDibner Institute studies in the history of science and tech…

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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.

Reading the comments: likers, haters, and manipulators at the bottom of…

by Reagle, Joseph M.,, Jr

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"Online comment can be informative or misleading, entertaining or maddening. Haters and manipulators often seem to monopolize the conversation. Some comments are off-topic, or even topic-less. In this book, Joseph Reagle urges us to read the comments. Conversations "on the botto…

The marketplace of attention: how audiences take shape in a digital age

by Webster, James G.

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Webster describes factors that create audiences, including preferences and habits of media users, the role of social networks, the resources and strategies of media providers, and the growing impact of media measures--from ratings to user recommendations. He shows that the marke…

Traversing digital Babel: information, e-government, and exchange

by Peled, Alon

fromInformation policy series

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Alon Peled offers a groundbreaking approach for enabling information sharing among public sector agencies: using selective incentives to 'nudge' agencies to exchange information assets.

Pirate Politics: the New Information Policy Contests

by Burkart, Patrick

fromInformation society series

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An examination of the Pirate political movement in Europe analyzes its advocacy for free expression and the preservation of the Internet as a commons.

Obfuscation: a user's guide for privacy and protest

by Brunton, Finn, Nissenbaum, Helen

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With Obfuscation, Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum mean to start a revolution. They are calling us not to the barricades but to our computers, offering us ways to fight today's pervasive digital surveillance -- the collection of our data by governments, corporations, advertiser…

Email and the everyday: stories of disclosure, trust, and digital labor

by MILNE, ESTHER

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"Email and the Everyday : Stories of Disclosure, Trust, and Digital Labor focuses on email in its own right as a standalone media form in order to examine its technical and material infrastructure, its iconography and GUI, its affordances, and its languages"-- An exploration of…

Venture labor: work and the burden of risk in innovative industr…

by Neff, Gina

fromActing with technology

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"Why employees of pioneering Internet companies chose to invest their time, energy, hopes, and human capital in start-up ventures."--Provided by publisher

Surveillance or security?: the risks posed by new wiretapping technologies

by Landau, Susan Eva

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In this book, the author argues that in embarking on an unprecedented effort to build surveillance capabilities deeply into communications infrastructure, the U.S. government is opting for short-term security and creating dangerous long-term risks. Landau describes what makes co…

The voice in the machine: building computers that understand speech

by Pieraccini, Roberto

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An examination of more than sixty years of successes and failures in developing technologies that allow computers to understand human spoken language. "Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey famously featured HAL, a computer with the ability to hold lengthy conversat…

Minimalism beyond the Nurnberg funnel

by Carroll, John M., (John Millar), Society for Technical Communication

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Minimalism is an action- and task-oriented approach to instruction and documentation that emphasizes the importance of realistic activities and experiences for effective learning and information seeking. Since 1990, when the approach was defined in John Carroll's the Nurnberg Fu…