Prometheus Wired
DOWNLOAD
Download Prometheus Wired PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Prometheus Wired book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Prometheus Wired
DOWNLOAD
Author : Darin Barney
language : en
Publisher: UNSW Press
Release Date : 2000
Prometheus Wired written by Darin Barney and has been published by UNSW Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Computers categories.
Explores assertions about the inherently revolutionary and democratic character of digital networks, and along the way, provides fascinating insights into a wide range of issues: the digital economy telework, electronic commerce, digital surveillance, privacy, virtual communities, teledemocracy and national sovereignty.
Reality Tv
DOWNLOAD
Author : Mark Andrejevic
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2004-09-08
Reality Tv written by Mark Andrejevic and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09-08 with Social Science categories.
Drawing on cultural theory and interviews with fans, cast members and producers, this book places the reality TV trend within a broader social context, tracing its relationship to the development of a digitally enhanced, surveillance-based interactive economy and to a savvy mistrust of mediated reality in general. Surveying several successful reality TV formats, the book links the rehabilitation of 'Big Brother' to the increasingly important economic role played by the work of being watched. The author enlists critical social theory to examine how the appeal of 'the real' is deployed as a pervasive but false promise of democratization.
Interactive Realism
DOWNLOAD
Author : Daniel Downes
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2005-03-03
Interactive Realism written by Daniel Downes and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03-03 with Computers categories.
Distinguishing between the Internet, a communication system, and cyberspace, an environment for human exchange, the author provides a framework for exploring the metaphors and images used in cyberspace to represent and model social reality. He clarifies how these symbolic interactions are linked to the technologies used to create, store, and transmit them and to their social context.
The Perils And Promise Of Global Transparency
DOWNLOAD
Author : Kristin M. Lord
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
The Perils And Promise Of Global Transparency written by Kristin M. Lord and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Political Science categories.
While the trend toward greater transparency will bring many benefits, Kristin M. Lord argues that predictions that it will lead inevitably to peace, understanding, and democracy are wrong. The conventional view is of authoritarian governments losing control over information thanks to technology, the media, and international organizations, but there is a darker side, one in which some of the same forces spread hatred, conflict, and lies. In this book, Lord discusses the complex implications of growing transparency, paying particular attention to the circumstances under which transparency's effects are negative. Case studies of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and the government of Singapore's successful control of information are included.
Civic Education In The Twenty First Century
DOWNLOAD
Author : Donald M. Gooch
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2015-09-18
Civic Education In The Twenty First Century written by Donald M. Gooch and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-18 with Political Science categories.
Imagine an America where politicians, governmental institutions, schools, new technologies, and interest groups work together to promote informed, engaged citizens. Civic Education in the Twenty-First Century brings together scholars from various disciplines to show how such a United States is possible today. Inspired by Alexis de Tocqueville’s analysis of American democracy in the early 1800s, this edited volume represents a multidimensional evaluation of civic education in its new and varied forms. While some lament a civics crisis in America today, Civic Education in the Twenty-First Century raises hope that we can have an informed and active citizenry. We find the activities of a number of politicians, government institutions, schools and interest groups as promising developments in the struggle to educate and engage Americans in their democracy. New technologies and new innovations in civic education have laid the foundation for a revitalized American civic ecology. With Civic Education in the Twenty-First Century, we call for the United States to make these practices less isolated and more common throughout the county. The volume is broken into three major sections. First there are four chapters exploring the history and philosophical debates about civic education, particularly with respect to its role in America’s educational institutions. Then, the second section provides seven groundbreaking inquiries into how politicians and political institutions can promote civic education and engagement through their routine operations. As some examples, this section explores how politicians through campaigns and judiciaries through community programs enhance civic knowledge and encourage civic engagement. This section also explores how new technologies like the Internet and social media are increasingly used by government institutions and other entities to encourage a more politically informed and engaged citizenry. Finally, the third section contains six chapters that explore programs and practices in higher education that are enhancing civic education, engagement and our knowledge of them. From the virtual civics campus of Fort Hayes State to citizens’ academies throughout the country, this section shows the possibilities for schools today to once again be civics actors and promoters.
Techno Economic Paradigms
DOWNLOAD
Author : Wolfgang Drechsler
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2011-07-01
Techno Economic Paradigms written by Wolfgang Drechsler and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-01 with Business & Economics categories.
‘Techno-Economic Paradigms’ presents a series of essays by the leading academics in the field discussing one of the most interesting and talked-about socio-economic theories of our times, 'techno-economic paradigm shifts', and its role in explaining processes of innovation and development. This festschrift honours Carlota Perez, founder of the theory of 'techno-economic paradigm shifts'.
Citizens Without Frontiers
DOWNLOAD
Author : Engin F. Isin
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2012-11-02
Citizens Without Frontiers written by Engin F. Isin and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-02 with Political Science categories.
States define who their citizens are and exert control over their life and movements. But how does such power persist in a global world where people, ideas, and products constantly cross the borders of what the states see as their sovereign territory? This groundbreaking work sets to examine and interprets such challenges to offer a new way of thinking about citizenship. Abandoning the sovereignty principle, it develops a new image of citizenship using the connectedness principle. To do so, it interprets acts of citizenship by following "activist citizens" across the world through case studies, from Wikileaks and the Gaza flotilla to China's virtual world and Darfur. Written by a leader in the field, this accessible and original work imagines citizens without frontiers as a politics without community and belonging, inclusion without exclusion, where the frontier becomes a form of otherness that citizens erase or create. This unique work brings forth a new and creative way to approach citizenship beyond boundaries that will appeal to anyone studying citizenship, social movements, and migration.
North Of Empire
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jody Berland
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2009-10-07
North Of Empire written by Jody Berland and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-07 with Social Science categories.
Theorizes the relationship between nation, media, and globalization by way of Canadian cultural studies.
The Mood Of Information
DOWNLOAD
Author : Andrew McStay
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2011-04-14
The Mood Of Information written by Andrew McStay and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-14 with Social Science categories.
The Mood of Information explores advertising from the perspective of information flows rather than the more familiar approach of symbolic representation. At the heart of this book is an aspiration to better understand contemporary and nascent forms of commercial solicitation predicated on the commodification of experience and subjectivity. In assessing novel forms of advertising that involve tracking users' web browsing activity over a period of time, this book seeks to grasp and explicate key trends within the media and advertising industries along with the technocultural, legal, regulatory and political environment online behavioural advertising operates within. Situated within contemporary scholarly debate and interest in recursive media that involves intensification of discourses of feedback, personalization, recommendation, co-production, constructivism and the preempting of intent, this book represents a departure from textual criticism of advertising to one based on exposition of networked means of inferring preferences, desires and orientations that reflect ways of being, or moods of information.
Digital Rubbish
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jennifer Gabrys
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2013-04-26
Digital Rubbish written by Jennifer Gabrys 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 2013-04-26 with Science categories.
This is a study of the material life of information and its devices; of electronic waste in its physical and electronic incarnations; a cultural and material mapping of the spaces where electronics in the form of both hardware and information accumulate, break down, or are stowed away. Where other studies have addressed "digital" technology through a focus on its immateriality or virtual qualities, Gabrys traces the material, spatial, cultural and political infrastructures that enable the emergence and dissolution of these technologies. In the course of her book, she explores five interrelated "spaces" where electronics fall apart: from Silicon Valley to Nasdaq, from containers bound for China to museums and archives that preserve obsolete electronics as cultural artifacts, to the landfill as material repository. Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics describes the materiality of electronics from a unique perspective, examining the multiple forms of waste that electronics create as evidence of the resources, labor, and imaginaries that are bundled into these machines. Ranging across studies of media and technology, as well as environments, geography, and design, Jennifer Gabrys draws together the far-reaching material and cultural processes that enable the making and breaking of these technologies.