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Machines That Become Us - The Social Context of Personal Communication Technology (Paperback, New edition): James E. Katz Machines That Become Us - The Social Context of Personal Communication Technology (Paperback, New edition)
James E. Katz
R1,431 Discovery Miles 14 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Social critics and artificial intelligence experts have long prophesized that computers and robots would soon relegate humans to the dustbin of history. Many among the general population seem to have shared this fear of a dehumanized future. But how are people in the twenty-first century actually reacting to the ever-expanding array of gadgets and networks at their disposal? Is computer anxiety a significant problem, paralyzing and terrorizing millions, or are ever-proliferating numbers of gadgets being enthusiastically embraced? Machines that Become Us explores the increasingly intimate relationship between people and their personal communication technologies.

In the first book of its kind, internationally recognized scholars from the United States and Europe explore this topic. Among the technologies analyzed include the Internet, personal digital assistants (PDAs), mobile phones, networked homes, "smart" fabrics and wearable computers, interactive location badges, and implanted monitoring devices. The authors discuss critical policy issues, such as the problems of information resource access and equity, and the recently discovered "digital dropouts" phenomena.

The use of the word "become" in the book's title has three different meanings. The first suggests how people use these technologies to broaden their abilities to communicate and to represent themselves to others. Thus the technologies "become" extensions and representatives of the communicators. A second sense of "become" applies to analysis of the way these technologies become physically integrated with the user's clothing and even their bodies. Finally, contributors examine fashion aspects and uses of these technologies, that is, how they are used in ways becoming to the wearer. The conclusions of many chapters are supported by data, including ethnographic observations, attitude surveys and case studies from the United States, Britain, France, Italy, Finland, and Norway. This approach is especially valuable given the dearth of empirical studies in a field that has been traditionally dominated by extrapolation and speculation, and that has focused on possible future states rather than analysis of current situations. Other chapters are integrative, seeking to advance emerging theoretical perspectives.

This exciting volume generates new insights concerning the burgeoning electronic confusion that increasingly penetrates and blurs the boundaries of various spheres of life in modern society. Machines That Become Us will be of interest to students of communications and technology, sociologists, and social psychologists.

Retooling Politics - How Digital Media Are Shaping Democracy (Hardcover): Andreas Jungherr, Gonzalo Rivero, Daniel Gayo-Avello Retooling Politics - How Digital Media Are Shaping Democracy (Hardcover)
Andreas Jungherr, Gonzalo Rivero, Daniel Gayo-Avello
R927 R860 Discovery Miles 8 600 Save R67 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Donald Trump, the Arab Spring, Brexit: digital media have provided political actors and citizens with new tools to engage in politics. These tools are now routinely used by activists, candidates, non-governmental organizations, and parties to inform, mobilize, and persuade people. But what are the effects of this retooling of politics? Do digital media empower the powerless or are they breaking democracy? Have these new tools and practices fundamentally changed politics or is their impact just a matter of degree? This clear-eyed guide steps back from hyperbolic hopes and fears to offer a balanced account of what aspects of politics are being shaped by digital media and what remains unchanged. The authors discuss data-driven politics, the flow and reach of political information, the effects of communication interventions through digital tools, their use by citizens in coordinating political action, and what their impact is on political organizations and on democracy at large.

Amazon Web Services in Action, 2E (Paperback, 2nd edition): Michael Wittig, Andreas Wittig Amazon Web Services in Action, 2E (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Michael Wittig, Andreas Wittig
R1,205 Discovery Miles 12 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Description Fully updated to include the latest revisions and updates to AWS; this new edition also offers three new chapters covering the latest additions to the AWS platform: serverless infrastructure automation with AWS Lambda, sharing data volumes between machines with EFS, and caching data in memory with ElastiCache! Amazon Web Services in Action, Second Edition is a comprehensive introduction to computing, storing, and networking in the AWS cloud. Readers will find clear, relevant coverage of all the essential AWS services they need to know, emphasizing best practices for security, high availability and scalability. Key features * Hands-on guide * Practical examples * Step-by-step instructions Audience Written for developers and DevOps engineers moving distributed applications to the AWS platform. About the technology AWS is known as a cloud computing platform. Cloud computing, or the cloud, is a metaphor for supply and consumption of IT resources. The IT resources in the cloud aren't directly visible to the user; there are layers of abstraction in between.

The Internet as Second Action Space (Paperback): Aharon Kellerman The Internet as Second Action Space (Paperback)
Aharon Kellerman
R1,468 Discovery Miles 14 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

One of the most significant and important advancements in information and communication technology over the past 20 years is the introduction and expansion of the Internet. Now almost universally available, the Internet brings us email, global voice and video communications, research repositories, reference libraries, and almost unlimited opportunities for daily activities. Bridging geographical distances in unprecedented ways, the Internet has impacted all aspects of our daily lives - from facilitating the running of businesses, the attainment of services and keeping in touch with friends and family. Accessible at any time and for many of us from our mobile phones, the Internet has opened up a world of knowledge and communication platforms that we cannot now imagine living without. This book explores the concept that the Internet has become a second action space for individuals. Coexisting with traditional and "obvious" real space, the Internet serves as a novel spatial platform and action space to its subscribers all over the world. Kellerman expertly discusses this notion and examines the practical integration of cyberspace with real space. Part I examines the Internet as a platform for action and presents its relations with physical space concerning a range of uses and applications which were traditionally performed in physical space only. It discusses the idea that the Internet has become a second space and explores theoretical perspectives surrounding this notion. The Internet has undeniably made humankind more efficient and connected. Part II explores the Internet as an action space for human life, considering basic human needs, curiosity, identity and social relations. It further considers instances whereby use and application of the Internet cannot be fully performed in real space, mainly regarding people's presentation of identity. Part III explores daily actions over the Internet, such as work, shopping, banking and social interactions. Kellerman also briefly touches on the darker aspects that the expansion of the Internet has made possible - including its role in fraud and other crimes. The concluding chapter discusses people living across the two spaces and identifies potential future developments. The Internet as Second Actions Space will appeal to students across the social sciences, in particular those studying Geography, Sociology, Media Studies, Internet Studies, Business and related disciplines.

After the Digital Tornado - Networks, Algorithms, Humanity (Paperback): Kevin Werbach After the Digital Tornado - Networks, Algorithms, Humanity (Paperback)
Kevin Werbach
R1,069 Discovery Miles 10 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Networks powered by algorithms are pervasive. Major contemporary technology trends - Internet of Things, Big Data, Digital Platform Power, Blockchain, and the Algorithmic Society - are manifestations of this phenomenon. The internet, which once seemed an unambiguous benefit to society, is now the basis for invasions of privacy, massive concentrations of power, and wide-scale manipulation. The algorithmic networked world poses deep questions about power, freedom, fairness, and human agency. The influential 1997 Federal Communications Commission whitepaper "Digital Tornado" hailed the "endless spiral of connectivity" that would transform society, and today, little remains untouched by digital connectivity. Yet fundamental questions remain unresolved, and even more serious challenges have emerged. This important collection, which offers a reckoning and a foretelling, features leading technology scholars who explain the legal, business, ethical, technical, and public policy challenges of building pervasive networks and algorithms for the benefit of humanity. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Speeding Up Fast Capitalism - Cultures, Jobs, Families, Schools, Bodies (Paperback, New): Ben Agger Speeding Up Fast Capitalism - Cultures, Jobs, Families, Schools, Bodies (Paperback, New)
Ben Agger
R1,632 Discovery Miles 16 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In his 1989 book, Fast Capitalism, Ben Agger presented a framework for understanding late-20th century social problems. Speeding Up Fast Capitalism, a sequel to his earlier book, assesses social changes since the end of the 1980s brought about by information technologies such as the Internet, which have quickened the pace of everyday life. In Speeding Up Fast Capitalism, Agger assesses the impact of the Internet on consciousness, communication, culture and community, and evaluates the prospects of democratic social change. Where the earlier book was largely theoretical, Speeding Up applies critical theory to specific topics such as Internet culture, work, families, childhood, schooling, food, the body, and fitness. Although indebted to Fast Capitalism, the sequel appeals to an audience wider than theorists, including empirical sociologists, social scientists, and scholars in cultural disciplines.

Speeding Up Fast Capitalism - Cultures, Jobs, Families, Schools, Bodies (Hardcover): Ben Agger Speeding Up Fast Capitalism - Cultures, Jobs, Families, Schools, Bodies (Hardcover)
Ben Agger
R5,216 Discovery Miles 52 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In his 1989 book, Fast Capitalism, Ben Agger presented a framework for understanding late-20th century social problems. Speeding Up Fast Capitalism, a sequel to his earlier book, assesses social changes since the end of the 1980s brought about by information technologies such as the Internet, which have quickened the pace of everyday life. In Speeding Up Fast Capitalism, Agger assesses the impact of the Internet on consciousness, communication, culture and community, and evaluates the prospects of democratic social change. Where the earlier book was largely theoretical, Speeding Up applies critical theory to specific topics such as Internet culture, work, families, childhood, schooling, food, the body, and fitness. Although indebted to Fast Capitalism, the sequel appeals to an audience wider than theorists, including empirical sociologists, social scientists, and scholars in cultural disciplines.

Online Communication - Linking Technology, Identity, & Culture (Paperback, 2nd edition): Andrew F. Wood, Matthew J Smith Online Communication - Linking Technology, Identity, & Culture (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Andrew F. Wood, Matthew J Smith
R1,535 Discovery Miles 15 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Online Communication" provides an introduction to both the technologies of the Internet Age and their social implications. This innovative and timely textbook brings together current work in communication, political science, philosophy, popular culture, history, economics, and the humanities to present an examination of the theoretical and critical issues in the study of computer-mediated communication.
Continuing the model of the best-selling first edition, authors Andrew F. Wood and Matthew J. Smith introduce computer-mediated communication (CMC) as a subject of academic research as well as a lens through which to examine contemporary trends in society. This second edition of "Online Communication" covers online identity, mediated relationships, virtual communities, electronic commerce, the digital divide, spaces of resistance, and other topics related to CMC. The text also examines how the Internet has affected contemporary culture and presents the critiques being made to those changes.
Special features of the text include:
*Hyperlinks--presenting greater detail on topics from the chapter
*Ethical Ethical Inquiry--posing questions on the nature of human communication and conduct online
*Online Communication and the Law--examining the legal ramifications of CMC issues
Advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers interested in the field of computer-mediated communication, as well as those studying issues of technology and culture, will find "Online Communication" to be an insightful resource for studying the role of technology and mediated communication in today's society.

Critical Technology - A Social Theory of Personal Computing (Paperback): Graeme Kirkpatrick Critical Technology - A Social Theory of Personal Computing (Paperback)
Graeme Kirkpatrick
R1,086 R933 Discovery Miles 9 330 Save R153 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Have we resigned ourselves to a cyber-future that has been decided behind our backs? Why is technology - and our understanding of it - central to the concerns of critical social theory? In developing the PC technologists have borrowed ideas from the human sciences about what people are like, about the nature of meaning and the desirability of some experiences over others. Yet, to date, the academic disciplines most concerned with these ideas have offered neither resistance nor debate. In this book, Graeme Kirkpatrick shows why it is crucial that we initiate that debate. Offering a revealing critique of PC design and the social assumptions that underlie it, Kirkpatrick argues that it relies on a particular conception of a capitalistic society that expects its technology to come pre-packaged, mass-marketed and "user-friendly". Anyone who is critical of such a society and its commodification of human achievement should, he suggests, be suspicious. Kirkpatrick argues that the computer is a contested space within which major social conflicts are played out. On the one hand, there is a narrative of flexibility and human empowerment, and on the other a sense of a "system" that controls our lives, leaving us in thrall to the computer corporations, and at constant risk from phishers and hackers. The outcomes of these conflicts are extremely important as they will shape our future experience of technology, society and politics. Critical Technology is a lively, provocative and often radical book, which forces us to reflect on the meaning of an artefact that is central to our daily lives, yet that we too often take for granted.

Information Technology and the World of Work (Paperback, New): Daphne Gottlieb Taras, James T Bennett, Anthony M. Townsend Information Technology and the World of Work (Paperback, New)
Daphne Gottlieb Taras, James T Bennett, Anthony M. Townsend
R1,360 Discovery Miles 13 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Information technologies have become both a means and an end, transforming the workplace and how work is performed. This ongoing evolution in the work process has received extensive coverage but relatively little attention has been given to how changing technologies and work practices affect the workers themselves. This volume specifically examines the institutional and social environment of the workplaces that information technologies have created.
Compilations of scholarly essays are often written by members of a particular school of thought, whose purpose is to flesh out an area of theory or methodology. "Information Technology and the World of Work" takes a different approach: these essays are written by diverse voices, unified in their interest in the common theme of technology and the changing workplace. The authors' goals are to present perspectives that raise as many questions as they answer, and which are accessible to a broad audience of managers, union leaders, students, and academic readers.
The chapters are organized into three specific topical areas that represent aspects of workers' social and political experiences of work that are affected by technology. Part 1 addresses how information technologies affect workers' unions. Part 2 examines how information technology affects individual employees, specifically in terms of employees' sense of power and identity. Chapters in this section examine the social and psychological reactions of workers within the system. Part 3 focuses on one of the most contentious outcomes of this changed workplace, reviewing emerging policy and privacy issues that new technologies have created.
Written with the intent of beginning an important discussion of these issues, this volume should provide an impetus for others to make their own contribution to the emerging dialogue on technology in the modern workplace.
Daphne G. Taras is professor of industrial relations and associate dean (research) in the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. James T. Bennett is professor of economics at George Mason University, and founder and editor of the "Journal of Labor Research." Anthony M. Townsend is an associate professor of management information systems in the College of Business at Iowa State University, and on the faculty of Iowa State University Industrial Relations Center.

Cyberprotest - New Media, Citizens and Social Movements (Hardcover, New): Wim Van De Donk, Brian D. Loader, Paul G. Nixon,... Cyberprotest - New Media, Citizens and Social Movements (Hardcover, New)
Wim Van De Donk, Brian D. Loader, Paul G. Nixon, Dieter Rucht
R4,211 Discovery Miles 42 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The internet could have been purpose-built for fostering the growth of the social movements and citizen initiatives which have had such a significant impact on the political landscape since the 1990s. In "Cyberprotest" the contributors explore the effects of this synergy between ICTs (Information Communication Technologies) and people power, analysing the implications for politics and social policy at both a national and a global level.;Through a number of different international examples answers are sought to questions such as: to what extent and in what forms do social movements use ICTs?; how do new ICTs facilitate new patterns and forms of citizen mobilization?; how does this use affect the relationship between social movements and their members?; how do ICTs change the way social movement organizations communicate with each other?; and how do they affect the way these movements mobilize and intervene in public debates and political conflicts?

The Impact of ICT on Literacy Education (Paperback): Richard Andrews The Impact of ICT on Literacy Education (Paperback)
Richard Andrews; Foreword by Judy Sebba
R1,358 Discovery Miles 13 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This authoritative landmark text examines the highly topical and important issue of ICT in literacy learning. Its distinctive focus on providing a systematic review of research in the field gives the reader an essential, comprehensive overview. As governments worldwide continue to invest heavily in ICT provisions in educational institutions, this book addresses the need to gather and synthesise evidence about the impact of ICT on literacy learning. An expert team of writers draw upon two recent reports by the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development, which highlighted the considerable differences between nations in the access and use of ICT, to take a discursive and expansive look at the subject. Within its wide range and scope, chapters cover areas on: * the history of literacy and ICT * evidence for the effectiveness of ICT on literacy learning * the impact of networked ICT on literacy learning * the relationship between verbal and visual literacies. This book will be an invaluable and informative read with international resonance for student teachers, teachers, academics and researchers worldwide.

Roberto Busa, S. J., and the Emergence of Humanities Computing - The Priest and the Punched Cards (Paperback): Steven E. Jones Roberto Busa, S. J., and the Emergence of Humanities Computing - The Priest and the Punched Cards (Paperback)
Steven E. Jones
R1,122 Discovery Miles 11 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

It's the founding myth of humanities computing and digital humanities: In 1949, the Italian Jesuit scholar, Roberto Busa, S.J., persuaded IBM to offer technical and financial support for the mechanized creation of a massive lemmatized concordance to the works of St. Thomas Aquinas. Using Busa's own papers, recently accessioned in Milan, as well as IBM archives and other sources, Jones illuminates this DH origin story. He examines relationships between the layers of hardware, software, human agents, culture, and history, and answers the question of how specific technologies afford and even constrain cultural practices, including in this case the academic research agendas of humanities computing and, later, digital humanities.

The Impact of ICT on Literacy Education (Hardcover): Richard Andrews The Impact of ICT on Literacy Education (Hardcover)
Richard Andrews; Foreword by Judy Sebba
R5,387 Discovery Miles 53 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This authoritative landmark text examines the highly topical and important issue of ICT in literacy learning. Its distinctive focus on providing a systematic review of research in the field gives the reader an essential, comprehensive overview. As governments worldwide continue to invest heavily in ICT provisions in educational institutions, this book addresses the need to gather and synthesise evidence about the impact of ICT on literacy learning. An expert team of writers draw upon two recent reports by the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development, which highlighted the considerable differences between nations in the access and use of ICT, to take a discursive and expansive look at the subject. Within its wide range and scope, chapters cover areas on: * the history of literacy and ICT * evidence for the effectiveness of ICT on literacy learning * the impact of networked ICT on literacy learning * the relationship between verbal and visual literacies. This book will be an invaluable and informative read with international resonance for student teachers, teachers, academics and researchers worldwide.

Information Technology - An Introduction for Today's Digital World (Paperback, 2nd edition): Richard Fox Information Technology - An Introduction for Today's Digital World (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Richard Fox
R2,300 Discovery Miles 23 000 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This revised edition has more breadth and depth of coverage than the first edition. Information Technology: An Introduction for Today's Digital World introduces undergraduate students to a wide variety of concepts that they will encounter throughout their IT studies and careers. The features of this edition include: Introductory system administration coverage of Windows 10 and Linux (Red Hat 7), both as general concepts and with specific hands-on instruction Coverage of programming and shell scripting, demonstrated through example code in several popular languages Updated information on modern IT careers Computer networks, including more content on cloud computing Improved coverage of computer security Ancillary material that includes a lab manual for hands-on exercises Suitable for any introductory IT course, this classroom-tested text presents many of the topics recommended by the ACM Special Interest Group on IT Education (SIGITE). It offers a far more detailed examination of the computer and IT fields than computer literacy texts, focusing on concepts essential to all IT professionals - from system administration to scripting to computer organization. Four chapters are dedicated to the Windows and Linux operating systems so that students can gain hands-on experience with operating systems that they will deal with in the real world.

The Cybercities Reader (Paperback): Steve Graham The Cybercities Reader (Paperback)
Steve Graham
R2,178 Discovery Miles 21 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


The Cybercities Reader is the most comprehensive, international and interdisciplinary analysis yet of the relationships between cities, urban life and new technologies. The book incorporates detailed discussions of cybercity history, theory, economic processes, mobilities, physical forms, social and cultural worlds, digital divides, public domains, strategies, politics and futures. It includes coverage of post modern technoculture, virtual reality and the body, global city economies, urban surveillance, E-Commerce, teleworking, community informatics, digital architecture, urban technology strategies, and the role of cities and new technologies in the 'war on terrorism'. Detailed case-studies include 'virtual cities' in Amsterdam, Internet cabins in Lima, back offices in Jamaica, 'smart' highways in Melbourne, technopoles in New York, mobiles in Helsinki, e-commerce convenience stores in Tokyo, high-tech business parks in Bangalore, public spaces in Mexico City, and urban ICT strategies in Kuala Lumpur, California and Singapore.
The Cybercities Reader has 31 of the best published writings in the field and 32 specially commissioned pieces, with the work from writers from 12 nations and 12 disciplines and over 50 pictures, tables, and diagrams.

The Information Society Reader (Hardcover, Revised): Frank Webster, Professor Frank Webster, With Raimo Blom, Erkki Karvonen,... The Information Society Reader (Hardcover, Revised)
Frank Webster, Professor Frank Webster, With Raimo Blom, Erkki Karvonen, Harri Melin, …
R5,265 Discovery Miles 52 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Contents:
Frank Webster Introduction: Information Society Studies Part 1: The Information Society Frank Webster Introduction Advocates 1. Yoneji Masuda Image of the Future Information Society 2. Charles Leadbeater Living on Thin Air 3. Esther Dyson, George Gilder, George Keyworth and Alvin Toffler Cyberspace and the American Dream Critics 4. Langdon Winner Who Will We Be in Cyberspace? 5. Theodore Roszak The Cult of Information 6. Kevin Robins and Frank Webster The Long History of the Information Revolution Part 2: Post-Industrial Society Harri Melin Introduction 7. Daniel Bell Post-Industrial Society 8. Krishan Kumar From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society 9. John Urry Is Britain the First Post-Industrial Society? Part 3: The Network Society Frank Webster Introduction 10. Manuel Castells An Introduction to the Information Age 11. Manuel Castells The Information City, the New Economy, and the Network Society 12. Nicholas Garnham Information Society Theory as Ideology Part 4: Transformations Frank Webster Introduction 13. John Urry Mobile Sociology 14. Robert B. Reich The Three Jobs of the Future 15. Nico Stehr The Economic Structure of Knowledge Societies 16. Anne Balsamo Forms of Technological Embodiment Part 5: Divisions Kaarle Nordenstreng Introduction 17. Herbert Schiller Data Deprivation 18. Pippa Norris The Digital Divide 19. Christopher Lasch The Degradation of the Practical Arts Part 6: Surveillance Raimo Blom Introduction 20. Michel Foucault Panopticism 21. Shoshana Zuboff Managing the Informated Organization 22. David Lyon New Directions in Theory Part 7: Democracy Erkki Karvonen Introduction 23. Jurgen Habermas The Public Sphere 24. Nicholas Garnham The Media and the Public Sphere 25. John Keane Structural Transformations of the Public Sphere 26. Zizi Papacharissi The Virtual Sphere: The Internet as a Public Sphere Part 8: Virtualities Ensio Puoskari Introduction 27. Mark Poster The Mode of Information and Postmodernity 28. Eric Michaels For a Cultural Future 29. Sadie Plant The Future Looms: Weaving Women and Cybernetics

Herbert Marcuse - A Critical Reader (Paperback, New): John Abromeit, W.Mark Cobb Herbert Marcuse - A Critical Reader (Paperback, New)
John Abromeit, W.Mark Cobb
R1,187 Discovery Miles 11 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Contents:
Introduction 1. Veteran Scholars' Reflections on Marcuse's Theoretical Legacy Marcuse's Legacies; The American Experience of the Critical Theorists; Heidegger and Marcuse: the Catastrophe and Redemption of Technology; Marcuse and the Quest for Radical Subjectivity; Marcuse's Maternal Ethic; Marcuse's Negative Dialectics of Imagination 2. Interpretations of Marcuse's Critical Theory from the Next Generation Herbert Marcuse's Critical Encounter with Martin Heidegger 1927-33; The Theoretical Place of Utopia: Some Remarks on Marcuse's Dual Anthropology; Diatribes and Distortions: Marcuse's Academic Reception; Marcuse, Habermas and the Critique of Technology; The Fate of Emancipated Subjectivity Part 3. Marcuse and Contemporary Ecological Theory Marcuse's Deep-Social Ecology and the Future of Utopian Environmentalism; Marcuse's Ecological Critique and the American Environmental Movement; Marcuse and the "New Science" Part 4. Recollections Herbert Marcuse's Identity; Encountering Marcuse

The Cybercities Reader (Hardcover): Steve Graham The Cybercities Reader (Hardcover)
Steve Graham
R5,418 Discovery Miles 54 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Contents:
List of plates List of figures List of tables Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction : From Dreams of Transcendence to the Remediation of Urban Life Section 1: Understanding Cybercities Part 1: Cybercity Archaeologies 1. Nigel Thrift 1996 Inhuman Geographies: Landscapes of Speed, Light and Power 2. Joel Tarr 1987 The City and The Telegraph: Urban Telecommunications in the Pre-Telephone Era 3. Ithiel de Sola-Pool 1976 The Structure of Cities 4. Melvyn Webber 1964 The Urban Place and the Non-Place Urban Realm From Explorations Into Urban Structure 5. Thomas Streeter 1987 The Cable Fable Revisited: Discourse, Policy and the Making of Cable Television 6. Thomas J. Campanella 2002 Webcameras and the Telepresent Landscape Part 2: Theorising Cybercities 7. Gilles Deleuze 1988 Postscript on Societies of Control 8. Paul Virilio 1987 The Third Interval 9. Manuel Castells 2002 Space of Flows, Space of Places : Materials for a Theory of Urbanism in the Information Age 10. Lieven de Cauter 2002 The Capsule and the Network : Notes Toward a General Theory 11. Nigel Thrift 1997 Cities Without Modernity, Cites With Magic 12. Deirdre Boden and Harvey Molotch 2002 Cyperspace Meets the Compulsion of Proximity 13. Timothy Luke 2002 The Co-Existence of Cyborgs, Humachines and Environments in Postmodernity: Getting Over the End of Nature Part 3: Cybercities : Hybrid Forms and Recombinant Spaces 14. Stefano Boeri 2002 Eclectic Atlases 15. William Mitchell 2000 The City of Bits Hypothesis 16. Mike Crang 2000 Urban Morphology and the Shaping of the Transmissible City 17. Zac Carey 2002 Generation Txt : The Telephone Hits the Street 18. Stephen Graham 2002 Excavating the Material Geographies of Cybercities 19. Anthony Townsend 2002 Learning From September 11th : ICT Infrastructure Collapses in a Global Cybercity Section 2: Cybercity Dimensions Part 4: Cybercity Mobilities 20. Nick Barley 2000 People 21. Pnina Ohana Plaut 2002 Do Telecommunications Make Transportation Obsolete? 22. Mimi Sheller and John Urry 2002 The City and the CyberCar 23. David Holmes 2002 Cybercommuting on an Information Superhighway: The Case of Melbourne's CityLink 24. Keller Easterling 2002 The New Orgman : Logistics as an Organizing Principle of Contemporary Cities 25. Mark Gottdeiner 2001 Deterritorialisation and the Airport Part 5: Cybercity Economies 26. Saskia Sassen 2000 Agglomeration in the Digital Era? 27. Vincent Mosco 2002 Webs of Myth and Power: Connectivity and the New Computer Technopolis 28. Matthew Zook 2002 Cyberspace and Local Places: The Urban Dominance of Dot-com Geography in the Late 1990s 29. Andrew Gillespie 2000 Teleworking and the City: Myths of Workplace and Ranald Richardson Transcendence and Travel Reduction 30. Ewart Skinner 1998 The Caribbean Data Processors 31. Martin Dodge 2002 Geographies of E-commerce : The Case of Amazon.com 32. Andrew Murphy 2002 The Web, the Grocer, and the City 33. Yuko Aoyama 2002 E-Commerce and Urban Space in Japan : Accessing the Net via Convenience Stores 34. Susan Davis 1999 Space Jam: Media Conglomerates Build the Entertainment City Part 6: Social and Cultural Worlds of Cybercities 35. Robert Luke 2002 Habit@Online: Web Portals as Purchasing Ideology 36. David Morley 2001 At Home With the Media 37. Keith Hampton 2003 Netville : Community On and Offline in a Wired Suburb 38. Nina Wakeford 1999 Gender and Landscapes of Computing in an Internet Café 39. Timo Kopomaa 2002 Speaking Mobile : Intensified Everyday Life, Condensed City 40. Anne Beamish 2001 The City in Cyberspace From Reimaging the City 41. Ken Hillis 1999 Identity, Embodiment, and Place : Virtual Reality as Postmodern Technology Part 7: Cybercity Public Domains and Digital Divides 42. Fred Dewey 1997 Cyburbanism as a Way of Life 43. Rebecca Solnit 2000 San Francisco : Capital of the Twenty-First Century 44. David Lyon 2002 Surveillance in the City 45. Benton Foundation 2000 Defining the Technology Gap 46. Shirin Madon 1998 Bangalore : Internal Disparities of a City Caught in the Information Age 47. Ana María 2002 Public Internet Cabins and the Digital Divide in Fernández-Maldonado, Developing World Megacities : A Case Study of Lima 48. Danny Kruger 1997 Access Denied 49. Stephen Graham 2002 The Software-Sorted City: Rethinking the Digital Divide Section 3: Shaping Cybercities? Part 8: Cybercity Strategy and Politics 50. Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin 1999 Planning Cyber-Cities? Integrating Telecommunications into Urban Planning 51. Tim Bunnell 2002 Cyberjaya and Putrajaya: Malaysia's 'Intelligent' Cities 52. Neil Coe and Henry Wai-chung Yeung 2002 Grounding Global Flows: Constructing an E-Commerce Hub in Singapore 53. Richard Sclove 2002 Cybernetic Wal-Mart : Will Internet Tax Breaks Kill Main Street USA? 54. Thomas Horan 2000 Recombinations for Community Meaning 55. Walter Siembab 2002 Retrofitting Sprawl: A Cyber Strategy for Livable Communities 56. Geert Lovink 2002 The Rise and Fall of the Digital City Metaphor and Community in 1990s Amsterdam 57. Andreas Broeckmann 2000 Public Spheres and Network Interfaces Part 9: Cybercity Futures 58. Rob Warren, Stacy Warren, Sam Nunn and Colin Warren The Future Of The Future In Planning Theory: Appropriating Cyberpunk Visions Of The City 59. Martin Pawley 1998 Terminal 2098 60. Jean Michel Dewailly 1999 Sustainable Tourist Space : From Reality to Virtual Reality? 61. John Adams 2002 A Letter from the Future 62. Philip Agre 2002 Life After Cyberspace 63. Peter Huber and Mark Mills 2002 How Technology Will Defeat Terrorism

Information Society and the Workplace - Spaces, Boundaries and Agency (Hardcover): Prof Jeff Hearn, Tuula Heiskanen Information Society and the Workplace - Spaces, Boundaries and Agency (Hardcover)
Prof Jeff Hearn, Tuula Heiskanen
R3,920 Discovery Miles 39 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Bringing together studies of everyday local practices in workplaces within information society, this book has a special focus on social space and the agency of actors. It includes both theoretical reviews and detailed qualitative research. It also highlights the political challenges of the information society, challenges which are likely to become subjects of international concern.

eBook available with sample pages: 0203402650

Asia.com - Asia Encounters the Internet (Hardcover): K.C. Ho, Randy Kluver, C.C. Yang Asia.com - Asia Encounters the Internet (Hardcover)
K.C. Ho, Randy Kluver, C.C. Yang
R1,188 Discovery Miles 11 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


The Internet is developing quicker in Asia than in any other region of the world. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the information society in an Asian context, and the impact of these technologies in Asia. These impacts are inevitably uneven and conditioned by issues of telecommunications infrastructure, government policies, cultural and social values, and economic realities. The combination of original research, theoretical innovation and detailed case studies make this an important book for scholars and students in Asian studies, media studies, communication studies and sociology.

Living in Digital Worlds - Designing the Digital Public Space (Hardcover): Naomi Jacobs, Rachel. Cooper Living in Digital Worlds - Designing the Digital Public Space (Hardcover)
Naomi Jacobs, Rachel. Cooper
R3,909 Discovery Miles 39 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Living in Digital Worlds investigates the relationship between human society and technology, as our private and particularly our public lives are increasingly undertaken in spaces that are inherently digital: digital public spaces. The book unpicks why digital technology is such an inextricable part of modern society, first by examining the historical relationship between technological development and the early progression of human sociality. This is then followed by an examination of the ways in which modern life is currently being impacted by the expansion of digital information and devices into multiple aspects of our lives, including focuses on privacy, bias and ownership in digital spaces. Finally, it explores potential future developments and their implications, and proposes that it is crucial to consider the design of technology and systems in order to support a positive and beneficial direction of change. Each chapter includes case studies, primarily drawn from The Creative Exchange, a fiveyear programme which ran from 2012 to 2016 to explore the notion of the digital public space through collaborative cross-sector research.

Smart Green World? - Making Digitalization Work for Sustainability (Paperback): Steffen Lange, Tilman Santarius Smart Green World? - Making Digitalization Work for Sustainability (Paperback)
Steffen Lange, Tilman Santarius
R721 Discovery Miles 7 210 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

In this book, Steffen Lange and Tilman Santarius investigate how digitalization influences environmental and social sustainability. The information revolution is currently changing the daily lives of billions of people worldwide. At the same time, the current economic model and consumerist lifestyle needs to be radically transformed if society is to overcome the challenges humanity is facing on a finite planet. Can the much-discussed disruption potential of digitalization be harnessed for this purpose? Smart Green World? provides guiding principles for a sustainable digital society and develops numerous hands-on proposals for how digitalization can be shaped to become a driving force for social transformation. For instance, the authors explain why more digitalization is needed to realize the transition towards 100% renewable energy and show how this can be achieved without sacrificing privacy. They analyze how the information revolution can transform consumption patterns, mobility habits and industry structures - instead of fostering the consumption of unneeded stuff due to personalized commercials and the acceleration of life. The authors reveal how Artificial Intelligence and the Industrial Internet of Things pose novel environmental challenges and contribute to a polarization of income; but they also demonstrate how the internet can be restored to its status as a commons, with users taking priority and society at large reaping the benefits of technological change in a most democratic way. Providing a comprehensive and practical assessment of both social and environmental opportunities and challenges of digitalization, Smart Green World? Making Digitalization Work for Sustainability will be of great interest to all those studying the complex interrelationship of the twenty-first-century megatrends of digitalization and decarbonization.

Law on the Web - A Guide for Students and Practitioners (Paperback): Stuart Stein Law on the Web - A Guide for Students and Practitioners (Paperback)
Stuart Stein
R1,416 Discovery Miles 14 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Law on the Web is ideal for anyone who wants to access Law Internet resources quickly and efficiently without becoming an IT expert. The emphasis throughout is on the location of high quality law Internet resources for learning, teaching and research, from among the billions of publicly accessible Web pages. The book is structured so that it will be found useful by both beginners and intermediate level users, and be of continuing use over the course of higher education studies. In addition to extensive coverage on locating files and Web sites, Part III provides a substantial and annotated list of high quality resources for law students.

China and the Internet - Politics of the Digital Leap Forward (Hardcover): Christopher R. Hughes, Gudrun Wacker China and the Internet - Politics of the Digital Leap Forward (Hardcover)
Christopher R. Hughes, Gudrun Wacker
R3,906 R2,733 Discovery Miles 27 330 Save R1,173 (30%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days


China and the Internet: Politics of the Digital Leap Forward is a comprehensive assessment of the political and economic impact of information and communication technologies (ITCs) on Chinese society. It provides in-depth analyses of topics including economic development, civil and political liberties, bureaucratic politics, international relations and security studies.
The book covers the aspirations of Chinese policy-makers using the Internet to achieve a 'digital leapfrog' of economic development. Avoiding technical jargon, the book is accessible to anyone interested in the social impact of the Internet and information and communication technologies, from those in academia to business and public policy makers.

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