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If you’re a tech company, the most dramatic effect of megatrends like cloud computing, managed services, and the rise of consumer technology won’t be felt in your company’s product line. The true di……続きを見る

This study seeks to explain three models of network governance embedded in digital practices that the mainstream monotheistic religionsーJudaism, Catholic Christianity, and Islamーhave used to lead ……続きを見る

Social media penetrate our lives: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and many other platforms define daily habits of communication and creative production. This book studies the rise of social media, provid……続きを見る

The rousing story of the last gasp of human agency and how today’s best and brightest minds are endeavoring to put an end to it. It used to be that to diagnose an illness, interpret legal documents,……続きを見る

“Engineers create many of the inventions that shape our society, and as such they play a vital role in determining how we live. This new book does an outstanding job of filling in the knowledge and ……続きを見る

**A witty, often terrifying that chronicles our transformation into a society that is shaped by technologyーfrom the acclaimed author of Amusing Ourselves to Death. "A provocative book ... A tool fo……続きを見る

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “The Social Network, the much anticipated movie…adapted from Ben Mezrich’s book The Accidental Billionaires.” ーThe New York Times Best friends Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerber……続きを見る

As historians of science increasingly turn to work on recent (post 1945) science, the historiographical and methodological problems associated with the history of contemporary science are debated wi……続きを見る

Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life examines the construction, manipulation and re-definition of life in contemporary technoscientific culture. It takes a critical political view of the concept of lif……続きを見る

Short description The 'Power of Facebook' explains every aspect of this mighty internet company. The Power of Facebook is precisely taken apart and reassembled in a comprehensive journalistic fashio……続きを見る

The Polish writer Stanisław Lem is best known to English-speaking readers as the author of the 1961 science fiction novel Solaris, adapted into a meditative film by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972 and rema……続きを見る

“Human beings have been smart enough to turn nature to their ends, generate vast wealth for themselves, and double their average life span. But are they smart enough to solve the problems of the 21s……続きを見る

This text is a critical and empirically-based introduction to disability studies. It offers a comprehensive, book-length analysis of disability through the lens of Science and Technology Studies (ST……続きを見る

"A marvelous job of exploring first hand the implications of storing our entire lives digitally." -Guy L. Tribble, Apple, Inc. Tech luminary, Gordon Bell, and Jim Gemmell unveil a guide to the next ……続きを見る

What knowledge and skills do designers of learning technologies need? What is the best way to train them to create high-quality educational technologies? Distilling the wisdom of expert instructors ……続きを見る

This edited collection reports the results of a comparative study of video surveillance/CCTV in Germany, Poland, and Sweden. It investigates how video surveillance as technologically mediated social……続きを見る

Museum Informatics explores the sociotechnical issues that arise when people, information, and technology interact in museums. It is designed specifically to address the many challenges faced by mus……続きを見る

The author explores the work of major thinkers and cultural movements that have grappled with the complex relationship between technology, politics and culture. Subjects such as the Internet, clonin……続きを見る

In this book Adam Banks uses the concept of the Digital Divide as a metonym for America's larger racial divide, in an attempt to figure out what meaningful access for African Americans to technologi……続きを見る

Over the past decade, 24/7 connectivity has given us not only convenience and fun but worries about privacy, interruptions while working or trying to enjoy family or other downtime, and new compulsi……続きを見る

Key Thinkers for the Information Society provides an introduction to some important social theorists whose work has considerable relevance to today's 'brave new world' of information and communicati……続きを見る

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER A programmer, musician, and father of virtual reality technology, Jaron Lanier was a pioneer in digital media, and among the first to predict the revolutionary changes it would……続きを見る

The inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era, an international authority on artificial intelligence, and bestselling author of The Singularity is Nearer now offers a fram……続きを見る

A revelatory and timely look at how technology boosts our cognitive abilitiesーmaking us smarter, more productive, and more creative than ever It’s undeniableーtechnology is changing the way we thin……続きを見る

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, social ……続きを見る

From the director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratoryー“a stimulating book written by one of the major players in the fieldーperhaps the major player.... Offers surprisingly deep glimpses ……続きを見る

It has become increasingly difficult to ignore the ways that the centrality of new media and technologies ー from the global networking of information systems and social media to new possibilities f……続きを見る

Nothing seems more far removed from the visceral, bodily experience of emotions than the cold, rational technology of the Internet. But as this collection shows, the internet and emotions intersect ……続きを見る

This volume gives language teachers, software designers, and researchers who wish to use technology in second or foreign language education the information they need to absorb what has been achieved……続きを見る

A revolutionary new theory showing how we can predict human behavior-from a radical genius and bestselling author Can we scientifically predict our future? Scientists and pseudo scientists have been……続きを見る