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Shimmering Screens: Making Media in an Aboriginal Community
ISBN: 9780816649228 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How does the introduction of modern media influence a community? How does technology coexist with tradition? How do reality and imagination converge in the creation of documentary? Jennifer Deger addresses these questions in her compelling study of one Aboriginal community's relationship with media. Deger spent several years working with the Yolngu community in Gapuwiyak, a remote Aboriginal community in Australia, both as an ethnographic researcher and as a collaborator in the production of media. Shimmering Screens explores the place of technology in Gapuwiyak through discussions about the...
How does the introduction of modern media influence a community? How does technology coexist with tradition? How do reality and imagination converge i...
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97,90 |
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Race on the Line: Gender, Labor, and Technology in the Bell System, 1880-1980
ISBN: 9780822325543 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Race on the Line" is the first book to address the convergence of race, gender, and technology in the telephone industry. Venus Green--a former Bell System employee and current labor historian--presents a hundred year history of telephone operators and their work processes, from the invention of the telephone in 1876 to the period immediately before the break-up of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1984. Green shows how, as technology changed from a manual process to a computerized one, sexual and racial stereotypes enabled management to manipulate both the workers and the...
"Race on the Line" is the first book to address the convergence of race, gender, and technology in the telephone industry. Venus Green--a former Bell ...
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509,37 |
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Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life
ISBN: 9780898759839 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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127,32 |
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How Computer Games Help Children Learn
ISBN: 9781403975058 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How can we make sure that our children are learning to be creative thinkers in a world of global competition - and what does that mean for the future of education in the digital age? David Williamson Shaffer offers a fresh and powerful perspective on computer games and learning. How Computer Games Help Children Learn shows how video and computer games can help teach children to build successful futures - but only if we think in new ways about education itself. Shaffer shows how computer and video games can help students learn to think like engineers, urban planners, journalists, lawyers, and...
How can we make sure that our children are learning to be creative thinkers in a world of global competition - and what does that mean for the future ...
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201,24 |
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Growing Up Online: Young People and Digital Technologies
ISBN: 9781403978141 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this cutting-edge anthology, contributors examine the diverse ways in which girls and young women across a variety of ethnic, socio-economic, and national backgounds use digital technology in their everyday lives. They explore identity development, how young women interact with technology, and how race, class, and identity influence game play.
In this cutting-edge anthology, contributors examine the diverse ways in which girls and young women across a variety of ethnic, socio-economic, and n...
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201,24 |
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Small Screen
ISBN: 9781405161558 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Television is one of the most important socializing forces in contemporary culture. This book is a cultural history of prime-time television in America during the 1990s.
Television is one of the most important socializing forces in contemporary culture. This book is a cultural history of prime-time television in Americ...
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175,02 |
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Subliminal Communication Technology
ISBN: 9781410225900 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These are the transcripts and reports from a U.S. House of Representatives hearing held in 1984 on subliminal communication technology---the process by which an individual is presented with information without that individual being made aware specifically of that information, but to which they make a selective response. The message, which is usually in the form of words, pictures or voices, is presented so rapidly or faintly that the person seeing or hearing the message is not consciously aware of seeing or hearing anything.
These are the transcripts and reports from a U.S. House of Representatives hearing held in 1984 on subliminal communication technology---the process b...
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127,32 |
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Learning and Knowledge for the Network Society
ISBN: 9781557533562 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Learning and Knowledge for the Network Society discusses technology, policy and manageA-ment in a context much influenced by a dynamic of change and a necessary balance between the creation and diffusion of knowledge. It is largely grounded on empirical experiences of different regional and national contexts and addresses the dynamics of the process of knowledge accumulation, which drives a learning society. This fact is reflected in the trend in developed economies towards an increasing investment in advanced technology, research and development, education, and culture, but also in the...
Learning and Knowledge for the Network Society discusses technology, policy and manageA-ment in a context much influenced by a dynamic of change and a...
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284,07 |
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Connecting People, Ideas, and Resources Across Communities : International Series on Technology Policy and Innovation
ISBN: 9781557534484 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The challenge of connecting people, ideas, and resources across communities stems from the quest for competition in a global world, at the same time that the basic infrastructure to foster wealth creation is asymmetrically distributed across regions of the globe.
The challenge of connecting people, ideas, and resources across communities stems from the quest for competition in a global world, at the same time t...
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293,86 |
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Swinging the Machine: Modernity, Technology, and African American Culture between the World Wars
ISBN: 9781558493834 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An innovative study of the influence of black popular culture on modern American life
An innovative study of the influence of black popular culture on modern American life
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141,98 |
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Choices at the Heart of Technology
ISBN: 9781563382871 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What really drives the technologies that dominate our modern world? Ruth Conway here brings under scrutiny: the deceptive dreams of development, the masculine "voice and structure" of so much technology, the obsession with control that obliterates both recognition of human fallibility and sensitivity to the needs of "the other," the inadequacies of technologies that fail to take account of the "wholeness" of life and what might constitute "justice" (right relationships) within the human community and with nature, and the impact of information and communication technologies on our ways of...
What really drives the technologies that dominate our modern world? Ruth Conway here brings under scrutiny: the deceptive dreams of development, the m...
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194,85 |
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Individualism Old and New
ISBN: 9781573926935 / Angielski / Miękka / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. America's most renowned social philosopher John Dewey shines his powerful intellect on the serious public and cultural issues surrounding the place of the individual in a technologically advanced society. In this penetrating study, he addresses the fear that personal creative potential will be trampled by assembly-line monotony, political bureaucracy, and an industrialized culture of uniformity. Armed with his pragmatic approach and his belief in the power of critical intelligence, Dewey argues that individualism has in fact been offered a uniquely higher plane of technological development...
America's most renowned social philosopher John Dewey shines his powerful intellect on the serious public and cultural issues surrounding the place of...
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76,83 |
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Flying Down to Rio
ISBN: 9781585443826 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, author Rosalie Schwartz uses the 1933 RKORadio Pictures production Flying Down to Rio to examine the interplay of technology and popular culture that shaped a distinctive twentiethcentury sensibility. The musical comedy connected airplanes, movies, and tourism, ending spectacularly with chorus girls dancing on the wings of airplanes high above Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The Hollywood fantasy capped three decades during which airplanes and movies engendered new expectations and redefined peoples sense of wellbeing, their personal satisfactions, and their interpersonal... In this book, author Rosalie Schwartz uses the 1933 RKORadio Pictures production Flying Down to Rio to examine the interplay of technology and popular...
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244,89 |
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Flying Down to Rio: Hollywood, Tourists, and Yankee Clippers
ISBN: 9781585444212 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, author Rosalie Schwartz uses the 1933 RKORadio Pictures production Flying Down to Rio to examine the interplay of technology and popular culture that shaped a distinctive twentiethcentury sensibility. The musical comedy connected airplanes, movies, and tourism, ending spectacularly with chorus girls dancing on the wings of airplanes high above Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Hollywood fantasy capped three decades during which airplanes and movies engendered new expectations and redefined peoples sense of wellbeing, their personal satisfactions, and their interpersonal...
In this book, author Rosalie Schwartz uses the 1933 RKORadio Pictures production Flying Down to Rio to examine the interplay of technology and popular...
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97,90 |
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New Technologies in Global Societies
ISBN: 9789812568120 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book investigates the process of negotiation between societies and information and communication technologies (ICTs); how ICTs evolve in this global world, transforming the organization of everyday life as well as the production of technologies. It analyzes how societies mediate the quantity and quality of technologies needed and how these technologies are in turn metabolized by societies. In the globalization process, technological products that originate from European cultures undergo a resemanticization process by Asian users. Adaptation and transformation of the meaning of ICTs...
This book investigates the process of negotiation between societies and information and communication technologies (ICTs); how ICTs evolve in this glo...
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519,16 |
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The Information Society: Issues and Illusions
ISBN: 9780745603698 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides an overview of debates about whether we are entering into a phase of social existence without precedent - the 'information society'. Intended as a bridge between the literatures of 'social theory' and the 'social impact of technology', this study exposes the myths surrounding the creation of the information society, discussing technologies such as cable TV and robotics.
This book provides an overview of debates about whether we are entering into a phase of social existence without precedent - the 'information society'...
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87,59 |
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Globalization and the Future of African Languages
ISBN: 9789780668006 / Angielski / Miękka / 475 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Leading scholars of African languages address the many new ways that ICT have relevance to African languages for growth, development and sustenance; while at the same time showing the imperative of facing the future of these languages. The scholars present the challenges of modernity, and suggest means and methods of copying these these through the exploitation of resources. The fifteen contributions are organized in four main parts: ICT & Globalization; Sociolinguistics; Applied Linguistics; and Syntax & Phonology. Francis Ogbokhare is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Ibadan,...
Leading scholars of African languages address the many new ways that ICT have relevance to African languages for growth, development and sustenance; w...
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299,09 |
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Small Screen
ISBN: 9781405161541 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Television is one of the most important socializing forces in contemporary culture. This book is a cultural history of prime-time television in America during the 1990s.
Television is one of the most important socializing forces in contemporary culture. This book is a cultural history of prime-time television in Americ...
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422,49 |
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The Menace of Atomic Energy
ISBN: 9780393009200 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, Ralph Nader and John Abbotts replace the myth of nuclear energy with a clear description of the technology and its attendant perils. They analyze the performance of the atomic energy industry as it affects workers, consumers, taxpayers, and future generations. They take the reader step by step through the political thicket of atomic energy from the local community level to international relations. Decisions now being made about nuclear power will have far-reaching effects upon our economy, our institutions, and our freedom. Above all, this book emphasizes that such choices must...
In this book, Ralph Nader and John Abbotts replace the myth of nuclear energy with a clear description of the technology and its attendant perils. The...
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107,71 |
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Becoming Beside Ourselves: The Alphabet, Ghosts, and Distributed Human Being
ISBN: 9780822341833 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Theoretical study of the relationship between technoscience and the human body that examines the ways in which bodies and machines "speak" not just through language but also through gesture, numbers, and other non-alphabetic systems of expressio
Theoretical study of the relationship between technoscience and the human body that examines the ways in which bodies and machines "speak" not just th...
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445,69 |
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