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The Culture of Efficiency: Technology in Everyday Life reveals how
people are managing, exploiting, and resisting technological
developments in the digital age. In this unique volume,
distinguished experts from a broad range of fields candidly show
how the latest technologies are being used to transform and control
nitty-gritty aspects of life from conception onward and the
surprising benefits and consequences. Bold and provocative, The
Culture of Efficiency is for everyone concerned with efficiency and
effectiveness. It offers fresh insights about social trends,
practical suggestions for improving everyday life, and vital
forecasts about the future of work and leisure. This is essential
reading for researchers, professionals, and students in
communication, sociology, education, anthropology, psychology,
organizational science, operations management, marketing, gender
studies, environmental studies, American studies, healthcare, and
social policy. Overall, the volume offers a rich interpretation of
the meaning of living in a culture of efficiency.
Displacing Place: Mobile Communication in the Twenty-first Century
addresses the innovative, unanticipated, and far-reaching ways that
mobile information and communication technologies (ICTs) are
altering how we work, play, and relate to one another. This
extraordinary collection of new essays by leading scholars and
professionals from a range of disciplines reveals the effects,
implications, and future of mobile communication in a
reader-friendly balance of theoretical and empirical chapters.
Displacing Place is a vital book for students, scholars,
professionals, and all readers interested in social and
technological trends in the twenty-first century.
Comprehensive yet concise, this up-to-date and user-friendly
dictionary is a must-have reference for students, educators, and
professionals in the field of media and communication. From
Wikileaks to the telegraph, this dictionary is designed to help
readers understand the latest developments in our media-rich
environment as well as fundamental and historically significant
terms and concepts. The evolving language, theories, and
technologies of the field are explained with extraordinary clarity
in an engaging format. Detailed cross-references are provided
throughout, along with a helpful index.
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