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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…

"Raw data" is an oxymoron

fromInfrastructures series

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We live in the era of Big Data, with storage and transmission capacity measured not just in terabytes but in petabytes (where peta- denotes a quadrillion, or a thousand trillion). Data collection is constant and even insidious, with every click and every "like" stored somewhere …

Privacy on the ground: driving corporate behavior in the United States a…

by Bamberger, Kenneth A., Mulligan, Deirdre K.

fromInformation policy series

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"Barely a week goes by without a new privacy revelation or scandal. Whether by hackers or spy agencies or social networks, violations of our personal information have shaken entire industries, corroded relations among nations, and bred distrust between democratic governments and…

Mapping Israel, mapping Palestine: how occupied landscapes shape scientific knowledge

by Bier, Jess

fromInside technology

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Maps are widely believed to be objective, and data-rich computer-made maps are iconic examples of digital knowledge. It is often claimed that digital maps, and rational boundaries, can solve political conflict. But Jess Bier challenges the view that digital maps are universal an…

From Gutenberg to the global information infrastructure: access to information in the networked world

by Borgman, Christine L.

fromDigital libraries and electronic publishing

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"Will the emerging global information infrastructure (GII) create a revolution in communications equivalent to that wrought by Gutenberg, or will the result be simply the evolutionary adaptation of existing behavior and institutions to new media? Will the GII improve access to i…

Information and intrigue: from index cards to Dewey decimals to Alger Hiss

by Burke, Colin B.

fromHistory and foundations of information science

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In Information and Intrigue Colin Burke tells the story of one man's plan to revolutionize the world's science information systems and how science itself became enmeshed with ideology and the institutions of modern liberalism. In the 1890s, the idealistic American Herbert Havila…

Search foundations: toward a science of technology-mediated experience

by Arafat, Sachi, Ashoori, Elham

fromHistory and foundations of information science

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A call to redirect the intellectual focus of information retrieval and science (IR & S) toward the phenomenon of technology-mediated experience. In this book, Sachi Arafat and Elham Ashoori issue a call to reorient the intellectual focus of information retrieval and science (IR …

Indexing it all: the subject in the age of documentation, informat…

by Day, Ronald E.

fromHistory and foundations of information science

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"In this book, Ronald Day offers a critical history of the modern tradition of documentation. Focusing on the documentary index (understood as a mode of social positioning), and drawing on the work of the French documentalist Suzanne Briet, Day explores the understanding and use…

Spam: a Shadow History of the Internet

by Brunton, Finn

fromInfrastructures series

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The vast majority of all email sent every day is spam, a variety of idiosyncratically spelled requests to provide account information, invitations to spend money on dubious products, and pleas to send cash overseas. Most of it is caught by filters before ever reaching an in-box.…

Open access

by Suber, Peter

fromMIT Press essential knowledge series

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A concise introduction to the basics of open access, describing what it is (and isn't) and showing that it is easy, fast, inexpensive, legal, and beneficial. The Internet lets us share perfect copies of our work with a worldwide audience at virtually no cost. We take advantage …

Burdens of proof: cryptographic culture and evidence law in the age…

by Blanchette, Jean-François

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This work provides an examination of the challenges of establishing the authenticity of electronic documents - in particular the design of a cryptographic equivalent to handwritten signatures.

Wikipedia @ 20: stories of an incomplete revolution

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"Founders, contributors, scholars, teachers, and students reflect on Wikipedia's first 20 years"--

World wide research: reshaping the sciences and humanities

by Dutton, William H., Jeffreys, Paul W.

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Here, experts examine ways in which the use of increasingly powerful and versatile digital information and communication technologies are transforming research activities across all disciplines.

Good faith collaboration: the culture of Wikipedia

by Reagle, Joseph Michael

fromHistory and foundations of information science

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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 n…

Everyday information: the evolution of information seeking in America

by Aspray, William, Hayes, Barbara M.

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An intimate, everyday perspective on information-seeking behavior, reaching into the social context of American history and American homes.

Georeferencing: the geographic associations of information

by Hill, Linda L.

fromDigital libraries and electronic publishing

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An introduction to the principles of unified georeferencing, which uses placename and geospatial referencing interchangeably across all types of information storage and retrieval systems.

The technology of nonviolence: social media and violence prevention

by Bock, Joseph G.

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How technology and community organizing can combine to help prevent violence, with examples from Chicago to Sri Lanka. "Tunisian and Egyptian protestors famously made use of social media to rally supporters and disseminate information as the "Arab Spring" began to unfold in 201…

Human information interaction: an ecological approach to information behavior

by Fidel, Raya

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In this work, Raya Fidel proposes a research approach that bridges the study of human information interaction and the design of information systems: cognitive work analysis (CWA).

Virtual knowledge: experimenting in the humanities and the social sc…

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Authority and expertise in new sites of knowledge production / Anne Beaulieu, Sarah de Rijcke and Bas van Heur -- Working in virtual knowledge : affective labor in scholarly collaboration / Smiljana Antonijević, Stefan Dormans and Sally Wyatt -- Exploring uncertainty in knowledg…

The Internet upheaval: raising questions, seeking answers in communicati…

by Vogelsang, Ingo, Compaine, Benjamin M.

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"At the beginning of 2000, the U.S. economy was enjoying the longest period of sustained growth and economic prosperity in its history. According to The Internet Upheaval, part of the explanation for this phenomenon is a consequence of how information technologies, in particular…