An argument for retaining the notion of personal property in the products we "buy" in the digital marketplace. "If you buy a book at the bookstore, you own it. You can take it home, scribble in the margins, put in on the shelf, lend it to a friend, sell it at a garage sale. But…
"The use of infographics is on the rise in newspapers, on television, and on the web. Data visualizations are now ubiquitous in education and corporate life as well. Yet modern communications scholarship has had little to say about this development: the infographic has so far ex…
"The research evaluation market is booming. "Ranking," "metrics," "h-index," and "impact factors" are reigning buzzwords. Government and research administrators want to evaluate everything -- teachers, professors, training programs, universities -- using quantitative indicators.…
"The research evaluation market is booming. "Ranking," "metrics," "h-index," and "impact factors" are reigning buzzwords. Government and research administrators want to evaluate everything -- teachers, professors, training programs, universities -- using quantitative indicators.…
A guide to understanding the inner workings and outer limits of technology and why we should never assume that computers always get it right. "In Artificial Unintelligence, Meredith Broussard argues that our collective enthusiasm for applying computer technology to every aspect…
A guide to understanding the inner workings and outer limits of technology and why we should never assume that computers always get it right. "In Artificial Unintelligence, Meredith Broussard argues that our collective enthusiasm for applying computer technology to every aspect…
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 everythin…
Why we should not accept ""networked individualism"" as the inevitable future of community.
A comprehensive guide to well-known workflow patterns: recurrent, generic business process constructs, described from the control-flow, data, and resource perspectives. The study of business processes has emerged as a highly effective approach to coordinating an organization's c…
A comprehensive guide to well-known workflow patterns: recurrent, generic business process constructs, described from the control-flow, data, and resource perspectives. The study of business processes has emerged as a highly effective approach to coordinating an organization's c…
How better information and better access to it improves the quality of our decisions and makes for a more vibrant participatory society.
"Big data is ubiquitous but heterogeneous. Big data can be used to tally clicks and traffic on web pages, find patterns in stock trades, track consumer preferences, identify linguistic correlations in large corpuses of texts. This book examines big data not as an undifferentiate…
