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From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long misunderstood "talking drums" of Africa, James Gleick tells the story of information technologies that changed the very nature of human consciousness. He also provides portraits of the key figures contributing to the inexorable development of our modern understanding of information, including Charles Babbage, Ada Byron, Samuel Morse, Alan Turing, and Claude Shannon.
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SAGE
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (161 pages : illustrations)
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English
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"Understanding Social Media provides a critical and timely conceptual toolbox for navigating the evolution and practices of social media. Taking an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach, this book provides a clear and concise explanation of the key concepts but also goes beyond specific brands, sites and practices to show readers how to place social media more critically within the changing media and cultural landscape. As an aid to understanding,...
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Lexington Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
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xi, 144 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"What is well-being? Is it a stable income, comfortable home, and time shared with family and friends? Is it clean drinking water and freedom from political oppression? Is it finding Aristotle{u2019}s Golden Mean by living a life of reason and moderation? Scholars have sought to define well-being for centuries, teasing out nuances among Aristotle{u2019}s writings and posing new theories of their own. With each major technological shift this question...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 35
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English
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In The World Is Flat, the highly-regarded New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman advances the work on globalization that made his The Lexus and the Olive Tree a bestseller. Claiming that the world is now at an important historical point--as important as the changes brought by the discoveries by Columbus or by the Industrial Revolution--Friedman analyzes the events, inventions, and business practices that have resulted in a changed world, one...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, 20 min. 15 sec.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
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English
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Online and mobile technologies profoundly influence how we read, write, learn and work. Online behaviour follows us all through our schooling and careers. Explore skills for communicating smartly across many digital technologies, how multitasking affects learning and work and how online posts can become skeletons in a digital closet, causing school expulsions, destroying college admissions, and blowing job offers. Discover how to protect your privacy,...
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When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful Internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users' personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass...
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English
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Change is everywhere! Thanks to a global economy, the force of the Internet, and the explosion of mobile technology, we have entered into a new era, the shift age, in which change happens so quickly that it's become the norm.Houle identifies and explains the new forces that will shape our lives for the next 20 years.
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"How seemingly innocuous technologies are unsettling the balance of power by putting it in the hands of the masses--and what a world without "big" will mean for all of us. In The End of Big, Internet pioneer and Harvard Kennedy School lecturer Nicco Mele draws on nearly twenty years of experience to explore the consequences of revolutionary technology. Our ability to connect instantly, constantly, and globally is altering the exercise of power with...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
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xv, 252 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"As Tom Nichols shows in The Death of Expertise, this rejection of experts has occurred for many reasons, including the openness of the internet, the emergence of a customer satisfaction model in higher education, and the transformation of the news industry into a 24-hour entertainment machine. Paradoxically, the increasingly democratic dissemination of information, rather than producing an educated public, has instead created an army of ill-informed...
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Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2021]
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304 pages cm
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English
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"The tools of our information age-from search engines to data mining to smart appliances-grew directly out of conflicts from World War I to the present day. Explore how today's Information Society reflects a worldview shaped by a century of war"--
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HarperBusiness
Pub. Date
c1993
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232 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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A probing and incisive analysis of the major world transformation from the Age of Capitalism to the Knowledge Society and how it will affect society, economics, business, and politics now and in the years ahead.
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Hachette Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
336 pages
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English
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"Hilke Schellmann is an Emmy award-winning investigative reporter, Wall Street Journal and Guardian contributor, and journalism professor at NYU. In "The Algorithm," she investigates the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the world of work. AI is nowbeing used to decide who has access to an education, who gets hired, who gets fired, and who receives a promotion. Drawing on exclusive information from whistleblowers, internal documents, and real-world...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Edition.
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x, 308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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Tells the story of how a small group of libertarian entrepreneurs began in the 1990s to hijack the original decentralized vision of the Internet, in the process creating three monopoly firms-Facebook, Amazon and Google-that now determine the future of the music, film, television, publishing and news industries.
20) To renew America
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
xii, 260 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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