The World Wide Web and contemporary cultural theory
The World Wide Web is the most well-known, celebrated, and promoted contemporary manifestation of 'cyberspace'. To date, however, most of the public discourse on the Web falls into the category of explanatory journalism - the Web has remained largely unmapped in terms of contemp…
Learn web scraping and crawling techniques to access unlimited data from any web source in any format. With this practical guide, youll learn how to use Python scripts and web APIs to gather and process data from thousandsor even millionsof web pages at once. Ideal for programme…
The open source software movement was the first indication that our consumerist society would not be conducting business as usual online. New behaviours--creating, sharing, influencing--are becoming widespread enough to blur forever the roles of producer and consumer, celebrity …
« Computers now impact almost every aspect of our lives, from our social interactions to the safety and performance of our cars. How did this happen in such a short time? And this is just the beginning. In this book, Tony Hey and Gyuri Pápay lead us on a journey from the early d…
This text offers insight into computer mediation communication and people's interaction by electronic systems, devices and networked computers. The author considers ways which conventions from both oral and written modes are mixed, as well as the social effects from this.
This work provides a consideration of a range of issues concerning cognition and its relation to multimedia and digital information systems.
Gegen den Big-Other-Kapitalismus ist Big Brother harmlos. Die Menschheit steht am Scheideweg, sagt die Harvard-Ökonomin Shoshana Zuboff. Bekommt die Politik die wachsende Macht der High-Tech-Giganten in den Griff? Oder überlassen wir uns der verborgenen Logik des Überwachungskap…