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Author
Publisher
Thomas Kersting
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
iii, 98 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
According to the latest research, the average 13-year-old spends 8 hours per day, seven days a week, glued to a screen. Yes, this is problematic but to every problem there is a solution. Kersting explores the devide-dependent world our children live in and how it is affecting their mental and emotional wellbeing. Research show that too much time in the cyber world is re-wiring kid's brains, affecting their ability to flourish in the real world as...
Author
Publisher
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxxvi, 267 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Featuring pragmatic solutions drawing on economics, emerging technologies, and positive psychology, Heartificial Intelligence provides the first values-driven approach to algorithmic living?a definitive roadmap to help humanity embrace the present and positively define their future. Each chapter opens with a fictional vignette, helping readers imagine how they would respond to various Artificial Intelligence scenarios while demonstrating the need...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 691 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Shoshana Zuboff, named "the true prophet of the information age" by the Financial Times, has always been ahead of her time. Her seminal book In the Age of the Smart Machine foresaw the consequences of a then-unfolding era of computer technology. Now, three decades later she asks why the once-celebrated miracle of digital is turning into a nightmare. Zuboff tackles the social, political, business, personal, and technological meaning of "surveillance...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
336 pages cm
Language
English
Description
"Combining a journalist's investigative eye with her unborn second child as an experimental guinea pig, Baby, Unplugged draws on Sophie Brickman's own experiences as a journalist and parent to try to discover what aspects of technology are actually helpful, which are making us crazy, and most importantly, how we might learn to trust ourselves and our instincts again when it comes to raising children"--
Publisher
Cinema & Media Studies, Carleton College
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (62 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Three Carleton college students take on the challenge of ditching all computers to see how their academic, social, and work lives are affected. No Facebook. No e-mail. No word processing. How will they get their work done? Will they cheat? Who will survive the longest? This film follows Andrew, Caitlin, and Chel as they learn to interact with themselves and with others in ways we have largely forgotten."--Container & website www.disconnecteddocumentary.com...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xiv, 231 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"We used to know how to know. We got our answers from books or experts. We'd nail down the facts and move on. But in the Internet age, knowledge has moved onto networks. There's more knowledge than ever, of course, but it's different. Topics have no boundaries, and nobody agrees on anything. Yet this is the greatest time in history to be a knowledge seeker, if you know how. In Too Big to Know, Internet philosopher David Weinberger shows how business,...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
240 pages cm
Language
English
Description
"The author of In the Mind Fields now gives us a comprehensive journalistic exploration of our culture's flagging ability to pay attention, infused with the personal struggles and insights of a woman coming to terms with the demands and distractions of the information age. The average American checks their phone 150 times a day, but we touch our phones about 2,617 times in those same hours. Casey Schwartz wants to understand this change in our lives...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xi, 248 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The world of 5G, the next generation of telecommunication technology, will be as different from what came before as the world after the advent of electricity. The massive amounts of data we'll be able to stream through fiber-optic connections will enable a degree of virtual presence that will radically transform health care, education, urban administration and services, agriculture, retail sales, and offices. Yet all of those transformations will...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xi, 281 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media affect the quality of teens' lives? In this eye-opening book, youth culture and technology expert Danah Boyd uncovers some of the major myths regarding teens' use of social media. She explores tropes about identity, privacy, safety, danger, and bullying. Ultimately, Boyd argues that society fails young people when paternalism and...
Author
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
" It's undeniable-technology is changing the way we think. But is it for the better? Amid a chorus of doomsayers, Clive Thompson delivers a resounding "yes." The Internet age has produced a radical new style of human intelligence, worthy of both celebration and analysis. We learn more and retain it longer, write and think with global audiences, and even gain an ESP-like awareness of the world around us. Modern technology is making us smarter, better...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From Erica Dhawan, co-author of Get Big Things Done, the definitive guide to communicating and connecting wherever you are. Email replies that show up a week later. Video chats full of "oops sorry no you go" and "can you hear me?!" Ambiguous text-messages. Weird punctuation you can't make heads or tails of. Is it any wonder communication takes us so much time and effort to figure out? How did we lose our innate capacity to understand each other?...
Series
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 224 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
"Learn how to understand and better utilize the technologies that are rapidly transforming life in the 21st century."--Container.
Author
Publisher
Polity
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
285 pages : illustratations ; cm
Language
English
Description
"From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce white supremacy and deepen social inequity. Far from a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, Benjamin argues that automation has the potential to hide, speed, and even deepen discrimination, while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to racism of a previous era. Presenting...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First Vintage Books Edition.
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In collaboration, two leading global thinkers from in technology and foreign affairs from Google give readers their widely anticipated, transformational vision of the future: a world where everyone is connected, a world full of challenges and benefits that are ours to meet and to harness. With their combined knowledge and experiences, the authors are uniquely positioned to take on some of the toughest questions about our future: Who will be more powerful...
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