Internet, digital media and society Books

Book SynopsisTrade Review"Readers will find a well-balanced perspective of this issue, covering ethics, finances, intentions, and a glimpse of the future. The book will be of interest to librarians, researchers, publishers, thought leaders, and those interested in digital technology." * Booklist *"This book deserves recognition as the definitive history of the Google book digitization project."---Jeffrey Garrett, ResearchGate"This timely work examines the digitization of libraries and their transformation from collection builders to information access points. . . . Recommended." * Choice *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A fascinating multidisciplinary essay collection that will appeal to information history junkies as well as history, journalism, and library science students." * Library Journal *"I did not want it to end. . . . It has thrown my personal information system out of equilibrium and reminded me how many things I still have to learn about my own field of study. There are not too many books I have read to the end and opened back to the introduction before setting it down. Well done. Information: A Historical Companion answers questions I did not know I had."---Jodi Kearns, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology"This book is an essential work of reference accessible to historians and scholars across the humanities and social sciences. A great deal of good work went into its development, and the results reward it"---James W. Cortada, Journal of Interdisciplinary History"Ultimately, Information offers an informative, and indeed fresh, perspective on a phenomenon that, historically and contemporaneously, has been so central to our lives, technologies, and societies. While expertly summarizing existing literature across diverse disciplines, it reveals many exciting convergences between hitherto disparate approaches and creates compelling connections between technology, information, and history."---Marc Kosciejew, Technology and Culture"Surely the definitive work on the overall subject."---David Lorimer, Paradigm Explorer"Rollicking"---N.J. Enfield, Times Literary Supplement

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A welcome addition to the growing literature on the digital economy and change." * Choice *"Stimulating." * Paradigm Explorer *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Smith has given readers a fresh interpretation of the history of technology . . . and a keen sense that we don’t always know what the internet is doing to us."---Christine Rosen, Wall Street Journal"Smith traces the early internet through the outlandish ideas of Renaissance inventors, ill-fated fraudsters and forgotten polymaths. It’s a provocative reframing of the internet, a lament for what might have been, and a fresh way of thinking about what we’re doing when we spend endless hours scrolling online. . . . Smith avoids offering easy solutions to the current crisis but suggests that we might be able to reach back into the past in order to reorient the internet towards a more meaningful end."---Joshua Gabert-Doyon, Financial Times"This heady, unusual book sets out to view the internet—idealistic experiment, revolutionary communication tool, repository of amusing cat memes—through a longer conceptual history. Instead of the expected trips to research laboratories and US university campuses, there are detours via Buddhist thought and a 19th-century hoax involving a ‘snail telegraph.’ Idiosyncratic, fascinating stuff."---Rhiannon Davies and Matt Elton, BBC History Magazine"The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is begins as a negative critique of online life. . . . But the book’s second half progresses into deeper philosophical inquiries. . . . [Smith] ends by recognizing that the interface of the Internet, and the keyboard that gives him access to it, is less an external device than an extension of his questing mind."---Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker"While Smith addresses what is wrong with the web—especially compelling is his exploration of how it affects our attention and how it encourages us to trade our sense of self for 'an algorithmically plottable profile'—he is also offering a big picture vision of this machine-assisted communication as an extension of all forms of communication in nature."---Cameron Woodhead and Fiona Capp, Sydney Morning Herald"Smith wants to make us think differently about the internet and much of his book is spent explaining that many of the ideas behind its uses are, in fact, ancient, and he gives myriad fascinating examples."---Peter Neville-Hadley, South China Morning Post"Smith examines the alarming problems of the Internet in its contemporary incarnation and insightfully explores some of the historical antecedents of this technology."---Harvey Freedenberg, Shelf Awareness"In a book that meditates upon networks, webs, and connections, Smith’s astounding range becomes something of a method for revealing the interconnectedness of everything between stars and modems."---Trevor Quirk, Bookforum"[Smith] draws on centuries’ worth of philosophy to examine the pervasive reach of the internet in this enlightening survey. . . . A capable guide to why what’s online is there, and how it came to be." * Publishers Weekly *"Thoughtful. . . . A worthy critique of a technology in need of rethinking—and human control that seeks to free and not enchain." * Kirkus Reviews *"An accessible philosophy of the internet, taking stock along the way of the faults and dangers resulting from the internet's invasion into people's lives. Whatever one’s preconceptions about the internet, Smith makes a convincing case that the internet is something more than what one might have thought." * Choice *"One of the pleasures of Smith’s philosophical tour is to note how frequently the implementation of ideas and their consequences jump domains. . . . One of the great achievements of Smith’s book is to permit us to honor [Ada Lovelace’s] legacy, ambition, and achievement. . . while buttressing a healthy and necessary skepticism toward the claims of tech transcendence and the uniqueness of our moment."---Eric Banks, 4Columns"Smith wants to show that the internet is not new, it is just a refinement in the gossamer of perceptual probing that our species has woven into the world’s fabric to make near the distant. This arresting thesis is aided by the excellent writing. . . . The book is mostly enchantment."---Graham McAleer, Law & Liberty"Fascinating. . . .The book is an impressive and necessary reality check that situates the Internet in a historical context."---David Lorimer, Paradigm Explorer

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A fascinating meditation on 'the "infinite bustle" of modern life.'"---Robert M. Thorson, Wall Street Journal"A fascinating new book."---Craig Fehrman, Boston Globe"With a colloquial tone, Smith makes a solid case that the contemporary take on distraction. . . is an old one that came about in the 19th century. . . . The result is a rousing academic study on the meanings of mindfulness." * Publishers Weekly *"[An] elegant anthology of American anxieties over attention."---Michael Ledger-Lomas, The Spectator"Smith’s historicization of what he calls ‘disciplines of attention’ offers a useful check on reactionary nostalgia. Taking the measure of the distractions of the digital present requires caution."---Len Gutkin, Chronicle Review"[A] fascinating book. . . . Smith’s analyses are incisive and well researched. . . . Collectively they form an intriguing study of the moral framework around distraction and attention during this period." * Choice Reviews *"Thoreau’s Axe [is] a work structured like a book of devotion, offering twenty-eight ‘readings’ that traverse two centuries of discourse on attention, and how various figures, from poets to preachers to reformers, have attempted to inculcate it. . . . [Smith] has the deep and natural orientation of a historian, in his approach to archives and strange and curious corners of nineteenth-century American thought."---Rachel Kushner, Harper's"Anxieties over attention and distraction are nothing new but also, and more to the point, [Smith] raises an enduring cultural contradiction: like Thoreau, many of us feel distracted by shifts and accelerations in collective life—by new media, to be sure, but also by capitalism and its myriad crises—and yet, to combat these collective distractions, we turn inward and desperately try to become more disciplined, attentive individuals. . . . Smith is not the first to name this tension, though his ‘genealogy of distraction and the disciplines of attention’ might be the first to unearth its deep cultural roots."---Chelsea Fitzgerald, Los Angeles Review of Books"Much of Thoreau’s Axe cuts deeply into American culture, revealing how discipline and punishment, often wielded from above, have defined for us the proper objects of attention: God, country, race, and the capitalist grind. But the blade of Smith’s analysis is subtle, and what I find most remarkable about Thoreau’s Axe is Smith’s comfort with ambiguity, the apparent ease with which he makes space for contradiction, the degree to which his method depends on it."---Daegan Miller, Yale Review"Smith’s examples of attention being demanded rather than sought forces the reader to consider more carefully the goal of cultivating attention, and who benefits from such attention."---Shira Telushkin, Plough Quarterly"Original and impactful. . . . Smith shows the price we pay for remaining distracted, the challenge of cultivating responsible and impactful disciplines of attention amidst capitalistic structures, and the corresponding need to always remember to look beyond the self."---Morgan Shipley, Review19"Thoughtful and well-written."---Alan Dent, The Penniless Press"Smith’s book has the merit of showing a meaningful continuity not only between our time and Thoreau’s, but also between Thoreau and like-minded thinkers of his century."---Costica Bradatan, Times Literary Supplement

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Book SynopsisHow populism is fueled by the demise of the industrial order and the emergence of a new digital society ruled by algorithmsIn the revolutionary excitement of the 1960s, young people around the world called for a radical shift away from the old industrial order, imagining a future of technological liberation and unfettered prosperity. IndustrialTrade Review"A welcome addition to the growing literature on the digital economy and change." * Choice *"Stimulating." * Paradigm Explorer *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Readers will find a well-balanced perspective of this issue, covering ethics, finances, intentions, and a glimpse of the future. The book will be of interest to librarians, researchers, publishers, thought leaders, and those interested in digital technology." * Booklist *"This book deserves recognition as the definitive history of the Google book digitization project."---Jeffrey Garrett, ResearchGate"This timely work examines the digitization of libraries and their transformation from collection builders to information access points. . . . Recommended." * Choice *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Smith has given readers a fresh interpretation of the history of technology . . . and a keen sense that we don’t always know what the internet is doing to us."---Christine Rosen, Wall Street Journal"Smith traces the early internet through the outlandish ideas of Renaissance inventors, ill-fated fraudsters and forgotten polymaths. It’s a provocative reframing of the internet, a lament for what might have been, and a fresh way of thinking about what we’re doing when we spend endless hours scrolling online. . . . Smith avoids offering easy solutions to the current crisis but suggests that we might be able to reach back into the past in order to reorient the internet towards a more meaningful end."---Joshua Gabert-Doyon, Financial Times"This heady, unusual book sets out to view the internet—idealistic experiment, revolutionary communication tool, repository of amusing cat memes—through a longer conceptual history. Instead of the expected trips to research laboratories and US university campuses, there are detours via Buddhist thought and a 19th-century hoax involving a ‘snail telegraph.’ Idiosyncratic, fascinating stuff."---Rhiannon Davies and Matt Elton, BBC History Magazine"The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is begins as a negative critique of online life. . . . But the book’s second half progresses into deeper philosophical inquiries. . . . [Smith] ends by recognizing that the interface of the Internet, and the keyboard that gives him access to it, is less an external device than an extension of his questing mind."---Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker"While Smith addresses what is wrong with the web—especially compelling is his exploration of how it affects our attention and how it encourages us to trade our sense of self for 'an algorithmically plottable profile'—he is also offering a big picture vision of this machine-assisted communication as an extension of all forms of communication in nature."---Cameron Woodhead and Fiona Capp, Sydney Morning Herald"Smith wants to make us think differently about the internet and much of his book is spent explaining that many of the ideas behind its uses are, in fact, ancient, and he gives myriad fascinating examples."---Peter Neville-Hadley, South China Morning Post"Smith examines the alarming problems of the Internet in its contemporary incarnation and insightfully explores some of the historical antecedents of this technology."---Harvey Freedenberg, Shelf Awareness"In a book that meditates upon networks, webs, and connections, Smith’s astounding range becomes something of a method for revealing the interconnectedness of everything between stars and modems."---Trevor Quirk, Bookforum"[Smith] draws on centuries’ worth of philosophy to examine the pervasive reach of the internet in this enlightening survey. . . . A capable guide to why what’s online is there, and how it came to be." * Publishers Weekly *"Thoughtful. . . . A worthy critique of a technology in need of rethinking—and human control that seeks to free and not enchain." * Kirkus Reviews *"An accessible philosophy of the internet, taking stock along the way of the faults and dangers resulting from the internet's invasion into people's lives. Whatever one’s preconceptions about the internet, Smith makes a convincing case that the internet is something more than what one might have thought." * Choice *"One of the pleasures of Smith’s philosophical tour is to note how frequently the implementation of ideas and their consequences jump domains. . . . One of the great achievements of Smith’s book is to permit us to honor [Ada Lovelace’s] legacy, ambition, and achievement. . . while buttressing a healthy and necessary skepticism toward the claims of tech transcendence and the uniqueness of our moment."---Eric Banks, 4Columns"Smith wants to show that the internet is not new, it is just a refinement in the gossamer of perceptual probing that our species has woven into the world’s fabric to make near the distant. This arresting thesis is aided by the excellent writing. . . . The book is mostly enchantment."---Graham McAleer, Law & Liberty"Fascinating. . . .The book is an impressive and necessary reality check that situates the Internet in a historical context."---David Lorimer, Paradigm Explorer

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Book SynopsisHow political parties have changed in the age of social media.Trade Review'In this refreshing, imaginative and conceptually sophisticated book, Paolo Gerbaudo takes us on a compelling journey across Europe to understand the digitally native political parties at the forefront of a profound process of organizational evolution. Gerbaudo convincingly explains the positive and negative implications of this process, and why it matters for the future of democracy' -- Andrew Chadwick, author of 'The Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power''In a historic moment when political parties are losing their capacity to represent citizens, new party models have grown and often achieved unexpected success. This book is an important contribution to the conceptualization of digital parties and the understanding of their evolution' -- Donatella Della Porta, Dean of the Institute for Humanities and the Social Sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore and author of 'Movement Parties in Times of Austerity''With a rare mix of narrative flair and analytical insight, Gerbaudo tells the riveting story of how tech-savvy leaders and 'connected outsiders' have reshaped politics in the digital era' -- John Postill, author of 'The Rise of Nerd Politics''Paolo Gerbaudo shows how the internet shapes contemporary politics and vice versa. A must read for everyone interested in digital politics' -- Christian Fuchs, author of 'Digital Demagogues: Authoritarian Capitalism in the Age of Trump and Twitter''Gerbaudo shows how technology-based "platform parties" are designed, how they fit into the history of political parties, and how they reflect changes in politics, society, economics, and communication. This rich analysis looks at both the promise and the limitations of these fascinating political experiments' -- Lance Bennett, University of Washington'This book by Paolo Gerbaudo goes deep into the "morbid" crossroads of our present and offers us suggestive ideas on the key elements of its emerging political practice. A brilliant work' -- German Cano, University of Alcala de Henares, member of the founding group of Podemos'A wide-ranging, and international, survey of those parties that have gone furthest to embrace the organisational changes the new modes of communication demand of us all and as such is a compelling read for the future of politics' -- Philosophy FootballTable of ContentsSeries Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Party Strikes Back 2. The People of the Web 3. When the Party Mimics Facebook 4. Participationism 5. Death of the Party Cadre 6. Coding Democracy 7. Plebiscitarianism 2.0 8. The Hyperleader 9. The Superbase Conclusion Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow political parties have changed in the age of social media.Trade Review'In this refreshing, imaginative and conceptually sophisticated book, Paolo Gerbaudo takes us on a compelling journey across Europe to understand the digitally native political parties at the forefront of a profound process of organizational evolution. Gerbaudo convincingly explains the positive and negative implications of this process, and why it matters for the future of democracy' -- Andrew Chadwick, author of 'The Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power''In a historic moment when political parties are losing their capacity to represent citizens, new party models have grown and often achieved unexpected success. This book is an important contribution to the conceptualization of digital parties and the understanding of their evolution' -- Donatella Della Porta, Dean of the Institute for Humanities and the Social Sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore and author of 'Movement Parties in Times of Austerity''With a rare mix of narrative flair and analytical insight, Gerbaudo tells the riveting story of how tech-savvy leaders and 'connected outsiders' have reshaped politics in the digital era' -- John Postill, author of 'The Rise of Nerd Politics''Paolo Gerbaudo shows how the internet shapes contemporary politics and vice versa. A must read for everyone interested in digital politics' -- Christian Fuchs, author of 'Digital Demagogues: Authoritarian Capitalism in the Age of Trump and Twitter''Gerbaudo shows how technology-based "platform parties" are designed, how they fit into the history of political parties, and how they reflect changes in politics, society, economics, and communication. This rich analysis looks at both the promise and the limitations of these fascinating political experiments' -- Lance Bennett, University of Washington'This book by Paolo Gerbaudo goes deep into the "morbid" crossroads of our present and offers us suggestive ideas on the key elements of its emerging political practice. A brilliant work' -- German Cano, University of Alcala de Henares, member of the founding group of Podemos'A wide-ranging, and international, survey of those parties that have gone furthest to embrace the organisational changes the new modes of communication demand of us all and as such is a compelling read for the future of politics' -- Philosophy FootballTable of ContentsSeries Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Party Strikes Back 2. The People of the Web 3. When the Party Mimics Facebook 4. Participationism 5. Death of the Party Cadre 6. Coding Democracy 7. Plebiscitarianism 2.0 8. The Hyperleader 9. The Superbase Conclusion Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWho shapes our digital landscapes, and why are so many people excluded from them?Trade Review'Conceptually rich and well-illustrated, this is a valuable analysis of data power at the global scale' -- Prof. Rob Kitchin, Maynooth University'An enlightening and accessible introduction to digital geographies and why they are important to our understanding of digital exclusion' -- Alex Singleton, Professor of Geographic Information Science, University of Liverpool'Demonstrates how so much digital data is sourced from a very limited range of geographical locations and laboured over in various ways, and what difference this makes to the information about places on platforms like OpenStreetMap, Google Maps and Wikipedia' -- Gillian Rose, Professor of Human Geography at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford'Systematic, sobering, yet uplifting, this volume makes the convincing case that digital transformation is not the end of geography, nor is it an equaliser for the diverse cultures and peoples across the globe' -- Jack Linchuan Qiu, Professor at the Department of Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore'An important and insightful book. Graham and Dittus eloquently map, measure and critically interrogate digital geographies in a way that forces us to reckon with their power and politics, the injustices they incur, and how we might imagine alternatives.' -- Professor Lina Dencik, Co-Director of the Data Justice Lab, Cardiff University, UK'A must read for those deeply concerned about long hidden people and places who have been marginalised in the politics of place-making, including within digital worlds like Wikipedia and Google' -- Payal Arora, author of the 'Next Billion Users' and Co-Founder of FemLab.CoTable of ContentsList of Figures Series Preface Acknowledgements 1. We All Are Digital Geographers 2. When the Map Becomes the Territory 3. Making Digital Geographies 4. A Geography of Digital Geographies 5. Digital Augmentations of the City 6. Who are the Map-Makers? 7. Information Power and Inequality 8. Towards More Just Digital Geographies Epilogue Appendix Reference tables Data sources Methodology for Chapter 5 Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWho shapes our digital landscapes, and why are so many people excluded from them?Trade Review'Conceptually rich and well-illustrated, this is a valuable analysis of data power at the global scale' -- Prof. Rob Kitchin, Maynooth University'An enlightening and accessible introduction to digital geographies and why they are important to our understanding of digital exclusion' -- Alex Singleton, Professor of Geographic Information Science, University of Liverpool'Demonstrates how so much digital data is sourced from a very limited range of geographical locations and laboured over in various ways, and what difference this makes to the information about places on platforms like OpenStreetMap, Google Maps and Wikipedia' -- Gillian Rose, Professor of Human Geography at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford'Systematic, sobering, yet uplifting, this volume makes the convincing case that digital transformation is not the end of geography, nor is it an equaliser for the diverse cultures and peoples across the globe' -- Jack Linchuan Qiu, Professor at the Department of Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore'An important and insightful book. Graham and Dittus eloquently map, measure and critically interrogate digital geographies in a way that forces us to reckon with their power and politics, the injustices they incur, and how we might imagine alternatives.' -- Professor Lina Dencik, Co-Director of the Data Justice Lab, Cardiff University, UK'A must read for those deeply concerned about long hidden people and places who have been marginalised in the politics of place-making, including within digital worlds like Wikipedia and Google' -- Payal Arora, author of the 'Next Billion Users' and Co-Founder of FemLab.CoTable of ContentsList of Figures Series Preface Acknowledgements 1. We All Are Digital Geographers 2. When the Map Becomes the Territory 3. Making Digital Geographies 4. A Geography of Digital Geographies 5. Digital Augmentations of the City 6. Who are the Map-Makers? 7. Information Power and Inequality 8. Towards More Just Digital Geographies Epilogue Appendix Reference tables Data sources Methodology for Chapter 5 Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn astute look at how neoliberalism is ravaging the postcolonial world through the lens of PakistanTrade Review'A major analysis of our world's political crisis and a brilliant critique of the ideology of middle class aspiration' -- Joel Wainwright, Professor at Ohio State University'Shows how an aspirational idea of the middle class reinforces the subordination of dispossessed labour, ethnic minorities in peripheral territories, terrorists and deviant dissenters. This wide-ranging book is sure to stimulate critical scholarship and organic intellectual activism both inside and outside South Asia' -- Barbara Harriss-White, Emeritus Professor and Fellow, Wolfson College Oxford University'Akhtar powerfully channels the spirit of Gramsci and Fanon to critique neoliberal hegemony in Pakistan - and to diagnose the next great battlefield for the Afro-Asian Left: the values, aspirations, and solidarities of the digitised youth across core and periphery' -- Majed Akhter, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography, King's College London'Drawing with insight on Gramsci, and located in the Global South, this accomplished book is an important contribution to the search for progressive, anti-colonial, and humanist revolutionary politics in Pakistan and beyond' -- John Chalcraft, Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science'What is the 'political' in Pakistan, and how does this help update our theories on democratic backsliding and contemporary authoritarianism? Why do we want to think of the middle class at the centre of it all again? Read this book to find out' -- Shandana Mohmand, Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex'This path-breaking work follows Antonio Gramsci to trace the processes that have led to middle-class aspirations becoming pervasive in places like Pakistan. It builds an alternative hegemony which counters the processes of depravity and violence, and allows for a more socially just future' -- Kamran Asdar Ali, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas, AustinTable of ContentsPreface and acknowledgements Introduction: Middle-class hegemonies in theory and history 1. The Integral State 2. Fear and desire 3. The digital lifeworld 4. The classless subject Epilogue Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAn astute look at how neoliberalism is ravaging the postcolonial world through the lens of PakistanTrade Review'A major analysis of our world's political crisis and a brilliant critique of the ideology of middle class aspiration' -- Joel Wainwright, Professor at Ohio State University'Shows how an aspirational idea of the middle class reinforces the subordination of dispossessed labour, ethnic minorities in peripheral territories, terrorists and deviant dissenters. This wide-ranging book is sure to stimulate critical scholarship and organic intellectual activism both inside and outside South Asia' -- Barbara Harriss-White, Emeritus Professor and Fellow, Wolfson College Oxford University'Akhtar powerfully channels the spirit of Gramsci and Fanon to critique neoliberal hegemony in Pakistan - and to diagnose the next great battlefield for the Afro-Asian Left: the values, aspirations, and solidarities of the digitised youth across core and periphery' -- Majed Akhter, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography, King's College London'Drawing with insight on Gramsci, and located in the Global South, this accomplished book is an important contribution to the search for progressive, anti-colonial, and humanist revolutionary politics in Pakistan and beyond' -- John Chalcraft, Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science'What is the 'political' in Pakistan, and how does this help update our theories on democratic backsliding and contemporary authoritarianism? Why do we want to think of the middle class at the centre of it all again? Read this book to find out' -- Shandana Mohmand, Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex'This path-breaking work follows Antonio Gramsci to trace the processes that have led to middle-class aspirations becoming pervasive in places like Pakistan. It builds an alternative hegemony which counters the processes of depravity and violence, and allows for a more socially just future' -- Kamran Asdar Ali, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas, AustinTable of ContentsPreface and acknowledgements Introduction: Middle-class hegemonies in theory and history 1. The Integral State 2. Fear and desire 3. The digital lifeworld 4. The classless subject Epilogue Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA global anthropology of technology and politics, from WikiLeaks to Podemos.Trade Review'A fascinating and enlightening read, showing how real political change can be affected through digital means' -- Paul Mason'Do you hate Silicon Valley techno-solutionism and its anti-collective libertarian politics? Then you need a nerd-cleanse! John Postill's book reveals the real, global, rise of a 'nerd politics' that is so much richer, more diverse, and much more interesting than you suspected!' -- Christopher M. Kelty, University of California, Los AngelesTable of ContentsList of Figures Series Preface Acknowledgements 1. Hiding in Plain Sight 2. Nerds of a Feather 3. Data Activism 4. Digital Rights 5. Social Protest 6. Formal Politics 7. A Thriving Social World Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisA global anthropology of technology and politics, from WikiLeaks to Podemos.Trade Review'A fascinating and enlightening read, showing how real political change can be affected through digital means' -- Paul Mason'Do you hate Silicon Valley techno-solutionism and its anti-collective libertarian politics? Then you need a nerd-cleanse! John Postill's book reveals the real, global, rise of a 'nerd politics' that is so much richer, more diverse, and much more interesting than you suspected!' -- Christopher M. Kelty, University of California, Los AngelesTable of ContentsList of Figures Series Preface Acknowledgements 1. Hiding in Plain Sight 2. Nerds of a Feather 3. Data Activism 4. Digital Rights 5. Social Protest 6. Formal Politics 7. A Thriving Social World Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how the Internet presents radical ways of organising and producing media that offer political and cultural alternatives to ways of doing business and to how we understand the world and our place in it.Trade ReviewAtton's book gives a good background to types of alternative media while relying on a solid knowledge of contemporary Internet theory... A detailed and articulate reading of Internet usage. -- Paul Booth, Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies Atton's book gives a good background to types of alternative media while relying on a solid knowledge of contemporary Internet theory... A detailed and articulate reading of Internet usage.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The Internet, Power and Transgression; 2. Radical Online Journalism; 3. Far-Right Media on the Internet: Culture, Discourse and Power; 4. Radical Creativity and Distribution: Sampling, Copyright and P2P; 5. Alternative Radio and the Internet; 6. Fan Culture and the Internet; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisGabriele Cosentino is Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at The American University in Cairo, Egypt.Trade ReviewThe book offers a sweeping inquiry into many relevant informational short-circuits and omissions that contributed to the Covid-19 pandemic. * Cristian Vaccari, Loughborough University, UK *Cosentino achieves something incredibly impressive with The Infodemic, succinctly and coherently distilling crucial elements of a complex information ecosystem that roiled the world for over two years. * Marc Owen Jones, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Where did it all begin? 1. The Infodemic 2. Wet Market or Lab Leak? Controversies on the Origin of COVID-19 3. Democratic chaos: QAnon and the COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories 4. You Can’t Arrest a Virus: How Autocrats Exploited the Pandemic Conclusion: How will it end? Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAfter schools shut down in March 2020, Brian Barcelona discovered a new way to reach students--through their smart phones. Don't Scroll will help you capture the vision for what God can do to authentically reach a new generation through technology, leading others in salvation, healing, deliverance, and even baptisms!

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Book SynopsisHow momfluencer culture impacts women psychologically as consumers, as performers of their stories, and as mothersOn Instagram, the private work of mothering is turned into a public performance, generating billions of dollars. The message is simple: we’re all just a couple of clicks away from a better, more beautiful experience of motherhood.Linen-clad momfluencers hawking essential oils, parenting manuals, baby slings, and sponsored content for Away suitcases make us want to forget that the reality of mothering in America is an isolating, exhausting, almost wholly unsupported endeavor. In a culture which denies mothers basic human rights, it feels good to click “purchase now” on whatever a momfluencer might be selling. It feels good to hope.Momfluencers are just like us, except they aren’t. They are mothers, yes. They are also marketing strategists, content creators, lighting experts, advertising executives, and artists. They are

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Book SynopsisExamines how recommendations for products, media, news, romantic partners, and even cosmetic surgery operations are produced and experienced online. Focusing on the period from the mid-1990s to approximately 2010, Jonathan Cohn argues that automated recommendations and algorithms are far from natural, neutral, or benevolent.Trade Review"Suffused with nuance and aplomb, Jonathan Cohn’s The Burden of Choice details the asymmetries of power and disputed logics of contemporary algorithmic culture—an outstanding contribution to digital studies." -- John Cheney-Lippold * author of We Are Data: Algorithms and The Making of Our Digital Selves *"Algorithmic recommendations aren’t politically neutral. But, as Cohn details in this illuminating book, nor is their power absolute. The Burden of Choice is a primer on algorithmic dissidence, couched in a history of computational decision making." -- Ted Striphas * author of The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control *“Fascinating and timely, this exciting book explores the history of algorithms, recommendations, and suggestions.” -- Chuck Tryon * author of On-Demand Culture: Digital Delivery and the Future of Movies *"Google’s algorithms discriminate against women and people of colour," by Jonathan Cohn * The Conversation *"Tired of Those Netflix and Amazon ‘Recommendations’? Outwit the Algorithm," by Rebecca Dolan https://www.wsj.com/articles/tired-of-those-netflix-and-amazon-recommendations-outwit-the-algorithm-11562776566?mod=searchresultspage=1pos=1 * Wall Street Journal *"In navigating the terrain of user agency and its subversive potential, this book adds another dimension to the literature on critical information studies." * Television and New Media *Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Data Fields of Dreams 1 A Brief History of Good Choices 2 Female Labor and Digital Media: Pattie Maes and the Birth of Recommendation Systems and Social Networking Technologies 3 Mapping the Stars: TiVo, Netflix, and Digg’s Digital Media Distribution and Talking Back to Algorithms 4 Love’s Labor’s Logged: The Weird Science of Matchmaking Systems and Its Parodies 5 The Mirror Phased: Virtual Cosmetic Surgeries, Beautification Engines, and the Embodied Recommendation Conclusion: On Handling Toddlers and Structuring the Limits of Knowledge Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisExamines how recommendations for products, media, news, romantic partners, and even cosmetic surgery operations are produced and experienced online. Focusing on the period from the mid-1990s to approximately 2010, Jonathan Cohn argues that automated recommendations and algorithms are far from natural, neutral, or benevolent.Trade Review"Suffused with nuance and aplomb, Jonathan Cohn’s The Burden of Choice details the asymmetries of power and disputed logics of contemporary algorithmic culture—an outstanding contribution to digital studies." -- John Cheney-Lippold * author of We Are Data: Algorithms and The Making of Our Digital Selves *"Algorithmic recommendations aren’t politically neutral. But, as Cohn details in this illuminating book, nor is their power absolute. The Burden of Choice is a primer on algorithmic dissidence, couched in a history of computational decision making." -- Ted Striphas * author of The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control *“Fascinating and timely, this exciting book explores the history of algorithms, recommendations, and suggestions.” -- Chuck Tryon * author of On-Demand Culture: Digital Delivery and the Future of Movies *"Google’s algorithms discriminate against women and people of colour," by Jonathan Cohn * The Conversation *"Tired of Those Netflix and Amazon ‘Recommendations’? Outwit the Algorithm," by Rebecca Dolan https://www.wsj.com/articles/tired-of-those-netflix-and-amazon-recommendations-outwit-the-algorithm-11562776566?mod=searchresultspage=1pos=1 * Wall Street Journal *"In navigating the terrain of user agency and its subversive potential, this book adds another dimension to the literature on critical information studies." * Television and New Media *Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Data Fields of Dreams 1 A Brief History of Good Choices 2 Female Labor and Digital Media: Pattie Maes and the Birth of Recommendation Systems and Social Networking Technologies 3 Mapping the Stars: TiVo, Netflix, and Digg’s Digital Media Distribution and Talking Back to Algorithms 4 Love’s Labor’s Logged: The Weird Science of Matchmaking Systems and Its Parodies 5 The Mirror Phased: Virtual Cosmetic Surgeries, Beautification Engines, and the Embodied Recommendation Conclusion: On Handling Toddlers and Structuring the Limits of Knowledge Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisJuxtaposing contemporary art against familiar features of the Web such as emoticons, Kris Cohen explores how one can be connected to people and places online while simultaneously being alone and isolated. This phenomenon lies in the space between populations built through data collection, and publics created by interacting with others.Trade Review“Never Alone, Except for Now would make a good addition to collections at academic and museum libraries that serve patrons interested in the cultural and social machinations of the internet as they relate to critical theory and contemporary art.” -- Linden How * ARLIS/NA Reviews *“Never Alone, Except for Now [is] an essential contribution to our evolving cultural study of who we are and what, in the tightening embrace of computational superintelligence, we will come to be.” -- Steven Henry Madoff * Critical Inquiry *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Group Form 15 2. Between Populations and Publics 29 3. Broken Genres 41 4. Toneless 79 5. Search Engine Subjectivities 105 Appendix 135 Notes 139 Selected Bibliography 179 Index 189

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Book SynopsisIncluding a wide range of fascinating examples taken from social media, this unique book provides a comprehensive framework for analysing how we use emoji to convey meaning, and how emoji function in social bonding. It is essential reading for anyone wishing to investigate the role of emoji in digital communication.Table of ContentsNote on the text; Abbreviations; 1. Social media paralanguage and emoji; 2. Technical dimensions: the encoding and rendering of emoji; 3. Modelling emoji-text relations; 4. Emoji SYNCHRONISING with textual meaning; 5. Emoji CONCURRING with ideational meaning; 6. Emoji RESONATING with interpersonal meaning; 7. DIALOGIC AFFILIATION: the role of emoji in negotiating social bonds; 8. COMMUNING AFFILIATION: the role of emoji in communing around bonds; 9. Beyond emoji-text relations: factoring in images and other semiotic resources; 10. Conclusion; Glossary.

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Book SynopsisThe Element aims at unpacking these resources and at interpreting how they make meanings to improve and encourage active and responsible participation in the current digital scenarios.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Familiar, reconfigured, and emergent uses of speech and writing; 3. Translanguaging practices as meaning-making resources; 4. The repurposing of gaze in video-mediated scenarios; 5. The onscreen distribution of movement and the construction of distance; 6. Conclusions; References.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers the first comprehensive philosophical account of digital technology. It provides a detailed explanation of how the internet and digital technology are transforming culture, politics, aesthetics, and human relationships. It argues that digital technology is different from all prior technologies: the first 'natural technology.'Trade Review'There have been plenty of books written about the digital age, but Antón Barba-Kay gives us something genuinely new. With a clinical yet passionate intelligence, he explains how the fusion of technology and being has forever changed who we are and how we live. A Web of Our Own Making is fierce, uncompromising, and essential.' Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows and The Glass Cage'In compelling, elegant prose, Antón Barba-Kay lucidly diagnoses the full extent of our current technocultural crisis. His analysis is unflinching, and does not settle for any facile reassurances. But do not call his approach nostalgic, or, even worse, 'Luddit'. For Barba-Kay is not seeking to go back to anything, but rather is helping to advance the very urgent project of finding a way forward that preserves the irreducibly human within a complex and unprecedented technological landscape. This book is timely and necessary indeed.' Justin E. H. Smith, professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Paris, author of The Internet Is Not What You Think It IsTable of Contents1. Left to our own devices; 2. Led by our own lights; 3. The sound of our own voice; 4. Realities of our own contrivance; 5. From my inbox.

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Book SynopsisNavigating Media's Influence Through Childhood and Adolescence moves through research and questions that are relevant to practicing pediatricians and therapists in their everyday practice. As we navigate post-pandemic life where screen time was unrestricted in most homes, this book has never been more important. Written by a pediatrician and a professor of media effects, this book is a vital resource for practicing mental health clinicians, counselors, psychologists, physicians, and students studying in those areas. Grounded in developmental theory, mass communication theory, current research, and acumen gained from years of clinical and teaching experience, this book gives professionals what they need to understand the colossal effect media is having on their patients. An aid to practitioners, this book is organized by developmental stage and matches specific questions related to media's effects with explicit research-based recommendations and explanations. It is intended Trade Review"Navigating Media’s Influence Through Childhood and Adolescence is impressive in its approach and scope and brings together theory, research, and wisdom from medicine, childhood development, media, and media effects. Professionals working with children and youth will find the book’s unique blend of scientific insight and clinical savvy invaluable as they grapple with the many issues surrounding youths media use." Kaveri Subrahmanyam, PhD, professor of psychology and associate dean, College of Natural and Social Sciences, California State University Los Angeles"Parents ask pediatricians (and others that care for children, adolescents, and young adults) about growth, development, problem behaviors, school, and sometimes just to know if something is normal. The need to ask these questions has intensified with increased use of social media, increased isolation, increased anxiety, depression, and stress. The authors, a communication scholar and a pediatrician, use research and experience to answer questions about media and its impact on children and adolescents. This is a well-written, well-resourced guide to common concerns about the role of medial in our children's lives. It is a great resource for social workers, pediatricians, teachers, and parents." Martin M. Anderson, MD, MPH, FAAP, FSAM, professor of clinical pediatrics and adolescent medicine, Mattel Children’s Hospital"This is the book pediatricians and mental health professionals have been waiting for. Kurtin and McCormick translate research findings on the effects of media upon children into practical advice for guiding professionals who are navigating this new frontier." Gail Shak, PhD, Department of Psychiatry affiliate, Mills Peninsula Medical Center"This book offers researched answers to timely questions about how to work with children of the COVID era who have been exposed to ‘screen time’ as a means of entertainment, communication, education, and, for many families, as a means of survival. It has pertinent information for me as both a speech-language pathologist and a parent of young children." Deanna Gilman, MS, CCC-SLPTable of Contents1. Foundations in Development and Theoretical Considerations 2. Foundations in Media Literacy and Understanding Children's Media Environments 3. Current Guidelines on Digital Media Use by the American Academy of Pediatrics 4. Effects of Media on the Developing Infant and Young Child 5. Growing up in a Digital World 6. Internet Safety 7. Video Games 8. Tweens and Teenagers: Development and Media 9. Learning in the Digital Age 10. Media, the Body, and Disordered Eating 11. Media, Gender, and Sexuality 12. Pornography 13. Risky Behaviors like Sex, Drugs, and Alcohol

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Book SynopsisFusing the academic with the applied, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to social media for future communications professionals.While most social media texts approach the subject through either a theoretical, scholarly lens or a professional, practical lens, this text offers a much-needed linkage of theory to the practical tactics employed by social media communicators. Concise and conversational chapters break down the basics of both social media theory and practice and are complemented by sidebars written by scholars and industry professionals, chapter summaries and end-of-chapter exercises.This book is ideal for introductory social media courses in communication, public relations and mass communication departments, as well as courses in digital media and public relations.Online resources include social media writing templates, sample posts and content calendar templates. Please visit www.routledge.com/9781032185873.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: What is Social Media? 1. Defining Social Media 2. Evolution of Social Media 3. Categories of Social Media 4. Social Media by Demographics, Psychographics and Region Part 2: Social Media and Theory 5. Theory and Communication Research 6. Mass Communication Approaches 7. Human Communication Approaches 8. Integrated Approaches Part 3: Social Media Practice and Strategy 9. Developing a Strategic Social Media Presence 10. Social Media Projects, Programs and Campaigns 11. Content Strategies 12.Writing for Social Media 13. Customer Service and Crisis Management 14. Social Media Law and Ethics

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Book SynopsisXie and Chao present a collection of research on mobile communication in Asian communities and countries such as Bangladesh, China, India, Japan, and South Korea. With chapters written by scholars from diverse cultural and institutional backgrounds, this book provides both localized and comparative perspectives on mobile communication research. Exploring the way mobile apps are used in daily life in Asian countries, Xie, Chao, and their contributors analyze how mobile apps improve lives, help people build relationships, sustain communities, and change society for the better. They look at areas including the role of mobile apps in public service delivery and access, family communication, cultural norms and identities, organizational communication, and intercultural communication. The investigation of these topics elevates the understanding of the cultural, familial, interpersonal, organizational, and intercultural consequences of mobile communication in a global context. ThrouTable of ContentsTable of ContentsList of illustrationsAcknowledgementsList of contributors Introduction Ming Xie Part I Mobile Communication in the Private Sphere WeChat Gaming, Learning, and Midlife Empty Nest Dongdong Yang, Kenneth Lachlan, Ye Chen Social Media Portrayal of Housewives and Gender Issues in Chinese Society: A Perspective of Digital Feminism Framework Ming Xie and Chin-Chung Chao Facebook-Based Mental Health Discourse in Bangladesh: Self-Disclosure, Social Support, Consultation Simu Dey and Josh Averbeck Part II Mobile Communication in the Organizational Sphere Mobile Communication as Disaster Response Infrastructure for Cross-Sector Coproduction: A Field Study of Mobile Apps in China Flood Seasons Minshuai Ding Livestream E-Commerce: The New Social Norm and Its Impact on Chinese Culture Ping Yang How do Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in India Focusing on Mental Health use Instagram? Roma Subramanian Part III Mobile Communication in the Public Sphere A comparative analysis of mobile-use and laptop-use on Indian Health Promotions on Twitter: An application of LDA topic model Md Enamul Kabir and Louisa Ha Health Information Seeking via WeChat, Social Determinants, and COVID-19 Vaccination Intentions: An Exploratory Study Li Chen, Yafei Zhang, Ge Zhu Mobile Media and Social Movements: From Shahbag to Shaheen Bagh Shudipta Sharma Part IV Mobile Communication in the Networked Society Reclaiming Power on Social Media: A Networking Analysis of #VeryAsian Movement on Twitter Lei Guo and Jeremy Lipschultz Mobilized Cultural Identities: Digital Friendship and Identity Maintenance among Immigrant Japanese Wives Min Wha Han "Respectfully, Pls Ask Someone Else": Pride & Shame in International K-Pop Fandom Samantha James Forward Looking of Mobile Communication in Asian Society Ming Xie

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This book examines how the young in Northeast Asia engage with the political, especially in terms of the production, reformulation, or contestation of their national identities. Through case studies covering China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea and Taiwan, the contributions provide a study of the online spaces where youth engage with current debates regarding national identities. The book also unpacks the distinctive forms of expression and negotiation of national identities favoured by younger generations across Northeast Asia and asks questions specifically raised by their political mobilisation. For example, how their public mobilisation for a given cause has forced them to rethink their place in national and global communities.This book will be a valuable resource for scholars and students of East Asian culture and politics, media studies and youth studies. The Introduction of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF

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Book SynopsisWith an eye to the playful, reflexive, self-conscious ways in which global youth engage with each other online, this volume analyzes user-generated data from these interactions to show how communication technologies and multilingual resources are deployed to project local as well as trans-local orientations. With examples from a range of multilingual settings, each author explores how youth exploit the creative, heteroglossic potential of their linguistic repertoires, from rudimentary attempts to engage with others in a second language to hybrid multilingual practices. Often, their linguistic, orthographic, and stylistic choices challenge linguistic purity and prescriptive correctness, yet, in other cases, their utterances constitute language policing, linking ''standardness'' or ''correctness'' to piety, trans-local affiliation, or national belonging. Written for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in linguistics, applied linguistics, education and media and communiTrade Review'A compelling collection of work! The editors have assembled a comprehensive set of studies that covers a wide range of digital platforms, languages, and regional contexts. The ethnographic approach adopted throughout the chapters reveals rich details about linguistic creativity and diversity in digital communication and makes an important contribution to a number of areas including sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, internet linguistics, and media research at large.' Carmen Lee, Chinese University of Hong Kong'Multilingual Youth Practices in Computer Mediated Communication is unique in that it takes established linguistic methods from various domains like dialectology, conversation analysis or sociology and applies it to this newer communication style. In that, it offers an insight into the multilingual mind and is thus a valuable contribution to the field and useful for readers with many different backgrounds and knowledge levels.' Kathrin Feindt, Journal of Language ContactTable of Contents1. Multilingualism in the digital sphere: the diverse practices of youth online Cecelia Cutler and Unn Røyneland; 2. Alienated at home: the role of online media as young Orthodox Muslim women beat a retreat from Marseille Cécile Evers; 3. Cool mobilities: youth style and mobile telephony in contemporary South Africa Zannie Bock, Nausheena Dalwai and Christopher Stroud; 4. Nuancing the jaxase: young and urban texting in Senegal Kristin Vold Lexander; 5. Peaze up! Adaptation, innovation, and variation in German hip hop discourse Matt Garley; 6. Tsotsitaal online: the creativity of tradition Ana Deumert; 7. 'Pink chess gring gous': discursive and orthographic resistance among Mexican-American rap fans on YouTube Cecelia Cutler; 8. Virtually Norwegian: negotiating language and identity on YouTube Unn Røyneland; 9. Footing and role alignment online: mediatized indigeneity and Andean hip hop Karl Swinehart; 10. The language of diasporic blogs: a framework for the study of rhetoricity in written online code-switching Lars Hinrichs; 11. The Korean wave, K-pop fandom, and multilingual microblogging Jamie Shinhee Lee.

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Book SynopsisWe live in times of transparency. Digital technologies expose everything we do, like, and search for, and it is difficult to remain private and out of sight. Meanwhile, many people are concerned about the unchecked powers of tech giants and the hidden operations of big data, artificial intelligence and algorithms and call for more openness and insight. How do we - as individuals, companies and societies - deal with these technological and social transformations? Seen through the prism of digital technologies and data, our lives take new shapes and we are forced to manage our visibilities carefully. This book challenges common ways of thinking about transparency, and argues that the management of visibilities is a crucial, but overlooked force that influences how people live, how organizations work, and how societies and politics operate in a digital, datafied world.Trade Review'A key feature of life in the digital age is that it is lived in public. In a world filled with ubiquitous technologies we have an expectation that the companies that we work for, the governments that represent us, and even the people we hold close will provide us with transparency and accountability. In this ground breaking book, Mikkel Flyverbom shows how transparency is produced, maintained, and manipulated through the way we manage visibilities. At its core, this book helps us to think about how our own behaviors shape what and how we see and it provides useful strategies with which we can be more informed consumers, citizens, and stewards of our world.' Paul Leonardi, Duca Family Professor of Technology Management, University of California, Santa Barbara and author of Car Crashes Without Cars and Technology Choice'Flyverbom illuminates the pervasive and poorly understood illumination that has become a condition of our societies. This glass world offers a window onto new vistas, but with jagged edges that cut us to the quick and force us to hide in our own lives. Flyverbom demonstrates that we have yet to reckon with the social and political challenges of this pandemic of transparency, loosed by institutional forces that have, so far, run free of constraint. His book can help us reckon with key political questions of our time: who does transparency serve? Can democracy survive transparency?' Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power'Similar to the work of Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan, this book concerns the medium rather than the message as a dynamic force in social change and affairs. Specifically, Flyverbom posits that more data, transparency, and clarity in digital technology are not necessarily mutually compatible… Much like McLuhan tried to reveal the profound ramifications of communication technology on social organization, Flyverbom sounds the alarm that more data might not mean more transparency but will rather lead to the opposite: opacity and secrecy without proper governance… Summing Up: Recommended. All readership levels.' P. P. Philbin, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction. The transparency formula; 1. Digital and datafied spaces; 2. Transparency and managed visibilities; 3. People under scrutiny; 4. Organizations gone transparent; 5. Seeing the world; Conclusion. Life in the digital prism; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisDonald Trump, the Arab Spring, Brexit: digital media have provided political actors and citizens with new tools to engage in politics. These tools are now routinely used by activists, candidates, non-governmental organizations, and parties to inform, mobilize, and persuade people. But what are the effects of this retooling of politics? Do digital media empower the powerless or are they breaking democracy? Have these new tools and practices fundamentally changed politics or is their impact just a matter of degree? This clear-eyed guide steps back from hyperbolic hopes and fears to offer a balanced account of what aspects of politics are being shaped by digital media and what remains unchanged. The authors discuss data-driven politics, the flow and reach of political information, the effects of communication interventions through digital tools, their use by citizens in coordinating political action, and what their impact is on political organizations and on democracy at large.Trade Review'In this provocative, fresh account of the power of digital media in politics, the authors bundle insights from various fields to provide an accessible account of the many ways digital media are shaping contemporary politics. This timely and welcome book will be highly useful for anyone seeking to understand this complex and evolving issue.' Kenneth Benoit, London School of Economics and Political Science'Retooling Politics offers a fresh and nuanced 'needs-based' framework for analyzing the effects of digital media on political life. This is a necessary book that cuts through hyperbole in its grounded, procedural analysis of what has actually changed in politics, from how organizations pursue their ends to the voices that count in public life.' Daniel Kreiss, UNC Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life'This book gives a nuanced analysis of digital media in politics, focusing on political actors' needs, flows and costs of information, and connections to publics. The authors offer readers a careful and systematic approach to the big question of whether digital media strengthen or undermine democracy.' Bruce Bimber, University of California, Santa Barbara'Jungherr, Rivero and Gayo-Avello's Retooling Politics is simply exquisite. By all means this book represents one of the finest accounts I have come across to explain why and how digital media is the largest and most profound transformative power in today's democracy. With a comprehensive, meticulous, and sharp use of the most current and influential literature in the social sciences, the authors build a brilliant and multi-disciplinary argument that will guide readers to better grasp how digital media has transformed our political realm.' Homero Gil de Zúñiga, University of Vienna'The effects of digital media on politics and democracy are far-reaching, diverse, quickly evolving, and difficult to grasp. Retooling Politics is an essential resource for anyone trying to make sense of the connection between digital media and politics - and to understand what we actually know about it.' Fabrizio Gilardi, University of Zurich'All over the world, old political goals are pursued with new political tools. Retooling Politics' needs-based approach presents a nuanced new way of thinking about the impact not on specific political outcomes, or on the basic goals of political actors, but on the practical and institutional process of politics. Thus, this book will help combat the catchy but simplistic narratives advanced by digital cheerleaders and doom-mongers and contribute to more realistic and evidence-based alternatives.' Rasmus Nielsen, University of Oxford'Retooling Politics is simply the best book I have read on politics in the digital age. The authors show how political actors use legacy media, digital platforms, and data driven strategies to change how public information is produced, distributed, received, evaluated and used. This book updates the entire field with a timely focus on contemporary problems of democracy. It is destined to become a classic.' W. Lance Bennett, University of Washington'This book offers a fresh and comprehensive perspective on the needs that digital media fulfill in the context of democratic politics. The wide-ranging analysis explores the needs that digital media provides for political organizations, for the spread of information, and for enabling collective action in the broadest sense.' Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Syracuse UniversityTable of Contents1. The rise of digital media and the retooling of politics; 2. The flow of political information; 3. Reaching people; 4. The effects of political information; 5. Digital media and collective action; 6. Changing organizations; 7. Data in politics; 8. Digital media and democracy; 9. Digital media in politics.

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Book SynopsisWhere have emoji come from? Why are they so popular? What do they tell us about the technology-enhanced state of modern society? Far from simply being an amusing set of colourful little symbols, emoji are in the front line of a revolution in the way we communicate. As a form of global, image-based communication, they''re a perfect example of the ingenuity and creativity at the heart of human interaction. But they''re also a parable for the way that consumerism now permeates all parts of our daily existence, taking a controlling interest even in the language we use; and of how technology is becoming ever more entangled in our everyday lives. So how will this split-identity affect the way that online communication develops? Are emoji ushering in a bold new era of empathy and emotional engagement on the internet? Or are they a first sign that we''re handing over the future of human interaction to the machines?Trade Review'Emoji are a significant development in contemporary communication, deserving serious attention for their impact on both language use and society. The book comes at them from a variety of complementary angles, elucidating their specific nature and function while simultaneously showing how they reflect and influence important developments in the modern globalised world. This insightful integration of the general and the specific places this book among the very best academic work in the field.' Guy Cook, Emeritus Professor of Language in Education, King's College London'The Emoji Revolution is required reading for anyone with interest in emoji, or communication in general. While the subject matter might seem trivial on the surface, Philip Seargeant takes emoji and its impact very seriously in his book by rigorously examining the historical, political and social contexts of emoji use. Seargeant has produced a tremendous work of scholarship that is also a fun and engaging to read.' Jane Solomon, author of The Dictionary of Difficult Words'In his book, The Emoji Revolution, Philip Seargeant argues that emojis have become a powerful new way of getting a message across - not just for young people, but for everyone. He provides a fresh perspective on these pictograms and challenges us to think beyond their silliness or simplicity.' Forbes'The Emoji Revolution adeptly establishes emoji within a broader legacy of language and communication systems. The book is written in a highly engaging style that is peppered with Seargeant's wit and observational humor. The absence of jargon and extensive technical language makes this an accessible text which will appeal to lay audiences, academics, and student readers in a number of humanities and social science disciplines.' Miriam E. Sweeney, New Media and Society'There is an element of fun and lightness throughout the narrative. However, the topic's overall treatment is serious and scholarly, so we find a mix of serious and fun, and a bit of the best of both worlds.' Jeanette Evans, Technical CommunicationTable of Contents1. The what, the why and the where of emoji; 2. Emoji and the history of human communication; 3. Making faces; 4. Metaphors and moral panics; 5. The shaping force of digital technology; 6. People, politics and interpersonal relationships; 7. Diverse identities; 8. Creativity and culture; 9. The emojification of everyday life.

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Book SynopsisObesity is a pressing social issue and a persistently newsworthy topic for the media. This book examines the linguistic representation of obesity in the British press. It combines techniques from corpus linguistics with critical discourse studies to analyse a large corpus of newspaper articles (36 million words) representing ten years of obesity coverage. These articles are studied from a range of methodological perspectives, and analytical themes include variation between newspapers, change over time, diet and exercise, gender and social class. The volume also investigates the language that readers use when responding to obesity representations in the context of online comments. The authors reveal the power of linguistic choices to shame and stigmatise people with obesity, presenting them as irresponsible and morally deviant. Yet the analysis also demonstrates the potential for alternative representations which place greater focus on the role that social and political forces play in tTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The way in – shared keywords in the press; 3. Studying difference – comparing sections of the press; 4. Change over time; 5. Shaming and reclaiming; 6. Healthy body – diet and exercise; 7. General discourses of obesity; 8. 'A disease of the poor'? – obesity and social class; 9. Going 'below the line' – reader responses; 10. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisWhat does research tell us about how to grapple with the onslaught of graphic and distressing imagery that floods our newsfeeds daily? This book is designed for professionals and everyday people, legislators and social media policymakers who are making sense of trauma and meaning in our online lives.Trade Review'We live in a world where too few people have stopped to think of the shattering impact of the way cell phones, video and audio technology, and the internet bring horrendous violence, often instantly, to our offices, our homes, our safest spaces. It is splendid to have this thoughtful, compassionate analysis of this situation, replete with practical suggestions, from two of our finest human rights workers.' Adam Hochschild, author of American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis'In the groundbreaking book Graphic, Alexa Koenig and Andrea Lampros explore the ever-evolving information landscape and its effects on our lives in the digital age. Meticulously researched and brimming with practical advice, this timely guide delves into the complex world of online content and reveals best practices for safely navigating it. Drawing from their pioneering work at the world's first university-based digital investigations lab, the authors address crucial questions about our engagement with graphic news, and the responsibilities of newsrooms, social media platforms, and social justice organizations in today's world. Graphic is an essential read for anyone seeking to understand and mitigate the challenges of the digital era while staying connected to the human stories that matter most.' Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat'In Graphic, Alexa Koenig and Andrea Lampros brilliantly navigate the complicated and ethical landscape of our digital lives in which violent content is readily accessible at any time of day, anywhere in the world. Koenig and Lampros contend we should not necessarily look away from this material, but rather look differently. Thoroughly researched and compelling written, Graphic is a groundbreaking book with important insights about ways to be a digital witness to injustice that minimize the harmful and devastating impact this material can have on people who view it.' Sylvanna Falcón, Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, University of California, Santa CruzTable of ContentsIntroduction: Taking in Trauma from Our Newsfeed; 1. A Short Summary of a Long History of Graphic Witnessing; 2. Images and the Brain; 3. Images and Identity; 4. Agency and Control; 5. Community as a Protective Force; 6. Meaning in our Online Lives; 7. Policy and Practice: What Next? Conclusion: Lessons on Resilience from San Miguel.

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Book SynopsisProvides an introduction of the data industry to the field of economics This book bridges the gap between economics and data science to help data scientists understand the economics of big data, and enable economists to analyze the data industry. It begins by explaining data resources and introduces the data asset. This book defines a data industry chain, enumerates data enterprises' business models versus operating models, and proposes a mode of industrial development for the data industry. The author describes five types of enterprise agglomerations, and multiple industrial cluster effects. A discussion on the establishment and development of data industry related laws and regulations is provided. In addition, this book discusses several scenarios on how to convert data driving forces into productivity that can then serve society. This book is designed to serve as a reference and training guide for ata scientists, data-oriented managers and executives, entrepreneurs,Table of ContentsBibliography I Dedication II Praise III Preface IV Chapter I What Is Data Industry? 1 1.1 Data 2 1.1.1 Data Resources 2 1.1.2 The Data Asset 4 1.2 Industry 6 1.2.1 Classification of Industries 6 1.2.2 The Modern Industrial System 7 1.3 Data Industry 10 1.3.1 Definitions 10 1.3.2 An Industry Structure Study 11 1.3.3 Industrial Behavior 13 1.3.4 Market Performance 17 Chapter II Data Resources 20 2.1 Scientific Data 20 2.1.1 Data-Intensive Discovery in the Natural Science 20 2.1.2 The Social Sciences Revolution 21 2.1.3 The Underused Scientific Record 23 2.2 Administrative Data 23 2.2.1 Open Governmental Affairs Data 25 2.2.2 Public Release of Administrative Data 26 2.2.3 A “Numerical” Misunderstanding in Governmental Affairs 27 2.3 Internet Data 28 2.3.1 Cyberspace: Data of the Sole Existence 28 2.3.2 Crawled Fortune 29 2.3.3 Forum Opinion Mining 30 2.3.4 Chat with Hidden Identities 31 2.3.5 Email: The First Type of Electronic Evidence 31 2.3.6 Evolution of the Blog 33 2.3.7 Six Degrees Social Network 34 2.4 Financial Data 34 2.4.1 Twins on News and Financial Data 35 2.4.2 The Annoyed Data Center 35 2.5 Health Data 36 2.5.1 Clinical Data: EMRs, EHRs, and PHRs 36 2.5.2 Claims Data and Medicare Fraud or Abuse Detection 37 2.6 Transportation Data 38 2.6.1 Trajectory Data 39 2.6.1 Fixed-position Data 39 2.6.3 Location-based Data 40 2.7 Transaction Data 41 2.7.1 Receipts Data 41 2.7.2 E-commerce Data 42 Chapter III Data Industry Chain 44 3.1 Industrial Chain Definition 44 3.1.1 The Meaning and Characteristics 44 3.1.2 Category Attributes 46 3.2 Industrial Chain Structure 46 3.2.1 Economic Entities 47 3.2.2 Environmental Elements 48 3.3 Industrial Chain Formation 49 3.3.1 Value Analysis 49 3.3.2 Dimensional Matching 54 3.4 Evolution of Industrial Chain Management 55 3.5 Industrial Chain Governance 57 3.5.1 Governance Patterns 58 3.5.2 Instruments of Governance 59 3.6 The Data Industry Chain and Its Innovation Network 61 3.6.1 Innovation Layers 61 3.6.2 Supporting Systems 62 Chapter IV Existing Data Innovations 64 4.1 Web Creations 64 4.1.1 Network Writing 64 4.1.2 Creative Designs 66 4.1.3 Bespoke Development 67 4.1.4 Crowdsourcing 67 4.2 Data Marketing 68 4.2.1 Market Positioning 69 4.2.2 Business Insights 70 4.2.3 Customer Evaluation 71 4.3 Push Services 72 4.3.1 Targeted Advertising 73 4.3.2 Instant Broadcasting 74 4.4 Price Comparison 75 4.5 Disease Prevention 76 4.5.1 Tracking Epidemics 77 4.5.2 Whole-Genome Sequencing 78 Chapter V Data Services in Multiple Domains 79 5.1 Scientific Data Services 79 5.1.1 Literature Search Reform 79 5.1.2 An Alternative Scholarly Communication Initiative 80 5.1.3 Scientific Research Project Services 81 5.2 Administrative Data Services 83 5.2.1 Police Department 83 5.2.2 Statistical Office 84 5.2.3 Environmental Protection Agency 85 5.3 Internet Data Services 86 5.3.1 Open Source 86 5.3.2 Privacy Services 87 5.3.3 People Search 89 5.4 Financial Data Services 90 5.4.1 Describing Correlation Relationships 90 5.4.2 Simulating Bookmakers’ Behaviors 91 5.4.3 Forecasting Stock Prices 92 5.5 Health Data Services 93 5.5.1 Approaching Healthcare Singularity 94 5.5.2 New Drug of Launching Shortcuts 95 5.5.3 Monitoring in Chronic Disease 96 5.5.4 Data Supporting Data: Brain Sciences & Traditional Chinese Medicine 97 5.6 Transportation Data Services 99 5.6.1 Household Travel Characteristics 99 5.6.2 Multivariate Analysis of Traffic Congestion 100 5.6.3 Short-Term Travel Time Estimation 101 5.7 Transaction Data Services 102 5.7.1 Pricing Reform 102 5.7.2 Sales Transformation 104 5.7.3 Payment Upgrading 104 Chapter VI Data Services in Distinct Sectors 106 6.1 Natural Resource Sectors 106 6.1.1 Agricultureor: Rely on What? 106 6.1.2 Forestry Sector: Grain for Green at All Costs? 107 6.1.3 Livestock & Poultry Sector: Making Early Warning to Be More Effective 108 6.1.4 Marine Sector: How to Support the Ocean Economy? 109 6.1.5 Extraction Sector: A New Exploration Strategy 110 6.2 Manufacturing Sector 111 6.2.1 Production Capacity Optimization 111 6.2.2 Remodeling Process of Production 112 6.3 Logistics and Warehousing Sector 113 6.3.1 Optimizing Order Picking 113 6.3.2 Dynamic Equilibrium Logistic Channels 114 6.4 Shipping Sector 115 6.4.1 Digging More Transportation Capacity 115 6.4.2 Determining the Optimal Transfer in Road, Rail, Air, or Water Transport 116 6.5 Real Estate Sector 116 6.5.1 Urban Planning: Along the Timeline 117 6.5.2 Commercial Layout: Be Special 118 6.5.3 Property Management: Become Intelligent 118 6.6 Tourism Sector 119 6.6.1 Travel Arrangements 119 6.6.2 Pushing Attractions 120 6.6.3 Gourmet Food Recommendations 120 6.6.4 Accommodation Bidding 121 6.7 Education and Training Sector 121 6.7.1 New Knowledge Appraisal Mechanism 122 6.7.2 Innovative Continuing Education 122 6.8 Service Sector 123 6.8.1 Prolong Life: Be Scientific 124 6.8.2 Elderly Care: Technology-Enhanced, Enough? 124 6.8.3 Legal Services: Occupational Changes 125 6.8.4 Patents: the Maximum Open Data Resource 126 6.8.5 Meteorological Data Services: How to Commercialize? 127 6.9 Media, Sports & Entertainment Sector 128 6.9.1 Data Talent Scout 128 6.9.2 Interactive Script 128 6.10 Public Sector 130 6.10.1 Wargaming 130 6.10.2 Public Opinion Analysis 131 Chapter VII Business Models in the Data Industry 132 7.1 General Analysis of the Business Model 132 7.1.1 A Set of Elements and Their Relationships 132 7.1.2 Forming a Specific Business Logic 133 7.1.3 Creating and Commercializing Value 134 7.2 Data Industry Business Models 135 7.2.1 A Resource-Based View: Resource Possession 135 7.2.2 A Dynamic-Capability View: Endogenous Capacity 136 7.2.3 A Capital-Based View: Capital Operation 137 7.3 Innovation of Data Industry Business Models 138 7.3.1 Sources 139 7.3.2 Methods 140 7.3.3 A Paradox 142 Chapter VIII Operating Models in the Data Industry 143 8.1 General Analysis of Operating Models 143 8.1.1 Strategic Management 143 8.1.2 Competitiveness 144 8.1.3 Convergence 145 8.2 Data Industry Operating Models 145 8.2.1 Gradual Development: Google 146 8.2.2 Micro-Innovation: Baidu 147 8.2.3 Outsourcing: EMC 148 8.2.4 Data-Driven Restructuring: IBM 148 8.2.5 Mergers and Acquisitions: Yahoo! 149 8.2.6 Reengineering: Facebook 150 8.2.7 The 2nd Pioneering: Alibaba 151 8.3 Innovation of Data Industry Operating Models 152 8.3.1 Philosophy of Business 152 8.3.2 Management Styles 153 8.3.3 Force Field Analysis 153 Chapter IX Enterprise Agglomeration of the Data Industry 154 9.1 Directive Agglomeration 154 9.1.1 Data Resource Endowment 155 9.1.2 Multiple Target Sites 155 9.2 Driven Agglomeration 156 9.2.1 Labor Force 156 9.2.2 Capital 157 9.2.3 Technology 158 9.3 Industrial Symbiosis 159 9.3.1 Entity Symbiosis 159 9.3.2 Virtual Derivative 160 9.4 Wheel-Axle Type Agglomeration 161 9.4.1 Vertical Leadership Development 161 9.4.2 The Radiation Effect of Growth Poles 162 9.5 Refocusing Agglomeration 163 9.5.1 “Smart Heart” of the Central Business District 163 9.5.2 The Core Objective “Besiege” 164 Chapter X Cluster Effects of the Data Industry 165 10.1 External Economies 165 10.1.1 External Economies of Scale 166 10.1.2 External Economies of Scope 166 10.2 Internal Economies 167 10.2.1 Coopetition 167 10.2.2 Synergy 169 10.3 Transaction Cost 170 10.3.1 Specialization 171 10.3.1 Opportunity Cost 172 10.3.2 Monitoring Cost 173 10.4 Competitive Advantages 173 10.4.1 Innovation Performance 174 10.4.2 The Impact of Expansion 175 10.5 Negative Effects 176 10.5.1 Innovation Risk 176 10.5.2 Data Asset Specificity 177 10.5.3 Crowding Effect 177 Chapter XI A Developing Model of the Data Industry 178 11.1 General Analysis of the Developing Model 178 11.1.1 Influence Factors 178 11.1.2 Dominant Modes 179 11.2 A Basic Developing Model of the Data Industry 180 11.2.1 Industrial Structure: A Comprehensive Advancement Plan 180 11.2.2 Industrial Organization: Dominated by SMEs 181 11.2.3 Industrial Distribution: Endogenous Growth 182 11.2.4 Industrial Strategy: Self-Dependent Innovation 182 11.2.5 Industrial Policy: Market-Driven 183 11.3 An Innovative Developing Model of the Data Industry 184 11.3.1 New- Industrial Structure: Built on Upgrading of Traditional Industries 184 11.3.2 New- Industrial Organization: Small is Beautiful 185 11.3.3 New- Industrial Distribution: A Novel Type of Base 186 11.3.4 New- Industrial Strategy: Industry/University Cooperation 187 11.3.5 New- Industrial Policy: Civil-Military Coordination 188 Chapter XII A Guide the Emerging Data Law 190 12.1 Data Resource Law 190 12.2 Data Antitrust Law 192 12.3 Data Fraud Prevention Law 193 12.4 Data Privacy Law 194 12.5 Data Asset Law 195 References 197

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