e-books in Computer & Internet Culture category
The Geek's Chihuahua: Living with Appleby Ian Bogost - University of Minnesota Press , 2015
The ubiquitous iPhone and its kin saturate our lives, changing everything from our communication to our posture. Ian Bogost contrasts the values of Apple's massive success in the twenty-first century with those of its rise in the twentieth.
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Control Shift: How Technology Affects You and Your Rightsby David Meyer - Smashwords , 2018
With technology evolving at a dizzying pace, we must urgently decide how to make it work for us. To plot our course wisely, we need to understand technology's power and how it is radically shifting the balance of our lives, for better and for worse.
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A Field Guide to 'Fake News' and Other Information Disordersby Liliana Bounegru, et al. - Public Data Lab , 2017
The book explores the use of digital methods to study false viral news, political memes, trolling practices and their social life online. It explains the interplay between digital platforms, misleading information, propaganda and viral content.
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Culture and Empire: Digital Revolutionby Pieter Hintjens - GitBook , 2016
The whole planet is getting connected and building vast new communities. This online world thinks faster, and thinks differently. What is going on, and where will this lead us? Pieter Hintjens -- programmer and activist -- tells all in this story.
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Open Data and the Knowledge Society- Amsterdam University Press , 2017
This book considers the role of the open data movement in fostering transformation, showing that at the heart of any successful mobilization will be an emerging open data ecosystem and new ways for societal actors to effectively produce and use data.
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The Web as Historyby Niels Brügger, Ralph Schroeder (eds) - UCL Press , 2017
This volume argues that now is the time to question what we have learnt from the Web so far. The authors explore this topic from a number of interdisciplinary angles, as well as an introduction that provides an overview of this new area of research.
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The Silicon Jungleby David H. Rothman - Ballantine Books , 1985
Americans are fighting each other not just in the marketplace but also in the Silicon Jungle. The jungle is not greenery. It is not land. It is nothing more than the mineral in tiny computer chips that switch electronic impulses ...
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Sharing: Culture and the Economy in the Internet Ageby Philippe Aigrain - Amsterdam University Press , 2012
An exploration of digital culture and its dissemination, 'Sharing' offers a counterpoint to the view that file sharing is piracy. Philippe Aigrain looks at the benefits of file sharing, which allows unknown writers to be appreciated more easily.
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Software and Mind: The Mechanistic Myth and Its Consequencesby Andrei Sorin - Andsor Books , 2013
Addressing general readers and software practitioners, the author discusses the fallacies of the mechanistic ideology and the degradation of minds caused by it. Mechanistic ideology has turned most of our activities into pseudoscientific pursuits.
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The Web, a Multilingual Encyclopediaby Marie Lebert - Project Gutenberg , 2013
The web is an encyclopedia of the world by the world for the world. This book is a chronology from 1974 to 2010. The quotes are excerpts from the interviews conducted by the author during several years and published in the same collection.
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Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronicsby Jennifer Gabrys - University of Michigan Press , 2011
This is a study of the material life of information and its devices; of electronic waste in its physical and electronic incarnations; a cultural mapping of the spaces where electronics accumulate, break down, or are stowed away.
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Virtual Worlds: A Journey in Hype and Hyperrealityby Benjamin Woolley - Penguin , 1993
The book examines the reality of virtual reality. It looks at the dramatic intellectual upheavals that gave birth to it, at the hype that surrounds it, at the people who have promoted it, and at the dramatic implications of its development.
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Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Softwareby Christopher M. Kelty - Duke University Press , 2008
The book investigates the cultural significance of free software, revealing the practices that have transformed software. Kelty explains how these practices have reoriented the relations of power around the creation of all kinds of knowledge.
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Identity in the Age of Cloud Computingby J. D. Lasica - The Aspen Institute , 2009
The author explores the transformative possibilities of the cloud computing for culture, commerce and personal communication. The report considers potential consequences for privacy, governance and security, and it includes policy recommendations.
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The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedomby Yochai Benkler - Yale University Press , 2007
In this thick academic book, Yale law professor Benkler offers a comprehensive catalog of flashpoints in the conflict between old and new information creators. An ambitious attempt to understand how the internet is changing society.
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Netiquetteby Virginia Shea - Albion Books , 1994
This book brings etiquette to the bustling frontiers of cyberspace. The author establishes the do's and the don'ts of communicating online, from the Golden Rule to the art of the flame, from the elements of electronic style to virtual romance.
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A Companion to Digital Humanitiesby Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth - Wiley-Blackwell , 2004
A complete yet concise overview of this emerging discipline. The book addresses the central concerns of those interested in the subject. The articles are grouped into topical sections focusing on the experience of particular disciplines.
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After the Software Warsby Keith Curtis - Lulu.com , 2008
Given the technology that's already available, we should have cars that drive us around, in absolute safety, while we lounge in the back and sip champagne. This book explains how we can build better software and all get our own high-tech chauffeur.
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The Dark Visitor: Inside the World of Chinese Hackersby Scott J. Henderson - Lulu.com , 2007
This book analyzes the history, ideology, organization, exploits, and political motivations of the Chinese hacker network. Whenever possible, the information contained herein has been taken directly from the Chinese hacker organization itself.
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Tools for Thoughtby Howard Rheingold - The MIT Press , 2000
Where will our new machines take us? Back in 1985, forward-thinking Howard Rheingold asked research pioneers to describe the nascent personal-computer revolution and its trajectory. The book is an excellent slice of retrospective 'futurism'.
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The Future Does Not Computeby Steve Talbott - O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. , 1995
The author brings years of computer and Internet experience to the table, leavened by a skepticism of techno-idealism, disdain of muddy thinking, and fear that we have embraced an overwhelming force before we've begun to examine its implications.
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Moths to the Flame: The Seductions of Computer Technologyby Gregory J. E. Rawlins - The MIT Press , 1997
The book is a mixture of futuristic prophecy and historical perspective covering all aspects of computer technology, some frightening, some fanciful. Rawlins reminds us that computers can only reflect the needs and values of their users.
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The Official Dictionary of Unofficial Englishby Grant Barrett - McGraw-Hill , 2006
The Dictionary presents more than 750 words that have unofficially joined the English language. These words are hot off the street, new even to cyberspace. Each entry features a definition, etymology, and at least three citations from print.
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The Psychology of Cyberspaceby John Suler - Rider University , 2006
This hypertext book explores the psychological aspects of environments created by computers and online networks. It presents an evolving conceptual framework for understanding how people react to and behave within cyberspace.
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Hanging Out in the Virtual Pubby Lori Kendall - University of California Press , 2002
Lori Kendall explores the brave new world of social relations as they have evolved on the Internet. In this highly readable ethnography, she examines how men and women negotiate their gender roles on an online forum she calls BlueSky.
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Hello World: Travels In Virtualityby Sue Thomas - Raw Nerve Books , 2004
The story of a life online. Part travelogue, part memoir, Sue Thomas draws on her online travels as well as her physical journeys in the USA, Australia, Spain and England. The author deals with the synergies between digital and physical worlds.
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The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontierby Howard Rheingold - Perseus Books , 1993
Written by the man known as the First Citizen of the Internet, this book covers Rheingold's experiences with virtual communities. It starts off with his home community, The Well, out of Sausilito, CA, and makes its way through MUDs and beyond.
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Planet Broadbandby R. Yassini, S. Schley, L. Ellis, R. Brown - Cisco Press , 2003
The book examines the promise behind the broadband: high-speed access to interactive media and communications. The authors explain why broadband is more than just a better connection to the Internet, and how it improves on every aspect of life.
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Spreading the Word on the Internetby Christiane Hardy, Christian Möller - OSCE , 2003
Reflections from the Amsterdam Conference on Freedom of the Media and the Internet, June 2003. The book includes articles by representatives from the OSCE, the Council of Europe, journalists and media NGOs from Europe and the United States.
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Digital Creativityby Antonio Pizzo - Universita degli Studi di Torino , 2014
This paper presents one of the task of project Invisibilia Project and confirms that the term ''digital creativity'' represents a disperse notion in which a number of different definition developed along last decades are merged.
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Blown to Bitsby Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, Harry Lewis - Addison-Wesley Professional , 2008
Can you control who sees all that personal information about you? This book offers provocative answers to this question and tells intriguing real-life stories. It is a wake-up call to the human consequences of the digital explosion.
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The New Hacker's Dictionary (The Jargon File)by Eric S. Raymond - The MIT Press
A comprehensive compendium of hacker slang illuminating many aspects of hackish tradition, folklore, and humor. This is no snoozer dictionary of technical terms, it's the slang and secret language among computer jocks that offers the most fun.
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How Open Is the Future?by Marleen Wynants, Jan Cornelis - ASP-VUB Press , 2008
The book provides an open platform for a wide range of lawyers, journalists, artists, and activists to discuss the future of open-source and free software, the evolution, prospects, and issues of sharing knowledge and ideas through technology.
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The Future of the Internetby Jonathan Zittrain - Yale University Press , 2008
The book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. The generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation.
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We the Mediaby Dan Gillmor - O'Reilly Media, Inc. , 2004
The book about journalism's transformation from a mass-media structure to something more democratic, a story of evolutionary change and a modern revolution, because technology has given us a toolkit that allows anyone to become a journalist.
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In the Beginning was the Command Lineby Neal Stephenson - Harper Perennial , 1999
This is a thoughtful, irreverent, hilarious treatise on the cyber-culture past and present; on operating system tyrannies and downloaded popular revolutions; on the Internet, Disney World, Big Bangs, not to mention the meaning of life itself.
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