Born Digital: How Children Grow Up in a Digital Age
ISBN: 9780465053926 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first generation of children who were born into and raised in the digital world are coming of age and reshaping the world in their image. Our economy, our politics, our culture, and even the shape of our family life are being transformed. But who are these wired young people? And what is the world they're creating going to look like? In this revised and updated edition, leading Internet and technology experts John Palfrey and Urs Gasser offer a cutting-edge sociological portrait of these young people, who can seem, even to those merely a generation older, both extraordinarily...
The first generation of children who were born into and raised in the digital world are coming of age and reshaping the world in their image. Our econ...
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Chronopoetics: The Temporal Being and Operativity of Technological Media
ISBN: 9781783485710 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wolfgang Ernst has demonstrated that the knowledge of time-giving ('chrono-poetical') media and their temporal essence enriches the tradition of philosophical inquiry into the nature of 'time'. This book, a translated and abridged edition of Ernst's two major volumes, Chronopoetik and Gleichursprunglichkeit, undertakes this on three levels: a close analysis of time-critical moments within media technologies; descriptions of how media temporalities affect and disrupt the traditional human sense of time; and questioning the traditional position of media time within cultural history. The book...
Wolfgang Ernst has demonstrated that the knowledge of time-giving ('chrono-poetical') media and their temporal essence enriches the tradition of philo...
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379,06 zł |
Chronopoetics: The Temporal Being and Operativity of Technological Media
ISBN: 9781783485703 / Angielski / Twarda / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wolfgang Ernst has demonstrated that the knowledge of time-giving ('chrono-poetical') media and their temporal essence enriches the tradition of philosophical inquiry into the nature of 'time'. This book, a translated and abridged edition of Ernst's two major volumes, Chronopoetik and Gleichursprunglichkeit, undertakes this on three levels: a close analysis of time-critical moments within media technologies; descriptions of how media temporalities affect and disrupt the traditional human sense of time; and questioning the traditional position of media time within cultural history. The book...
Wolfgang Ernst has demonstrated that the knowledge of time-giving ('chrono-poetical') media and their temporal essence enriches the tradition of philo...
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1112,56 zł |
Handbook of Research on Comparative Approaches to the Digital Age Revolution in Europe and the Americas
ISBN: 9781466687400 / Angielski / Twarda / 562 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores the new ways that technology is shaping our society and the advances it is bringing, along with potential drawbacks. This handbook features a broad scope of research-based articles on topics including computational thinking, e-portfolios, e-citizenship, digital inclusion policies, and information literacy as a form of community empowerment.
Explores the new ways that technology is shaping our society and the advances it is bringing, along with potential drawbacks. This handbook features a...
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Making a Good Life: An Ethnography of Nature, Ethics, and Reproduction
ISBN: 9780691171753 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Making a Good Life takes a timely look at the ideas and values that inform how people think about reproduction and assisted reproductive technologies. In an era of heightened scrutiny about parenting and reproduction, fears about environmental degradation, and the rise of the biotechnology industry, Katharine Dow delves into the reproductive ethics of those who do not have a personal stake in assisted reproductive technologies, but who are building lives inspired and influenced by environmentalism and concerns about the natural world's future. Moving away from experiences of... Making a Good Life takes a timely look at the ideas and values that inform how people think about reproduction and assisted reproductive tec... |
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149,35 zł |
Making a Good Life: An Ethnography of Nature, Ethics, and Reproduction
ISBN: 9780691167480 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Making a Good Life takes a timely look at the ideas and values that inform how people think about reproduction and assisted reproductive technologies. In an era of heightened scrutiny about parenting and reproduction, fears about environmental degradation, and the rise of the biotechnology industry, Katharine Dow delves into the reproductive ethics of those who do not have a personal stake in assisted reproductive technologies, but who are building lives inspired and influenced by environmentalism and concerns about the natural world's future. Moving away from experiences of... Making a Good Life takes a timely look at the ideas and values that inform how people think about reproduction and assisted reproductive tec... |
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469,39 zł |
Social Media and Social Movements: The Transformation of Communication Patterns
ISBN: 9781498529303 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the increased utilization of social media in daily life and its impact on social movements. The contributors analyze "social media revolutions" such as the Arab Spring, the 15-M movement in Spain, the Occupy Nigeria movement, and the Occupy Gezi movement in Turkey. The contributors to this collection--academics, researchers, and activists--implement diverse methodological approaches, both descriptive and quantitative, to cut across various disciplines, including communication and media studies, cultural studies, politics, sociology, and education.
This book examines the increased utilization of social media in daily life and its impact on social movements. The contributors analyze "social media ...
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501,40 zł |
The Ethics of Invention: Technology and the Human Future
ISBN: 9780393078992 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Technology rules us as much as laws do. It shapes the legal, social, and ethical environments in which we act. Every time we cross a street, drive a car, or go to the doctor, we submit to the silent power of technology. Yet, much of the time, the influence of technology on our lives goes unchallenged by citizens and our elected representatives. In The Ethics of Invention, renowned scholar Sheila Jasanoff dissects the ways in which we delegate power to technological systems and asks how we might regain control. Our embrace of novel technological pathways, Jasanoff shows,... Technology rules us as much as laws do. It shapes the legal, social, and ethical environments in which we act. Every time we cross a street, drive ... |
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117,30 zł |
The Quantified Self
ISBN: 9781509500604 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the advent of digital devices and software, self-tracking practices have gained new adherents and have spread into a wide array of social domains. The Quantified Self movement has emerged to promote 'self-knowledge through numbers'.
In this groundbreaking book Deborah Lupton critically analyses the social, cultural and political dimensions of contemporary self-tracking and identifies the concepts of selfhood and human embodiment and the value of the data that underpin them. The book incorporates discussion of the consolations and frustrations of self-tracking,... With the advent of digital devices and software, self-tracking practices have gained new adherents and have spread into a wide array of social domains...
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85,29 zł |
World Wide Mind: The Coming Integration of Humanity, Machines, and the Internet
ISBN: 9781439119167 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What if digital communication felt as real as being touched? This question led Michael Chorost to explore profound new ideas triggered by lab research around the world, and the result is the book you now hold. Marvelous and momentous, World Wide Mind takes mind-to-mind communication out of the realm of science fiction and reveals how we are on the verge of a radical new understanding of human interaction. Chorost himself has computers in his head that enable him to hear: two cochlear implants. Drawing on that experience, he proposes that our Paleolithic bodies and our Pentium...
What if digital communication felt as real as being touched? This question led Michael Chorost to explore profound new ideas triggered by lab rese...
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72,96 zł |
Care, Power, Information: For the Love of Bluescollarship in the Age of Digital Culture, Bioeconomy, and (Post-)Trumpism
ISBN: 9781138100954 / Angielski / Twarda / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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658,75 zł |
Error and Uncertainty in Scientific Practice
ISBN: 9781138662278 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Assessment of error and uncertainty is a vital component of both natural and social science. This edited volume presents case studies of research practices across a wide spectrum of scientific fields. It compares methodologies and presents the ingredients needed for an overarching framework applicable to all.
Assessment of error and uncertainty is a vital component of both natural and social science. This edited volume presents case studies of research prac...
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263,45 zł |
New Media, Old Media
ISBN: 9781138134911 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New Media, Old Media is a comprehensive anthology of original and classic essays that explore the tensions of old and new in digital culture. Leading international media scholars and cultural theorists interrogate new media like the Internet, digital video, and MP3s against the backdrop of earlier media such as television, film, photography, and print. The essays provide new benchmarks for evaluating all those claims; political, social, ethical, made about the digital age. Committed to historical research and to theoretical innovation, they suggest that in the light of... New Media, Old Media is a comprehensive anthology of original and classic essays that explore the tensions of old and new in digi... |
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658,75 zł |
Power, Surveillance, and Culture in YouTube(TM)'s Digital Sphere
ISBN: 9781466698550 / Angielski / Twarda / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This book 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 an in-depth discussion on cultural studies, participatory experience, and media theory"--
"This book examines the imaginative, socioeconomic, and innovative features of the video sharing community of YouTube and how these areas traverse the...
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1056,66 zł |
Towards a Sustainable Information Society: People, Business and Public Administration Perspectives
ISBN: 9781443886888 / Angielski / Twarda / 405 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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293,85 zł |
The Politics of Innovation: Why Some Countries Are Better Than Others at Science and Technology
ISBN: 9780190464134 / Angielski / Miękka / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why are some countries better than others at science and technology (S&T)? Written in an approachable style, The Politics of Innovation provides readers from all backgrounds and levels of expertise a comprehensive introduction to the debates over national S&T competitiveness. It synthesizes over fifty years of theory and research on national innovation rates, bringing together the current political and economic wisdom, and latest findings, about how nations become S&T leaders. Many experts mistakenly believe that domestic institutions and policies determine national innovation rates....
Why are some countries better than others at science and technology (S&T)? Written in an approachable style, The Politics of Innovation provi...
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176,67 zł |
The Politics of Innovation: Why Some Countries Are Better Than Others at Science and Technology
ISBN: 9780190464127 / Angielski / Twarda / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why are some countries better than others at science and technology (S&T)? Written in an approachable style, The Politics of Innovation provides readers from all backgrounds and levels of expertise a comprehensive introduction to the debates over national S&T competitiveness. It synthesizes over fifty years of theory and research on national innovation rates, bringing together the current political and economic wisdom, and latest findings, about how nations become S&T leaders. Many experts mistakenly believe that domestic institutions and policies determine national innovation rates....
Why are some countries better than others at science and technology (S&T)? Written in an approachable style, The Politics of Innovation provi...
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Undone Science: Social Movements, Mobilized Publics, and Industrial Transitions
ISBN: 9780262529495 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the fields of social movement studies (SMS) and science and technology studies (STS) have diversified in topical focus, they have moved closer to each other. SMS has turned toward the study of nonstate targets and institutionalized repertoires of action, just as STS has turned to expertise and publics. In Undone Science, David Hess argues that a theoretical integration of core concepts in the two fields is now possible, and he presents just such a synthesis. Hess focuses on industrial transition movements -- mobilized counterpublics of activists, advocates, entrepreneurs, and... As the fields of social movement studies (SMS) and science and technology studies (STS) have diversified in topical focus, they have moved closer t... |
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246,79 zł |
Rhetoric and Ethics in the Cybernetic Age: The Transhuman Condition
ISBN: 9781138218741 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It has become increasingly difficult to ignore the ways that the centrality of new media and technologies from the global networking of information systems and social media to new possibilities for altering human genetics seem to make obsolete our traditional ways of thinking about ethics and persuasive communication inherited from earlier humanist paradigms. This book argues that rather than devoting our critical energies towards critiquing humanist touchstones, we should instead examine the ways in which media and technologies have always worked as crucial cultural forces in shaping... It has become increasingly difficult to ignore the ways that the centrality of new media and technologies from the global networking of information... |
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202,64 zł |
I Love My Computer Because My Friends Live in It: Stories from an Online Life
ISBN: 9780762461714 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Get off your phone and read Jess Kimball Leslie's funny book "
---Andy Cohen, host of Bravo's Watch What Happens Live I LOVE MY COMPUTER BECAUSE MY FRIENDS LIVE IN IT is a hilarious memoir of growing up in the early days of the Internet and celebrating technology's role in our lives. Coming of age in suburban Connecticut in the late '80s and early '90s, Jess Kimball Leslie looked to the nascent Internet to find the tribes she couldn't find IRL: fellow Bette Midler fans; women who seemed impossibly sure of their sexuality; interns trudging... "Get off your phone and read Jess Kimball Leslie's funny book " ---Andy Cohen, host of Bravo's Watch What Happens Live |
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84,43 zł |