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Cyberpsychology as Everyday Digital Experience across the Lifespan (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Dave Harley, Julie Morgan, Hannah... Cyberpsychology as Everyday Digital Experience across the Lifespan (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Dave Harley, Julie Morgan, Hannah Frith
R3,702 Discovery Miles 37 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Digital technologies are deeply embedded in everyday life with opportunities for information access and perpetual social contact now mediating most of our activities and relationships. This book expands the lens of Cyberpsychology to consider how digital experiences play out across the various stages of people's lives. Most psychological research has focused on whether human-technology interactions are a 'good' or a 'bad' thing for humanity. This book offers a distinctive approach to the emergent area of Cyberpsychology, moving beyond these binary dilemmas and considering how popular technologies have come to frame human experience and relationships. In particular the authors explore the role of significant life stages in defining the evolving purpose of digital technologies. They discuss how people's symbiotic relationship with digital technologies has started to redefine our childhoods, how we experience ourselves, how we make friends, our experience of being alone, how we have sex and form romantic relationships, our capacity for being antisocial as well as the experience of growing older and dying. This interdisciplinary book will be of great interest to scholars and practitioners across psychology, digital technology and media studies as well as anyone interested in how technology influences our behaviour.

The Mystery Element - Understanding the Habits of Success (Hardcover): Ph D Bev Knox The Mystery Element - Understanding the Habits of Success (Hardcover)
Ph D Bev Knox
R714 Discovery Miles 7 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Power, Surveillance, and Culture in YouTube (TM)'s Digital Sphere (Hardcover): Matthew Crick Power, Surveillance, and Culture in YouTube (TM)'s Digital Sphere (Hardcover)
Matthew Crick
R5,093 Discovery Miles 50 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Over the last several years, YouTube has become a public forum for creative, informative, and political endeavors around the globe. As the website's influence and appeal continues to grow, questions regarding the legal usage of material, as well as potential governance issues regarding surveillance and political sway, are becoming more relevant. Power, Surveillance, and Culture in YouTube's Digital Sphere examines the imaginative, socioeconomic, and innovative features of the video sharing community of YouTube and how these areas traverse the digital world. Highlighting theoretical concepts and empirical research, as well as in-depth discussions on cultural studies, participatory experience, and media theory, this publication will appeal to professionals, practitioners, researchers, and students interested in the use of video sharing as a means of surveillance, communication, or personal promotion.

The Politics of Scientific Advice - Institutional Design for Quality Assurance (Hardcover): Justus Lentsch, Peter Weingart The Politics of Scientific Advice - Institutional Design for Quality Assurance (Hardcover)
Justus Lentsch, Peter Weingart
R3,271 Discovery Miles 32 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Controversies over issues such as genetically engineered food, foot-and-mouth disease and the failure of risk models in the global financial crisis have raised concerns about the quality of expert scientific advice. The legitimacy of experts, and of the political decision-makers and policy-makers whom they advise, essentially depends on the quality of the advice. But what does quality mean in this context, and how can it be achieved? This volume argues that the quality of scientific advice can be ensured by an appropriate institutional design of advisory organisations. Using examples from a wide range of international case studies, including think tanks, governmental research institutes, agencies and academies, the authors provide a systematic guide to the major problems and pitfalls encountered in scientific advice and the means by which organisations around the world have solved these problems.

Modern Jewish Scholarship on Islam in Context - Rationality, European Borders, and the Search for Belonging (Hardcover):... Modern Jewish Scholarship on Islam in Context - Rationality, European Borders, and the Search for Belonging (Hardcover)
Ottfried Fraisse
R3,495 Discovery Miles 34 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

After World War II, Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (1921-2007) published works in English and German by eminent Israeli scholars, in this way introducing them to a wider audience in Europe and North America. The series he founded for that purpose, Studia Judaica, continues to offer a platform for scholarly studies and editions that cover all eras in the history of the Jewish religion.

Scary Smart - The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World (Hardcover): Mo Gawdat Scary Smart - The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World (Hardcover)
Mo Gawdat
R637 Discovery Miles 6 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

One of The Sunday Times' Business Books of the Year Technology is putting our humanity at risk to an unprecedented degree. This book is not for engineers who write the code or the policy makers who claim they can regulate it. This is a book for you. Because, believe it or not, you are the only one that can fix it. - Mo Gawdat 'From a brilliant mind comes a terrifying prediction' - Tim Ash, bestselling author of Unleash Your Primal Brain Artificial intelligence is smarter than humans. It can process information at lightning speed and remain focused on specific tasks without distraction. AI can see into the future, predicting outcomes and even use sensors to see around physical and virtual corners. So why does AI frequently get it so wrong? The answer is us. Humans design the algorithms that define the way that AI works, and the processed information reflects an imperfect world. Does that mean we are doomed? In Scary Smart, Mo Gawdat, the internationally bestselling author of Solve for Happy, draws on his considerable expertise to answer this question and to show what we can all do now to teach ourselves and our machines how to live better. With more than thirty years' experience working at the cutting-edge of technology and his former role as chief business officer of Google [X], no one is better placed than Mo Gawdat to explain how the Artificial Intelligence of the future works. By 2049 AI will be a billion times more intelligent than humans. Scary Smart explains how to fix the current trajectory now, to make sure that the AI of the future can preserve our species. This book offers a blueprint, pointing the way to what we can do to safeguard ourselves, those we love and the planet itself.

Crossing Wires (Hardcover): Joe Loesch Crossing Wires (Hardcover)
Joe Loesch
R1,062 R896 Discovery Miles 8 960 Save R166 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Only Human - Guide to our internal Human Operating System (iHOS) and Achieving a Better Life (Hardcover): Norbert Soski Only Human - Guide to our internal Human Operating System (iHOS) and Achieving a Better Life (Hardcover)
Norbert Soski
R643 R586 Discovery Miles 5 860 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Creation - Fact or Fiction - You Decide (Hardcover): Howard Mishne Creation - Fact or Fiction - You Decide (Hardcover)
Howard Mishne
R819 Discovery Miles 8 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Where in the Americas Are the Lands of the Book of Mormon? (Hardcover): Eldon V Guymon Where in the Americas Are the Lands of the Book of Mormon? (Hardcover)
Eldon V Guymon
R702 Discovery Miles 7 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Internet and Health in Brazil - Challenges and Trends (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Andre Pereira Neto, Matthew B. Flynn The Internet and Health in Brazil - Challenges and Trends (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Andre Pereira Neto, Matthew B. Flynn
R4,438 Discovery Miles 44 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The popularization of the Internet, due in larger part to the advent of multifunctional cell phones, poses new challenges for health professionals, patients, and caregivers as well as creates new possibilities for all of us. This comprehensive volume analyzes how this social phenomenon is transforming long-established healthcare practices and perceptions in a country with one of the highest numbers of Internet users: Brazil. After an opening text that analyzes the Internet and E-Health Care as a field of study, the book comprises six parts. The first part introduces the emergence and development of the internet in Brazil, its pioneering experience in internet governance, digital inclusion, and online citizen participation. The second part is dedicated to internet health audiences by analyzing the cases of patients, the young, and the elderly seeking and sharing health information online, especially in virtual communities. The third part is dedicated to the challenges that the expansion of the internet in healthcare poses to all of us, such as the evaluation of the quality of health information available online and the prevention of the risks involved with online sales, cyberbullying, and consumption of prescription medicines. The fourth presents some innovative e-learning experiences carried out with different groups in Brazil, while the fifth part analyses some practical applications involving the Internet and health, including studies on M-Health, the Internet of things, serious games and the use of new information and communication technologies in health promotion. The last chapter analyses the future of healthcare in the Internet Age. The authors establish a critical and creative debate with international scholarship on the subject. This book is written in a direct and comprehensible way for professionals, researchers, students of communication and health, as well as for stakeholders and others interested in better understanding the trends and the different challenges related to the social phenomenon of the internet in health.

The Age of You - How to Understand and Benefit from Social Media and the Connected Society (Hardcover): Stein Arne Nistad The Age of You - How to Understand and Benefit from Social Media and the Connected Society (Hardcover)
Stein Arne Nistad
R798 Discovery Miles 7 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"The age of You" is about our new society and how we all breaks away from established rules about communication, relationships and the way we do business. Its also the history about a major shift: Increasingly, we take control over our personal and commercial relationships, we decide who we want to listen to, and how we want to engage ourselves. The book is explaining the historical development, concepts and the foundation of networks, relations, social media and the new connected society, as well as practical strategic guidelines to benefit from it. By using historical events, storytelling, models and case studies, the book is a thrilling story about YOU and how to succeed in the connected society. Storytelling in a connected society unlocks the need for new models and approaches. Here, the author gives us a deeper understanding of the challenges ahead and what we need to do to effectively connect with and earn relevance within society. Brian Solis, author of What's the Future of Business Really interesting. There is a major need for this type of literature. Anne Grethe Solberg, Sociologist and Doctor PH. D. The last year I have read almost everything about the subject. This is by far the best book on social media. Inger Line Skjerve, Master student (BI):

Human Interaction with Technology for Working, Communicating, and Learning - Advancements (Hardcover, New): Anabela Mesquita Human Interaction with Technology for Working, Communicating, and Learning - Advancements (Hardcover, New)
Anabela Mesquita
R4,827 Discovery Miles 48 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The way humans interact with technology is undergoing a tremendous change. It is hard to imagine the lives we live today without the benefits of technology that we take for granted. Applying research in computer science, engineering, and information systems to non-technical descriptions of technology, such as human interaction, has shaped and continues to shape our lives. Human Interaction with Technology for Working, Communicating, and Learning: Advancements provides a framework for conceptual, theoretical, and applied research in regards to the relationship between technology and humans. This book is unique in the sense that it does not only cover technology, but also science, research, and the relationship between these fields and individuals' experience. This book is a must have for anyone interested in this research area, as it provides a voice for all users and a look into our future.

The Quantum God - Why Our Grandchildren Won't Know Atheism (Hardcover): John S. Denker The Quantum God - Why Our Grandchildren Won't Know Atheism (Hardcover)
John S. Denker
R648 R586 Discovery Miles 5 860 Save R62 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

As heretical as it may sound to the modern orthodox views of both science and religion, science has proved God to be real. It is time for those in the religious community to address this. Is there a God? Is there life after death? Is evolution directed? As in his book, "Why Science Proves God," which received a five star review on Amazon.com, John Denker answers these questions through the use of modern physics. Most people will be surprised, if not shocked, by what modern science has to say.

Global Implications of Emerging Technology Trends (Hardcover): Francisco Jose Garcia-Penalvo Global Implications of Emerging Technology Trends (Hardcover)
Francisco Jose Garcia-Penalvo
R5,028 Discovery Miles 50 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The advent of new technologies has been an impetus for rapid development in several industries. These recent advances push industry leaders to infuse new innovations into their various systems and processes. Global Implications of Emerging Technology Trends is a critical scholarly resource that examines major breakthroughs within technological areas on a global level. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics, such as biometrics, nanotechnology, and wireless technologies, this book is geared towards academicians, practitioners, and researchers seeking current research manuscripts of the evolution of information science and technology.

Modern Science Proves Intelligent Design - The Information System Worldview (Hardcover): Ken Pedersen Modern Science Proves Intelligent Design - The Information System Worldview (Hardcover)
Ken Pedersen
R1,077 Discovery Miles 10 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead? (Hardcover): Thomas A. Miller Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead? (Hardcover)
Thomas A. Miller
R1,053 R887 Discovery Miles 8 870 Save R166 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Variety in Religion and Science - Daily Reflections (Hardcover): Varadaraja V. Raman Variety in Religion and Science - Daily Reflections (Hardcover)
Varadaraja V. Raman
R989 Discovery Miles 9 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Each day will bring to your recall some person or event in the world of religion or philosophy as well as one from the field of science. Little by little you will become aware of the rich heritage of the human family. And all these are only samples from the treasure-house of religion and science.

International Women in Science - A Biographical Dictionary to 1950 (Hardcover): Catherine M.C. Haines International Women in Science - A Biographical Dictionary to 1950 (Hardcover)
Catherine M.C. Haines
R2,875 Discovery Miles 28 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A comprehensive biographical guide to the scientific achievements, personal lives, and struggles of women scientists from around the globe. International Women in Science: A Bibliographical Dictionary to 1950 presents the enormous contributions of women outside North America in fields ranging from aviation to computer science to zoology. It provides fascinating profiles of nearly 400 women scientists, both renowned figures like Florence Nightingale and Marie Curie and women we should know better, like Rosalind Franklin, who, along with James Watson and Francis Crick, uncovered the structure of DNA. Students and researchers will see how the lives of these remarkable women unfolded, and how they made their place in fields often stubbornly guarded by men, overcoming everything from limited education and professional opportunities, to indifference, ridicule, and cultural prejudice, to outright hostility and discrimination. Included are a number of living scientists, many of whom provide insights into their lives and scientific times. Those contributions, plus additional previously unavailable material, make this a volume of unprecedented scope and richness.

God - Mystery Solved! (Hardcover): Jean Paul Corriveau God - Mystery Solved! (Hardcover)
Jean Paul Corriveau
R940 Discovery Miles 9 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Aging, Technology and Health (Paperback): Richard Pak, Anne Collins Mclaughlin Aging, Technology and Health (Paperback)
Richard Pak, Anne Collins Mclaughlin
R1,651 R1,561 Discovery Miles 15 610 Save R90 (5%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Aging, Health and Technology takes a problem-centered approach to examine how older adults use technology for health. It examines the many ways in which technology is being used by older adults, focusing on challenges, solutions and perspectives of the older user. Using aging-health technology as a lens, the book examines issues of technology adoption, basic human factors, cognitive aging, mental health, aging and usability, privacy, trust and automation. Each chapter takes a case study approach to summarize lessons learned from unique examples that can be applied to similar projects, while also providing general information about older adults and technology.

Bioethics - Medical, Ethical and Legal Perspectives (Hardcover): Peter A. Clark Bioethics - Medical, Ethical and Legal Perspectives (Hardcover)
Peter A. Clark
R3,370 Discovery Miles 33 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Dynamics of Technology for Social Change - Understanding the Factors that Influence Results: Lessons Learned from the Field... The Dynamics of Technology for Social Change - Understanding the Factors that Influence Results: Lessons Learned from the Field (Hardcover)
Jonathan Peizer
R807 R712 Discovery Miles 7 120 Save R95 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

If technology leads to such obvious efficiency and productivity in the private sector, why not deploy it just as easily to strengthen civil society and solve the world's social ills? Author Jonathan Peizer effectively answers this question in the innovative The Dynamics of Technology for Social Change. Peizer brings over twenty years of experience in implementing successful projects that have affected millions of lives globally. Working through all the important factors that affect successful implementations, Peizer points out what nonprofit organizations, foundations, social entrepreneurs, and governments can do to better ensure successful projects. topics, including: * Sector dependencies, collaboration dynamics, and information and communication technology (ICT) challenges * Nonprofit capacity issues and promising approaches * Balancing the profit and value motive * Implementation strategies * Marketing and promotion strategies The Dynamics of Technology for Social Change is a useful resource for anyone interested in implementing successful social sector projects with and without primary technology components. It easily explains the underlying dynamics that affect all undertakings in the social sector. 'After e-commerce and e-government, Jonathan Peizer provides a thoughtful first-hand account of managing information technology for social change in the philanthropic sector that fills the gap between mere speculation and war stories with a serious attempt to think through the implications of the IT revolution for the 'third sector' that is both well-grounded and systematic and sure to be seminal. -Jon W. Anderson, Chair, Anthropology Department, Catholic University of America 'What makes this book so valuable is.Peizer's.ability to distill his vast experi Washington 'Peizer shares his considerable global experience and ICT expertise in a highly readable, illuminating book. A must read -Stefaan Verhulst, Chief of Research, Markle Foundation

Life in One Breath (Hardcover): Donald J Lococo Life in One Breath (Hardcover)
Donald J Lococo; Foreword by Sean J McGrath
R756 R661 Discovery Miles 6 610 Save R95 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Armored Mind - Breaking Strongholds over the Mind (Hardcover): Apostle Sandra Mitchell The Armored Mind - Breaking Strongholds over the Mind (Hardcover)
Apostle Sandra Mitchell; Photographs by Jonathan Mitchell
R1,106 R927 Discovery Miles 9 270 Save R179 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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