The Internet: A Philosophical Inquiry
ISBN: 9780415197496 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What should we think about the digital revolution in information technology? Can there be communities in cyberspace? Should we control freedom of expression on the Internet? This text offers a concise philosophical exploration of questions such as these and more.
What should we think about the digital revolution in information technology? Can there be communities in cyberspace? Should we control freedom of expr...
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Mapping Cyberspace
ISBN: 9780415198837 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mapping Cyberspace is a ground-breaking geographic exploration and critical reading of cyberspace, and information and communication technologies. The book:
* provides an understanding of what cyberspace looks like and the social interactions that occur there * explores the impacts of cyberspace, and information and communication technologies, on cultural, political and economic relations * charts the spatial forms of virutal spaces * details empirical research and examines a wide variety of maps and spatialisations of cyberspace and the information society * has a... Mapping Cyberspace is a ground-breaking geographic exploration and critical reading of cyberspace, and information and communication technolo...
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892,02 zł |
Mapping Cyberspace
ISBN: 9780415198844 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Space is central to our lives. Because of this, much attention is directed at understanding and explaining the geographic world. This text extends this analysis to provide a geographic exploration and critical reading of cyberspace and information and communication technologies. The author provides an understanding of what cyberspace looks like and the social interactions that take place there and explores the impacts of cyberspace - information and communication technologies - on cultural, political and economic relations.
Space is central to our lives. Because of this, much attention is directed at understanding and explaining the geographic world. This text extends thi...
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270,10 zł |
Internet
ISBN: 9780415352253 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lorenzo Cantoni and Stefano Tardini's absorbing introduction considers the internet as a communication technology; the opportunities it affords us, the limitations it imposes and the functions it allows. From music to gaming, information gathering to eLearning; eCommerce to eGovernment.
"Internet" explores: - the political economy of the internet - hypertext - computer mediated communication - websites as communication - conceptualizing users of the internet - internet communities and practices Lorenzo Cantoni and Stefano Tardini's absorbing introduction considers the internet as a communication technology; the opportunities it affords us, th...
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423,01 zł |
Studying Using the Web: The Student's Guide to Using the Ultimate Information Resource
ISBN: 9780415403726 / Angielski / Twarda / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Anyone can type a few keywords into a search engine. But that's only the beginning. With Studying Using the Web you can find the right material, check its authenticity, transform it into your own original work and keep up-to-date on essential topics. The book is about how to find the right information, and making the most of it. It shows you how to:
Anyone can type a few keywords into a search engine. But that's only the beginning. With Studying Using the Web you can find the right mat... |
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739,10 zł |
The Politics of Cyberspace: A New Political Science Reader
ISBN: 9780415921671 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Providing an overview of the impact of the World Wide Web on the political process, author Chris Toulouse organizes the articles in this text according to their theoretical approach - those who take up Habermas's concern with civil society and those who take up the postmodern critique of popular culture. The book covers key issues such as the potential for electronic democracy, the use of the Web by mainstream political parties, challenges to the First Amendment, inequalities of access, and new understandings of gender. It also calls for progressive intellectuals to embrace the Internet in...
Providing an overview of the impact of the World Wide Web on the political process, author Chris Toulouse organizes the articles in this text accordin...
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147,77 zł |
The Digital Songstream: Mastering the World of Digital Music
ISBN: 9780415942034 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A practical guide to getting up and running in the new digital world of music. Cutting through myths, it offers a step-by-step introduction to what's possible for performers, composers, and listeners-addressing legal and ethical issues as well as the nuts and bolts of what equipment to buy and what services are available.
A practical guide to getting up and running in the new digital world of music. Cutting through myths, it offers a step-by-step introduction to what's ...
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163,07 zł |
Future Active: Media Activism and the Internet
ISBN: 9780415943222 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The revolution will not be televised. But will it be online instead? When the Internet first took off, we heard a lot about its potential for social change. We heard it would revitalize democracy. We heard it would empower us. We heard we would all be publishers, working together to created a new public sphere. Future Active tests such claims. With fierce intelligence and wit, Graham Meikle takes us behind the digital barricades and into the heart of Internet activist campaigns. In the first in-depth look at this global phenomenon, the author talks to key players in the Indymedia movement and...
The revolution will not be televised. But will it be online instead? When the Internet first took off, we heard a lot about its potential for social c...
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188,55 zł |
Feminist Utopian Novels of the 1970s: Joanna Russ and Dorothy Bryant
ISBN: 9780415967877 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text presents an exploration of the reinvented Utopia that provided second-wave feminists of the 1970s with a conceptual space to articulate the politics of change. Tatiana Teslenko argues that Utopian fiction of this decade offered a means of validating the personal as the political, and of criticizing the patriarchical social order. In her examination of two novels of the 70s - Dorothy Bryant's The Kin of Ata are Waiting for You and Joanna Russ's The Female Man - Teslenko provides a comprehensive account of the generic strategy of feminist Utopian fiction. women while working with the...
This text presents an exploration of the reinvented Utopia that provided second-wave feminists of the 1970s with a conceptual space to articulate the ...
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662,64 zł |
Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet
ISBN: 9780415970211 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Religion Online provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to this burgeoning new religious reality, from cyberpilgrimages to neo-pagan chatroom communities. A substantial introduction by the editors presenting the main themes and issues is followed by sixteen chapters addressing core issues of concern such as youth, religion and the internet, new religious movements and recruitment, propaganda and the countercult, and religious tradition and innovation.
Religion Online provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to this burgeoning new religious reality, from cyberpilgrimages to neo-...
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662,64 zł |
Religion Online : Finding Faith on the Internet
ISBN: 9780415970228 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Religion Online provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to online religion, from cyberpilgrimages to neo-pagan chatroom communities.
Religion Online provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to online religion, from cyberpilgrimages to neo-pagan chatroom communities.
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188,55 zł |
Zero Comments: Blogging and Critical Internet Culture
ISBN: 9780415973151 / Angielski / Twarda / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Zero Comments, internationally renowned media theorist and 'net critic' Geert Lovink revitalizes worn out concepts about the Internet and interrogates the latest hype surrounding blogs and social network sites. In this third volume of his studies into critical Internet culture, following the influential Dark Fiber and My First Recession, Lovink develops a 'general theory of blogging.' He unpacks the ways that blogs exhibit a 'nihilist impulse' to empty out established meaning structures. Blogs, Lovink argues, are bringing about the decay of traditional... In Zero Comments, internationally renowned media theorist and 'net critic' Geert Lovink revitalizes worn out concepts about the Internet a... |
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662,64 zł |
Zero Comments: Blogging and Critical Internet Culture
ISBN: 9780415973168 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Zero Comments, internationally renowned media theorist and 'net critic' Geert Lovink revitalizes worn out concepts about the Internet and interrogates the latest hype surrounding blogs and social network sites. In this third volume of his studies into critical Internet culture, following the influential Dark Fiber and My First Recession, Lovink develops a 'general theory of blogging.' He unpacks the ways that blogs exhibit a 'nihilist impulse' to empty out established meaning structures. Blogs, Lovink argues, are bringing about the decay of traditional... In Zero Comments, internationally renowned media theorist and 'net critic' Geert Lovink revitalizes worn out concepts about the Internet a... |
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188,55 zł |
Blogging, Citizenship, and the Future of Media
ISBN: 9780415979399 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of original essays addresses a number of questions seeking to increase our understanding of the role of blogs in the contemporary media landscape. It takes a provocative look at how blogs are reshaping culture, media, and politics while offering multiple theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches to the study. Americans are increasingly turning to blogs for news, information, and entertainment. But what is the content of blogs? Who writes them? What is the consequence of the population's growing dependence on blogs for political information? What are the... This collection of original essays addresses a number of questions seeking to increase our understanding of the role of blogs in the contemporary m... |
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662,64 zł |
Blogging, Citizenship, and the Future of Media
ISBN: 9780415979405 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of original essays addresses a number of questions seeking to increase our understanding of the role of blogs in the contemporary media landscape. It takes a provocative look at how blogs are reshaping culture, media, and politics while offering multiple theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches to the study. Americans are increasingly turning to blogs for news, information, and entertainment. But what is the content of blogs? Who writes them? What is the consequence of the population's growing dependence on blogs for political information? What are the... This collection of original essays addresses a number of questions seeking to increase our understanding of the role of blogs in the contemporary m... |
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198,74 zł |
1001 Incredible Things to Do on the Internet
ISBN: 9780446678810 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. According to author Ken Leebow the Internet should be fun, but for many it is a frustrating place that often disappoints them. This guide to the Internet offers useful tips on making the whole thing work faster and in a more satisfying manner.
According to author Ken Leebow the Internet should be fun, but for many it is a frustrating place that often disappoints them. This guide to the Inter...
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77,64 zł |
The Competitive Internet Service Provider: Network Architecture, Interconnection, Traffic Engineering and Network Design
ISBN: 9780470012932 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Due to the dramatic increase in competition over the last few years, it has become more and more important for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to run an efficient business and offer an adequate Quality of Service. The Competitive Internet Service Provider is a comprehensive guide for those seeking to do just that.
Oliver Heckmann approaches the issue from a system point of view, looking not only at running a network, but also at connecting the network with peering and transit partners or planning the expansion of the network. The Competitive Internet Service Provider:... Due to the dramatic increase in competition over the last few years, it has become more and more important for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to ru...
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611,39 zł |
Internet Measurement: Infrastructure, Traffic and Applications
ISBN: 9780470014615 / Angielski / Twarda / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although the Internet is now a planet-wide communication medium, we have remarkably little quantitative understanding of it. This ground breaking book provides a comprehensive overview of the important field of Internet Measurement, and includes a first detailed look at three areas:
* measurements of Internet infrastructure: routers, links, network connectivity and bandwidth, * measurements of traffic on the Internet: packets, bytes, flows, sessions, etc., * measurements of various key Internet applications: DNS, Web, Peer-to-Peer, and networked games. Each... Although the Internet is now a planet-wide communication medium, we have remarkably little quantitative understanding of it. This ground breaking book...
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300,42 zł |
The Web's Awake: An Introduction to the Field of Web Science and the Concept of Web Life
ISBN: 9780470137949 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The central thesis of The Web's Awake is that the phenomenal growth and complexity of the web is beginning to outstrip our capability to control it directly. Many have worked on the concept of emergent properties within highly complex systems, concentrating heavily on the underlying mechanics concerned. Few, however, have studied the fundamentals involved from a sociotechnical perspective. In short, the virtual anatomy of the Web remains relatively uninvestigated. The Web's Awake attempts to seriously explore this gap, citing a number of provocative, yet objective, similarities...
The central thesis of The Web's Awake is that the phenomenal growth and complexity of the web is beginning to outstrip our capability to contro...
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369,95 zł |
Modeling the Internet and the Web: Probabilistic Methods and Algorithms
ISBN: 9780470849064 / Angielski / Twarda / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Modeling the Internet and the Web covers the most important aspects of modeling the Web using a modern mathematical and probabilistic treatment. It focuses on the information and application layers, as well as some of the emerging properties of the Internet.
Provides a comprehensive introduction to the modeling of the Internet and the Web at the information level. Modeling the Internet and the Web covers the most important aspects of modeling the Web using a modern mathematical and probabilistic treatment. It fo...
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461,16 zł |