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Book SynopsisLearn to make your own custom lenses for Snapchat! With the introduction of Lens Studio, anyone can build and publish high quality augmented reality experiences on the Snapchat app. Phil Walton—Official Snapchat Lens Creator and creator of the viral Potato Lens—offers a simple, innovative guide to: Get started with the Lens Studio interface and features Publish your effects and generate more views and exposure Create five different AR experiences with step-by-step instructions Creator's Guide to Snap Inc.'s Lens Studio also provides project files and digital assets to download and follow along as you read. Whether you are a beginner creator, or an experienced user seeking inside information to take your AR skills to the next level, explore the range of possibilities for creating and sharing your own AR experiences with Creator's Guide to Snap Inc.'s Lens Studio.

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Book SynopsisLanguage and the Internet gives the readers a linguistic perspective and explains them the role of internet in the changing world. The book throws light on the multilingualism of the internet and talks about the various languages the corresponding themes for in the 21st century. Also discussed in the book is the language that is employed on the web, the language that is used in the virtual world and the one that e-mails are composed in. The readers are also informed about the use of blogs for the understanding of the readers, the various challenges in the internet language and the solutions to them and the linguistic future of internet.

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Book SynopsisThe Internet of Things has revolutionized many industries and sectors by connecting devices to the Internet with the use of smart sensors and actuators, resulting in many advantages to businesses and organizations, such as better information and resource sharing, better supply chain efficiency, resulting in better overall efficiency and cost savings.This new book investigates the potential for initiating data-enabled and IoT-intensive applications to provide control and optimization of industrial operations and services. It presents an informative selection of quantitative research, case studies, conceptual chapters, model articles and theoretical papers on many important technological advances, applications, and challenges in the current status of IoT. The book features examples of IoT applications in such areas as food processing, automotive engineering, mental health, health tracking, security, and more. It discusses applying IoT in reverse logistics processes, developments in the Internet of Vehicles, the use of smart antennas, and machine learning in IoT. One chapter discusses a ground-breaking new device that uses IoT to convert audio recordings to Braille. Also discussed is the growing use of IoT in biometric technology (the use of technology to identify a person based on some aspect of their biology, such as fingerprint and eye unique pattern recognition).The enlightening information shared here offers state-of-the-art IoT solutions to many of today’s challenges of improving efficiency and bringing important information to the surface more quickly than systems depending on human intervention. The volume will be of value for computer science engineers and researchers, instructors and students in the field, and professionals that are interested in exploring the areas of next-generations IoT.Table of Contents1. Compelling Forces and Challenges for the Food Processing Industry to Adopt Industry 4.0 2. Sensing Mental Health: A New Mileage to Mental Health Research 3. How IoT (Internet of Things) Is Poised to Jump-Start the Next Revolution 4. Implementation of Industrial Internet of Things (IIot) Is the Tool of Digital Transformation Technology 5. Opportunities of the Internet of Things in Automotives 6. IoT Security 7. Leveraging IIot in Reverse Logistics: A WSN Approach 8. A Pervasive Study on the Internet of Vehicles (IoVs) 9. The Future Security Solution to Internet of Things: Biometric Technology 10. Transforming Industries Using IoT 11. Audio-to-Braille Conversion Device (A.B.C.D): an IoT Application 12. Internet of Things: Applied Science and Technologies 13. Health Tracking System Using the Internet of Things 14. Smart Antennas in IoT-Based Systems 15. Necessity of Time Synchronization for IoT-Based Applications 16. A Review of Applications of Machine Learning in IoT: Challenges and Future Prospects 17. A Detailed Review of IoT with Various Applications Using Recent Research Directions

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Book SynopsisThis timely book presents a wide range of quantitative methods, including complex network analysis and econometric modelling, to illustrate how the Internet both follows, and at the same time challenges, more traditional geographies.Emmanouil Tranos explores the spatiality of the Internet, its physical infrastructure, and the geographic and socio-economic factors that shape its spatial distribution. He shows that although the Internet is a technical system with strong topological attributes, an almost 'hidden' spatial dimension also exists. The scattering of Internet Backbone Networks across European city-regions is compared with the aviation network in order to better understand the topology of the digital infrastructure. Finally, a causality analysis demonstrates the significant positive effect of the Internet infrastructure in the economic development of regions characterized by high absorptive capacity.This book will prove a highly fascinating read for those with an interest in Internet geographies, ICTs, regional development and infrastructure, digital economy, network analysis, and regional science. Practitioners working on local and regional development, as well as those focusing on ICTs, digital economy and smart cities, will also find this book to be an invaluable reference tool.Contents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. The Fundamentals of the Internet Infrastructure: A Cross-discipline Review 3. Methodology and Research Framework 4. The Network Nature of the Internet Infrastructure 5. Internet Backbone and Aviation Networks: A Comparative Study 6. An Explanatory Analysis of the (Unequal) Distribution of the Internet Backbone Networks 7. Internet Infrastructure and Regional Economic Development: A Causality Analysis 8. Conclusions References IndexTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. The Fundamentals of the Internet Infrastructure: A Cross-discipline Review 3. Methodology and Research Framework 4. The Network Nature of the Internet Infrastructure 5. Internet Backbone and Aviation Networks: A Comparative Study 6. An Explanatory Analysis of the (Unequal) Distribution of the Internet Backbone Networks 7. Internet Infrastructure and Regional Economic Development: A Causality Analysis 8. Conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisFor many children and teens daily Internet use is the norm - but where should we draw the line when it comes to digital media usage? This handy book lays out the essential information needed to understand and prevent excessive Internet use that negatively impacts behaviour, education, family life, and even physical health.Martin L. Kutscher, MD analyses neurological, psychological and educational research and draws on his own experience to show when Internet use stops being a good thing and starts to become excessive. He shows how to spot digital addictions, and offers whole family approaches for limiting the harmful effects of too much screen time, such as helping kids to learn to control their own Internet use. He tackles diverse questions ranging from the effects of laptops in the classroom and reading on a digital screen, to whether violent videogames lead to aggression. The author also explains how ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) can make you more susceptible to Internet addiction, suggesting practical strategies to suit these specific needs. Discussing both the good and bad aspects of the internet, this book tells you everything you need to know to help children and young people use the internet in a healthy, balanced way.Trade ReviewImagine you're at an Ivy League school with one of their best professors. The lecturer is crisp, to the point and complete. This is what Dr Martin Kutscher has done with Digital Kids. In a crisp, easy way he teaches us the ins and outs of cyberspace, but more importantly, we learn how to raise well-adjusted kids in the Digital Age. Digital Kids is a true contribution and a must for both professionals and parents. -- Mark Banschick, MD, psychiatrist, child advocate, author and contributor at Psychology TodayBy emphasizing social transactions and the social rules of digital society, as well as the safe use of digital media, this book will help to create boundaries and strengthen understanding of the digital world, without frightening the reader about the use and culture of social media and the internet in general. I strongly recommend this book for parents to encourage them to get involved with what their 'digital kids' are doing online. -- Ioannis Voskopoulos, PsychologistToday's children quickly gravitate to - and master - electronic devices. This leaves their parents both proud and fearful. What is the impact on social skills and brain development? The antidote to fear is knowledge, explains veteran pediatric neurologist Martin Kutscher. In this engagingly written book, he gently walks you through the issues and the ways you can create healthy balance in your child's life. -- Gina Pera, Adult ADHD expert, author of Is It You, Me, or Adult A.D.D.?Eye-opening research that validates parents' concerns regarding the relationship their kids have with digital technology can be found in Digital Kids. Dr Kutscher's easy to understand explanations of many topics such as multi-tasking vs multi-switching, the effects of technology on reading comprehension, and the difficulty of switching from playing video games to starting homework, makes Digital Kids a great resource for parents and educators! -- Marcella Moran, MA, LMHC, The Kid Organizer, thekidorganizer.comA comprehensive, scientifically backed, yet down to earth guide for parents trying to understand this confusing digital world and how it impacts their children, especially the more vulnerable. The honest straightforward talk on parents' responsibilities for their child's internet use and how to meet them is invaluable. -- Heidi Bernhardt, President and Executive Director, Centre for ADHD Awareness, CanadaTable of Contents1. Introduction. Part One: Problems with the Use of Digital Technology. 2. Psychological/learning effects of Internet use. 3. How does our attention system work? 4. "But mom, I can pay attention to more than one thing at a time!" The myth of "multi-tasking". 5. Screens interfere with developing voluntary attention. 6. Areas where digital learning does excel. 7. Summary of digital vs. print effects on learning. 8. Other psychological effects of the Internet. 9. Neurological effects of Internet abuse. 10. Physical effects of digital media use. Part Two: Problems with the Content of the Digital Technology. 11. Social Media. 12. Does pornography and other media exposure affect sexuality. 13. Does media exposure increase the risk of violent behavior? 14. Do violent videogames lead to violent behavior? 15. Does media effect substance use? 16. Resultant AAP (2013) recommendations regarding digital media. Part Three: Problems Regarding Specific Populations. 17. Very young children and screen time. 18. Children with ADHD and screen time. 19. Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and screen time. Part Four: The Parental Role. 20. What kind of role model am I for my child? 21. How do I set limits for my child? Part Five: Setting Up the Rules: The Family Meeting and Agreement. 22. The family meeting. 23. The agreement. Part Six: Internet Addiction: The Far End of Internet Problems. 24. Internet problems cover a whole range of severity. 25. What is an addiction? 26. How does someone get addicted? 27. How common is Internet addiction? 28. Why is digital media so addicting? 29. What are particularly addicting Internet activities? 30. What personal traits are associated with Internet addiction? 31. How do we treat Internet addiction? Part Seven: Summary. 32. The recent explosion of digital technology and services. 33. The extent of screen time usage. 34. The parents' dilemma and role in setting limits. 35. Problems with the use of the Internet. 36. Problems with the content of the Internet. 37. Problems regarding specific populations. 38. The parental role. 39. Setting up the rules: the family meeting and agreement. 40. Internet addiction: The far end of Internet problems. References. Resources. About the authors.

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Book Synopsis‘Witty, rigorous, and as urgent as a fire alarm’ Dorian Lynskey ‘Cooly prosecutorial’ Guardian Nobody meant for this to happen. Facebook didn’t mean to facilitate a genocide. Twitter didn’t want to be used to harass women. YouTube never planned to radicalise young men. But with billions of users, these platforms need only tweak their algorithms to generate more ‘engagement’. In so doing, they bring unrest to previously settled communities and erode our relationships. Social warming has happened gradually – as a by-product of our preposterously convenient digital existence. But the gradual deterioration of our attitudes and behaviour on- and offline – this vicious cycle of anger and outrage – is real. And it can be corrected. Here’s how.Trade Review‘Social media was meant to bring us closer together. Instead, it tore us apart. Charles Arthur has written the definitive account of how arrogance and greed got us into this mess, and how we might get out of it. Witty, rigorous, and as urgent as a fire alarm.’ -- Dorian Lynskey‘A guide to how the apps we use every day are hacking our politics, our society, and even who we are. It reads like science fiction, except he’s describing our world – right now.’ -- Ian Dunt‘Coolly prosecutorial’ * Guardian *‘A compelling account of how a handful of social media platforms came to dominate society and how to minimise the damage they cause, because “We can’t uninvent them”.’ * Mirror *‘The rapidity with which social media has come to dominate communications in this country – in less than two decades – has been breathtaking… Arthur helps bring the whole complex issue into greater focus here. He looks at the origins of social media, describing its early promise, and then follows the dangerous paths the phenomenon has been taking in recent years.’ -- Booklist‘Fascinating… As “connected” as we may feel on social media, Social Warming thoroughly shows how detached we’ve all become not just online but in real life too.’ * Porchlight *

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Book SynopsisDigital information and communication technologies can be seen as a threat to privacy, a step forward for freedom of expression and communication, a tool in the fight against terrorism or the source of a new economic wealth. Computerization has unexpectedly progressed beyond our imagination, from a tool of management and control into one of widespread communication and expression. This book revisits the major questions that have emerged with the progress of computerization over nearly half a century, by describing the context in which these issues were formulated. By taking a social and digital approach, the author explores controversial issues surrounding the development of this "digital revolution", including freedom and privacy of the individual, social control, surveillance, public security and the economic exploitation of personal data. From students, teachers and researchers engaged in data analysis, to institutional decision-makers and actors in policy or business, all members of today's digital society will take from this book a better understanding of the essential issues of the current "digital revolution".Table of ContentsIntroduction ix Chapter 1. Technological Surveillance Subjected to Restrictions 1 Chapter 2. Security Over Liberty 21 Chapter 3. A Network Promoting Participation and Exchange 41 Chapter 4. Privitization and Economic Exploitation of Personal Data 65 Chapter 5. Digitalization and Revolution 87 Bibliography 107 Index 117

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Book SynopsisInstead of outsourcing tasks to providers using labor-intensive countries, libraries around the world increasingly appeal to the crowds of Internet users, making their relationship with users more collaborative . These internet users can be volunteers or paid, work consciously, unconsciously or in the form of games. They can provide the workforce, skills, knowledge or financial resources that libraries need in order to achieve unimaginable goals. Table of ContentsPreface ix Introduction xiii Chapter 1 A Conceptual Introduction to the Concept of Crowdsourcing in Libraries: A New Paradigm? 1 1.1 A rapidly growing economic model 1 1.1.1 What made this new economic model possible 1 1.1.2 Application to digital libraries 5 1.1.3. Growing interest from politicians, Internet users and academics 7 1.2 Origin, definition and scope of crowdsourcing 10 1.2.1 Explicit crowdsourcing: using volunteers 16 1.2.2. Implicit crowdsourcing: using involuntary and unconscious work .. 16 1.2.3 Gamification: using players 16 1.2.4 Paid crowdsourcing: using microemployees 16 1.2.5 Crowdfunding: institutional “begging” 17 1.3 Historical chronology of crowdsourcing 17 1.4 Philosophical and political controversies 21 1.5 Economic, sociological and legal consequences 33 1.5.1 Economy of crowdsourcing 33 1.5.2 The users of crowdsourcing 39 1.6 Managerial, library science and technological consequences 41 1.6.1 The cultural factor 41 1.6.2 The corporatist factor 41 1.6.3 The reign of the amateur: toward mediocracy? 44 1.6.4 Crowdsourcing: the highest stage of outsourcing? 45 Chapter 2 Overview of Several Crowdsourcing Projects Applied to the Digitization of Libraries 49 2.1 Putting content online and participative curation: the Oxford’s Great War Archive and Europeana 1914–1918 49 2.2 Digitization on demand in the form of crowdfunding applied to digital libraries: the European eBooks on Demand network 50 2.3 Printing on demand (POD): the Espresso Book Machine 63 2.4 Participative OCR correction and participative transcription of manuscripts 70 2.4.1 Explicit crowdsourcing: volunteer correction/transcription 73 2.4.2 Gamification, OCR correction through play: Digitalkoot (National Library of Finland) 83 2.4.3 Implicit crowdsourcing: involuntary OCR correction via reCAPTCHA in the service of Google Books 86 2.4.4 Paid crowdsourcing: the Amazon Mechanical Turk market place 92 2.5 Folksonomy, cataloguing and participative indexing 108 2.5.1 Explicit crowdsourcing through volunteer tagging: Flickr: the Commons 108 2.5.2 The use of gamification: Art Collector 109 Chapter 3 Overview and Keys to Success 117 3.1 Typologies and taxonomies of projects 117 3.1.1 Explicit crowdsourcing 128 3.1.2 Implicit crowdsourcing 128 3.1.3 Gamification 129 3.2 Communication and marketing for recruiting volunteers 136 3.3 The question of motivations 139 3.3.1 Intrinsic motivations 142 3.3.2 Extrinsic motivations 144 3.3.3 The opposition between intrinsic and extrinsic motivations 145 3.3.4 The specific motivation of gamification projects 146 3.3.5 Crowdsourcing and rewards 147 3.3.6 Other theories on motivation 149 3.3.7 The motivations of cultural institutions and the prerequi-sites for launching a crowdsourcing project 151 3.4 Sociology of the contributors and community management 154 3.4.1 Sociology of contributors 154 3.4.2 Crowdsourcing or community sourcing? 156 3.4.3 The work of professionals on these projects and community management 157 3.5 The question of the quality of the contributions 161 3.5.1 Systems for evaluating and moderation of contributions 162 3.5.2 Comparison between the quality of the data produced by amateurs and that produced by professionals 166 3.5.3 Reintegration of the data produced 168 3.5.4 The legal status of contributions: crowdsourcing and the semantic web 169 3.6 The evaluation of crowdsourcing projects 170 3.6.1 Factors in success and failure 172 3.6.2 Quantitative evaluation of crowdsourcing projects and their costs 174 3.7 Change management 178 Conclusion 183 Bibliography 185 Index 203

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Book SynopsisThis collaborative research project allows for fundamental advances not only in the understanding of the phenomena but also in the development of practical calculation methods that can be used by engineers. This collaborative research project allows for fundamental advances not only in the understanding of the phenomena but also in the development of practical calculation methods that can be used by engineers.Table of ContentsPreface ix Introduction xiii Part 1. New Frontiers And Governance of Digital Space 1 Chapter 1. Fragmentation and Compartmentalization of Virtual Space 3 1.1 The nymph Carna and Internet census 3 1.2 Dimensions of cyberspace 5 1.3 Deep web, darknet and dark web 8 Chapter 2. A Society Of Control And Panopticism 13 2.1 Horizontal panopticism and cyber-narcissism 13 2.2 The neutrality of the network in question 15 2.2.1 How can network neutrality be preserved? 18 2.2.2 A threatened principle 19 2.3 Going toward an Internet 3.0 and a new form of digital civility? 22 2.3.1 Is cyberspace a public space? 22 2.3.2 Tyrannies of privacy 24 Chapter 3. The Internet, A Governance Subject To Controversy 27 3.1 ICANN, an influenced institution 27 3.1.1 Is this the end of US supremacy? 28 3.1.2 The role of the GAC 29 3.2 Cybersecurity, domains and electronic addressing 32 3.2.1 The essential role of WHOIS 34 3.2.2 Domain name extension and migration from IPv4 to IPv6 37 3.3 Who regulates those who are in control? 39 3.3.1 Conflict within ICANN 40 3.3.2 Encrypted networks: a major security issue for ICANN 42 Part 2. Crypto-Anarchism, Cryptography and Hidden Networks 45 Chapter 4. From The Arpanet To The Darknet: When States Lose Cryptographic Warfare 49 4.1 From Minitel to ARPANET 49 4.1.1 Rapid growth 51 4.1.2 The privatization of the Internet 52 4.2 The rise of asymmetric cryptography 53 4.2.1 Steganography 53 4.2.2 Modern cryptographic methods 56 4.2.3 Asymmetric cryptography 57 4.3 “The Crypto Wars are over!” 60 4.3.1 Planetary electronic monitoring 62 4.3.2 “Rendering Big Brother obsolete” 64 4.3.3 Cryptography at the service of hidden networks 68 Chapter 5. From Sneaker Nets To Darknets 71 5.1 Peer to peer: the first darknets 71 5.1.1 P2P against the entertainment industry: David versus Goliath 73 5.1.2 The BitTorrent revolution 77 5.1.3 The emergence of darknets 81 5.2 “Netopias” and darknets: the appearance of parallel networks 84 5.2.1 Cypherpunks and cyberpunk 84 5.2.2 Crypto-anarchism and activism: Peekabooty 88 5.2.3 Freenet 90 5.2.4 It is a small world… 93 5.3 The Tor network 98 5.3.1 The origins of Tor 100 5.3.2 The Tor paradox 103 5.3.3 How Tor works 105 5.3.4 The principle of the .onion address 108 5.3.5 An evolution of Tor uses thanks to Tor2Web? 112 Chapter 6. Geopolitics and Cybersecurity 117 6.1 From “hacktivism” to “cyberwarfare” 117 6.1.1 The first hackers 118 6.1.2 When states engage in cyberwarfare 120 6.1.3 Computer attacks of an unprecedented magnitude 122 6.1.4 The darknet: cybercrime market 124 6.2 Cybercrime, politics and subversion in the “half-world” 126 6.2.1 The “half-world” appeal 130 6.2.2 Fighting crime and Bitcoins: current and future economic and security issues 134 Conclusion 141 Appendices 145 Appendix 1 147 Appendix 2 153 Glossary 157 Bibliography 163 Index 169

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Book SynopsisPolitics continues to evolve in the digital era, spurred in part by the accelerating pace of technological development. This cutting-edge Handbook includes the very latest research on the relationship between digital information, communication technologies and politics.Written by leading scholars in the field, the chapters explore in seven parts: theories of digital politics, government and policy, collective action and civic engagement, political talk, journalism, internet governance and new frontiers in digital politics research. The contributors focus on the politics behind the implementation of digital technologies in society today.All students in the fields of politics, media and communication studies, journalism, science and sociology will find this book to be a useful resource in their studies. Political practitioners seeking digital strategies, as well as web and other digital practitioners wanting to know more about political applications for their work will also find this book to be of interest.Contributors include: E. Amnå, N. Anstead, N. Benn, W.L. Bennett, C. Birchall, L. Bode, A. Bruns, S. Coleman, N. Couldry, K.B. Culver, P. Dahlgren, E. Dubois, W.H. Dutton, S. Edgerly, D. Freelon, C. Fuchs, S. González-Bailon, T. Graham, T. Hall, A. Hanna, T. Highfield, F. Hirzalla, Y. Kim, D. Kreiss, T. Mcafee, G. Moss, B. O'Loughlin, K. Parry, R. Petchler, J. Schradie, A. Segerberg, D.V. Shah, K. Thorson, N. Thurman, E. Vraga, C. Wells, S. Wright, M.A. Xenos, J. Yang, L. van ZoonenTrade Review'Coleman and Freelon have deftly edited a series of essays that help us transition to the next big thing in political communication - an internet connecting many people over many kinds of devices making large volumes of data. Digital politics is no longer so much about what happens in your browser, but about what happens when your devices talk to each other on their own. This collection helps us get ready to understand the new infrastructure of political life.' --Philip N. Howard, University of Washington'The Handbook of Digital Politics edited by Stephen Coleman and Deen Freelon is an incredibly rich and outstanding collection of essays on the ideologies, theories and methodologies that currently inspire the field of political science and communication. The editors brilliantly succeed in guiding us through this fascinating world - avoiding any rhetoric, or either a dystopian or utopian perspective on the subject. The articles collected here represent the golden section of the contemporary debate on digital politics.' --Leopoldina Fortunati, Head of the Ph.D program in Multimedia Communication, University of Udine, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: Conceptualising Digital Politics Stephen Coleman and Deen Freelon PART I THEORIZING DIGITAL POLITICS 2. The Internet as a Civic Space Peter Dahlgren 3. The Social Foundations of Future Digital Politics Nick Couldry 4. The Fifth Estate: A Rising Force of Pluralistic Accountability William H. Dutton and Elizabeth Dubois 5. Silicon Valley Ideology and Class Inequality: A Virtual Poll Tax on Digital Politics Jen Schradie PART II GOVERNMENT AND POLICY 6. Online Voting Advice Applications: Foci, Findings and Future of an Emerging Research Field Fadi Hirzalla and Liesbet van Zoonen 7. Internet Voting: The State of the Debate Thad Hall 8. Digital Campaigning Daniel Kreiss 9. e-Petitions Scott Wright 10. Argumentation Tools for Digital Politics: Addressing the Challenge of Deliberation in Democracies Neil Benn PART III COLLECTIVE ACTION AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT 11. The Logic of Connective Action: Digital Media and The Personalization of Contentious Politics W. Lance Bennett and Alexandra Segerberg 12. Youth Civic Engagement Chris Wells, Emily Vraga, Kjerstin Thorson, Stephanie Edgerly and Leticia Bode 13. Internet Use and Political Engagement in Youth Yunhwan Kim and Erik Amnå PART IV POLITICAL TALK 14. Everyday Political Talk in the Internet-Based Public Sphere Todd Graham 15. Creating Spaces for Online Deliberation Christopher Birchall and Stephen Coleman 16. Computational Approaches to Online Political Expression: Rediscovering a “Science of the Social” Dhavan V. Shah, Kathleen Bartzen Culver, Alex Hanna, Timothy Mcafee, and JungHwan Yang 17. Two-screen Politics: Evidence, Theory and Challenges Nick Anstead and Ben O’Loughlin PART V JOURNALISM 18. From News Blogs to News on Twitter: Gatewatching and Collaborative News Curation Axel Bruns and Tim Highfield 19. Research on the Political Implications of Political Entertainment Michael A. Xenos 20. Journalism, Gatekeeping and Interactivity Neil Thurman PART VI INTERNET GOVERNANCE 21. Internet Governance, Rights and Democratic Legitimacy Giles Moss 22. Social Media Surveillance Christian Fuchs PART VII EXPANDING THE FRONTIERS OF DIGITAL POLITICS RESEARCH 23. Visibility and Visualities: ‘Ways of Seeing’ Politics in the Digital Media Environment Katy Parry 24. Automated Content Analysis of Online Political Communication Ross Petchler and Sandra González-Bailon 25. On the Cutting Edge of Big Data: Digital Politics Research in the Social Computing Literature Deen Freelon Index

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Book SynopsisDan Lyons was Technology Editor at Newsweek Magazine for years, a magazine writer at the top of his profession. One Friday morning he received a phone call: his job no longer existed. Fifty years old and with a wife and two young kids, Dan was unemployed and facing financial oblivion. Then an idea hit. Dan had long reported on Silicon Valley and the tech explosion. Why not join it? HubSpot, a Boston start-up, was flush with $100 million in venture capital. They offered Dan a pile of stock options for the nebulous role of "marketing fellow." What could possibly go wrong? What follows is a hilarious and excoriating account of Dan's time at the start-up and a revealing window onto the dysfunctional culture that prevails in a world flush with cash and devoid of experience. Filled with stories of meaningless jargon, teddy bears at meetings, push-up competitions and all-night parties, this uproarious tale is also a trenchant analysis of the dysfunctional start-up world, a de facto conspiracy between those who start companies and those who fund them. It is a world where bad ideas are rewarded with hefty investments, where companies blow money lavishing perks on their post-collegiate workforces, and where everybody is trying to hang on just long enough to cash out with a fortune.Trade ReviewLyons finds the right company, if only for the raw material that he, a seasoned satirist, spins into gold... But the book is not just a chronicle of the tech bubble's silly quirks... Lyons uses the lens of his growing disillusionment to focus on a broader critique of Silicon Valley. * Financial Times *'Simultaneously hilarious and terrifying' * LA Times *Wildly entertaining... Disrupted explores the ways in which many technology companies have come to fool the public and themselves. Lyons has injected a dose of sanity into a world gone mad. -- Ashlee Vance, Sunday Times bestselling author of Elon Musk'Laugh-out-loud funny.' * Newsweek *Fun, compulsively readable and just might tell us something important about the hypocrisy and cult-like fervor inside today's technology giants. -- Brad Stone, Author of The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of AmazonScathingly funny . . . Like the show Silicon Valley, Disrupted nails the workings of spastic, hypocritical, delusional tech culture. * New York Post *'A hugely entertaining insider view of the vainglorious world of tech, yet it is also an important rumination on the values of our age.' * Irish Times *'This humorous and well-crafted memoir is part of a proud literary tradition: the disgruntled ex-employee tell-all.' * Harvard Business Review *Dan Lyons goes deep inside a company that uses terms like 'world class marketing thought leaders' to show us how ridiculous, wasteful, and infantile tech start-ups like this can be. And best of all, Lyons does this with his trademark pejorative and hilarious tone. -- Author of Hatching Twitter

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Book Synopsis'Internet development dynamics are tackled in this Handbook by leading scholars representing mainstream, institutional, evolutionary economics and political economy perspectives. They show how complex markets for digital technologies and services are evolving. Crucially, they demonstrate why conventional analytical tool kits need to be extended by bridging disciplinary boundaries. This volume offers significant advances in the analysis of technological and institutional change and demonstrates how important it is to acknowledge conflict resolution and tradeoffs as essential aspects of the internet's history and its future.'-Robin Mansell, London School of Economics and Political Science, UKThe Internet is connecting an increasing number of individuals, organizations, and devices into global networks of information flows. It is accelerating the dynamics of innovation in the digital economy, affecting the nature and intensity of competition, and enabling private companies, government, and the non-profit sector to develop new business models. In this new ecosystem many of the theoretical assumptions and historical observations upon which economics rests are altered and need critical reassessment.This Handbook brings together twenty-six original chapters that discuss theoretical and applied frameworks for the study of the economics of the Internet, encompassing: its unique economics as a global information and communications infrastructure the effects of the Internet on economic transactions, including social production, advertising, innovation, and intellectual property rights the economics and management of Internet-based industries, such as search, news, entertainment, culture, and virtual worlds the effects of the Internet on the economy at large Interdisciplinary in its approach, the Handbook synthesizes the state of knowledge and offers new perspectives for researchers, practitioners, and students.Contributors: S. Aggarwal, C. Antonelli, H. Asghari, J.M. Bauer, S. Bauer, Y. Benkler, S.M. Besen, I. Brown, E. Castronova, D.D. Clark, C. Corrado, C. Feijóo, D.L. Garcia, J.-L. Gómez-Barroso, C. Handke, J. Haucap, K. Hollnbuchner, N. Just, G. Knieps, I. Knowles, J.J. Kranz, L. Küng, M. Latzer, W.H. Lehr, Y.-L. Liu, W. Ma, P. Mazepa, V. Mosco, N. Newman, E.M. Noam, P.P. Patrucco, R.G. Picard, A. Picot, G. Sadowsky, F. Saurwein, V. Schneider, S.J. Schultze, R. Sherman, P. Stepan, T. Stühmeier, R. Towse, B. Van Ark, M. Van Eeten, B. Van Schewick, H.R. Varian, D. Waterman, R.S. Whitt, S.S. Wildman, S. Wunsch-VincentTrade Review'The Internet has transformed many fundamental economic facts of life and business, but it is challenging to catalogue them all. This topic deserves a comprehensive handbook, and the editors delivered. The chapters are engaging and lucid, and cover a wide range of topics. The editors were not shy about spanning boundaries between technical detail, economic analysis, and policy relevance. This is a great resource for any modern scholar of the Internet.' --Shane Greenstein, Harvard Business School'The Handbook provides an outstanding insight on understanding all kinds of businesses carrying over the information super-highway called the Internet.' --Science and Public Policy'This handbook has the laudable aim of providing an original map of research in the Internet Economics field. It succeeds in this thanks to the editors' inclusion of theoretical perspectives ranging from the mainstream to institutional and evolutionary economic theory, complex adaptive systems theory, and critical political economy. . . Readers will gain insight into the limitations of the questions that are asked within different economic traditions, but importantly, also into what can be revealed by these theories and empirical methods. Media and communication scholars, not just those with an interest in media economics, will come away from engagement with this handbook with a good understanding of the assumptions underpinning the contributions economists are making to contemporary debate about the consequences of the continuous evolution of digitally mediated markets.' --European Journal of CommunicationTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. The Economics of the Internet: An Overview Johannes M. Bauer and Michael Latzer PART II THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS 2. The Industrial Organization of the Internet Günter Knieps and Johannes M. Bauer 3. The Internet as a Complex Layered System Stephen J. Schultze and Richard S. Whitt 4. A Network Science Approach to the Internet Volker Schneider and Johannes M. Bauer 5. Peer Production and Cooperation Yochai Benkler 6. The Internet and Productivity Carol Corrado and Bart Van Ark 7. Cultural Economics and the Internet Christian Handke, Paul Stepan and Ruth Towse 8. A Political Economy Approach to the Internet Patricia Mazepa and Vincent Mosco PART II INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS AND INTERNET ARCHITECTURE 9. Competition and Antitrust in Internet Markets Justus Haucap and Torben Stühmeier 10. The Economics of Internet Standards Stanley M. Besen and George Sadowsky 11. The Economics of Copyright and the Internet Sacha Wunsch-Vincent 12. The Economics of Privacy, Data Protection and Surveillance Ian Brown 13. Economics of Cybersecurity Hadi Asghari, Michel Van Eeten and Johannes M. Bauer 14. Internet Architecture and Innovation in Applications Barbara Van Schewick 15. Organizational Innovations, ICTs and Knowledge Governance: The Case of Platforms Cristiano Antonelli and Pier Paolo Patrucco 16. Interconnection in the Internet: Peering, Interoperability and Content Delivery David D. Clark, William H. Lehr and Steven Bauer PART III ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT OF APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES 17. Internet Business Strategies Johann J. Kranz and Arnold Picot 18. The Economics of Internet Search Hal R. Varian 19. The Economics of Algorithmic Selection on the Internet Michael Latzer, Katharina Hollnbuchner, Natascha Just and Florian Saurwein 20. Online Advertising Economics Wenjuan Ma and Steven S. Wildman 21. Online News Lucy Küng, Nic Newman and Robert G. Picard 22. The Economics of Online Video Entertainment Ryland Sherman and David Waterman 23. Business Strategies and Revenue Models for Converged Video Services Yu-Li Liu 24. The Economics of Virtual Worlds Isaac Knowles and Edward Castronova 25. Economics of Big Data Claudio Feijóo, José-Luis Gómez-Barroso and Shivom Aggarwal PART IV PAST AND FUTURE TRAJECTORIES 26. The Evolution of the Internet: A Socioeconomic Account D. Linda Garcia 27. From the Internet of Science to the Internet of Entertainment Eli M. Noam Index

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Book Synopsis'Fifteen years ago, the internet felt like a special place my friends and I had built for each other; by 2020, we were standing on its ruins, wondering if we'd played a part in its destruction.'Journalist Marie Le Conte was born in 1991, the same year the World Wide Web was invented. She had her first blog at twelve, a successful music website at fifteen, a Wikipedia page at seventeen and now, at thirty, over 80,000 followers on Twitter. From MSN, Tumblr and MySpace, to chat rooms, forums and blogs; Marie is part of the millennial generation that grew up while the internet was growing up with them.Where did it go all wrong? How did the internet go from a place where you went to escape real life to where real life is shaped? A place where you could be yourself and find like-minded people to a world of filters and ads? A place we are all now desperately trying to escape from?Escape is a fascinating exploration of the rise and demise of the internet. It's a look back on the platforms, the people and the online places. It's an analysis of the lessons being online has taught us, how the internet has changed us - and a celebration of the tools it gives us to feel less alone. The online generation have forever altered the world we live in, but is the internet still a place for the people that shaped it?Trade Review'Marie Le Conte is one of the most compelling thinkers we have on the internet age and what it's doing to us. She's truly lived it, and her scars are memorably and fascinatingly described in Escape.' -- WILL STORR'A great dissection of how the internet fundamentally messed up the generations.' -- MOLLIE GOODFELLOW'A sharply intelligent, funny and necessary look at how the internet is affecting us all. Whether you're extremely online or hate Twitter (or both), this is a fascinating read.' -- STEVIE MARTIN'Marie Le Conte is the voice of the generation. Escape is exposing, enthralling and deeply personal reading for all of us who grew up online. Capturing the joy and pain of teenage angst against the freedom and horror of the World Wide Web, this book is urgent reading for anyone trying to understand their own past, and the internet's future.' -- FERN RIDDELL'An enjoyable book that hits on an interesting question.' * Financial Times *'A thoughtful book' * New Scientist *'[Escape] reads like a long and clever email from a friend' * The Canberra Times *'Escape is a smart and funny analysis of a very modern phenomenon.' * New Humanist *

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Book SynopsisJournalist Marie Le Conte was born in 1991, the same year the World Wide Web was made publicly available. She had her first blog at 12, a successful music website at 16 and, at 31, has just under 100,000 followers on Twitter. She spent her formative years on MSN, MySpace, Tumblr and forums; like many people her age, she grew up online as the internet itself was growing up. It was a joy until it wasn't - where did it all go wrong?How did the internet go from a haven you hid in to escape real life to a place where real life is shaped? A space where you could be yourself and find like-minded people to a world sullied by bad algorithms, annoying brands and endless trolling? When did it become the place we're all trying to run away from?Escape is a fascinating exploration of the rise and demise of the internet. It's a look back on the people and platforms that came and went before everything started collapsing. It's an analysis of the lessons being online has taught us, and a celebration of the tools it gave us to feel less alone.

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Book SynopsisThe Tactile Internet will change the landscape of communication by introducing a new paradigm that enables the remote delivery of haptic data.This book answers the many questions surrounding the Tactile Internet, including its reference architecture and adapted compression methods for conveying haptic information. It also describes the key enablers for deploying the applications of the Tactile Internet.As an antecedent technology, the IoT is tackled, explaining the differences and similarities between the Tactile Internet, the Internet of Things and the Internet of Everything. The essentials of teleoperation systems are summarized and the challenges that face this paradigm in its implementation and deployment are also discussed.Finally, a teleoperation case study demonstrating an application of the Tactile Internet is investigated to demonstrate its functionalities, architecture and performance.Table of ContentsForeword xi Ian F. Akyildiz Preface xiii Tara Ali-Yahiya and Wrya Monnet List of Acronyms xv Chapter 1 Introduction to Tactile Internet 1 Tara Ali-Yahiya 1. 1. Human perception and Tactile Internet 2 1. 2. The roadmap towards Tactile Internet 3 1. 3. What is Tactile Internet? 5 1. 4. Cyber-Physical Systems and TI 7 1. 4. 1. Physical world 7 1. 4. 2. Internet of Things 7 1. 4. 3. Communication 7 1. 4. 4. Storage and computation 8 1. 4. 5. Feedback 8 1. 4. 6. Smart computing 10 1. 5. References 11 Chapter 2 Reference Architecture of the Tactile Internet 13 Tara Ali-Yahiya 2. 1. Tactile Internet system architecture 13 2. 2. IEEE 1918. 1 use cases 15 2. 2. 1. Teleoperation 16 2. 2. 2. Automotive 17 2. 2. 3. Immersive virtual reality (IVR) 17 2. 2. 4. Internet of drones 18 2. 2. 5. Inter personal communication 18 2. 2. 6. Live haptic-enabled broadcast 19 2. 2. 7. Cooperative automated driving 19 2. 3. Conclusion 20 2. 4. References 20 Chapter 3 Tactile Internet Key Enablers 21 Tara Ali-Yahiya 3. 1. Introduction 21 3. 1. 1. The fifth-generation system architecture 21 3. 1. 2. Network slicing 23 3. 1. 3. Network function virtualization 25 3. 1. 4. Software-defined networking 26 3. 1. 5. Edge computing 27 3. 1. 6. Artificial intelligence 29 3. 2. Conclusion 31 3. 3. References 31 Chapter 4 6G for Tactile Internet 35 Pinar Kirci and Tara Ali-Yahiya 4. 1. Introduction 35 4. 2. Thearchitectureof6G 37 4. 2. 1. Networkperformanceof6G 38 4. 2. 2. Space network 39 4. 2. 3. Air network 40 4. 2. 4. Ground network 40 4. 2. 5. Underwater network 41 4. 3. 6G channel measurements and characteristics 41 4. 3. 1. Optical wireless channel 41 4. 3. 2. Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) channel 42 4. 3. 3. Underwater acoustic channel 43 4. 3. 4. Satellite channel 43 4. 3. 5. RFandterahertznetworksin6G 45 4. 3. 6. Visible light communication technology 48 4. 3. 7. Orbital angular momentum technology 48 4. 4. 6GcellularInternetofThings 49 4. 5. Energy self-sustainability (ESS) in 6G 50 4. 6. IoT-integrated ultra smart city life 52 4. 7. AI-enabled6Gnetworks 55 4. 8. AI- and ML-based security management in super IoT 59 4. 9. Securityfor6G 60 4. 10. The WEAFMnecosystem (water, earth, air, fire micro/nanoecosystem) with 6G and Tactile Internet 61 4. 11. References 63 Chapter 5 IoT, IoE and Tactile Internet 65 Wrya Monnet 5. 1. From M2MtoIoT 66 5. 2. Classification of remote monitoring and control systems 66 5. 3. IoT-enabling technologies 67 5. 3. 1. IoT hardware 67 5. 3. 2. IoT software 67 5. 3. 3. IoT connectivity 67 5. 4. Architectural design and interfaces 68 5. 5. IoT communication protocols 71 5. 5. 1. Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) 72 5. 5. 2. Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) 74 5. 5. 3. Data Distribution Service for real-time systems (DDS) 76 5. 5. 4. Open Mobile Alliance Device Management (OMA-DM) 79 5. 6. Internet of Everything (IoE) 80 5. 6. 1. Enabling technologies for the IoE 81 5. 7. Protocol comparisons and the readiness for TI 82 5. 8. TI-IoT models and challenges 83 5. 9. Edge computing in the IoT 85 5. 9. 1. Edge computing paradigms 86 5. 10. Real-time IoT and analytics versus real time in TI 88 5. 11. From IoT towardsTI 88 5. 12. Conclusion 90 5. 13. References 91 Chapter 6 Telerobotics 95 Wrya Monnet 6. 1. Introduction 95 6. 2. Teleoperation evolution to telepresence 96 6. 3. Tele presence applications 97 6. 4. Teleoperation system components 99 6. 4. 1. Master domains 102 6. 4. 2. Network domain (communication channel) 102 6. 4. 3. Slave domain 102 6. 5. Architecture of bilateral teleoperation control system 103 6. 5. 1. Classification of the control systems architectures 106 6. 5. 2. Discrete architecture with transmission delay 107 6. 6. Performance and transparency of telepresence systems 110 6. 6. 1. Passivity and stability 110 6. 6. 2. Time delay issues 112 6. 7. Other methods for time-delay mitigation 116 6. 8. Teleoperation over the Internet 117 6. 9. Multiple access to a teleoperation system 119 6. 10. A use case 121 6. 11. Conclusion 122 6. 12. References 122 Chapter 7 Haptic Data: Compression and Transmission Protocols 127 Wrya Monnet 7. 1. Introduction 127 7. 2. Haptic perception 128 7. 2. 1. Human haptic perception 128 7. 2. 2. Telerobotic tactile and haptic perception 128 7. 2. 3. Tactile sensing for material recognition 129 7. 2. 4. Tactile sensing for object shape recognition 130 7. 2. 5. Tactile sensing for pose estimation 131 7. 3. Haptic interfaces 133 7. 3. 1. Haptic interface for tele presence 133 7. 3. 2. Haptic and tactile sensors and actuators 135 7. 4. Haptic compression 139 7. 5. Haptic transport protocols 142 7. 5. 1. Application layer protocols 143 7. 5. 2. Transport layer protocols 146 7. 6. Multi-transport protocols 149 7. 7. Haptic transport protocol performance metrics 149 7. 8. Conclusion 150 7. 9. References 150 Chapter 8 Mapping Wireless Networked Robotics into Tactile Internet 155 Nicola Roberto Zema and Tara Ali-Yahiya 8. 1. Wireless networked robots 155 8. 2. WNR traffic requisites 158 8. 2. 1. Types of traffic in WNRs 158 8. 3. Traffic shaping and TI haptic codecs 160 8. 3. 1. Introduction 161 8. 3. 2. Mapping WNR control traffic to TI 161 8. 4. WNRs in the Tactile Internet architecture 164 8. 4. 1. WNRs in the TI architecture and interfaces 165 8. 5. Conclusion 169 8. 6. References 170 Chapter 9 HoIP over 5G for Tactile Internet Teleoperation Application 173 Tara Ali-Yahiya, Wryamonnet and Bakhtiar M. Amin 9. 1. Relatedworks 174 9. 2. 5G architecture design for Tactile Internet 179 9. 2. 1. Tactile edge A 180 9. 2. 2. Network domain 182 9. 2. 3. Protocol stack of 5G integration with IEEE 1918. 1 182 9. 3. HapticsoverIP 183 9. 4. Teleoperationcasestudy 185 9. 4. 1. Master to slave (uplink) data rate in edge A 187 9. 4. 2. Slave to master (downlink) data rate in edge B 187 9. 4. 3. Encapsulating the haptic data in HoIP 188 9. 4. 4. 5G network data and control handling 188 9. 4. 5. Case study operational states 190 9. 4. 6. Case study protocol stack 191 9. 5. Simulationresults 192 9. 5. 1. Simulation topology 193 9. 5. 2. NS3networkarchitecture 194 9. 5. 3. Simulation scenario 196 9. 5. 4. Simulation results 198 9. 6. Conclusion 203 9. 7. References 203 Chapter 10 Issues and Challenges Facing Low Latency in the Tactile Internet 209 Tara Ali-Yahiya 10. 1. Introduction 209 10. 1. 1. Technical requirements for the TI 211 10. 2. Low latency in the Tactile Internet 212 10. 2. 1. Resource allocation 212 10. 2. 2. Mobile edge computing 213 10. 2. 3. Network coding 214 10. 2. 4. Haptic communication protocols 214 10. 3. Intelligence and the Tactile Internet 216 10. 4. Edge intelligent 216 10. 5. Openissues 219 10. 6. Conclusion 220 10. 7. References 221 List of Authors 227 Index 229

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Book SynopsisDeveloping countries are persistently looking for efficient and cost-effective methods for transforming their communities into smart cities. Unfortunately, energy crises have increased in these regions due to a lack of awareness and proper utilization of technological methods. These communities must explore and implement innovative solutions in order to enhance citizen enrollment, quality of government, and city intelligence.IoT Architectures, Models, and Platforms for Smart City Applications provides emerging research exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of transforming cities into intelligent systems using IoT-based design models and sustainable development projects. This publication looks at how cities can be built as smart cities within limited resources and existing advanced technologies. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as cloud computing, human machine interface, and ad hoc networks, this book is ideally designed for urban planners, engineers, IT specialists, computer engineering students, research scientists, academicians, technology developers, policymakers, researchers, and designers seeking current research on smart applications within urban development.

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Book SynopsisFor the past couple of years, network automation techniques that include software-defined networking (SDN) and dynamic resource allocation schemes have been the subject of a significant research and development effort. Likewise, network functions virtualization (NFV) and the foreseeable usage of a set of artificial intelligence techniques to facilitate the processing of customers' requirements and the subsequent design, delivery, and operation of the corresponding services are very likely to dramatically distort the conception and the management of networking infrastructures. Some of these techniques are being specified within standards developing organizations while others remain perceived as a "buzz" without any concrete deployment plans disclosed by service providers. An in-depth understanding and analysis of these approaches should be conducted to help internet players in making appropriate design choices that would meet their requirements as well as their customers. This is an important area of research as these new developments and approaches will inevitably reshape the internet and the future of technology. Design Innovation and Network Architecture for the Future Internet sheds light on the foreseeable yet dramatic evolution of internet design principles and offers a comprehensive overview on the recent advances in networking techniques that are likely to shape the future internet. The chapters provide a rigorous in-depth analysis of the promises, pitfalls, and other challenges raised by these initiatives, while avoiding any speculation on their expected outcomes and technical benefits. This book covers essential topics such as content delivery networks, network functions virtualization, security, cloud computing, automation, and more. This book will be useful for network engineers, software designers, computer networking professionals, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students looking for a comprehensive research book on the latest advancements in internet design principles and networking techniques.

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Book SynopsisTowards a Digital Renaissance traces the excitement and optimism of the early internet, the outsider cyberpunk ethic and open access. But it also monitors the more complex but ultimately more commercialised online world of today, a world dominated by corporate business in which many feel that surveillance has become overwhelming. Jeremy Silver's involvement in various start-ups, both as CEO and investor, led to his leadership of Digital Catapult. Towards a Digital Renaissance examines the interplay between state and private financing in the digital sector. It also argues for the internet's potential to transition from a 'medieval' world of the GAFA big four (Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple), closed and walled up like medieval city states, to a 'digital renaissance' based on the free exchange of ideas and an enabling metaverse made up of virtual reality and artificial intelligence that deepens our experience of reality rather than restricting or monitoring it.Trade ReviewFor the past decade, the hype surrounding VR and AR technology has waxed and waned, but Jeremy Silver has been constant, a force of nature in this space. Some people just talk about technology, but Jeremy is in the trenches, and deeply understands everything ranging from how to fund a start-up to how to troubleshoot hardware. This book brilliantly tells a story about the metaverse growing up, and how Jeremy helped along the way. * Jeremy Bailenson, founding director at Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab *

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Book SynopsisThis book contains an Open Access chapter The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted economies and society globally. In addressing the crisis, the Internet proved incredibly important in enabling many to shift physical work, education, and social activities online and facilitating the tracking of the progress of the pandemic. Beyond the Pandemic? is the first edited collection to concentrate on the dynamic and complex relationship between the Internet and the role it played in responding to the pandemic. Covid-19 accelerated the digital economy transformation, changing the way work, education, and social engagement is organized, potentially permanently. The collection of international scholars who contributed to this volume offer insightful perspectives on how the Internet ecosystem responded and was changed as a consequence of Covid-19; the sectoral consequences of shifting activity online that the Internet enabled for many, but not for all; and the implications for regulatory policies. Given how central digital technologies are to all aspects of business, society, and government, Beyond the Pandemic? is integral to the exploration of the sectoral consequences of the Internet for business managers, policymakers and researchers engaged in planning and study for the digital economy future and planning for future pandemics.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction; Jason Whalley, Volker Stocker, and William Lehr Chapter 2. Covid-19 and the Internet: Lessons Learned; Volker Stocker, William Lehr, and Georgios Smaragdakis OPEN ACCESS Chapter 3. Covid-19 and the Shift to Remote Work; Scott Marcus Chapter 4. Digital Transformation of Educational Institutions Accelerated by Covid-19: A Digital Dynamic Capabilities Approach; André Renz and Romy Hilbig Chapter 5. The Smart City and Covid-19; William Webb Chapter 6. How Covid Accelerated the Restructuring of UK Retail; Jason Whalley and Peter Curwen Chapter 7. Regulatory and Broadband Industry Responses to Covid-19: Cases of Uganda, Peru and the Caribbean; Mark Jamison, Dorothy Okello, Roxana Barrantes, and David Cox Chapter 8. Beyond the Pandemic? Exploring the Impact of Covid on Spectrum Use and Management; Mohamed El-Moghazi Chapter 9. Net Neutrality in the USA During Covid-19; Roslyn Layton and Mark Jamison Chapter 10. Trends in Cybercrime During the Covid-19 Pandemic; Josephine Wolff Chapter 11. Pandemics and Infodemics: How Covid-19 is Reshaping Content Regulation; Tatiana Tropina Chapter 12. Beyond the Pandemic: Towards a Digitally Enabled Society and Economy; Volker Stocker, Jason Whalley, and William Lehr

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Book SynopsisThe current crisis of democracy, the growing economic inequality between rich and poor, our narcissistic social media culture and the looming menace of AI all threaten us as never before. The challenges presented by technology have long been central in these issues, but how can we take advantage of the opportunities it provides to shape a better twenty-first century? The most important division of our age is between the 'tomorrows', those who believe that the future can be better than the past, and the 'yesterdays' who harbor a nostalgic desire to return to a rose-tinted past. This division is encapsulated by how we answer a simple question: can we trust the future? In Tomorrows Versus Yesterdays, Andrew Keen discusses the issue with some of the most influential thinkers of our time. The book is split into four sections. The first identifies the challenges of our digital age. The second focuses on the failure of the internet revolution to realize its ambitious goals. The third untangles the complex relationship between populism and digital media, before the final part presents possible solutions to the challenges of our age. The result is an insightful examination of the most important issues facing us today, and essential reading for anyone interested in the impact of the digital revolution.Table of Contents1: Shoshana Zuboff 2: John Borthwick 3: Maria Ressa 4: Rana Foroohar 5: David Kirkpatrick 6: Douglas Rushkoff 7: Eli Pariser 8: Kenneth Cukier 9: Peter Sunde 10: Peter Pomerantsev 11: Ece Temelkuran 12: Catherine Fieschi 13: Ian Bremmer 14: Martin Wolf 15: Richard Stengel 16: Carl Benedikt Frey 17: Toomas Ilves 18: Scott Galloway

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Book SynopsisThis book discusses the media, beliefs, the news, the Internet, etc. but it should not be seen as yet another critique of the media system, exploring with indignant fascination the idea of a machination against truth set up to serve a society of domination. These kinds of theories, whether they pertain to conspiracy theories or, more subtly, to a self-styled "critical" way of thinking, have always seemed to be the expression of a form of intellectual puerility. This is not to say that attempts at manipulating opinions do not occur, or that our world is free from compromised principles, or indeed corruption; far from it, but none of this is the key issue. In fact, reality can somehow be even more unsettling than those myths, however sophisticated they may be, that envisage the media system hand-in-hand with industry, science, and so forth, all in agreement so as to lead the "people" away from the truth. It is more unsettling because the processes described in this book and that allow falsehood and dubiousness to take hold of the public sphere are boosted by the development of IT, the workings of our minds, and the very nature of democracy. And finally, it is more unsettling because we are all responsible for what is going to happen to us.Table of ContentsPreface vii Introduction ix Chapter 1. More is Less: Mental Avarice and Mass Information 1 1.1. The revolution of the cognitive market 1 1.2. Amplification of the confirmation bias 6 1.3. The Seattle affair 9 1.3.1. The Wason experiment 10 1.4. The theorem of information credulity 14 1.5. Filter bubbles 17 Chapter 2. Why Does the Internet Side with Dubious Ideas? 19 2.1. The utopia of the knowledge society and the empire of beliefs 19 2.2. The ditherer’s problem 20 2.3. Competition between belief and knowledge on the Internet 23 2.4. Psychokinesis 27 2.5. The Loch Ness Monster 27 2.6. Aspartame 28 2.7. Crop circles 28 2.8. Astrology 29 2.9. Overview of resutls 30 2.10. How can we explain these results? 30 2.11. The Titanic syndrome 31 2.12. When Olson’s paradox plays against knowledge 34 2.13. Charles Fort, his life, and his works in a few words 36 2.14. Fort products: argumentative mille-feuilles 38 2.15. The sharing of the arguments of conviction 40 2.16. A Fortean product in the making: Michael Jackson’s fake death 42 2.17. When Fort reinforces Olson 44 2.18. Would you believe it! 46 2.19. It is all in the Bible, all of it 49 2.20. The transparency paradox 52 2.21. A shorter incubation period 56 Chapter 3. Competition Serves the Truth, Excessive Competition Harms It 61 3.1. Michael Jackson’s son, abused by Nicolas Sarkozy 61 3.2. A “prisoner’s dilemma” kind of situation 63 3.3. Presidential unfaithfulness and the burnt Koran 66 3.4. The IRC curve (information reliability/competition) 72 Chapter 4. What Can Be Done? From the Democracy of the Gullible to the Democracy of Enlightenment 77 4.1. The hope of the astrophysicist 77 4.2. The bad education 80 4.3. When gullibility looks like intelligence 83 4.4. The sum of imperfections 88 4.5. Toward cognitive demagogy 93 4.6. How to keep the illusion scholar inside us in check 96 4.7. Declaration of mental independence 98 4.8. The fourth power 102 4.9. A new form of scientific communication 104 4.10. A new militancy 106 Conclusion 109 Bibliography 111 Index 121

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Book SynopsisThe Internet is behaving in a way that is affecting everything we do. And it is making us think about things in a way we never previously thought. The Internet is contrary and the opposite of previous inventions. It has enhanced a reverse polarity of discovery in which seeking to know more about what and who we already know (think Facebook, Twitter, Google) is now just as valid as learning new things. This is the "implosion" that this book examines and the great impact it will have on society and business. The creation of the Internet, the most significant for many generations, is driving culture inwards instead of outwards (like many of history's other prestigious cultural innovations). It is an implosive force, annihilating and creating simultaneously. And it will change forever the way society and business communicates. This book offers a controversial insight into where we are heading in the age of the Web.Table of Contents1.What Happened? 2.First Let's Eat 3.Now It's Time For Coffee 4.The Medium is the Mess 5.Streaming Screenagers 6.Socialism, Socialising and Being Social 7.Being Present 8.New Order

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Book SynopsisThe realm of the "personal" is now increasingly touched by technology - especially the Internet. For example, sleep is now something we do in between checking our smartphones. Our relationship to food and eating has changed too. Home delivery, restaurant search, table bookings - these have all been elevated to a high level skill-set which is part-entertainment, part-electronic processing. And travel is now a finger-clicking exercise with precision timing. This readjustment of our daily routine has had one significant effect: it has taught individuals a range of skills that would normally be in the domain of businesses. Ordinary people now behave as businesses do by using buying strategies to get costs down. We now have expectations of quality and delivery. In fact, we have become so business-like as individuals that marketers need to get rid of the processes of "Business-to-Consumer" communication, and begin to adopt the rules of "Business-to-Business" when talking to consumers. Such change of our lives is an explosion of the new - new thinking, new business, new relationships, new selling, new buying, new leisure, new humans.

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Book SynopsisFOREWORD BY DON TAPSCOTT CEO of the Tapscott Group, executive chairman of the Blockchain Research Institute, and world-leading authority on the impact of technology on business and society. The Internet is now, but the future is the metaverse. The metaverse is a virtual-reality space in which users can interact with a computer-generated environment and others. The prediction is that the next ten years will be the golden era of the metaverse, and everyone's life, entertainment, social interaction, and work will increasingly take place in the metaverse world. This book outlines six important trends in the era of the metaverse, that will see dramatic changes in technology and the bringing together of digital and physical worlds. People will experience a great migration of their social life and economic activities into the metaverse. Furthermore, the authors argue that, in the metaverse, we can get rid of many of the constraints of the physical world, achieve a better self in the new digital space, and truly maximize our own value as human beings. This book sets out how you can seize the opportunity of the metaverse era.

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Book SynopsisChina's economic rise and influence has been one of the most significant developments in the global economy of recent times. A driving force behind this expansion has been the private entrepreneurs and companies of China, some of which have literally redefined the economic and business landscape, both inside and outside of China. In 2000, Robin (Yanhong) Li founded Baidu and turned the company into the largest Chinese search engine (with over 80% market share by search query) and the world's second largest search engine. In 2005, Baidu completed its IPO on NASDAQ, and in 2007 became the first Chinese company to be included in the NASDAQ-100 Index. This book is the story of the rise of Robin Li and Baidu, which is integral to the story of China's vast internet economy.

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Book SynopsisWhy has the digital revolution been damaging for so many women? And what can be done about it? The Threat explores today's digital capitalism through the prism of the women who are harmed by it globally. Some of them are victimised through digital devices. Others are exploited while producing them. And some don't even have access to the Internet, but are brutally raped in wars funded by the minerals that make our tablets work. With the help of individuals' stories and interviews, activist and academic Dr Lilia Giugni explores how millions of women across the world are violated, exploited and marginalised due to processes of technological change. She unpacks the tight intersections between technology, patriarchy and capitalism - exposing the profit-driven market in which our digital devices are designed and built, and the patriarchal society that shapes who gets to use them and how. Above all, Lilia Giugni gives us very practical ideas to help us take back the tech: turning technology into a truly emancipatory force and a leverage to create a better and more just future for women and for all. 'A brilliant and engaging expose of how the forces of capitalism and patriarchy penetrate our digital world - and what women can do to fight back.' Hannah Jewell, author of 100 Nasty Women of History

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Book SynopsisTechnology can help us with some of our most difficult work. It can also offer us endless distractions. Can technology help us, as individuals and communities, in our most important task, that of being a good person?Jon Mitchell sets out to identify and explore the ways in which we can develop a more thoughtful relationship with technology. Rather than only using our technological devices as a medium for connecting with the world, he recommends we rethink our relationship with technology, and see it as a resource that allows us to have a more intimate and personal relationship with ourselves and the world around us. Mitchell offers concrete practices for streamlining and improving the way we use technology in our daily lives.Writing in a relatable, conversational, easy-to-read style, Mitchell draws on his years of experience as a tech journalist and mindfulness practitioner to propose a rethinking of both the design of technology and its use.

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