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Digital Dead End
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Author : Virginia Eubanks
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2012-09-21
Digital Dead End written by Virginia Eubanks and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-21 with Technology & Engineering categories.
The realities of the high-tech global economy for women and families in the United States. The idea that technology will pave the road to prosperity has been promoted through both boom and bust. Today we are told that universal broadband access, high-tech jobs, and cutting-edge science will pull us out of our current economic downturn and move us toward social and economic equality. In Digital Dead End, Virginia Eubanks argues that to believe this is to engage in a kind of magical thinking: a technological utopia will come about simply because we want it to. This vision of the miraculous power of high-tech development is driven by flawed assumptions about race, class, and gender. The realities of the information age are more complicated, particularly for poor and working-class women and families. For them, information technology can be both a tool of liberation and a means of oppression. But despite the inequities of the high-tech global economy, optimism and innovation flourished when Eubanks worked with a community of resourceful women living at her local YWCA. Eubanks describes a new approach to creating a broadly inclusive and empowering “technology for people,” popular technology, which entails shifting the focus from teaching technical skill to nurturing critical technological citizenship, building resources for learning, and fostering social movement. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images found in the physical edition.
Dead End In Norvelt
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Author : Jack Gantos
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-04-26
Dead End In Norvelt written by Jack Gantos and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-26 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Jack's summer has hit a dead end . . . After being 'grounded for life', Jack is facing a summer of doing nothing. But who's got time to die of boredom when there are so many more interesting ways to die in this town? He might crash in his dad's homemade plane, or catch the disease that makes you dance yourself to death, or fall foul of the motorcycle gang that wants to burn the town to the ground. Old people seem to be dying faster than Miss Volker can write their obituaries, and Jack is starting to worry that it might not just be the rats that are eating the rat poison . . . Dead End in Norvelt is Jack Gantos's hilarious blend of the entirely true and the wildly fictional, from one of the most darkly amusing imaginations writing today.
Dead End Lives
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Author : Briggs, Daniel
language : en
Publisher: Policy Press
Release Date : 2017-11-08
Dead End Lives written by Briggs, Daniel and has been published by Policy Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-08 with Social Science categories.
“Julia” nervously emerges from her shabby tent in the suburban wastelands on the outskirts of Madrid to face another day of survival in one of Europe’s most problematic ghettos: she is homeless, wanted by the police, and addicted to heroin and cocaine. She is also five months pregnant and rarely makes contact with support services. Welcome to the city shadows in Valdemingómez: a lawless landscape of drugs and violence where the third world meets the Wild West. Briggs and Monge entered this area with only their patience, some cigarettes and a mobile phone and collected vivid testimonies and images of Julia and others like her who live there. This important book documents what they found, locating these people's stories and situations in a political, economic and social context of spatial inequality and oppressive mechanisms of social control.
Digital Samaritans
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Author : Jim Ridolfo
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2015-09-16
Digital Samaritans written by Jim Ridolfo and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-16 with Computers categories.
Investigates the communicative objectives of Samaritans who are exploring the powerful expressive affordances of digital environments
Automating Inequality
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Author : Virginia Eubanks
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2018-01-23
Automating Inequality written by Virginia Eubanks and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-23 with Social Science categories.
WINNER: The 2018 McGannon Center Book Prize and shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice The New York Times Book Review: "Riveting." Naomi Klein: "This book is downright scary." Ethan Zuckerman, MIT: "Should be required reading." Dorothy Roberts, author of Killing the Black Body: "A must-read." Astra Taylor, author of The People's Platform: "The single most important book about technology you will read this year." Cory Doctorow: "Indispensable." A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination—and how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equity The State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare, foodstamps and cash benefits in three years—because a new computer system interprets any mistake as “failure to cooperate.” In Los Angeles, an algorithm calculates the comparative vulnerability of tens of thousands of homeless people in order to prioritize them for an inadequate pool of housing resources. In Pittsburgh, a child welfare agency uses a statistical model to try to predict which children might be future victims of abuse or neglect. Since the dawn of the digital age, decision-making in finance, employment, politics, health and human services has undergone revolutionary change. Today, automated systems—rather than humans—control which neighborhoods get policed, which families attain needed resources, and who is investigated for fraud. While we all live under this new regime of data, the most invasive and punitive systems are aimed at the poor. In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America. The book is full of heart-wrenching and eye-opening stories, from a woman in Indiana whose benefits are literally cut off as she lays dying to a family in Pennsylvania in daily fear of losing their daughter because they fit a certain statistical profile. The U.S. has always used its most cutting-edge science and technology to contain, investigate, discipline and punish the destitute. Like the county poorhouse and scientific charity before them, digital tracking and automated decision-making hide poverty from the middle-class public and give the nation the ethical distance it needs to make inhumane choices: which families get food and which starve, who has housing and who remains homeless, and which families are broken up by the state. In the process, they weaken democracy and betray our most cherished national values. This deeply researched and passionate book could not be more timely.
Digital Data Collection And Information Privacy Law
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Author : Mark Burdon
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-04-23
Digital Data Collection And Information Privacy Law written by Mark Burdon and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-23 with Law categories.
Calling for future law reform, Burdon questions if you will have privacy in a world of ubiquitous data collection.
Print Is Dead
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Author : Jeff Gomez
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2008
Print Is Dead written by Jeff Gomez and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Computers categories.
For over 1500 years books have weathered numerous cultural changes remarkably unaltered. Through wars, paper shortages, radio, TV, computer games, and fluctuating literacy rates, the bound stack of printed paper has, somewhat bizarrely, remained the more robust and culturally relevant way to communicate ideas. Now, for the first time since the Middle Ages, all that is about to change. Newspapers are struggling for readers and relevance; downloadable music has consigned the album to the format scrap heap, and the digital revolution is now about to leave books on the high shelf of history. In Print Is Dead, Gomez explains how authors, producers, distributors, and readers must not only acknowledge these changes, but drive digital book creation, standards, storage, and delivery as the first truly transformational thing to happen in the world of words since the printing press.
Dead End Thrills
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Author : Gabriel Keaton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-10-03
Dead End Thrills written by Gabriel Keaton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-03 with categories.
Caleb is an aspiring screen writer who suffers from seeing life too cinematically and thinks the only way to conquer love is to avoid it, until ultimately, he can't. Dead End Thrills is a love story to its core, but not in the typical sense. To Caleb, love is tragic and throughout this story you will see how comedically wrong he is or how painfully right. It's not your typical romance story of boy meets girl, even though that does happen, but such is life; and those relationships can distract you, if you let them.
Advances On Digital Television And Wireless Multimedia Communications
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Author : Wenjun Zhang
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-10-20
Advances On Digital Television And Wireless Multimedia Communications written by Wenjun Zhang and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-20 with Computers categories.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Forum on Digital TV and Wireless Multimedia Communication, IFTC 2012, Shanghai, China, November. The 69 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on image processing and pattern recognition; image and video analysis; image quality assessment; text image and speech processing; content retrieval and security; source coding; multimedia communication; new advances in broadband multimedia; human computer interface; 3D video.
Digital Disconnect
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Author : Robert W. McChesney
language : en
Publisher: New Press, The
Release Date : 2013-03-05
Digital Disconnect written by Robert W. McChesney and has been published by New Press, The this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-05 with Computers categories.
Looks at the relationship between economic power and the digital world, encouraging readers to fight back against the monopolies that are making the Internet less democratic. 20,000 first printing.