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Book SynopsisHow digital technology—from Facebook tributes to QR codes on headstones—is changing our relationship to death.Facebook is the biggest cemetery in the world, with countless acres of cyberspace occupied by snapshots, videos, thoughts, and memories of people who have shared their last status updates. Modern society usually hides death from sight, as if it were a character flaw and not an ineluctable fact. But on Facebook and elsewhere on the internet, we can't avoid death; digital ghosts—electronic traces of the dead—appear at our click or touch. On the Internet at least, death has once again become a topic for public discourse. In Online Afterlives, Davide Sisto considers how digital technology is changing our relationship to death.Sisto describes the various modes of digital survival after biological death—including Facebook tributes, chatbots programmed to speak in the voice of a dead person, and QR codes on headstones—and dis

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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 communication studies, this volume is a timely and readymade resource for researching online multilingualism with a range of methodologies and perspectives.Trade 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 SynopsisThere can be no doubt that social media has fundamentally transformed how people relate to each other and navigate the social environment of the contemporary era. While social media makes it easier than ever before for people to connect, it can also lead to negative effects on mental health and well-being, as it facilitates social comparison which, ironically, can leave people feeling more isolated and detached. Chapter One of this book explores how social movement actors utilise Instagram to deliver complex political messages and discusses the importance of understanding the possibilities and dangers of social media's influence on political reality. Chapter Two analyses online social comparison from a social psychological perspective and highlights the differences between its occurrence in face-to-face and social media contexts, as well as the implications for mental health. Chapter Three focuses on the influence of Instagram upon millennials' purchase intention via celebrity endorsement and other Instagram visuals, particularly in connection with the use of colour and the visual attractiveness of celebrities. Lastly, Chapter Four addresses the semiotic aspects of Instagram by comparing a typical semiotic communication model to Instagram's communication model and explaining design aspects of Instagram's model.Table of ContentsPreface; Influencers and Activists: Political Performances in an Increasingly Online World; Social Comparison on Facebook and Its Effect on an Individuals Well-Being; The Influence of Instagram upon Millennials Purchase Intention: Celebrity Endorsement and Image Posts; Social Semiotic Aspect of Instagram Social Networks; Index.

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Book SynopsisDigital Culture & Society is a refereed, international journal, fostering discussion about the ways in which digital technologies, platforms and applications reconfigure daily lives and practices. It offers a forum for inquiries into digital media theory, methodologies, and socio-technological developments. The fourth issue "Making and Hacking" sheds light on the communities and spaces of hackers, makers, DIY enthusiasts, and 'fabbers'. Academics, artists, and hackerspace members examine the meanings and entanglements of maker and hacker cultures - from conceptual, methodological as well as empirical perspectives. With contributions by Sabine Hielscher, Jeremy Hunsinger, Kat Braybrooke, Tim Jordan, among others, and an interview with Sebastian Kubitschko.

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Book SynopsisAlgorithms are not to be regarded as a technical structure but as a social phenomenon - they embed themselves, currently still very subtle, into our political and social system. Algorithms shape human behavior on various levels: they influence not only the aesthetic reception of the world but also the well-being and social interaction of their users. They act and intervene in a political and social context. As algorithms influence individual behavior in these social and political situations, their power should be the subject of critical discourse - or even lead to active disobedience and to the need for appropriate tools and methods which can be used to break the algorithmic power.Table of Contents(Dis)obeying Algorithms? Introductory Thoughts on the Power of Algorithms and the Possible Necessity of Resisting it; The Dialectics of Dis-Obedience. Notes from the Crystal Palace; Surveillance, Artificial Intelligence and Power; Embodied Algorithmic Optimization. How Our Bodies are Becoming a Product of Code; The Lock Down City and the Utopian Program of Open Interfaces; Hacking Google Maps; The Algorithmic Construction of Space; Torn Between Autonomy and Algorithmic Management. (Dis)Obedience of Solo Self-Employed Working via Digital Platforms; A Crack in the Algorithm's Facade. A Fundamental Rights Perspective on "Efficiency" and "Neutrality" Narratives of Algorithms; When Search Engines Discriminate. The Posthuman Mimesis of Gender Bias; Discrimination by Correlation. Towards Eliminating Algorithmic Biases and Achieving Gender Equality; The Power of Algorithms and the Structural Transformation of the Digital Public; Reclaim your Face and the Streets. Why Facial Recognition, and Other Biometric Surveillance Technology in Public Spaces, Should be Banned; Identity 5.0: How to Fight Algorithms Online (Fast). Heuristic Compressions of Personality Concepts (Dis)Obedient to Algorithmic Powerfrom Film, Television and a Cult Classic Novel; About the Authors.

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Book SynopsisDo models of a ground-breaking art of the information age, an "algorithmic revolution", or of a democratization of art production still have any mileage? How do contemporary art practitioners cope with the political situation and with the attempts of the Silicon Valley giants to appropriate algorithmic generation of art-like artefacts? This issue aims to discuss how computer art from the pioneering days is now being reframed as digital, post-digital or algorithmic art under the prevailing conditions of big data, smart AI, an almost all-encompassing surveillance technology and a political state of neo-liberalism.

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Book SynopsisHow is the Internet produced as an infrastructure in post-socialist Lithuania? Migle Bareikyte contributes to the growing field of STS and media studies with a distinct focus on Eastern Europe. She situates the Internet development in Lithuania's telecom industry with the exploration of its labor practices, geopolitical imaginaries, and critical negotiations from a bottom-up perspective. Bareikyte further explores how fieldwork-based research can foster new theorizations of media infrastructures. Finally, she argues for a situated investigation of new places and actors beyond the United States and Western Europe-such as post-socialist regions-in order to explore the diversity of media infrastructures.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments; List of Figures and Tables; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Introduction; Everyday Infrastructuring; Geopolitical Imaginaries; Critical Negotiations; Implications for Situating the Internet as Infrastructure; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisPiazza virtuale by the group of artists known as Van Gogh TV was not only the biggest art project ever to appear on television, but from a contemporary point of view the project was also a forerunner of today's social media. The ground-breaking event that took place during the 100 days of documenta IX in 1992 was an early experiment with entirely user-created content. This is the first book-length study of this largely forgotten experiment: It documents the radicality of Piazza virtuale's approach, the novel programme ideas and the technical innovations. It also allows, via QR codes, direct access to videos from the show, which until now have been inaccessible.Table of ContentsIntroduction: "Hallo TV"; From subject to project: The intellectual and cultural environment of Piazza virtuale; Before and after Piazza virtuale; The making of Piazza virtuale; Piazza virtuale on air: 100 days, 600 hours of programming; "The show is as intelligent as its audience": The reception of Piazza virtuale; Conclusion: "Through the telephone lines a desire, formless and unaware of itself"; Appendix 1 The segments of Piazza virtuale; Appendix 2 The Piazzettas; Appendix 3 Technology; Acknowledgements; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisHow do digital media technologies shape or restructure social practice? And which transitions and demarcations of different forms of publicness arise in this context? Simon Holdermann examines this question in his ethnography of everyday life in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco. In order to approach the ongoing, historically situated social transformations of the region, he analyses a variety of media practices concerning the organizational work and transnational cooperation that take place there - in particular at the intersection of mountain tourism, NGO work, and local self-government.

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Book SynopsisOnline social media are changing the face of politics in the United States. Beginning with a strong theoretical foundation grounded in political, communications and psychology literature, Tweeting to Power examines the effect of online social media on how people come to learn, understand and engage in politics. Gainous and Wagner propose that platforms such as Facebook and Twitter offer the opportunity for a new information flow that is no longer being structured and limited by the popular media. Television and newspapers, which were traditionally the sole or primary gatekeeper, can no longer limit or govern what information is exchanged. By lowering the cost of both supplying the information and obtaining it, social networking applications have recreated how, when and where people are informed. To establish this premise, Gainous and Wagner analyze multiple datasets, quantitative and qualitative, exploring and measuring the use of social media by voters and citizens as well as the straTrade ReviewTweeting to Power is the most ambitious and well-researched study of social media's political consequences to date. Using an impressive array of qualitative and quantitative data, Gainous and Wagner systematically track how Twitter and Facebook are influencing Congress, political parties and the American public. This book is much more than a narrow study of social media, however. By situating their evidence in long-standing theoretical debates, Gainous and Wagner tackle more fundamental questions about the functioning of American democracy in the age of the internet. Tweeting to Power is essential reading for anyone interested in technology's impact on election campaigns, political communication and public opinion. * Kevin Wallsten, California State University, Long Beach *Social media have already become a fundamental part of politics in the digital age. In Tweeting to Power, Jason Gainous and Kevin M. Wagner use an impressive array of quantitative and qualitative data to explore a wide variety of questions about the impacts of social media on American politics. In doing so, they make an important new contribution to ongoing debates about the political implications of the internet. * Michael Xenos, Center for Communication Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison *Table of ContentsChapter 1: Social Media - The New Dinner Table? ; Chapter 2: Evolution or Revolution - Why Facebook and Twitter Matter? ; Chapter 3: Congress 2.0 - Internet-Style Politics ; Chapter 4: Congress 2.0 - Who's Tweeting? ; Chapter 5: Public Opinion 2.0 - Read My Feed ; Chapter 6: Public Opinion 2.0 - The New Social Capital ; Chapter 7: Congress 2.0 - Controlling the Flow of Information ; Chapter 8: Public Opinion 2.0 - The Direct Conduit ; Chapter 9: Congress 2.0 - Tweeting for Support ; Chapter 10: Social Media Tomorrow - Tweeting the Future? ; Appendix ; Notes ; References ; Index

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Book SynopsisAcknowledgements Introduction: Understanding the Digital Humanities; D.M.Berry An Interpretation of Digital Humanities; L.Evans & S.Rees How We Think: Transforming Power and Digital Technologies; N.K.Hayles Digital Methods: Five Challenges; B.Rieder & T.Röhle Archives in Media Theory: Material Media Archaeology and Digital Humanities; J.Parikka Canonicalism and the Computational Turn; C.Bassett The Esthetics of Hidden Things; S.Dexter The Meaning and the Mining of Legal Texts; M.Hildebrandt Have the Humanities Always been Digital? For an Understanding of the 'Digital Humanities' in the Context of Originary Technicity; F.Frabetti Present, Not Voting: Digital Humanities in the Panopticon; M.Terras Analysis Tool or Research Methodology: Is There an Epistemology for Patterns?; D.Dixon Do Computers Dream of Cinema? Film Data for Computer Analysis and Visualization; A.Heftberger The Feminist Critique: Mapping Controversy in Wikipedia; M.Currie How to See One Million Images? A Computational MTrade Review'Berry and colleagues present us with several current and future trajectories of the digital humanities, both building and questioning its trends. Through the last 40 years of computational research, the humanities have appropriated and developed many techniques for doing their work computationally, but only in the last ten years has the excess of computational capacity begun to bring central questions about the nature of the humanities to light. David Berry and his colleagues sit on the cutting edges of these questions, and their work will inform those debates for years to come.' - Jeremy Hunsinger, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA 'This book introduces and debates important questions regarding the use of digital technologies in numerous academic approaches in humanities and social sciences. These new media technologies are impacting across the disciplinary spectrum and pose challenges to traditional scholarship. Dr Berry's book gives us a timely insight into these various challenges and into the kinds of new 'digital humanities' that are emerging. Clearly written and providing a wide range of examples and case studies it is an important contribution to the growing literature on digital humanities.' - Christian De Cock, University of Essex, UKTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Understanding the Digital Humanities; D.M.Berry An Interpretation of Digital Humanities; L.Evans & S.Rees How We Think: Transforming Power and Digital Technologies; N.K.Hayles Digital Methods: Five Challenges; B.Rieder & T.Röhle Archives in Media Theory: Material Media Archaeology and Digital Humanities; J.Parikka Canonicalism and the Computational Turn; C.Bassett The Esthetics of Hidden Things; S.Dexter The Meaning and the Mining of Legal Texts; M.Hildebrandt Have the Humanities Always been Digital? For an Understanding of the 'Digital Humanities' in the Context of Originary Technicity; F.Frabetti Present, Not Voting: Digital Humanities in the Panopticon; M.Terras Analysis Tool or Research Methodology: Is There an Epistemology for Patterns?; D.Dixon Do Computers Dream of Cinema? Film Data for Computer Analysis and Visualization; A.Heftberger The Feminist Critique: Mapping Controversy in Wikipedia; M.Currie How to See One Million Images? A Computational Methodology for Visual Culture and Media Research; L.Manovich Cultures of Formalization: Towards an Encounter Between Humanities and Computing; J.van Zundert, A.Antonijevic, A.Beaulieu, K.van Dalen-Oskam, D.Zeldenrust & T.Andrews Trans-disciplinarity and Digital Humanity: Lessons Learned from Developing Text Mining Tools for Textual Analysis; Y.Lin Index

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Book SynopsisThe Sunday Mirror's former showbiz gossip columnist, Zoe Griffin, explains how she did just that in this original and informative book, Get Rich Blogging. Her own blog, Live Like A VIP, now generates a six-figure income, and she spends her life partying and writing about it. What's stopping you from doing the same? There is no technical knowledge required: all you need is this book, a laptop and an internet connection, and you could be blogging your way to wealth and happiness. With tips from the authors of the world's most respected and financially successful blogs on fashion, music, film, men's lifestyle and women's lifestyle, this book explains how anyone can start up a blogging business from scratch. Contributors include Perez Hilton, The Clothes Whisperer, The Fashion Editor at Large, Mumsnet, Tech Week, Music News and Mr Porter. You'll learn how to create appealing content, choose a web host, spread the word on social media, attract advertisers and pitch to magazines and newspapers...and have fun along the way.

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Book SynopsisHow were social media posts, scripted speeches, traditional news media and political cartoons used and understood during the Brexit campaign? What phrases and metaphors were key during and after the 2016 Brexit referendum? How far did the Remain and Leave campaigns rely on metaphor to engage with supporters in communicating their political positions? These questions, and many others, can be answered only through a systematic analysis of the actual language used in relation to Brexit by the different parties involved. By drawing on a range of data sources and types of communication, and presenting them as 'frames' through which individuals can attempt to understand the world, the author provides the first book-length examination of the metaphors of Brexit. This book takes a detailed look at the rhetorical language behind one of the major political events of the era, and it will be of interest to students and scholars of linguistics and political science, as well as anyone with a special interest in metaphor, rhetoric, Brexit, or political communication more broadly.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Cherries on the Cake?.- Chapter 2: The Lexicon of the Referendum.- Chapter 3: I Love My Country.- Chapter 4: 'Take Back Control': The War & Invasion Frame.- Chapter 5: Conceptual Metaphors: 'The Brussels Bubble'.- Chapter 6: The Metaphors of Boris Johnson.- Chapter 7: Happy Families and Special Relationships.- Chapter 8: Are Marriages Made in Heaven?.- Chapter 9: Animals: Moral Intuition and Moral Reasoning.- Chapter 10: Metaphors for Brexit.

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Book SynopsisThis open access handbook presents a multidisciplinary and multifaceted perspective on how the ‘digital’ is simultaneously changing Russia and the research methods scholars use to study Russia. It provides a critical update on how Russian society, politics, economy, and culture are reconfigured in the context of ubiquitous connectivity and accounts for the political and societal responses to digitalization. In addition, it answers practical and methodological questions in handling Russian data and a wide array of digital methods. The volume makes a timely intervention in our understanding of the changing field of Russian Studies and is an essential guide for scholars, advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying Russia today. Table of Contents1. Digital Russia Studies: An Introduction.2. The digitalization of Russian politics and political participation.3. E-Government in Russia: Plans, Reality, and Future Outlook.4. Russia’s Digital Economy Program: An Effective Strategy for Digital Transformation?.5. Law and Digitization in Russia.6. Personal Data Protection in Russia.7. Cyber-Crime and Punishment: Security, Information War, and the future of RuNet.8. Digital activism in Russia: The evolution and forms of online participation in an authoritarian state.9. Digital Journalism: Toward a theory of journalistic practice in the twenty-first century.10. Digitalization of Russian education: Changing actors and spaces of governance.11. Shifting the norm: the case of academic plagiarism.12. Digitalization of religion in Russia: adjusting preaching to new formats, channels and platforms.13. Doing Gender Online: Digital Spaces for Identity Politics.14. Digitalization of consumption in Russia: Online platforms, regulations and consumer behavior.15. Digital Art: A sourcebook of ideas for conceptualising new practices, networks and modes of self-expression.16. From Samizdat to New Sincerity. Digital Literature on the Russian-language Internet.17. Run Runet Runaway: The Transformation of the Russian Internet as a Cultural-Historical Object.18. Corpora in text-based Russian studies.19. RuThes Thesaurus for Natural Language Processing.20. Social media based research of interpersonal and group communication in Russia.21. Digitizing Archives in Russia: Epistemic Sovereignty and Its Challenges in the Digital Age.22. Affordances of Digital Archives: A Case of Prozhito archive of personal diaries.23. Open Government Data in Russia.24. Topic modeling in Russia: current approaches and issues in methodology.25. Topic Modeling Russian History.26. Studying ideational change in Russian politics with topic models and word embeddings.27. Deep Learning for the Russian Language.28. Automatic Sentiment Analysis of Texts: Case of Russian.29. Social Network Analysis in Russian Literary Studies.30. Tweeting Russian politics: studying on-line political dynamics.31. The State of the Art: Surveying Digital Russian Art History.32. Geospatial data analysis in Russia’s geoweb.

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Book SynopsisBased on interviews and archival research, this book explores how media is implicated in Black women’s lives in Britain. From accounts of twentieth-century activism and television representations, to experiences of YouTube and Twitter, Sobande's analysis traverses tensions between digital culture’s communal, counter-cultural and commercial qualities.Chapters 2 and 4 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisThis book interrogates how new digital-visual techniques and technologies are being used in emergent configurations of research and intervention. It discusses technological change and technological possibility; theoretical shifts toward processual paradigms; and a respectful ethics of responsibility. The contributors explore how new and evolving digital-visual technologies and techniques have been utilized in the development of research, and reflect on how such theory and practice might advance what is “knowable” in a world of smartphones, drones, and 360-degree cameras. Table of Contents​1. Introduction2. Refiguring Techniques: Technologies, Possibilities, Emergence and an Ethics of Responsibility in Visual-digital Research3. Drone Bodies: Sensual Amalgamations of the Vertical4. For a Non-Linear Visual Ethnography: Reflections on the Use of i-docs as a Tool for Scientific Research5. Empathetic Visuality: Go-Pros and the Video Trace6. Careful Surveillance at Play: Human-Animal Relations and Mobile Media in the Home7. Being There, Feeling There: Using 360 Cameras in Ethnographic Fieldwork8. Ethnography through the Digital Eye: What Do We See When We Look?9. Visual Documentation in Hybrid Spaces: Ethics, Publics, and Transition10. At the Edges of the Visual Culture of Exile

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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 SynopsisTerry Flew is Professor of Media and Communication in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. He is the author of eight books, including Media Economics (2015), Global Creative Industries (2013) and The Creative Industries, Culture and Policy (2012). He chaired the Australian Law Reform Commission Review of the National Media Classification Scheme in 2011-12, and has been an Executive Board member of the International Communications Association and the Australian Research Council College of Experts. He is an internationally recognized leader in global media and communications research, whose books and articles have been translated into multiple languages.Trade ReviewThis new edition of Understanding Global Media cuts through the complexities of various theories and practices of global media production, circulation and consumption, and helps us to think more strategically and critically about our ever-changing engagement with the most pervasive form of culture of our generation: global media. * Terence Lee, Murdoch University, Australia *Terry Flew's book is an essential manual for the scholarly study of media in our world today. * William Youmans, George Washington University, USA *This book could prove useful for those interested keeping up-to-date with the latest changes in global mass communication such as scholars and professionals in the fields of diplomacy, communications, and economics as well as anyone with an interest in modern global affairs. * Tyler M. Wilson, CBQ Communication Booknotes Quarterly, Vol. 51 (1-2) *Table of Contents1. Introduction to Global Media: Key Concepts 2. Modernization Theories and Development Communication 3. Critical Politcal Economy 4. Globalization Theories 5. The Changing Geography of Global Media Production 6. Global Media Cultures 7. Globalization, Nation-States and Media Policy 8. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisDeepfake technology can create video evidence of just about anything: Hollywood superstar Margot Robbie in an orgy.Chinese president Xi Jinping declaring nuclear war.Basketball legend Michael Jordan winning the World Cup. The only limit is the imagination. In a time where fake news and disinformation is becoming harder and harder to identify, it is more essential than ever to understand the dark origins of deepfakes. Journalist Michael Grothaus goes down the rabbit hole as he interviews the often morally dubious, yet incredibly skilled creators of this content. It's a journey that opens a window into the communities transforming reality. Challenging, enlightening and terrifying, Trust No One asks the question other people are too scared to: what happens when you can no longer believe your own eyes?'An alarming look at deepfakes' Sunday Times'Michael Grothaus takes a hard look at the growth of deep fakes, examining cases that demonstrate the threats presented by morally dubious creators. From the personal to political, the impact of deep fakes is considered carefully by Grothaus, both on the victims and on society as a whole, creating an essential picture of a growing trend in disinformation' Eliot Higgins, founder of BellingcatTrade ReviewA clear, readable rundown of how deepfakes are changing our world * The Sunday Times *The page-turner of a book stresses that deepfakes are a ticking timebomb and that we, the public, need to educate ourselves before we herald in a zero-trust society where seeing is no longer believing... If you're looking for a greater understanding of the wild world of deepfakes, how they are created, their benefits and harms as well as their stomach-churning implications; Trust No One is a great place to start. * Reaction *Michael Grothaus takes a hard look at the growth of deep fakes, examining cases that demonstrate the threats presented by morally dubious creators. From the personal to political, the impact of deep fakes is considered carefully by Grothaus, both on the victims and on society as a whole, creating an essential picture of a growing trend in disinformation. -- Eliot Higgins, founder of BellincatThought-provoking . . . he interviews some shady characters and raises interesting questions * Mail On Sunday *An alarming look at deepfakes. * The Sunday Times *Our relationship with visual representations of ourselves always runs along this axis of narcissism and dread: at once promising a defeat of death, but by arousing that desire only to disappoint it, crushingly reinforcing its inevitability. Our fascination with deepfakes strikes me as the latest iteration of this emotional rollercoaster, and it's one Grothaus captures very well. -- Peter Pomerantsev * The Guardian *

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Book SynopsisFor all that we think we’re getting out of social media, we’re also getting duped. The perfection echo chamber oftentimes makes us feel like we’re getting left behind. The truth is, life is messy, but curated online fabulousness makes it hard to let our true selves show, and it impedes our ability to have real, meaningful connections. Depression, anxiety, and suicide are also on the rise, and the virtual world is partially to blame, affecting our self-worth, our friendships, and the way we choose to navigate our real lives. As the founder and CEO of Squad, an app company built on connectedness, Isa Watson knows firsthand why we need to learn how to be more genuine. The digital world is her lifeblood, but it’s also been an Achilles’ heel: She struggled privately with some of the biggest challenges life can throw at you, while online she seemed to be living her best life - earning high-profile accolades, taking fabulous trips, and partying with the likes of many big-name celebrities. It took a personal crisis to make her realise that she needed to change. In Life Beyond Likes, she gets real, sharing practical guidance on: Getting over being addicted to likes and letting your true self shine, Recognising your own damaging habits and developing healthy ones, Getting comfortable with discomfort to make real connections & friends, Determining when a friendship has run its course and letting them go in a healthy way. Drawing from a wealth of experiences including being the youngest published chemist in the world, working as executive in the upper echelons at JPMorgan Chase, and founding her own company, Isa helps readers better understand what constitutes success, identify what’s really important, and achieve a balance between the curated online world and the enriching, emotionally nourishing world right in front of us.

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Book SynopsisThe smartphone and social media have transformed Africa, allowing people across the continent to share ideas, organise, and participate in politics like never before. While both activists and governments alike have turned to social media as a new form of political mobilization, some African states have increasingly sought to clamp down on the technology, introducing restrictive laws or shutting down networks altogether. Drawing on over a dozen new empirical case studies – from Kenya to Somalia, South Africa to Tanzania – this collection explores how rapidly growing social media use is reshaping political engagement in Africa. But while social media has often been hailed as a liberating tool, the book demonstrates how it has often served to reinforce existing power dynamics, rather than challenge them. Featuring experts from a range of disciplines from across the continent, this collection is the first comprehensive overview of social media and politics in Africa. By examining the historical, political, and social context in which these media platforms are used, the book reveals the profound effects of cyber-activism, cyber-crime, state policing and surveillance on political participation.Trade ReviewMethodologically innovative, rich in data and analytically profound. This is one of the most important studies of social media in Africa in recent times. * Dr George Ogola, Associate Professor of Journalism, University of Central Lancashire *Brilliant, rich and much-needed! Dwyer and Molony have done a fantastic job of bringing social media to the core of the present, and future, of African politics. * Dr Toussaint Nothias, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society’ *Moving beyond technological utopianism, this exciting edited collection provides much-needed nuanced analysis of the way in which social media both challenge and reproduce power relations. * Dr Wendy Willems, Associate Professor, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science *Table of Contents1. Mapping the Study of Politics and Social Media Use in Africa - Maggie Dwyer & Thomas Molony 2. ‘Igu sawir gone too far’? Social media and state reconstruction in Somalia - Peter Chonka 3. ‘We are not just voters, we are citizens’: Social Media, the #ThisFlag Campaign, and Insurgent Citizenship in Zimbabwe - George Karekwaivanane & Admire Mare 4. Social Media and Protest Movements in South Africa: #FeesMustFall and #ZumaMustFall - Tanja Bosch 5. Enemy Collaborators: Social imaginaries, global frictions, and a gay rights music video in Kenya - Brian Ekdale 6. Between Excitement and Scepticism: The Role of WhatsApp in Sierra Leone’s 2018 Elections - Maggie Dwyer, Jamie Hitchen, & Thomas Molony 7. Chaos and Comedy: Social Media, Activism, and Democracy in Senegal - Emily Riley 8. Social Media and Elections in Nigeria: Digital Influence on Election Observation, Campaigns, and Administration - Nkwachukwu Orji 9. From FM radio stations to Internet 2.0 overnight: information, participation and social media in post-failed coup Burundi - Jean-Benoît Falisse & Hugues Nkengurutse 10. Cybercrime and the policing of politics in Tanzania - Charlotte Cross 11. A familiar refrain: Political discourse and Facebook use in Mombasa, Kenya - Stephanie Diepeveen 12. Inside the #OperationUsalamaWatch echo chamber: Twitter as site of disruption or elite conversation? - Alisha Patel 13. From Whispers to the Assemblage: Surveillance in Post-Independence East Africa - Denis Galava Postscript: Research Trajectories in African Digital Spheres - Bruce Mutsvairo & Kate Wright

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Book SynopsisThis edited volume presents advances in modeling and computational analysis techniques related to networks and online communities. It contains the best papers of notable scientists from the 4th European Network Intelligence Conference (ENIC 2017) that have been peer reviewed and expanded into the present format. The aim of this text is to share knowledge and experience as well as to present recent advances in the field. The book is a nice mix of basic research topics such as data-based centrality measures along with intriguing applied topics, for example, interaction decay patterns in online social communities. This book will appeal to students, professors, and researchers working in the fields of data science, computational social science, and social network analysis. Table of ContentsData-based centrality measures.- Extracting the Main Path of historic events from Wikipedia.- Simulating trade in economic networks with TrEcSim.- Community Aliveness: Discovering interaction decay patterns in online social communities.- Network Patterns of Direct and Indirect Reciprocity in edX MOOC Forums.- Targeting influential nodes for recovery in bootstrap percolation on hyperbolic networks.- Trump versus Clinton – Twitter communication during the US primaries.- Extended feature-driven graph model for Social Media Networks.- Market basket analysis using minimum spanning trees.- Behavior-based relevance estimation for social networks interaction relations.- Sponge walker: Community detection in large directed social networks using local structures and random walks.- Identifying promising research topics in Computer Science.- Identifying accelerators of information diffusion across social media channels .- Towards an ILP approach for learning privacy heuristics from users' regrets.- Strength of nations: A case study on estimating the influence of leading countries using social media analysis.- Incremental learning in dynamic networks for node classification.

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Book SynopsisThe increasing digitization of the world of work is associated with accelerated structural changes. These are connected with changed qualification profiles and thus new challenges for vocational education and training (VET). Companies, vocational schools and other educational institutions must respond appropriately. The volume focuses on the diverse demands placed on teachers, learners and educational institutions in vocational education and training and aims to provide up-to-date results on learning in the digital age.Table of ContentsEditorial and Introduction to the VolumeEditorial: Vocational Education and Training in the Age of Digitization - Challenges and Opportunities (Eveline Wuttke, Jürgen Seifried, and Helmut M. Niegemann)1 Introduction - A Look Back Ahead (Helmut M. Niegemann)Section I: Vocational Education and Training in the Age of Digitization2 The Impact of Learning Factories on Multidisciplinary Digital Competencies (Michael J. J. Roll & Dirk Ifenthaler)3 Competence Development with Digital Learning Stations in VET in the Crafts Sector (Mareike Schmidt, Alina Makhkamova, Jan Spilski, Matthias Berg, MartinPietschmann, Jan-Philipp Exner, Daniel Rugel, & Thomas Lachmann)4 Tablet PCs in Economics Classes—An Empirical Study on Motivational Experiences and Cognitive Load (Christin Siegfried & Rico Hermkes)5 Gamification. A Novel Didactical Approach for 21st Century Learning (Silke Fischer & Antje Barabasch)Section II: Teacher Education and Professional Competence of Teachers in the Age of Digitization6 Development of a Video-based Test Instrument for the Assessment of Professional Competence in the Vocational Teacher Training Course (Andrea Faath-Becker & Felix Walker)7 Assessing Professional Knowledge of Teachers at Vocational Schools—Using the Example of a Professional Development for Automation and Digitized Production (Pia Schäfer, Nico Link & Felix Walker)Section III: Workplace Learning in the Age of Digitization8 Digital Competences in the Workplace: Theory, Terminology, and Training (Henrike Peiffer, Isabelle Schmidt, Thomas Ellwart & Anna-Sophie Ulfert)9 Microlearning via Smartphones in VET for Professional Drivers: The Case of Securing Cargo for International Transport (Andreas Korbach & Helmut M. Niegemann)Section IV: Higher Education in the Age of Digitization10 Openness in MOOCs for Training and Professional Development— An Exploration of Entry and Participation Barriers (Kristina Kögler, Marc Egloffstein, & Brigitte Schönberger)11 The High School Career Academy as a Model for Promoting Technological Preparation: Promising Practices and Challenges in the United States (M. Hernandez-Ganter & Edward C. Fletcher)Conclusions and Outlook12 Developing a Skillful and Adaptable Workforce: Reappraising Curriculum and Pedagogies for Vocational Education (Stephen Billett)Authors

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Book SynopsisWhen you want to change the world, how do you get the world on board?This is the communications playbook changemakers, entrepreneurs and aspiring leaders everywhere have been waiting for.It uniquely guides you through the Five Traits of Influence, step by step. You'll activate your purpose, identify your audiences, build your brand, construct your plan and master core skills. These essential skills cover changing behaviour, body language, persuasive conversations, creating killer content, storytelling, writing craft, media relations and TED-standard public speaking.Inside, you'll find expert insights, practical tools and handy quick-reference summaries. Accompanying all this is your personal Influence Canvas, where you'll plan your leadership path.This book unlocks the tools previously only accessible to those employing PR and media agencies and development coaches. Learn their secrets and use them for yourself. Whether it's for personal growth or you want to build up a business or movement, Influence will become your go-to coach for leading positive change through powerful communications.

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Book SynopsisThis book organizes the intent and purpose of the Japanese competition law (Antimonopoly Act) to address the digitalized socio-economy and provides a detailed explanation of its basic content as well as advanced issues. It includes an overview of Japanese law and its international position, a basic understanding of the big data and AI issues in today's competition law, and perspectives on high-tech regulation. In addition, it includes a variety of important topics, ranging from exploring principles to tackle digital regulatory realities, to understanding and analyzing the competitive realities of multisided markets. It also examines the relationship between information and competition law and that between consumer and competition law.Digitalization is a key concept in our economy and society today. Carbon neutrality initiatives, the need to improve productivity, globalization, and new ways of working are all seeking breakthroughs by way of digitalization. What’s more, digitalization requires free and fair competition in order to encourage technological innovation. The search for transparent and clear competition laws is essential to promote efficient and effective research and development and to promote public awareness through competition.Table of ContentsPart 1. Introduction.- Chapter 1: Overview of Japanese Law.- Chapter 2 International Cooperation and Harmonization in Competition Law.- Part 2: Digital Initiatives in Japanese Competition Law.- Chapter 3: Big Data and AI.- Chapter 4: Big Data and AI-Chapter 5: Perspectives on High-Tech Regulation.- Part 3: The Realities of Various Digital Regulations.- Chapter 6: Data Regulation.- Chapter 7 Digital PF Regulation.- Chapter 8: Competition in Multisided Markets.- Chapter 9 Competition Law and Consumers in Digital Platforms.

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Book SynopsisThis volume tackles the issues of globalization and sexuality. Looking at how pleasures of the body are framed, shaped and commercialized in the new global economy, the book explores the impact on gender relations, politics, the ways in which we imagine our own sense of self, and other issues.Trade Review"This valuable resource is compelling and easy-to-read, accessible to anyone interested in how technology and the global economy are shaping the ways we think." - Booklist "Altman is a wonderfully clear writer and thinker with a magpie skill for accumulating relevant nuggets of information. This makes Global Sex both illuminating and fascinating.... It is dazzlingly ambitious in its scope, ranging from fellatio in the White House and bulimia in Fiji to AIDS in Africa and transgender in Taiwan." - New Internationalist "A gripping portrait of a world barely able to keep pace with enormous, rapid-fire changes.... Offering neither a dire warning nor a reason to rejoice, his savvy, energetic book truly maintains a global perspective." - Publishers Weekly

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Book SynopsisIntegrating a broad range of research on how people learn, this text shows that televised presentations - at their best - actually excel at transmitting information and facilitating learning. The author critiques political offerings in terms of their compatibility with our learning capabilities.

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Terra Nova 2.02. The Real Problem3. Social Contract 2.04. In the Face of Others5. Open Ended ConclusionsBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Terra Nova 2.02. The Real Problem3. Social Contract 2.04. In the Face of Others5. Open Ended ConclusionsBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIn a world of giddy celebrants and dire detractors, Milad Doueihi speaks with measured authority about what the rise of digital culture means. He ranges from literacy, citizenship, digital subjectivity, and social networks to texts, archiving, storage, and copyright—offering a rare view of the emerging digital space.Trade ReviewDigital Cultures is a wide-ranging and knowledgeable exploration of what it means to participate in online culture. Doueihi covers an impressive range of topics concerning the digital, which include literacy, citizenship, texts, and archiving and storage. The technology is explained in satisfying detail that nevertheless remains accessible throughout. A must-read for anyone interested in this or related fields. -- N. Katherine Hayles, author of How We Think: Digital Technologies and Transforming PowerDoueihi's argument [is] revelatory and important. He presents the diversity of digital practices and the importance of digital literacy in an increasingly complex textual environment. Moving beyond basic functional literacy, Doueihi asks how digitization configures a meta-literacy, "of what it means to be literate.'" -- Tara Brabazon * Times Higher Education *By showing how modes of communication and human relationships have changed since its rise, [Doueihi] makes a persuasive case that digital culture has broken free from print culture, which extends from the Gutenberg Bible of the 1450s to the present. Instant response, brevity, minimal spelling and grammar, novel syntax and different modes of composition have created new forms of literacy...Written in the "old" discursive format, Digital Cultures includes much to think about. The pace of change is fast, but Doueihi's insight is fresh. -- George Rousseau * Nature *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the 2019 PROSE Award in Textbook / Social Sciences, Association of American Publishers""Winner of the AAPOR Book Award, American Association for Public Opinion Research""Salganik is one of the first natural-born computational social scientists, a sociologist whose doctoral work was one of the early landmark projects in the field. Bit by Bit is 90% textbook, 10% biography, putting into personal context issues that Salganik was among the first to wrestle with. . . . The text is clearly written--even breezy, in parts. It puts the reader in the shoes of the researcher: What decisions were made, why, and were those the best choices? It is suitable for an advanced undergraduate or graduate class in methodology, with a rigorous, mathematical appendix and a range of useful problems at the conclusion of each chapter."---David Lazer, Science"This is a book to return to time and again. . . . Bit by Bit should be widely read by those engaging in social research, as well as beyond."---Farida Vis, Times Higher Education"An enticing and important field guide to the new frontier of digital social research that will be of interest whether one is trying to figure out how to do more evidence-based policymaking or simply sell more toothpaste online. Impeccably organized and beautifully written in clear and accessible prose, the book doubles as a methods textbook for university students studying social and data sciences (or any field where research is at the center)."---Beth Noveck, Forbes"Given the book’s breadth, it is a recommended read for all scholars interested in the role that the internet and big data can play in social research."---Tatsiana Amosaya, Canadian Journal of Sociology"The implications and potential for social science arising from the availability of large amounts of data have been comparatively overlooked. This book provides a welcome insight into what can be achieved, and also an exemplar curriculum for graduate studies."---Thomas King, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society"A timely and important must-read for anyone interested in the intersection of social science and big data."---Magdalena Wojcieszak, International Journal of Press/Politics"Salganik offers what is truly a Swiss Army knife for learning and teaching computational social science. The book is equal parts explanation of what computational social science is, lessons on how to do computational social science, and recommendations for how computational social science should grow as an interdisciplinary field."---Marshall A. Taylor, Teaching Sociology"This is an easy review. Buy this book. No matter your competence in data analysis, your experience in running experiments, or your ability to understand research papers, you will find nuggets of information that will be useful for your development as an economist – professional or not."---Ian Bright, Society of Professional Economists

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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"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 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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