INFORMATION SCIENCE/Internet Studies

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 …

Internet success: a study of open-source software commons

by Schweik, Charles M., English, Robert C.

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Drawing on literature from many disciplines and using a theoretical framework developed for the study of environmental commons, Schweik and English examine stages of open-source software (OSS) development, presenting multivariate statistical models of success and abandonment.

The civic web: young people, the Internet and civic participation

by Banaji, Shakuntala, Buckingham, David

fromJohn D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on dig…

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An investigation of how governments, organizations, and groups use the Internet to promote civic and political engagement among young people. There has been widespread concern in contemporary Western societies about declining engagement in civic life; people are less inclined to…

You are here: a field guide for navigating polarized speech, co…

by Milner, Ryan M., Phillips, Whitney

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"How to understand a media environment in crisis, and how to make things better by approaching information ecologically. Our media environment is in crisis. Polarization is rampant. Polluted information floods social media. Even our best efforts to help clean up can backfire, se…

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…

Minitel: welcome to the Internet

by Driscoll, Kevin, Mailland, Julien

fromPlatform studies

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The first scholarly book in English on Minitel, the pioneering French computer network, offers a history of a technical system and a cultural phenomenon. A decade before the Internet became a medium for the masses in the United States, tens of millions of users in France had acc…

Digitally enabled social change: activism in the Internet age

by Kimport, Katrina, Earl, Jennifer

fromActing with technology

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In this work, Jennifer Earl and Katrina Kimport examine key characteristics of Web activism and investigate their impacts on organizing and participation.

Researching internet governance: methods, frameworks, futures

fromInformation policy series

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"Research concepts, methods, and frameworks for the study of internet governance, by leading scholars from law, computer science, communication, science and technology studies, and political science"

Researching internet governance: methods, frameworks, futures

fromInformation policy series

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"Research concepts, methods, and frameworks for the study of internet governance, by leading scholars from law, computer science, communication, science and technology studies, and political science"-- "The design and governance of the internet has become one of the most pressi…

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…

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.…

The digital rights movement: the role of technology in subverting digital copy…

by Postigo, Hector

fromInformation society series

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The evolution of activism against the expansion of copyright in the digital domain, with case studies of resistance including eBook and iTunes hacks.

Memes in digital culture

by Shifman, Limor

fromMIT Press essential knowledge series

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In December 2012, the exuberant video 'Gangnam Style' became the first YouTube clip to be viewed more than one billion times. Thousands of its viewers responded by creating and posting their own variations of the video: 'Mitt Romney Style, ' 'NASA Johnson Style, ' 'Egyptian Styl…

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…

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