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Book SynopsisJeffrey Aven is a big data consultant and instructor based in Melbourne, Australia. Jeff has an extensive background in data management and several years of experience consulting and teaching in the areas of Hadoop, HBase, Spark, and other big data ecosystem technologies. Jeff has won accolades as a big data instructor and is also an accomplished consultant who has been involved in several high-profile, enterprise-scale big data implementations across different industries in the region. Table of Contents PART I: GETTING STARTED WITH APACHE SPARK Hour 1: Introducing Apache Spark Hour 2: Understanding Hadoop Hour 3: Installing Spark Hour 4: Understanding the Spark Application Architecture Hour 5: Deploying Spark in the Cloud PART II: PROGRAMMING WITH APACHE SPARK Hour 6: Learning the Basics of Spark Programming with RDDs Hour 7: Understanding MapReduce Concepts Hour 8: Getting Started with Scala Hour 9: Functional Programming with Python Hour 10: Working with the Spark API (Transformations and Actions) Hour 11: Using RDDs: Caching, Persistence, and Output Hour 12: Advanced Spark Programming PART III: EXTENSIONS TO SPARK Hour 13: Using SQL with Spark Hour 14: Stream Processing with Spark Hour 15: Getting Started with Spark and R Hour 16: Machine Learning with Spark Hour 17: Introducing Sparkling Water (H20 and Spark) Hour 18: Graph Processing with Spark Hour 19: Using Spark with NoSQL Systems Hour 20: Using Spark with Messaging Systems PART IV: MANAGING SPARK Hour 21: Administering Spark Hour 22: Monitoring Spark Hour 23: Extending and Securing Spark Hour 24: Improving Spark Performance Index

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Book SynopsisCyberculture and the Subaltern: Weavings of the Virtual and Real, edited by Radhika Gajjala, maps how voice and silence shape online space in relation to offline actualities. Thus, it weaves the virtual and real in relation to so-called old and new technologies using globalization and technology as the frame for examination. Implicit in this investigation is the question of how offline actualities and online cultures are in turn shaped by online hierarchies, as well as different kinds of local access to global contexts. This book reveals the logic of particular global-local directions that emerge within digital, transnational capital and labor flows. To this end, the contributors to this volume examine various sites and intersections through critical lenses enabled by conversations and writings in subaltern studies, affect theory, postcolonial feminist theory, critical cultural studies, communication studies, critical development studies, and science and technology studies. Contexts exTrade ReviewOn-line/off-line, global/local, first world/third world, virtual/real, traditional/modern, and many more, this book reveals just how inadequate the old binaries (and quite a few of the new ones) have become. In an intricate set of weavings that stretch from handloom to Second Life, Radhika Gajjala and her various co-authors navigate the dense registers where voice and agency are always on the move, always to be made. -- Gregory Seigworth, Millersville UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction. Subaltern Empowerment, Socioeconomic Globalization, and Digital Divides Radhika Gajjala Chapter 1. Producing the Global: Microfinance Online Radhika Gajjala, Franklin Nii Yartey, and Anca Birzescu Chapter 2. Philanthropist or Investor? Microlending to the Other Radhika Gajjala, Anca Birzescu, and Franklin Nii Yartey Chapter 3. Snapshots from Sari Trails: Cyborgs Old and New Radhika Gajjala, with Rad Zabibha Chapter 4. Framing the Loom Radhika Gajjala, Seemanthini Niranjana, and B. Syamasundari Chapter 5. Kente Cloth and Adinkra in the Global Market Precious Yamaguchi and Franklin Nii Yartey Conclusion Radhika Gajjala

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Book SynopsisOnline Chinese Nationalism and China's Bilateral Relations covers a new topic of interest to scholars and students studying Chinese politics and society, Chinese diplomacy, and e-politics by looking at the interaction between online nationalism and the bilateral relations between China and various parts of the world.Trade ReviewThis pioneering volume illuminates a crucial new frontier in the popular articulation of Chinese nationalism in this age of hi-tech global instant communication via the Internet. Its Sino-external interface case studies vividly amplify the internet as a powerful transformational instrument with profound academic, economic, political, diplomatic and strategic impact. Those keen to learn the fuller dimensions and implications of a rising China as an electronically-connected soft power player with domestic realpolitik consequences will enjoy its rich details and refreshing findings... -- Ming K. CHAN, Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford UniversitySimon Shen and Shaun Breslin note how the emergence of an online civil society in China intrinsically provides some form of supervision of state power, and perhaps even a check on it. * Brookings, June 2010 *This volume is one of the most original and important volumes for years on China's international relations. It looks at the growing phenomenon of the emergence of a quasi-civil society in China via the internet, and uses it as a basis for a rethinking of how China relates to the rest of the world, including the battlegrounds with the Western world for power such as Africa and Latin America. This is truly international relations for the century to come. -- Rana Mitter, University of OxfordThis pioneering volume illuminates a crucial new frontier in the popular articulation of Chinese nationalism in this age of hi-tech global instant communication via the Internet. Its Sino-external interface case studies vividly amplify the internet as a powerful transformational instrument with profound academic, economic, political, diplomatic and strategic impact. Those keen to learn the fuller dimensions and implications of a rising China as an electronically-connected soft power player with domestic realpolitik consequences will enjoy its rich details and refreshing findings. -- Ming K. CHAN, Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsPart 1 Introduction Chapter 2 1. When China Plugged In: Structural Origins of Online Chinese Nationalism Chapter 3 2. Nationalism-on-demand? When Chinese Sovereignty Goes Online Part 4 The First Layer: Japan, Taiwan and the USA Chapter 5 3. China's Online Nationalism towards Japan Chapter 6 4.Networking Anti-Japanese Protests: Popular Sovereignty Reasserted since 2005 Chapter 7 5. Alternative Online Chinese Nationalism: Response to the Anti-Japanese Campaign in China on Hong Kong's Internet Chapter 8 6. Ethnocentric Perceptive Re-explored: Online Chinese Nationalism toward Taiwan Chapter 9 7. The "Two Americas" Dichotomy: Online Chinese Nationalism towards the United States of America Part 10 The Second Layer: The Rests of the World Chapter 11 8. Beyond Sino-ASEAN Relations: Online Chinese Nationalism towards Southeast Asia Chapter 12 9. Online Chinese Nationalism toward the European Union: Economic and Diplomatic Implications of the Olympic Torch Relay Protests Chapter 13 10. Online Nationalism and Sino-UK Relations Chapter 14 11. A constructed (un)reality on China's re-entry into Africa: the Chinese online community perception of Africa Chapter 15 12.Discussions on Sino-Latin American Relations at Qiangguo Forums (or the Lack Thereof) Part 16 Conclusion Chapter 17 13. Online Chinese nationalism(s): Comparisons and Findings

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIntriguing, topical, balanced, and well-supported by empirical information, Ethnopolitics in Cyberspace will likely become an important book on the contemporary evolution of nationalism. -- Karim H.Karim, Carleton University in OttawaClear and comprehensive, essential reading for students and scholars alike, an authoritative analysis of nationalism and nationality in the era of the Internet, Ethnopolitics in Cyberspace fills a critical gap in our hitherto anecdotal understanding of the use of the Web by cyber-elites and peoples without countries. Too sophisticated a scholar to merely celebrate the new ecumene of cyberspace, Saunders shows that the Internet is not neutral but a double-edged sword. He analyzes how subaltern nations, national minorities, immigrant diasporas, and other groups without real-world territories are able to bridge borders, oceans, and time electronically to pursue their identity projects. -- Wolf Schäfer, Stony Brook Institute for Global Studies, and Globality Studies JournalDrawing on a variety of disciplines in innovative and exciting ways, Robert A. Saunders has produced a delightfully written and provocatively argued book that will challenge many views of how national identity is produced and reproduced in today's world. -- Alexander J. Motyl, Rutgers University-NewarkTable of Contents1 Acknowledgements 2 Introduction: Turning the Tables on Procrustes Part 3 Part I: The Color and Shape of a Cyberspatial World Chapter 4 Chapter 1: From Bibles to Bollywood: Mass Media, Identity, and the State Chapter 5 Chapter 2: Media Unbound: The Internet, Cyberspace, and Nationalism on the Web Chapter 6 Chapter 3: New World (Dis)Orders: National Identity and Ethnic Poli-tics in the Global Era Part 7 Part II: Homo-Cybericus-Genus & Species Chapter 8 Chapter 4: Electronic Irredentists: Albanians Seeking Unity in Digital Space and Virtual Places Chapter 9 Chapter 5: Post-Imperial Digerati: Near Abroad Russians Transcending Local Barriers via Global Technologies Chapter 10 Chapter 6: Cybernetic Vanguard: The Roma's Use of the Web to Protect a Minority under Siege Chapter 11 Chapter 7: Virtual Prophets: Ummahists and the Construction of a New Imagined Community 12 Afterword: Towards a Cybernational Future? 13 Bibliography 14 About the Author

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Book SynopsisDefying predictions that the Internet would eventually create a world where nations disappeared in favor of a unified ''global village,'' the new millennium has instead seen a proliferation of nationalism on the Web. Cyberspace, a vast digital terrain built upon interwoven congeries of data and sustained through countless public/private communication networks, has even begun to alter the very fabric of national identity. This is particularly true among stateless nations, diasporic groups, and national minorities, which have fashioned the Internet into a shield again the assimilating efforts of their countries of residence. As a deterritorialized medium that allows both selective consumption and inexpensive production of news and information, the Internet has endowed a new generation of technology-savvy elites with a level of influence that would have been impossible to obtain a decade ago. Challenged nations-from Assyrians to Zapotecs-have used the Web to rewrite history, engage in political activism, and reinvigorate moribund languages. This book explores the role of the Internet in shaping ethnopolitics and sustaining national identity among four different national groups: Albanians outside of Albania, Russians in the ''near abroad,'' Roma (Gypsies), and European Muslims. Accompanying these case studies are briefer discussions of dozens of other online national movements, as well as the ramifications of Internet nationalism for offline domestic and global politics. The author discusses how the Internet provides new tools for maintaining national identity and improves older techniques of nationalist resistance for minorities. Bringing together research and methodologies from a range of fields, Saunders fills a gap in the social science literature on the Internet''s central role in influencing nationalism in the twenty-first century. By creating new spaces for political discourse, alternative avenues for cultural production, and novel means of social organization, the Web is remaking what it means to be part of nation. This insightful study provides a glimpse of this exciting and sometimes disturbing new landscape.Trade ReviewIntriguing, topical, balanced, and well-supported by empirical information, Ethnopolitics in Cyberspace will likely become an important book on the contemporary evolution of nationalism. -- Karim H.Karim, Carleton University in OttawaClear and comprehensive, essential reading for students and scholars alike, an authoritative analysis of nationalism and nationality in the era of the Internet, Ethnopolitics in Cyberspace fills a critical gap in our hitherto anecdotal understanding of the use of the Web by cyber-elites and peoples without countries. Too sophisticated a scholar to merely celebrate the new ecumene of cyberspace, Saunders shows that the Internet is not neutral but a double-edged sword. He analyzes how subaltern nations, national minorities, immigrant diasporas, and other groups without real-world territories are able to bridge borders, oceans, and time electronically to pursue their identity projects. -- Wolf Schäfer, Stony Brook Institute for Global Studies, and Globality Studies JournalDrawing on a variety of disciplines in innovative and exciting ways, Robert A. Saunders has produced a delightfully written and provocatively argued book that will challenge many views of how national identity is produced and reproduced in today's world. -- Alexander J. Motyl, Rutgers University-NewarkTable of Contents1 Acknowledgements 2 Introduction: Turning the Tables on Procrustes Part 3 Part I: The Color and Shape of a Cyberspatial World Chapter 4 Chapter 1: From Bibles to Bollywood: Mass Media, Identity, and the State Chapter 5 Chapter 2: Media Unbound: The Internet, Cyberspace, and Nationalism on the Web Chapter 6 Chapter 3: New World (Dis)Orders: National Identity and Ethnic Poli-tics in the Global Era Part 7 Part II: Homo-Cybericus-Genus & Species Chapter 8 Chapter 4: Electronic Irredentists: Albanians Seeking Unity in Digital Space and Virtual Places Chapter 9 Chapter 5: Post-Imperial Digerati: Near Abroad Russians Transcending Local Barriers via Global Technologies Chapter 10 Chapter 6: Cybernetic Vanguard: The Roma's Use of the Web to Protect a Minority under Siege Chapter 11 Chapter 7: Virtual Prophets: Ummahists and the Construction of a New Imagined Community 12 Afterword: Towards a Cybernational Future? 13 Bibliography 14 About the Author

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates through a network approach the progressive construction of a new Internet governance (IG) discourse resulting from the joint participation of institutional and non-institutional actors in the Internet Governance Forum.Trade ReviewWith the advances in information communication technologies and the subsequent rise of the Internet, new avenues for research continue to open. Pavan (Univ. of Trento, Italy) opens a new avenue by analyzing specific structures of the Global Communication Governance (GCG) from both a systematic theoretical and empirical framework. GCG is defined as the sum of all political processes underpinning the management of information and communication matters from a supranational perspective. Based on sophisticated frames and network analyses and within the broader context of GCG, the study focuses on the development and consolidation of the global Internet Governance (IG) following the 2003-05 World Summit on the Information Society and pays close attention to the collaborative and dynamic roles played by institutional and noninstitutional actors. Relying on a bottom-up approach where the empirical investigation of these dynamic and collaborative relationships focuses on the emerging practices within IG, the study first discusses the structural and historical elements that gave rise to GCG and introduces the joint operational tools associated with the frames and network analyses. Subsequent chapters investigate the political structures and multiple groups as well as the social and semantic networks involved in shaping IG. Summing Up: Recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: A Background Picture Chapter 2: Investigating Content and Process in Political Dynamics: Theoretical Background and Analytic Framework Chapter 3: Introducing the Internet Governance Case Chapter 4: The Internet Governance Online Discursive Space Chapter 5: The Internet Governane Offline Discursive Space Conclusions Appendix 1: Issue Crawler working logic

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Book SynopsisSince its popularization in the mid 1990s, the Internet has impacted nearly every aspect of our cultural and personal lives. Over the course of two decades, the Internet remained an unregulated medium whose characteristic openness allowed numerous applications, services, and websites to flourish. By 2005, Internet Service Providers began to explore alternative methods of network management that would permit them to discriminate the quality and speed of access to online content as they saw fit. In response, the Federal Communications Commission sought to enshrine net neutrality in regulatory policy as a means of preserving the Internet's open, nondiscriminatory characteristics. Although the FCC established a net neutrality policy in 2010, debate continues as to who ultimately should have authority to shape and maintain the Internet's structure. Regulating the Web brings together a diverse collection of scholars who examine the net neutrality policy and surrounding debates from a varietyTrade ReviewRegulating the Web is a series of 11 essays that grew out of panel discussions from the 2011 National Communication Association meeting. As such, it shares the strengths found in many books growing out of conferences. It is well researched and full of very current information as of the time of its publication. Contributors present novel and informative perspectives on the history, politics, and current state of the Internet. This is a worthwhile read for audiences interested in the topic of net neutrality. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers/faculty, and professionals. * CHOICE *Network neutrality is one of the most important policy issues of the 21st century, with implications for the future of politics, intellectual life, culture, the economy, and more. This smart, sophisticated, and cutting-edge collection offers both a solid introduction and a comprehensive overview of the best thinking of proponents of an open internet. -- Thomas Streeter, University of VermontTable of ContentsRegulating the Web: An Introduction Zack Stiegler Part I: Background and Principles1 Chapter 1: Visions of Modernity: Communication, Technology and Network Neutrality in Historical Perspective Michael Felczak Chapter 2: What We Talk About When We Talk About Net Neutrality: A Historical Genealogy of the Discourse of Net Neutrality Danny Kimball Chapter 3: Transparency, Consumers, and the Pursuit of an Open Internet: A Critical Appraisal Jeremy Carp, Isabella Kulkarni, and Patrick Schmidt Chapter 4: Applying Common Carriage to Network Neutrality Pallavi Guniganti and Mark Grabowski Part II: Institutional Perspectives Imagining Equilibrium: The Figure of the Dynamic Market in the Net Neutrality Debate Daniel Faltesek Chapter 6: Axiology and the FCC: Regulation as Ideological Process Benjamin Cline Part III: Net Neutrality as Cultural and Political Debate Chapter 7: Framing the Net Neutrality Debate Zack Stiegler and Dan Sprumont Chapter 8: Informationism as Ideology: Technological Myths in the Net Neutrality Debate Brian Dolber Part IV: Socio-Cultural Implications Chapter 9: A Critical Theory of Technology Approach to the Study of Network Neutrality Tina Sikka Chapter 10: Network Neutrality, Mobile Networks, and User-Generated Activism Michael Daubs Chapter 11: Beyond the Series of Tubes: Strategies for Advancing Media Reform John Nathan Anderson

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewR. J. Maratea’s book answers many significant questions about the nature, impact, and future of political claims-making in our mediated era of digital communication. This is the next step in understanding contested—and constructed—cyberspace from the vantage of citizen journalism to WikiLeaks to hybrid social movements (e.g., the Tea Party), and illuminates how political institutional players, such as the National Rifle Association, fire up their constituents. -- David L. Altheide, Arizona State UniversityHow does the Internet affect the ways social problems emerge and evolve? Cyber-optimists insist we're living in a completely new world, where all claims have a chance to be heard. But The Politics of the Internet takes a hard look at the evidence and finds that old media and established advocates remain key actors in determining which issues command public attention. -- Joel Best, The University of DelawareThis thoughtful, accessible and engaging book examines the complex intersections of media technology, politics, power, and social action. Maratea’s innovative conceptualization of the Internet as a cyber-arena provides important insights into how new media technologies may be changing the landscape of political activism by fundamentally restructuring how we create, receive, and act upon political communications in the digital age. -- Brian Monahan, Marywood University, author of The Shock of the NewsTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables……………………………………………….……000 Preface………………………………………………………………………...000 Acknowledgements…………………………………………………………...000 Part OneTheoretical Background 1.The Internet as a Vehicle for Social Change………………………………….000 2.Constructing Reality in Cyberspace…………………………………………..000 Part TwoEmergent Political Claims-Making 3.Power to the People? Citizen Journalism in Cyberspace…………..………….000 4.Subverting Old Government with New Media: Understanding the WikiLeaks Effect………………………………………………………………000 Part Three Institutionalized Political Claims-Making 5.Connecting the Web to the Street: Hybrid Social Movements and Online Advocacy Networks……………………………………………………………000 6.From Back Rooms to Cyber-Lobbies: How the National Rifle Association Uses the Internet to Mobilize Support…………………………………………000 7.All the News That’s Fit to Post: Big Media and the Shift to Online Coverage……………………………………………………………………….000 8.Conclusion: Old Wine in New Bottles?..............................................................000 Methodology Appendix………………………………………………………..000 References……………………………………………………………………...000 Index……………………………………………………………………………000

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Book SynopsisThe governance of global communications is consolidating as a field where innovative political practices of multi-actor collaboration are being experimented. Within this broad political landscape, the Internet governance domain is emerging as one of the most relevant areas where institutional and non-institutional actors are converging in order to reform collectively governance mechanisms that will determine the future developments of the Internet technology. This book adopts a network approach to study the progressive and collective construction of a new discourse on Internet governance fostered by the realization of the United Nations Internet Governance Forum, a new space for multi-stakeholder policy-dialogue (WSIS Tunis Agenda 2005, art. 72). Looking both at how semantic and social connections are created in the online and the offline discursive spaces, this book seeks to provide insights on how principles of democratic collaboration between institutional and non-institutional actoTrade ReviewWith the advances in information communication technologies and the subsequent rise of the Internet, new avenues for research continue to open. Pavan (Univ. of Trento, Italy) opens a new avenue by analyzing specific structures of the Global Communication Governance (GCG) from both a systematic theoretical and empirical framework. GCG is defined as the sum of all political processes underpinning the management of information and communication matters from a supranational perspective. Based on sophisticated frames and network analyses and within the broader context of GCG, the study focuses on the development and consolidation of the global Internet Governance (IG) following the 2003-05 World Summit on the Information Society and pays close attention to the collaborative and dynamic roles played by institutional and noninstitutional actors. Relying on a bottom-up approach where the empirical investigation of these dynamic and collaborative relationships focuses on the emerging practices within IG, the study first discusses the structural and historical elements that gave rise to GCG and introduces the joint operational tools associated with the frames and network analyses. Subsequent chapters investigate the political structures and multiple groups as well as the social and semantic networks involved in shaping IG. Summing Up: Recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: A Background Picture Chapter 2: Investigating Content and Process in Political Dynamics: Theoretical Background and Analytic Framework Chapter 3: Introducing the Internet Governance Case Chapter 4: The Internet Governance Online Discursive Space Chapter 5: The Internet Governane Offline Discursive Space Conclusions Appendix 1: Issue Crawler working logic

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Book SynopsisCyberculture and the Subaltern: Weavings of the Virtual and Real, edited by Radhika Gajjala, maps how voice and silence shape online space in relation to offline actualities. Thus, it weaves the virtual and real in relation to so-called old and new technologies using globalization and technology as the frame for examination. Implicit in this investigation is the question of how offline actualities and online cultures are in turn shaped by online hierarchies, as well as different kinds of local access to global contexts. This book reveals the logic of particular global-local directions that emerge within digital, transnational capital and labor flows. To this end, the contributors to this volume examine various sites and intersections through critical lenses enabled by conversations and writings in subaltern studies, affect theory, postcolonial feminist theory, critical cultural studies, communication studies, critical development studies, and science and technology studies. Contexts exTrade ReviewOn-line/off-line, global/local, first world/third world, virtual/real, traditional/modern, and many more, this book reveals just how inadequate the old binaries (and quite a few of the new ones) have become. In an intricate set of weavings that stretch from handloom to Second Life, Radhika Gajjala and her various co-authors navigate the dense registers where voice and agency are always on the move, always to be made. -- Gregory Seigworth, Millersville UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction. Subaltern Empowerment, Socioeconomic Globalization, and Digital Divides Radhika Gajjala Chapter 1. Producing the Global: Microfinance Online Radhika Gajjala, Franklin Nii Yartey, and Anca Birzescu Chapter 2. Philanthropist or Investor? Microlending to the Other Radhika Gajjala, Anca Birzescu, and Franklin Nii Yartey Chapter 3. Snapshots from Sari Trails: Cyborgs Old and New Radhika Gajjala, with Rad Zabibha Chapter 4. Framing the Loom Radhika Gajjala, Seemanthini Niranjana, and B. Syamasundari Chapter 5. Kente Cloth and Adinkra in the Global Market Precious Yamaguchi and Franklin Nii Yartey Conclusion Radhika Gajjala

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Book SynopsisAlthough the FCC established a net neutrality policy in 2010, debate continues as to who ultimately should have authority to shape and maintain the Internetâs structure. Regulating the Web brings together a diverse collection of scholars who examine multiple the net neutrality policy and surrounding debates from a variety of perspectives.Trade ReviewRegulating the Web is a series of 11 essays that grew out of panel discussions from the 2011 National Communication Association meeting. As such, it shares the strengths found in many books growing out of conferences. It is well researched and full of very current information as of the time of its publication. Contributors present novel and informative perspectives on the history, politics, and current state of the Internet. This is a worthwhile read for audiences interested in the topic of net neutrality. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers/faculty, and professionals. * CHOICE *Network neutrality is one of the most important policy issues of the 21st century, with implications for the future of politics, intellectual life, culture, the economy, and more. This smart, sophisticated, and cutting-edge collection offers both a solid introduction and a comprehensive overview of the best thinking of proponents of an open internet. -- Thomas Streeter, University of VermontTable of ContentsRegulating the Web: An Introduction Zack Stiegler Part I: Background and Principles1 Chapter 1: Visions of Modernity: Communication, Technology and Network Neutrality in Historical Perspective Michael Felczak Chapter 2: What We Talk About When We Talk About Net Neutrality: A Historical Genealogy of the Discourse of Net Neutrality Danny Kimball Chapter 3: Transparency, Consumers, and the Pursuit of an Open Internet: A Critical Appraisal Jeremy Carp, Isabella Kulkarni, and Patrick Schmidt Chapter 4: Applying Common Carriage to Network Neutrality Pallavi Guniganti and Mark Grabowski Part II: Institutional Perspectives Imagining Equilibrium: The Figure of the Dynamic Market in the Net Neutrality Debate Daniel Faltesek Chapter 6: Axiology and the FCC: Regulation as Ideological Process Benjamin Cline Part III: Net Neutrality as Cultural and Political Debate Chapter 7: Framing the Net Neutrality Debate Zack Stiegler and Dan Sprumont Chapter 8: Informationism as Ideology: Technological Myths in the Net Neutrality Debate Brian Dolber Part IV: Socio-Cultural Implications Chapter 9: A Critical Theory of Technology Approach to the Study of Network Neutrality Tina Sikka Chapter 10: Network Neutrality, Mobile Networks, and User-Generated Activism Michael Daubs Chapter 11: Beyond the Series of Tubes: Strategies for Advancing Media Reform John Nathan Anderson

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Book SynopsisWith the leverage of digital reproducibility, historical messages of hate are finding new recipients with breathtaking speed and scope. The rapid growth in popularity of right-wing extremist groups in response to transnational economic crises underscores the importance of examining in detail the language and political mobilization strategies of the New Right. In Europe, for example, populist right-wing activists organized around an anti-immigration agenda are becoming more vocal, providing pushback against the increase in migration flows from North Africa and Eastern Europe and countering support for integration with a categorical rejection of multiculturalism. In the United States, anti-immigration sentiment provides a rallying point for political and personal agendas that connect the rhetoric of borders with national, racial, and security issues. Digital Media Strategies of the Far Right in Europe and the United States is an effort to examine and understand these issues, informed by Trade ReviewSimpson and Druxes’ edited collection provides a timely exploration of the role of digital media in political radicalism across Europe and North America. Drawing on an impressive array of rigorously researched studies, the volume considers not only Internet extremism, but the media strategies of contemporary far right parties and movements as well as how homophobia, racism, and radicalism are transmitted through a range of popular cultural forms. Avoiding the temptation to ascribe agency to the Internet itself, this book constitutes a rounded and nuanced contribution to the debate about how digital media is employed by the far right today. -- Hilary Pilkington, The University of ManchesterThis is a truly impressive volume. The range of topics covered provides substantial breadth while each chapter offers a richly textured level of analysis. For scholars of social movements, political extremism, and digital culture this volume is a must read. -- Pete Simi, University of Nebraska, OmahaTable of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Digital Media Strategies of the Far Right in Europe and the United States Patricia Anne Simpson and Helga Druxes I. Extremisms and the Internet Swastikas in Cyberspace: How Hate Went Online Chip Berlet and Carol Mason The Lone Wolf Comes From Somewhere, TooØyvind Strømmen and Kjetil Stormark Mobilizing on the Fringe: Domestic Extremists and Antisocial Networking Kyle Christensen, Arian Spahiu, Bret Wilson, and Robert D. Duval Hijacking Academic Autonomy: Neo-Aryanism and Internet Expertise Alexandar Mihailovic II. Far-Right Politics and Internet Identities Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty: The Transnational Linkages of Radical Nationalist Political Parties in the European Union Glen M. E. Duerr Manipulating the Media: The German New Right’s Virtual and Violent Identities Helga Druxes The Imitated Public Sphere: The Case of Hungary’s Far Right Domonkos Sik Right-Wing Campaign Strategies in Sweden Lara Mazurski The Identitarian Movement: What Kind of Identity? Is it Really a Movement? Fabian Virchow III. Homophobia, Race, and Radicalism Singing for Race and Nation: Fascism and Racism in Greek Youth Music Alexandra Koronaiou, Evangelos Lagos, and Alexandros Sakellariou “The Order of the Vanquished Dragon”: The Performance of Archaistic Homophobia by the Union of Orthodox Banner Bearers in Putin’s Russia Alexandar Mihailovic Pure Hate: The Political Aesthetic of Prussian Blue Patricia Anne Simpson The New “Great White Hope?” White Nationalist Discourses of Race, Color, and Country in the Career of Mexican Boxer Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez Justin D. García The Roots of East German Xenophobia Freya Klier About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisWith the leverage of digital reproducibility, historical messages of hate are finding new recipients with breathtaking speed and scope. The rapid growth in popularity of right-wing extremist groups in response to transnational economic crises underscores the importance of examining in detail the language and political mobilization strategies of the New Right. In Europe, for example, populist right-wing activists organized around an anti-immigration agenda are becoming more vocal, providing pushback against the increase in migration flows from North Africa and Eastern Europe and countering support for integration with a categorical rejection of multiculturalism. In the United States, anti-immigration sentiment provides a rallying point for political and personal agendas that connect the rhetoric of borders with national, racial, and security issues. Digital Media Strategies of the Far Right in Europe and the United States is an effort to examine and understand these issues, informed by Trade ReviewSimpson and Druxes’ edited collection provides a timely exploration of the role of digital media in political radicalism across Europe and North America. Drawing on an impressive array of rigorously researched studies, the volume considers not only Internet extremism, but the media strategies of contemporary far right parties and movements as well as how homophobia, racism, and radicalism are transmitted through a range of popular cultural forms. Avoiding the temptation to ascribe agency to the Internet itself, this book constitutes a rounded and nuanced contribution to the debate about how digital media is employed by the far right today. -- Hilary Pilkington, The University of ManchesterThis is a truly impressive volume. The range of topics covered provides substantial breadth while each chapter offers a richly textured level of analysis. For scholars of social movements, political extremism, and digital culture this volume is a must read. -- Pete Simi, University of Nebraska, OmahaTable of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Digital Media Strategies of the Far Right in Europe and the United States Patricia Anne Simpson and Helga Druxes I. Extremisms and the Internet Swastikas in Cyberspace: How Hate Went Online Chip Berlet and Carol Mason The Lone Wolf Comes From Somewhere, TooØyvind Strømmen and Kjetil Stormark Mobilizing on the Fringe: Domestic Extremists and Antisocial Networking Kyle Christensen, Arian Spahiu, Bret Wilson, and Robert D. Duval Hijacking Academic Autonomy: Neo-Aryanism and Internet Expertise Alexandar Mihailovic II. Far-Right Politics and Internet Identities Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty: The Transnational Linkages of Radical Nationalist Political Parties in the European Union Glen M. E. Duerr Manipulating the Media: The German New Right’s Virtual and Violent Identities Helga Druxes The Imitated Public Sphere: The Case of Hungary’s Far Right Domonkos Sik Right-Wing Campaign Strategies in Sweden Lara Mazurski The Identitarian Movement: What Kind of Identity? Is it Really a Movement? Fabian Virchow III. Homophobia, Race, and Radicalism Singing for Race and Nation: Fascism and Racism in Greek Youth Music Alexandra Koronaiou, Evangelos Lagos, and Alexandros Sakellariou “The Order of the Vanquished Dragon”: The Performance of Archaistic Homophobia by the Union of Orthodox Banner Bearers in Putin’s Russia Alexandar Mihailovic Pure Hate: The Political Aesthetic of Prussian Blue Patricia Anne Simpson The New “Great White Hope?” White Nationalist Discourses of Race, Color, and Country in the Career of Mexican Boxer Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez Justin D. García The Roots of East German Xenophobia Freya Klier About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisAll Internet users will find this book a useful tool for understanding the increasingly complex web of Internet control.Trade ReviewParé has clearly mastered his subject matter. Internet Governance in Transition leaves little question as to why the administration of Internet domain names has become &ltU>the&ltU> pivotal battle for control over cyberspace..... -- Greg Elmer, Boston College, editor of Critical Perspectives on the InternetParé has clearly mastered his subject matter. Internet Governance in Transition leaves little question as to why the administration of Internet domain names has become the pivotal battle for control over cyberspace. -- Greg Elmer, Boston College, editor of Critical Perspectives on the InternetTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Fomenting Dissent: A Brief History of the Domain Name Wars Chapter 3 Internet Governance: Don't Believe the Hype Chapter 4 Transformation of the UK Domain Naming Regime Chapter 5 Internet Addressing: A UK Perspective Chapter 6 The Politics of Internet Governance Chapter 7 Conclusion

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Book SynopsisAll Internet users will find this book a useful tool for understanding the increasingly complex web of Internet control.Trade ReviewParé has clearly mastered his subject matter. Internet Governance in Transition leaves little question as to why the administration of Internet domain names has become &ltU>the&ltU> pivotal battle for control over cyberspace..... -- Greg Elmer, Boston College, editor of Critical Perspectives on the InternetParé has clearly mastered his subject matter. Internet Governance in Transition leaves little question as to why the administration of Internet domain names has become the pivotal battle for control over cyberspace. -- Greg Elmer, Boston College, editor of Critical Perspectives on the InternetTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Fomenting Dissent: A Brief History of the Domain Name Wars Chapter 3 Internet Governance: Don't Believe the Hype Chapter 4 Transformation of the UK Domain Naming Regime Chapter 5 Internet Addressing: A UK Perspective Chapter 6 The Politics of Internet Governance Chapter 7 Conclusion

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Book SynopsisLife is short and so are TikToks, so what are you waiting for? Release your creativity with these 365 TikTok ideas.Making a TikTok video that goes viral is all about having a quirky idea that can grab attention in as little as 15 seconds. Whether you're a TikTok beginner or a practiced creator, the hardest part is often getting started. This unofficial book provides a year's worth of ideas in the form of creative prompts to keep you posting new videos every day. Give the weather report using the app's Green Screen effect.Use forced perspective and a coffee mug and make a splash as you dive in.Dance with your dog.Say nice things to a houseplant and see if it grows faster.Kick-start a new meme by creating a TikTok that people will want to duet with.There are tips and advice from the most popular creators, including the queen of Alt TikTok, Melissa Ong, wholesome TikTok family The McFarlands, and fashion favorite Jeff

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Book SynopsisAuthored by a scholar-blogger, this engaging book is packed with examples that show how blogging and related genres are changing media and communication. It gives definitions and explains how blogs work, shows how blogs relate to the historical development of publishing and communication and looks at the ways blogs structure social networks.Trade Review"A landmark in social cyberspace studies – and much more than that. It’s about the way today’s popular culture is actually part of large-scale change in the way culture is produced. Jill Walker Rettberg has written a deep and broad book about the real meaning of blogging as evidence for and a driver of an epochal cultural shift. She deftly uses her own experience as a renowned blogger, examined through the expert eye of an experienced communication researcher, to reveal the psychological, social, political and historical meaning of the blogging phenomenon. She brings media studies, ethnology, literary studies, marketing, journalism and sociology together into a brilliant explanatory framework." Howard Rheingold, author of Smart Mobs "Blogging has become an essential backbone of social media. Jill Walker Rettberg’s book brilliantly documents, analyses and situates blogging, constructing an indispensable account of blogging’s history and future in light of social network sites, mobile practices and other media-sharing platforms. This is a key piece of scholarship for anyone trying to understand the intersection of technology and society." danah boyd, Microsoft Research New England, and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University "A solid, unbiased, and unfettered introduction to the social aspects of blogging. Recommended." ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vii Introduction 1 1 What is a Blog? 5 A brief history of weblogs 6 How blogs have adapted to a social media ecosystem 14 Three blogs 17 Defining blogs 30 2 From Bards to Blogs 36 Orality and literacy 37 The introduction of print 41 Print, blogging and reading 44 Printed precedents of blogs 45 The Late Age of Print 47 A modern public sphere? 50 Hypertext and computer lib 53 Technological determinism or cultural shaping of technology? 57 3 Blogs, Communities and Networks 62 Social network theory 66 Distributed conversations 69 Technology for distributed communities 72 Facebook and Twitter as microblogs 76 Publicly articulated relationships 82 Colliding networks 83 Emerging social networks 86 4 Citizen Journalists? 90 Bloggers’ perception of themselves 93 When it matters whether a blogger is a journalist 94 Objectivity, authority and credibility 97 First-hand reports: blogging from a war zone 101 First-hand reports: chance witnesses 104 Bloggers as independent journalists and opinionists 107 Gatewatching 108 Symbiosis 112 5 Blogs as Narratives 115 Goal-oriented narratives 116 Ongoing and episodic narration 118 Blogs as self-exploration 127 Fictions or hoaxes? Kaycee Nicole and lonelygirl15 129 6 Blogging Brands 135 The human voice 136 Advertisements and sponsored posts on blogs 139 Micropatronage 145 Sponsored posts and pay-to-post 147 Exploitation and alienation? 152 Corporate blogs 155 Engaging bloggers 161 Corporate blogging gone wrong 164 7 The Future of Blogging 169 Implicit participation and the perils of personalized media 170 References 176 Blogs Mentioned 186 Index 189

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Book SynopsisThis book studies computer-mediated, interpersonal Internet activity up to the turn of the century, examining virtual misbehavior across a wide range of online environments. It also lays out the theoretical framework and fundamental ideas of media ecology, a branch of communication scholarship, highly relevant for understanding digital technology.Trade ReviewTo be programmed or to program? That is the question. For media ecology scholars, it is time to examine digital media from a new perspective. Janet Sternberg gives her answer to the above question in the book Misbehavior in Cyber Places: The Regulation of Online Conduct in Virtual Communities on the Internet. In comparison with monographs on digital media or human behavior, the book is intriguing because it revisits media ecology both from social and human behavioral perspectives and acts as an important call for scholarship on studies involving situationist-based medium theory. * International Journal of Communication *[This book] is a foundational work on the new senses of place that are arising with digital media. Sternberg catalogues and analyzes the new genres of mischief and mayhem, nuisances and nastiness, and crimes and creative activism that have emerged in online communities. In so doing, Sternberg creatively reveals the social construction of new conceptions of normative behavior in virtual interactions and the development of the mechanisms to enforce the boundaries of what is seen as ‘acceptable.’ Sternberg is a lucid writer and clear thinker. Her book holds significant long-term theoretical value as a major advance in situationist-based medium theory. -- Joshua Meyrowitz, professor of communication, University of New Hampshire, Durham, author of No Sense of PlaceThe next real generation of media theorists in the spirit of McLuhan, Ong, and Innis has finally arrived as Janet Sternberg. She revisits media ecology in the social and behavioral landscape of the net, upscaling the study of media onto an altogether new playing field: human misbehavior. From cheaters to spoilsports to shamans, this is not your mother’s media analysis. -- Douglas Rushkoff, author of Program or Be ProgrammedThis study represents an important contribution to the research on computer communication. Sternberg makes it clear that we cannot fully comprehend behavior online unless we first examine misbehavior, that rules and roles are most visible when they are violated. The media ecology approach that Sternberg employs, especially when incorporating symbolic interactional, relational, and situational perspectives, is essential to a comprehensive understanding of our new electronic environments. -- Lance Strate, professor of communication and media studies, Fordham University, author of On the Binding Biases of Time and Echoes and ReflectionsEveryone who has ever used the Internet has experienced online misbehavior first hand. So why haven’t scholars written more about it? Janet Sternberg’s book Misbehavior in Cyber Places is one of the few comprehensive treatments of the issue. -- Amy Bruckman, associate professor in the School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of TechnologyA useful inventory of types of social and criminal online misbehavior, understood within a media ecology framework. Flamers, spammers, pranksters, virtual rapists, hackers—Sternberg captures the running battles between the Athenians and Visigoths of virtual communities, and shows us how netizens can control and police their cyber places. She examines digital skirmishes filtered through media ecology’s understandings of environment, space, place, and situation, allowing her broad generalizations about the Internet as medium as well as concrete assessments of particular online misbehavior occurring in concrete contexts. The prerogatives and limitations of the Internet’s rule-makers, rule-enforcers, and community pressures are illustrated with clear examples and envisioned with sensitive, pragmatic, ethical guidelines. Her award-winning research on and visions of cyber relationships is now available to all netizens. Bravo! -- Bruce Gronbeck, A. Craig Baird Distinguished Professor of Public Address, University of IowaTable of ContentsPreface: The Internet at the Turn of the Century Acknowledgments Introduction: Athenians and Visigoths in Cyberspace 1 The Research Objective Rationale for the Study The Research Problem Definitions Delimitations Method Chapter Summary 2 The Context of the Study Media Ecology: The Study of Media Environments Media as Environments Environments as Media Space and Place Situations, Rules, and Rule-Breaking Mediated Interpersonal Communication Computer-Mediated Communication in Online Environments Virtual Communities 3 Trouble Brewing in Cyberspace An Infamous Triad of Troublesome Online Behavior Flaming: Digital Debates and Virtual Vitriol Spamming: Electronic Junk Mail and Other Cyber Debris Virtual Rape: Sexual Harassment in Online Gathering Places A Frontier Mentality: The Internet Besieged Two Approaches: External Laws Versus Internal Rules 4 Cybercrime: Law-Breaking on the Internet The 1994 Denning and Lin Report Cybercrime and Cyberlaw Online Security, Attacks, and Viruses Hackers and Other Denizens of the Cyberspace Underground First Amendment Follies: Dissent, Free Speech, and Censorship Online Definition Schizophrenia: Malevolent Criminal or Mischievous Prankster? The Jurisdiction Circus: No Ringmaster in Cyberspace 5 Misbehavior: Rule-Breaking in Virtual Communities The 1994 Bruckman Abstract Misbehavior and its Aliases: Negligent, Naughty, Nasty, and Beyond Rules and Norms in Virtual Gatherings Netiquette and Other Codes of Civilized Cyber Conduct Behavior Management and Social Control in Online Environments The Status Quo: Theories and Analyses in Search of a Paradigm 6 The Regulation of Online Conduct in Cyber Places Breaking, Making, and Enforcing Rules Online Breaking the Rules: Varieties of Virtual Misbehavior Rule-Breakers: Netiquette Newbies, Packet Pranksters, and Modem Miscreants Making the Rules: Behavioral Standards for Online Gatherings Rule-Makers: Netizens Against Digital Misconduct Enforcing the Rules: Strategies and Techniques for Handling Online Troublemakers Rule-Enforcers: Moderators, Sysops, Wizards, and Gods on Cyber Patrol 7 Conclusion: A New Sense of Place From Physical to Behavioral Boundaries Growing Interest in Local Regulatory Approaches Misbehavior Offline: Athenians and Visigoths in Everyday Life References About the Author

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Book Synopsis"...the papers provide a good synthesis of the issues surrounding rural access to the Internet...and the key role the librarians can (and must) play." âAUSTRALIAN LIBRARY REVIEWTrade ReviewAnother first-class work from the stable of the Scarecrow Press. * Libr. Ass. Rec. 97, (12) December 1995 *This is a lively and stimulating work which enhances the continuing reputation for excellence of Scarecrow. Its theme may be rural, but its concerns are for us all. * s *...the papers provide a good synthesis of the issues surrounding rural access to the Internet...and the key role that librarians can (and must) play. * Australian Library Journal *Recommended reading for librarians responsible for the delivery of public library services in rural Australia. * Aplis *

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Book SynopsisSummarizes the responses of school librarians to questions about how they learned to use the Internet, and for what purposes.Trade ReviewThe teacher-librarian is provided with all the necessary background to better understand the main focus of this work, a research report...provides quantitative and content analysis of Internet traffic, summaries of school librarians responses, and many analyses of literature, electronic sources and policies. * Teacher Librarian *The book will be of general interest to anyone using the Net, and particularly for Listservs. Various services available are mentioned and their use for and in schools analysed. Chapters one and six are particularly useful...well worth dipping into... * School Librarian *A handbook to allow children's specialists to take their place as specialists and managers. * Australian Library Journal *The historical background on the development of the Internet is clearly and succinctly presented. Overall, this is a good project at the time, it has some interesting and useful information. * Lisca *A highly readable, well researched and clearly laid out book. It contains lengthy bibliographies (both printed and electronic) at the end of each section, a comprehensive index and a detailed list of contents...a good glossary, gives many suggestions for using electronic communications in schools...the author makes a number of very sound observations on security, student access, the importance of global electronic information in the school library and the future explosion of digital information. * Program *

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Book SynopsisThe future of communication and cultural literacy, reading, and the book in the 21st century is investigated along a wide spectrum, from multimedia packages to reading on the World Wide Web.Trade Review...very thought provoking. The writing was engaging and quite fluid. This book should easily find a place in most libraries, be they academic, secondary, public, or special in setting. It is must reading for anyone concerned about social informatics, the future of communication and media, and issues surrounding new technology. * Jasis *...an anecdotal romp through most aspects of computer-mediated communication. * CHOICE *...an esoteric but still eminently readable piece of work of good value for graduate level work in media studies, policy and regulation of online technologies, and American Studies...addresses the synergistic nature of media forms and human thought processes in a...accessible style. * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *...Meadow is a good storyteller and he enlivens his discussion by including poignant anecdotes...This book will be a useful introduction to a layman... * Journal of Academic Librarianship *...very readable...very straightforward...a beginning word on many issues. * College & Research Libraries *This work is highly recommended!!! * Lisca *...Meadow is a very good storyteller when its comes to this novel. His discussion is poignant anecdotes. * Papers Of The Bibliographical *...the book is noteworthy for the author's open-mindedness and long term perspective, for the manner in which he outlines future possibilities and examines the likely advantages and disadvantages of certain trends. It is worth reading... * Australian Library Journal *...Meadow makes us constantly question our own assumptions...while very wisely refusing to make definitive futuristic statements. * College & Research Libraries *

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Book SynopsisThese papers, presented at ALCTS' July 2000 Preconference on Metadata for Web Resources by a virtual who's who of the digital world, provide a timely overview of the challenges and difficulties of bringing order to a most unruly medium. Topics range from carefully considered viewpoints to possible standards to actual how-to's.Trade ReviewThe papers will be inspirational for their focused interrogations of the appropriateness of traditional methods in conjunction with the benefits of newer standards and innovative softwares...will be of practical value to all working in this exciting area. * Library and Information Update *The papers, by an impressive array of key players, cover both background issues and descriptions of real-world applications of metadata in an alphabet soup of projects. * Portals *A comprehensive overview of current thoughts and theories of Web control via metadata....Cataloging the Web, unlike other works, compiles essays on varying forms of metadata and it will no doubt be useful as a background source on particular projects, methods, and schemas. -- Kristi L. Palmer * Journal Of Internet Cataloging *This is essential reading for those who wish to become metadata librarians and a noteworthy reference for others. Curious librarians can use this as an instructional work to help understand the nomenclature and new acronyms. I recommend this work to archivists, library managers, library students, catalogers, Web designers, and computer experts. * Olac Newsletter *This book would be a worthwhile purchase for catalogers that are, or will be, involved in the cataloging of Internet resources. Administrators will also find much of the book very useful. * Technicalities *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Preface: Meting Out Data Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Part 3 Part I: Introduction Chapter 4 1 Metadata and Libraries: What's It All About? Part 5 Part II: Cataloging the Web: AACR and Marc 21 Chapter 6 2 AACR2 Complexities, Necessary and Otherwise: The Delsey Report, the Cardinal Principle, and (ER) Harmonization Chapter 7 3 O, Brave Old World: Using AACR to Catalog Web Resources Chapter 8 4 Struggling toward Retrieval: Can Alternatives to Standard Operating Procedures Help? Chapter 9 5 AACR2 and Seriality Chapter 10 6 ISSN: Link and Cross-Link for Data and Metadata Chapter 11 7 MARC 21 as a Metadata Standard: A Practical and Strategic Look at Current Practices and Future Opportunities Part 12 Part III: Cataloging the Web: Other Approaches, Other Standards Chapter 13 8 Visionary or Lunatic: One CORC Participant's Psychiatric Evaluation Chapter 14 9 Working toward a Standard TEI Header for Libraries Chapter 15 10 Libraries and the Future of the Semantic Web: RDF, XML, and Alphabet Soup Chapter 16 11 Archival Finding Aids as Metadata: Encoded Archival Description Chapter 17 12 ISO Standards Development for Metadata Part 18 Part IV: Tools for Cataloging the Web Chapter 19 13 MARCit Magic: Abracadabra! From a Web Site to a MARC Record Chapter 20 14 Anticipating the Deluge: The INFOMINE Project and Its Approach to Metadata Part 21 Part V: Digital Libraries: Practical Applications of the Standards Chapter 22 15 Interpretive Encoding of Electronic Texts Using TEI Lite Chapter 23 16 Developing the Use of Metadata at the National Library of Medicine: From Decision-Making to Implementation Chapter 24 17 Integrating Bio-Collection Databases: Metadata in Natural History Museums Chapter 25 18 The Colorado Digitization Project: An Overview Chapter 26 19 The Instructional Management System (IMS) Stadard: Solutions for Interactive Instructional Software and Dynamic Learning Chapter 27 20 A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Metadata for Art Objects and Their Visual Surrogates Chapter 28 21 Navigating LC's Cartographic Treasures Chapter 29 22 VARIATIONS: Creating a Digital Music Library at Indiana University Chapter 30 23 DDI, the Data Documentation Initiative: An Introduction to the Standard and Its Role in Social Science Data Access Chapter 31 24 Dublin Core for Digital Video Clips Part 32 Part VI: Conclusion: Where Are We? Where Are We Going? Chapter 33 25 Metadata: Hype and Glory Chapter 34 26 Future Developments in Metadata and Their Role in Access to Networked Information Chapter 35 Index Chapter 36 About the Editors Chapter 37 About the Contributors

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive analysis of public access to the Internet. It considers the evolution of the Internet through the lens of use and using, seeking to answer the question "what is the Internet?" by focusing on "who" is the Internet.Trade ReviewA highly competent synthesis of research into the use of the Internet by specific groups...an impressive attempt to analyse the anarchic. * Library Review *...provides rich information on the users of the internet and the services they are using. Bruce's prose has an academic pitch and would be well understood and regarded by readers in the social science, psychology and human factors fields. There is little or no other published work covering similar ground.... * Australian Academic & Research Libraries *A cohesive, well-researched collection of thoughts about the internet. * Document Delivery and Information Supply *...could be called a series of thoughtful observations about people and their relationships to the Internet....This book is not about technology or a glimpse into the future, but a (light) scholarly reflection on how various groups of people actually use the Internet. Detailed reference lists accompany each chapter. Easily readable for non-specialists. * CHOICE *

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Book SynopsisThe authors explore the need for a basic legal framework for analyzing Web pages (the fundamental structure of the Web) and describe a systematic but flexible legal auditing tool for accomplishing such an analysis.Trade ReviewThe real expertise of the authors in intellectual property and the Internet comes out as they discuss the nuances of numerous technical and legal issues. The real quality of the book from a legal perspective is that it points out where the issues lie and also explains the technology it is discussing prior to delving into the legal complications caused by such issues…I would recommend this book to any person who does not have a background in the field of intellectual property law and e-commerce, and who is intending to create or operate a website designed for e-commerce. * Journal Of High Technology Law *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 1 A Due-Diligence Approach to Web Site Evaluation Chapter 3 2 The Analytical Structure Chapter 4 3 Toward Effective Drafting of Terms, Conditions, and Policies for Web Sites Chapter 5 4 Web legal Diagnosis and Report Chapter 6 Appendix A: Brookfield Communications v. West Coast Entertainment Chapter 7 Appendix B: PACCAR v. TeleScan Technologies Chapter 8 Appendix C: University City Studios v. Shawn C. Reimerdes Chapter 9 Appendix D: PETA v. Michael T. Doughney Chapter 10 Appendix E: Statutes Chapter 11 Bibliography Chapter 12 Index Chapter 13 About the Authors

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Book SynopsisA successful Web site presents information to the user in a format with which he or she is accustomed. How much greater then the challenge to build a Web site capable of addressing the information needs of racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse populations. Linda Main brings to the forefront those issues that should be considered by anyone building a Web site aimed at a multinational audience. It is a practical, hands-on look at issues such as: writing systems, character sets, encoding, and Unicode; XHTML and CSS style sheets; the effective placement of graphics; and the sensible use of Javascript, XML, and XSLT. Important subjective and objective cultural issues are also examined. Building Web Sites for Multicultural Communities is the perfect reference tool for people who know how to build a Web site but want to focus on globalizing their Web pages, for people who may outsource their Web sites need some understanding of the issues and techniques involved in globalizationTrade ReviewThe book is a simple guide to practical issues, such as character sets, encoding, XML, Javascript, and cascading style sheets (CSS), and shows how to utilize these technologies for a globalized Web site. Although the book examines some subjective and objective cultural issues as well, its major focus is on practical skills and techniques, which distinguishes it from others....Each chapter begins with a brief description of basic concepts and is followed by step-by-step instructions that involve HTML coding and/or Web browser configurations. Screenshots and examples of HTML code illustrate the instructions. The result of this consistent approach is that all the related technologies, software, and standards are thoroughly presented. Each chapter ends with acomprehensive reference list that consists primarily of Web-based resources but also has some essential print materials. As a whole, this book does a decent job of achieving its purpose, which is bringing together all the practical issues to consider inbuilding a globalized Web site. Experienced Web designers may already know all the technologies or applications described in this book, such as Javascript or Photoshop, but they may never have thought of using them in the suggested ways particularly for a * Library & Information Science Research *Useful for it's discussion of cultural and technical issues, Building Websites for a Multinational Audience is recommended for computer, technology or programming collections of public, academic or special libraries. * Internet Reference Services Quarterly *The book is a simple guide to practical issues, such as character sets, encoding, XML, Javascript, and cascading style sheets (CSS), and shows how to utilize these technologies for a globalized Web site. Although the book examines some subjective and objective cultural issues as well, its major focus is on practical skills and techniques, which distinguishes it from others....Each chapter begins with a brief description of basic concepts and is followed by step-by-step instructions that involve HTML coding and/or Web browser configurations. Screenshots and examples of HTML code illustrate the instructions. The result of this consistent approach is that all the related technologies, software, and standards are thoroughly presented. Each chapter ends with a comprehensive reference list that consists primarily of Web-based resources but also has some essential print materials. As a whole, this book does a decent job of achieving its purpose, which is bringing together all the practical issues to consider in building a globalized Web site. Experienced Web designers may already know all the technologies or applications described in this book, such as Javascript or Photoshop, but they may never have thought of using them in the suggested ways particularly for a multinational audience. Most of all, the standards, software, and other resources introduced in the book are of great use for Web developers. The book is especially suitable for those who already have a basic knowledge of creating a general Web site. A think book, it is useful for a quick reference or instruction from a technology perspective... * Library & Information Science Research *Table of ContentsPart 1 Preface Part 2 1 A Networked World Part 3 2 Understanding Writing Systems, Character Sets, Encoding, and Fonts Part 4 3 Subjective and Objective Cultural Considerations Part 5 4 Inputting Content and Translation Part 6 5 Using Dynamic XHTML: XHTML and Stylesheets Appendix 5A Differences between HTML and XHTML Part 7 6 Using Dynamic XHTML: Graphics and Javascript Chapter 8 Appendix 6A Working with Layers in Photoshop Chapter 9 Appendix 6B Saving Text as a Graphic in Photoshop Chapter 10 Appendix 6C JavaScript Code Part 11 XML, XSLT, and SVG Part 12 The Final Test Part 13 Appendix A Library Automation Vendors and Unicode Compliance Part 14 Appendix B General Resources Part 15 Index Part 16 About the Author

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMohamed Taher's new book provides an indispensable guide for considering the resources of worship online, whatever the faith, wherever believers are located. -- Bruce Lawrence, Duke UniversityAn information specialist at the Ontario Multifaith Council on Spiritual and Religious Care, Taher explores religious worship on the Internet, in which people engage in prayer, praise, sacrament, confession, Eucharist, pilgrimage, contemplation, and other practices online. He offers a systematic though not comprehensive catalog of services, products, processes, approaches, applications, and functions that encompass mainstream and alternative traditions of belief and practice. * Reference and Research Book News, November 2006 *...provides the most comprehensive "map" to religion on the Internet. * American Reference Books Annual, vol. 38 (2007) *Cyber Worship in Multifaith Perspectives is an important and significant contribution to the new field of scholarship examining the religious dimension of the Internet. By employing Webmetrics, Dr. Taher presents readers with the most comprehensive and up-to-date mapping of the religious websites available, providing essential information for those wishing to better understand how religion functions and flourishes on the WWW and also those interested in using this new medium for their own spiritual quest. -- Christopher Helland, Dalhousie UniversityTable of ContentsPart 1 Preface Part 2 Credits: Copyright and Permission Chapter 3 1. Cyber Worship/Meditation Webwise: Noah, Abraham and Beyond Chapter 4 2. Cyber Worship as-is On the Web Chapter 5 3. Fast Track to Multifaith Resources for Cyber Worship: What's Hot Chapter 6 4. Navigating the Deep Sacred Space via Experiences of the Wise Chapter 7 5. Glossary: A Pathfinder for Future History Part 8 Bibliography Part 9 Index Part 10 About the Author

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the history of hypertext, an influential concept that forms the underlying structure of the World Wide Web and innumerable software applications.Trade Review‘“Memory Machines” will appeal to anyone who is curious about the history of computing in general and hypertext in particular. This book is highly recommended for computer science students and for students of history of science and technology, as well as for computing and engineering enthusiasts.’ —Stephanie Wical, Online Information Review‘[A] richly layered account, focusing on oral histories as much as an analysis of documents. […] This volume provides a sophisticated and vital history of early computing, usefully exploring conceptual ideas around hypertext, outlining the constraints on pioneering efforts to implement models of hypertext as technical prototypes, and ultimately demonstrating how these collectively shaped all subsequent efforts to develop computer-based prototypes for information structuring and retrieval.’ —Craig Hight, ‘Media International Australia’Table of ContentsForeword: To Mandelbrot in Heaven – Stuart Moulthrop; Preface; Chapter 1: Technical Evolution; Chapter 2: Memex as an Image of Potentiality; Chapter 3: Augmenting the Intellect: NLS; Chapter 4. The Magical Place of Literary Memory: Xanadu; Chapter 5: Seeing and Making Connections: HES and FRESS; Chapter 6: Machine-Enhanced (Re)minding: The Development of Storyspace; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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