The Virtual
ISBN: 9780415281805 / Angielski / Twarda / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Showing how the construction of virtual worlds has a long history, Rob Shields looks at the origins and the many contemporary meanings of the virtual. He examines the many forms of faith and hysteria that have surrounded computer technologies and, moving beyond the technologies themselves, he shows how the virtual plays a role in our daily lives at every level. The virtual is also an essential concept needed to manage innovation and risk. It is real but not actual, ideal but not abstract. The virtual, he argues has become one of the key organizing principles of contemporary society in the...
Showing how the construction of virtual worlds has a long history, Rob Shields looks at the origins and the many contemporary meanings of the virtual....
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891,96 zł |
The Internet in Indonesia's New Democracy
ISBN: 9780415285643 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text provides a detailed study of the legal, economic, political and cultural practices surrounding the provision and consumption of the internet in Indonesia at the turn of the twenty-first century. Hill and Sen detail the emergence of the Internet into Indonesia in the mid-1990s, and cover its growth through the dramatic economic and political crises of 1997 and the subsequent transition to democracy. Conceptually the Internet is seen as a global phenomenon, with global implications, however this book develops a way of thinking about the Internet within the limits of geo-political...
This text provides a detailed study of the legal, economic, political and cultural practices surrounding the provision and consumption of the internet...
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472,16 zł |
Key Thinkers for the Information Society: Volume One
ISBN: 9780415296724 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 communication technologies.
Key Thinkers for the Information Society provides an introduction to some important social theorists whose work has considerable relevance to today's ...
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760,80 zł |
Key Thinkers for the Information Society: Volume One
ISBN: 9780415296731 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 communication technologies. With the aim of widening current perspectives on the information society, each contributor introduces a particular theorist and discusses the way in which their insights can be reintroduced into debates regarding the social, political and cultural impact of ICTs. Theorists presented in Volume 1 include some well-known and some less well-known figures: Walter Benjamin;...
Key Thinkers for the Information Society provides an introduction to some important social theorists whose work has considerable relevance to...
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246,55 zł |
Cyberprotest: New Media, Citizens and Social Movements
ISBN: 9780415297844 / Angielski / Twarda / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ever since the anti-globalisation protests in Seattle in 1999 the adoption of new information and communications technologies (ICTs) by social movement activists has offered the prospect for the development of global cyberprotest. The Internet with its transnational many-to-many communication facility offers a revolutionary potential for social movements to go online and circumvent the 'official' messages of political and commercial organisations and the traditional media, by speaking directly to the citizens of the world. Furthermore the use of electronic mail (e-mail), mailing lists,...
Ever since the anti-globalisation protests in Seattle in 1999 the adoption of new information and communications technologies (ICTs) by social movemen...
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760,80 zł |
The Information Society Reader
ISBN: 9780415319270 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There has been much debate over the idea of 'the information society'. Some thinkers have argued that information is becoming the key ordering principle in society, whereas others suggest that the rise of information has been overstated. Whatever the case, it cannot be denied that 'informization' has produced vast changes in advanced societies. The Information Society Reader pulls together the main contributions to this debate from some of the key figures in the field. Major topics addressed include:
* post-industrialism * surveillance * transformations * the network... There has been much debate over the idea of 'the information society'. Some thinkers have argued that information is becoming the key ordering princip...
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944,43 zł |
National Governments and Control of the Internet: A Digital Challenge
ISBN: 9780415331364 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores and compares why and to what extent, national governments decide to control the Internet and how this impacts on crucial socio-economic activities and fundamental civil rights.
This book explores and compares why and to what extent, national governments decide to control the Internet and how this impacts on crucial socio-econ...
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194,08 zł |
Information Warfare in Business: Strategies of Control and Resistance in the Network Society
ISBN: 9780415339681 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Information Warfare in Business provides a significant and interesting perspective on the concept of the network organization. It illustrates the relations between information technology and organization, and in particular, between business organizations and the recent revolution in military affairs that has been called 'information warfare'. The main themes discussed include the network society, knowledge management, nomadic strategy, information warfare, power and identity.
Information Warfare in Business provides a significant and interesting perspective on the concept of the network organization. It illustrates...
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708,33 zł |
Cell Phone Culture : Mobile Technology in Everyday Life
ISBN: 9780415367431 / Angielski / Twarda / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cell phones and mobile technologies are omnipresent in everyday life, yet the cultural implications of mobile phones have been neglected. This book aims to fill this gap, providing the first comprehensive, accessible, and international introduction to cell phone culture and theory. It offers a clear yet sophisticated overview of mobile telecommunications, putting the technology in historical and technical context." Cell Phone Culture "is a fascinating biography of an important cultural object, that adopts an integrated, multiperspectival approach to the cultural and social shaping of...
Cell phones and mobile technologies are omnipresent in everyday life, yet the cultural implications of mobile phones have been neglected. This book ai...
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708,33 zł |
Personal Mobilities
ISBN: 9780415391597 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Living in a contemporary developed society means having access to a myriad of ways to communicate. One can either use public or private transport to meet others and talk face to face, or use a variety of communication networks, like mobile or fixed telephones or the internet, to travel virtually. Personal Mobilities provides a systematic study of personal movement focusing on the dimensions of space, individuals, societies and technologies. Kellerman examines a variety of personal mobilities, including air transportation, through several perspectives, examining the human... Living in a contemporary developed society means having access to a myriad of ways to communicate. One can either use public or private transport t... |
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508,89 zł |
Cyberactivism: Online Activism in Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9780415943192 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The internet played a central role in some of the most memorable instances of contemporary political activism. On-line information sites enabled more than 70,000 protestors to come together to take on the World Trade Organization at the Battle of Seattle in 1999; similar ad-hoc groups were assembled at the April 2000 World Bank protests in Washington, DC, at George W. Bush's inauguration and at the World Economic Forum in New York.
The internet played a central role in some of the most memorable instances of contemporary political activism. On-line information sites enabled more ...
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708,33 zł |
Cyberactivism: Online Activism in Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9780415943208 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The internet played a central role in some of the most memorable instances of contemporary political activism. On-line information sites enabled more than 70,000 protestors to come together to take on the World Trade Organization at the Battle of Seattle in 1999; similar ad-hoc groups were assembled at the April 2000 World Bank protests in Washington, D.C., at George W. Bush's inauguration, and most recently at the World Economic Forum in New York. This book examines the growing importance of online activism. The contributors show how online activists have used new technologies as a tool for...
The internet played a central role in some of the most memorable instances of contemporary political activism. On-line information sites enabled more ...
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194,08 zł |
The Politics of the Internet in Third World Development : Challenges in Contrasting Regimes with Case Studies of Costa Rica and Cuba
ISBN: 9780415949590 / Angielski / Twarda / 321 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the political and developmental implications of the new information and communication technologies (NICT) in the Developing World.
This book examines the political and developmental implications of the new information and communication technologies (NICT) in the Developing World.
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188,83 zł |
Elsevier's Dictionary of Information Security
ISBN: 9780444517708 / Angielski / Twarda / 772 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The dictionary will contain terms currently used in the broad fields of electronics data protection and data management in today's interconnected world - the Global Village. The terminology will cover all aspects of the modern technology's best practices in multiple subfields, namely: physical (hardware and perimeter) security, wired and wireless telecommunication infrastructure security, internet (e-commerce and business-to-business) security, anti-virus and anti-spyware applications, virtual private networking, theory and practices of cryptography, corporate security policies'methodology,...
The dictionary will contain terms currently used in the broad fields of electronics data protection and data management in today's interconnected worl...
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1596,25 zł |
Handbook of Network and System Administration
ISBN: 9780444521989 / Angielski / Twarda / 1028 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. System administration is about the design, running and maintenance of human-computer systems. Examples of human-computer systems include business enterprises, service institutions and any extensive machinery that is operated by, or interacts with human beings. System administration is often thought of as the technological side of a system: the architecture, construction and optimization of the collaborating parts, but it also occasionally touches on softer factors such as user assistance (help desks), ethical considerations in deploying a system, and the larger implications of its design for...
System administration is about the design, running and maintenance of human-computer systems. Examples of human-computer systems include business ente...
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944,43 zł |
Social Theory and Philosophy for Information Systems
ISBN: 9780470851173 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As Information Systems matures as a discipline, there is a gradual move away from pure statistics towards consideration of alternative approaches and philosophies. This has not been incorporated into the literature of the field. Until now. Collecting major social theorists and philosophers into one volume, Social Theory and Philosophy for Information Systems provides a historical and critical analysis of each that is both authoritative and firmly focused on practical relevance to IS. The result is an insightful text for researchers, academics and students that will provide an...
As Information Systems matures as a discipline, there is a gradual move away from pure statistics towards consideration of alternative approaches and ...
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369,77 zł |
Software-Enabled Control: Information Technology for Dynamical Systems
ISBN: 9780471234364 / Angielski / Twarda / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych.
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949,68 zł |
Information Technology: Strategic Decision-Making for Managers
ISBN: 9780471652939 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Managers must be able to keep pace with the latest technological advances and make decisions on what needs to be implemented. This book gives them the tools to effectively manage technology in a 21st Century organization. The author clearly demonstrates how to best allocate resources to and within the technology function.
Managers must be able to keep pace with the latest technological advances and make decisions on what needs to be implemented. This book gives them the...
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1057,81 zł |
RFID Applied
ISBN: 9780471793656 / Angielski / Twarda / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Radio frequency identification or RFID is a broad-based technology that impacts business and society. With the rapid expansion of the use of this technology in everything from consumer purchases to security ID tags, to tracking bird migration, there is very little information available in book form that targets the widest range of the potential market. But this book is different! Where most of the books available cover specific technical underpinnings of RFID or specific segments of the market, this co-authored book by both academic and industry professionals, provides a broad background on...
Radio frequency identification or RFID is a broad-based technology that impacts business and society. With the rapid expansion of the use of this tech...
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668,01 zł |
Information Tectonics: Space, Place and Technology in an Electronic Age
ISBN: 9780471984276 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Information Tectonics spatial organization in the electronic age The rapid development and diffusion of information technologies - telecommunications, computers, the Internet - is profoundly changing the character, and structure of interaction at the local, national and international level. Information technology is usually viewed as a technical issue, with analysis focusing on hardware, software and engineering concerns for efficient management and operation. Lost from much of the debate and discussion over information technology is the role of geography and the spatial context of...
Information Tectonics spatial organization in the electronic age The rapid development and diffusion of information technologies - telecommunications,...
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1060,14 zł |