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Book SynopsisGenerational thinking is not a science, but a reliable framework for successful marketing, communications, and product strategy. This book describes how marketing is evolving for the demographic group Generation Y, born between 2010 - the year when the iPad and Instagram were launched - and 2025. This book examines the impact of technology and digitisation on the brains and development of this generation, the world's future consumers. With examples and insight, it shows how young entrepreneurs and influencers use new media to promote their interests and associated brand preferences to their peers and to the world.

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Book SynopsisHow do highly-successful people like Elon Musk and Bill Gates get so much done? The answer is time blocking; a time-management method that Cal Newport, productivity expert and bestselling author of Digital Minimalism, has been using for fifteen years.For the first time, this game-changing system has been captured in a daily planner that makes it easy for you to prioritise tasks and focus on the things that really matter. Using the time-block method you''ll no longer be distracted by your inbox, social media and other peoples'' demands for your time. The Time-Block Planner will help you push aside distractions and focus on the work that will make the difference to you.

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Book SynopsisFuturists are certain that humanlike AI is on the horizon, but in fact engineers have no idea how to program human reasoning. AI reasons from statistical correlations across data sets, while common sense is based heavily on conjecture. Erik Larson argues that hyping existing methods will only hold us back from developing truly humanlike AI.Trade ReviewIf you want to know about AI, read this book. For several reasons—most of all because it shows how a supposedly futuristic reverence for Artificial Intelligence retards progress when it denigrates our most irreplaceable resource for any future progress: our own human intelligence. -- Peter ThielLarson worries that we’re making two mistakes at once, defining human intelligence down while overestimating what AI is likely to achieve…Another concern is learned passivity: our tendency to assume that AI will solve problems and our failure, as a result, to cultivate human ingenuity. * Wall Street Journal *Thoughtful…makes a convincing case that artificial general intelligence—machine-based intelligence that matches our own—is beyond the capacity of algorithmic machine learning because there is a mismatch between how humans and machines know what they know…AI can’t account for the qualitative, nonmeasurable, idiosyncratic, messy stuff of life. -- Sue Halpern * New York Review of Books *Artificial intelligence has always inspired outlandish visions, but now Elon Musk and other authorities assure us that those sci-fi visions are about to become reality. Artificial intelligence is going to destroy us, save us, or at the very least radically transform us. In The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, Erik Larson exposes the vast gap between the actual science underlying AI and the dramatic claims being made for it. This is a timely, important, and even essential book. -- John Horgan, author of The End of ScienceErik Larson offers an expansive look at the field of AI, from its early history to recent prophecies about the advent of superintelligent machines. Engaging, clear, and highly informed, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence is a terrific book. -- Oren Etzioni, CEO of the Allen Institute for AIA fantastic tour of AI, at once deeply enlightening and eminently readable, that challenges the overwrought vision of a technology that revolutionizes everything and also threatens our existence. Larson, the thinking person’s tech entrepreneur, explores the philosophical and practical implications of AI as never before and reminds us that wishing for something is not the same as building it. -- Todd C. Hughes, technology executive and former DARPA officialThere are several books out there addressing the trending topic of AI, but Larson’s The Myth of Artificial Intelligence is arguably the best one of them so far…Should be taught in every undergraduate level engineering program. -- Gábor István Bíró * Metascience *A discussion of general human intelligence versus the current state of artificial intelligence, and how progress in a narrowly defined, specialized area (how to play chess) does not necessarily mean we are getting closer to human-like thinking machines. So, take a rain-check on the impending arrival of the robot overlords, that is going to have to wait a while. -- Elizabeth Obee * Towards Data Science *Far and away the best refutation of Kurzweil’s overpromises, but also of the hype pressed by those who have fallen in love with AI’s latest incarnation, which is the combination of big data with machine learning. Just to be clear, Larson is not a contrarian. He does not have a death wish for AI. He is not trying to sabotage research in the area (if anything, he is trying to extricate AI research from the fantasy land it currently inhabits)…Insightful and timely. -- William A. Dembski * Evolution News *Larson’s book is excellent, and tells the story of how successful narrow AI has been in comparison to the failures of strong AI. It also shows us why we have no reason to believe that these failures will turn into successes anytime soon. The Myth of Artificial Intelligence also serves as a warning to be skeptical of the predictions of experts and expresses the importance of having a sound theory to properly practice science. -- Brendan Patrick Purdy * Law & Liberty *Believing in the myth of AI has more serious consequences for our society beyond merely losing sleep over the prospects of a robot uprising. The myth, Larson argues, is negatively affecting research in many fields of science…Comes at an opportune moment—when AI has breached the peak of expectations and is now inching downwards, into the trough of disillusionment. It deflates the hype surrounding the subject and offers coherent arguments against the inevitability and imminence of true machine intelligence. -- Viraj Kulkarni * The Wire (India) *A detailed, wide-ranging excavation of AI’s history and culture, and the limitations of current machine learning, [Larson] argues that there’s basically ‘no good scientific reason’ to believe the [AI] myth…A clever, engaging book that looks closely at the machines we fear could one day destroy us all, and at how our current tools won’t create this future. -- Ellen Broad * Inside Story *Discusses how widely publicized misconceptions about intelligence and inference have led AI research down narrow paths that are limiting innovation and scientific discoveries…Sheds light on the challenges that the field faces today and helps readers to see through the overblown claims about progress toward AGI or singularity. -- Ben Dickson * TechTalks *Lays out a bird’s eye view of the origins and ideas behind current AI methods…Disentangles the hype of AI from what is actually possible with current technology. Even as he sheds light on the gap between the singularity prediction and what machine learning is truly capable of, he emphasizes the significance of the myth. * Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith *

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Book SynopsisIT'S TIME FOR A NEW APPROACH TO SCREEN TIME.Jordan Shapiro believes we need to rethink parental attitudes to technology. There's a damaging orthodoxy that presents screen-time as the ultimate modern parenting evil and the only acceptable response to it is restriction. Shapiro, psychologist, educational pioneer and father of two, draws on cutting-edge research in education, philosophy, neuroscience and psychology to show we've let fear and nostalgia stand in the way of our children's best interests. In his optimistic, inspiring and practical guide to the new, digital frontier of childhood, he reframes gaming, social media and smartphones to offer fresh, evidence-based advice on how to take a more progressive approach.*Winner of the Spirituality & Practice Book Award as one of the 50 Best Spiritual Books of 2018.*'Shapiro successfully transforms our worst fears about screen time into excitement about the potential for redesigning childhood around our latest technologies ... It's a necessary book that I urge you to read.' - The Telegraph'Shapiro knows what he's talking about ... Shapiro's arguments are compelling' - USA Today'a thought-provoking, bold read. As a father of two daughters at similar ages to Jordan's children (7 and 9), facing similar challenges and dilemmas, the book provided me with an inspiring and optimistic perspective that's rare in the current media landscape.' - Variety'Timely, essential, and thought-provoking, The New Childhood is the must-read parenting guide for raising 21st century, digitally driven kids. Instead of raising a white flag and giving in to social media and the Internet, Jordan Shapiro tells parents how to embrace technology, stay involved in their children's lives, and prepare them for their future. Read it! I promise you'll rethink your parenting. I couldn't put it down' - Michele Borba, EdD, author of UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed In Our All-About-Me World

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Book SynopsisThe book that every parent needs. Written by the expert child psychologist, Dr Elizabeth Kilbey, from Channel 4''s The Secret Life of 4, 5 and 6 Year Olds. ''Children who get too much screen time are at risk of anxiety disorders'' - BBC NewsThis is the book that every parent with a child under the age of 11 (in the latency stage of brain development) needs in order to navigate the tricky pathway of how much screen time to allow on a daily basis. Play has gone from a physical, creative experience using toys and imagination to something that now involves sitting down alone for hours at a time. Parents are dealing with children who don''t listen to them, who are unable to concentrate for very long, who refuse to do homework and who constantly battle against them for more screen time. In this book, Dr Elizabeth Kilbey will offer tangible, practical advice about how to ''unplug'' your child from their device so their online time doesn''t

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Book SynopsisIn a context where digital media are reshaping the futures of conservation, environmentalism, and ecological politics for better and for worse Digital ecologies draws together leading scholars in the humanities and social sciences to establish a research agenda for making sense of these transformations. -- .

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Book SynopsisA brilliant examination into how the internet is profoundly changing the way we think.In this groundbreaking book, Wired' writer Clive Thompson argues that the internet is boosting our brainpower, encouraging new ways of thinking, and making us more not less intelligent as is so often claimed.Our lives have been changed utterly and irrevocably by the rise of the internet and it is only now that we can begin to analyse this extraordinary phenomenon. The author argues that as we rely more and more for machines to help us think, our thinking itself is becoming richer and more complex. We're able to learn more, retain it longer, to write in curious new forms, and even to think entirely new types of thoughts.Outsmart is filled with stories of people who are living through these profound technological changes. In a series of postcards from the near future, we meet characters such as Gordon Bell, an ageing millionaire who is saving a digital copy of everything that happens to him, and Eric HoTrade Review‘Judicious and insightful … Thompson avoids both the hype and the hand-wringing so common among digital age pontificators’ Walter Isaacson, New York Times ‘Almost without noticing it, the internet has become our intellectual exoskeleton. Rather than just observing this evolution, Clive Thompson takes us to the people, places and technologies driving it, bringing deep reporting, storytelling and analysis to one of the most profound shifts in human history’ Chris Anderson ‘[An] enjoyable study of the digital world … both fascinating and thought-provoking … [Thompson] remains admirably sober about the limits of technology’s’ edifying influence on us: technology, he reminds us, is only ever as smart as the person using it’ Sunday Times ‘Thompson is a talented storyteller … The world outside … is, on balance, much weirder than you think’ The Times ‘Thompson has started an important debate in this lively and accessible book’ Scotsman ‘We should be grateful to have such a clear-eyed and lucid interpreter of our changing technological culture as Clive Thompson. Smarter Than You Think is an important, insightful book about who we are, and who we are becoming’Joshua Foer, New York Times bestselling author of Moonwalking with Einstein

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Book SynopsisWelcome to the world of 2051 through the eyes of digital marketing pioneers from around the world: engineers, developers, designers, writers and analysts who closely follow tech trends. With their finely honed intuition for user experience and a passion for technology, the authors boldly predict life 30 years from now through a collection of fascinating, futuristic, stories.

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Book SynopsisImmerse yourself in the world of literature with the World's Greatest Short Stories deluxe hardbound edition. Featuring a carefully curated selection of timeless tales from renowned authors, this beautifully designed anthology is a must-have for every book lover's collection. A timeless collection of literary gems! A deluxe hardbound edition showcasing an exceptional compilation of the world's greatest short stories Includes masterpieces by renowned authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, and Bram Stoker Offers a diverse range of genres, themes, and writing styles to captivate every reader Exquisite design and craftsmanship make it an elegant addition to any bookshelf or coffee table An ideal gift for literature enthusiasts, students, and anyone seeking a literary escape into unforgettable storytelling

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Book SynopsisDo you crave food all the time? Do you think you might want to eat again in the future? Do you suck at cooking? Inspired by the wildly popular YouTube channel, these 60+ recipes will help you suck slightly less You already know the creator of the YouTube show You Suck at Cooking by his well-manicured hands and mysterious voice, and now you’ll know him for this equally well-manicured and mysterious tome. It contains more than sixty recipes for beginner cooks and noobs alike, in addition to hundreds of paragraphs and sentences, as well as photos and drawings.You’ll learn to cook with unintimidating ingredients in dishes like Broccoli Cheddar Quiche Cupcake Muffin-Type Things, Eddie’s Roasted Red Pepper Dip (while also learning all about Eddie’s sad, sad life), Jalapeño Chicken, and also other stuff. In addition, there are cooking tips that can be applied not only to the very recipes in this book, but also to recipes outside of this book, and to all other areas of your life (with mixed results). In the end, you just might suck slightly less at cooking.* *Results not guaranteed

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: Introducing the Philosophy of Technology (Shannon Vallor, ed.) Part I: Histories and Methodologies in the Philosophy of Technology Chapter 2 What Is Living and What Is Dead in Classic European Philosophy of Technology? (Carl Mitcham) Chapter 3 The Empirical Turn (Peter-Paul Verbeek) Chapter 4 Philosophy of Technology and the Continental and Analytic Traditions (Maarten Franssen) Chapter 5 Whence and W(h)ither Technology Ethics (Don Howard) Part II: Technology and Epistemology Chapter 6 Styles of Objectivity in Scientific Instrumentation (A.S. Aurora Hoel) Chapter 7 Engineering Knowledge (Wybo Houkes and Anthonie Meijers) Chapter 8 The Epistemic Role of Technical Functions (Beth Preston) Chapter 9 Revisiting Smartness in the Smart City (Sage Cammers-Goodwin) Part III: Technology, Power, and Politics Chapter 10 Philosophy of Technology as Politics (Adam Briggle) Chapter 11 Postcolonialism and Technologies of Identification (Alison Adam) Chapter 12 Rawls, Information Technology, and the Sociotechnical Bases of Self-Respect (Anna Lauren Hoffmann) Chapter 13 Freedom in an Age of Algogracy (John Danaher) Chapter 14 (Bio)technology, Identity, and the Other (Anna Gotlib) Part IV: Technology, Metaphysics, and Language Chapter 15 The Technological Uncanny as a Permanent Dimension of Selfhood (Ciano Aydin) Chapter 16 Technology and the Ontology of the Virtual (Massimo Durante) Chapter 17 Using Philosophy of Language in Philosophy of Technology (Mark Coeckelbergh) Chapter 18 What Is It Like to Be a Bot? (D.E. Wittkower) Chapter 19 Technological Multistability and the Trouble with the Things Themselves (Robert Rosenberger) Part V: Technology, Aesthetics, and Design Chapter 20 Understanding Engineering Design and Its Social, Political and Moral Dimensions (Philip Brey) Chapter 21 Virtual Reality Media and Aesthetics (Grant Tavinor) Chapter 22 Evaluation, Validation, and Management in Design (Pieter E. Vermaas) Chapter 23 Urban Aesthetics and Technology (Sanna Lehtinen) Part VI: Technology, Health and the Environment Chapter 24 Science Fiction Futures and (Re)visions of the Anthropocene (Julia D. Gibson and Kyle Powys Whyte) Chapter 25 A Framework for Thawing Value Conflicts in the GMO Debate (Samantha Noll) Chapter 26 The Minded Body in Technology and Disability (Ashley Shew) Chapter 27 Outer Space as a New Frontier for Technology Ethics (Keith Abney) Part VII: Technology and the Good Life Chapter 28 Technology, Cognitive Enhancement, and Virtue Ethics (Barbro Fröding) Chapter 29 Toward an Existential and Emancipatory Ethic of Technology (Charles Ess) Chapter 30 Why Confucianism Matters for the Ethics of Technology (Pak-Hang Wong) Chapter 31 Care Ethics, Philosophy of Technology, and Robots in Humanitarian Action (Aimee van Wynsberghe) Chapter 32 Reflections on Promises and Perils Thinking for Emerging Technologies (Deborah G. Johnson)

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Book SynopsisIn the future, how many identities will you have? How many do you want? Digital technology is causing us to think differently about who we are and who we could become, but with the right knowledge we can turn this incredible capacity to our advantage. 'Who am I?' is one of the most fundamental questions of all. But it is becoming increasingly difficult to answer as technology enables us to negotiate and create many different versions of ourselves. In our digital, data-driven world, Facebook gets a say in verifying who we are, science can alter our biology, and advances in AI are revolutionizing not only how we interact online but with the physical world around us. Understanding and defining ourselves is becoming confusing but, as this fascinating book argues, it is possible to embrace this new era of transformation while preserving our autonomy. In The Future of You, Professional futurist Tracey Follows shows how our personal freedoms and potential will be transformed over the coming decades. From health passports, bio-hacking and relationships with machines to mind clones, digital voting and virtual legacies beyond the grave, we need to understand these vital issues today so that we might design the future of our identity tomorrow. 'This fascinating book explores the way that emerging technologies such as AI might affect the nature of personal identity and personhood. It paints an intriguing, thought-provoking, and occasionally disturbing picture.' Michael Wooldridge, author of The Road to ConsciousTrade Review 'This fascinating book explores the way that emerging technologies such as AI might affect the nature of personal identity and personhood. It paints an intriguing, thought-provoking, and occasionally disturbing picture.' Michael Wooldridge, author of The Road to Conscious

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Book SynopsisToday's teenagers spend an average of nine hours per day with their noses immersed in the glow of their screens. Tweens are not far behind, at six hours a day. Parents of this new, ultra-connected generation struggle with decisions completely new to parenting: Should they limit a child's screen time? Should an eight-year old be allowed to go on social media? What about playing video games with strangers? How can we keep them safe from harm when they go online? Are they going to grow up less socially able if their friendships are mostly conducted via text and emojis? In The Connected Parent, acclaimed childhood development and technology experts John Palfrey and Urs Gasser tackle these and other concerns of parents in the digital age. The book is organized by the topics parents have asked about most often, from screen time and safety to addiction and aggressive behaviour. But rather than pretending to have the only-or even the best-advice for every child and every family, the authors share the evidence as well as their own (sometimes strong) point of view, all in order to empower parents with ground-breaking insights that they can use to inform their approach for their own unique situations.The outcome of over a decade of research on children and technology conducted at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, The Connected Parent is required reading for any parent trying to help their kids safely navigate the fast-changing, uncharted territory our hyper-connected world.

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Book SynopsisWorking memory is the smart new way to improve your performance - whether studying for exams or looking to make progress in your career.Trade Review‘Finally a book that debunks IQ as the biggest key to success. Tracy and Ross Alloway have identified the single most important skill for determining a person's success in our modern world. The fun and friendly exercises in the book bring it out in you. A must for anyone who wants to unleash inner genius.’ Dave Farrow, Two Time Guinness record Holder for Greatest Memory

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Book SynopsisJason R. Rich is an accomplished author, journalist, and photographer. Some of his recently published books include: My Digital Photography for Seniors, My Digital Entertainment for Seniors, Working in the Cloud: Using Web-Based Applications and Tools to Collaborate Online, and The Ultimate Guide to YouTube for Business. He's also written an unofficial series of strategy guides, targeted to kids, focusing on the popular Fortnite: Battle Royale video game. Through his work as an enrichment lecturer, he often offers workshops and classes about digital photography, the Internet, and consumer technology aboard cruise ships operated by Carnival Cruise Lines, Royal Caribbean, Princess Cruises Lines, Norwegian Cruise Lines, and Celebrity Cruise Lines, as well as through Adult Education programs in the New England area. Table of ContentsChapter 1 Online Security Basics 3 Protecting Yourself Online 5 Simple Steps to Protect Your Privacy 5 Improving Internet Security in Your Home 6 Set Up a Firewall 7 Password-Protect Your Wireless (Wi-Fi) Internet Connection 8 Secure Your Computers 9 Set Up and Manage User Accounts on a Windows 10 PC 10 Set Up and Manage User Accounts on a Mac (Running MacOS) 13 Secure Your Computer’s Web Browser 16 Customize the Security Settings When Using the Microsoft Edge Web Browser 17 Customize the Security Settings When Using the Safari Web Browser 19 Take Advantage of Web Browser Plug-Ins (Extensions) 20 Take Advantage of Security Tools Offered by Your Mobile Devices 21 Adjust the Security Settings on Your iPhone or iPad (running iOS 12) 22 Adjust the Security Settings on Your Android Mobile Device 27 Manage Your Account Passwords 30 Use Tools to Manage and Remember Your Passwords 31 Tips for Creating Secure Passwords 32 Apply Multiple Strategies to Protect Yourself Online 33 Chapter 2 Safely Surf the Internet 37 Using Your Favorite Web Browser 38 Choosing a Web Browser for Your Computer or Mobile Device 40 Acquiring a Web Browser42 Consider a Specialty Web Browser Built for Privacy 43 Looking at Cookies 44 Manage Microsoft Edge’s Cookie-Related Features 47 Manage Safari’s Cookie-Related Feature(s) 50 Manage Chrome’s Cookie-Related Feature(s) 51 Turning on Your Web Browser’s Privacy or Incognito Mode 55 Turn On Privacy (InPrivate) Mode Using Microsoft Edge 56 Turn On Private Mode Using Safari 57 Go Incognito Mode Using Chrome 58 Turn on Privacy Mode on Your iPhone’s Safari Web Browser 59 Turn on Privacy Mode on Your iPad’s Safari Web Browser 60 Turn on Privacy Mode on Your Android’s Chrome Web Browser 61 Managing Your Web Browser’s History Folder 63 Work with Microsoft Edge’s History Folder 64 Work with Safari’s History Folder 65 Work with Chrome’s History Folder 66 Managing Bookmarks and Other Information 70 Create a New Bookmark 71 Bookmark with Google Chrome 71 Bookmark with Microsoft Edge 71 Bookmark with Apple Safari 72 Access Your Bookmarks 73 Expanding Your Web Browser’s Functionality Using Optional Plug-Ins 75 How to Find, Download, and Install Plug-Ins 76 Learning the Benefits of Using a Virtual Private Network or Two-Factor Authentication 77 Using Apps on Your Mobile Device to Better Handle Many Online Activities 79 Chapter 3 Protect Your Security When Working with Emails 83 Email Options 83 Determining Where Email Vulnerabilities Can Happen 85 Preventing Unauthorized Physical Access to Your Computer or Mobile Device 85 Protecting Your Computer Against Viruses and Malware 86 Maintaining an Up-to-Date and Reliable Backup 87 Create a Backup Using a Windows 10 PC 88 Create a Backup Using MacOS’s Time Machine Feature 92 Choosing Additional Online Backup Solutions 95 Protecting Email Content as It’s Moving 96 Avoiding Phishing Schemes and Spam 96 Adjusting the Security and Privacy Features When Using Mail 99 Use the Email Security Features Built in to Mail for Windows 10 PCs 99 Use the Junk Mail Settings in Mail for the Mac 101 Use the Email Security Settings for Gmail 102 Use the Email Security Settings for Yahoo! Mail 109 Identifying and Avoiding Phishing Schemes 112 Dealing with a Phishing Scheme Email 115 Calling a Legitimate Phone Number for a Bank or Credit Card Issuer 116 Identifying Phishing Scheme Email Messages 117 Avoiding Email Security Problems Related to Human Error 119 Chapter 4 Handling Online Banking Tasks Securely 123 Sending or Receiving Money Electronically 126 Addressing Online or Mobile Banking Security Concerns 127 Protecting Your Online Accounts 127 Creating a Secure Password and Keeping It a Secret 127 Changing Your Password Periodically 128 Using a Credit Card, not a Debit Card, to Make Online Purchases 128 Using Electronic Payments at Retail Locations or Online 128 Setting Up and Using Apple Pay 130 Set Up Apple Pay to Work with Your iPhone 131 Make a Purchase Using Apple Pay, Google Pay, or Samsung Pay 137 Using a Virtual Private Network for Online Banking via Wi-Fi 139 Download and Install a VPN to Your Computer 141 Download and Install a VPN to Your Mobile Device 147 Being Aware of Banking-Related Phishing Schemes 152 Signing Off from Your Online Banking Service When You’re Finished 153 Reporting a Suspected Problem Immediately 153 Turning On Two-Factor Authentication for Your Online Accounts 154 Turn On Two-Factor Authentication for Your Bank’s Website 154 Managing Credit Card Accounts Online 157 Chapter 5 Protect Your Privacy and Security When Shopping Online 159 Avoiding Online Shopping Security Risks 161 Being Aware of Fake Websites 162 Paying Attention to Product Descriptions 163 Watching Out for Counterfeit Goods 164 Ignoring Requests for Too Much Personal Information 166 Being Careful What You Sign Up For 166 Understanding Ratings and Reviews 168 Permitting Cookies When Shopping Online 169 Verifying the Return Policy 170 Looking for Free Shipping Offers 170 Ensuring a Secure Internet Connection 172 Comparing Prices on Websites 173 Use a Price Comparison Website from a Computer 174 Use a Price Comparison Website from a Mobile App 177 Taking Advantage of Electronic Payment Options for Added Security 178 Use PayPal to Pay for Online Purchases 180 Chapter 6 Use Social Media Safely 185 Your Information on Social Media Is Typically Public 185 Becoming Active on Social Media 187 Socializing (and More) on Facebook 188 Discerning Fake News from Real News 189 Addressing Privacy Concerns on Facebook 191 Getting Started Using and Staying Secure on Facebook 194 Set Up a Free Facebook Account 195 Create Your Public Facebook Profile 198 Adjust Your Account’s Privacy and Security Settings 204 Customize Face Recognition 207 Adjust Facebook’s Advertising-Related Settings 209 Adding Friends to Your Facebook Account 213 Manage Your Facebook Friends 214 Delete Your Facebook Account 215 Staying Safe on Twitter and Instagram 217 Adjusting Twitter and Instagram Privacy and Security Settings 218 Customize Twitter’s Settings 219 Customize Instagram’s Settings 224 Understanding What You’re Posting and Who Will See It 227 Using LinkedIn and Other Social Media Services Securely 227 Thinking Before You Post 228 Understanding the Pros and Cons of Geotagging 229 Turn Off Geotagging from Your iPhone/iPad 230 Turn Off Geotagging from Your Android-Based Mobile Device 233 Turn Off Geotagging on a Case-by-Case Basis 236 Weighing the Pros and Cons of Tagging Yourself and Others in Photos 237 Chapter 7 Protect Your Privacy When Publishing and Sharing Photos Online 241 Organizing Your Digital Image Library Can Take Time 244 Storing, Editing, Organizing, and Sharing Your Digital Images via the Cloud 247 Using Platform-Related Cloud Photo Storage and Sharing Options 247 Using Third-Party Cloud Photo Storage and Sharing Options 250 Use Shutterfly’s Share Sites Feature 251 Choosing a Cloud-Based Photo Storage and Sharing Service 253 Sharing Photos via Social Media 255 Uploading a Photo to Your Instagram Account 257 Create a Personalized Online Album on Facebook 264 Chapter 8 Safely Store Data, Documents, and Files in the Cloud 277 Benefits of Using Cloud Storage 278 Understanding Important Cloud Computing Concepts 280 Configuring Cloud-Based Services 282 Set Up OneDrive Functionality on Your Windows PCs 283 Set Up iCloud Functionality on Your Macs 286 Sharing Content with Others from iCloud Drive 289 Using iCloud with Other MacOS Apps 289 Using a Cross-Platform Cloud-Based Service 294 Sharing Large Files Using Dropbox 295 Perform a Dropbox Security Checkup 299 Using Cloud-Based File Sharing Services Safely 301 Chapter 9 Customize the Security Settings on Your Smartphone or Tablet 307 Preventing Unauthorized People from Using Your Mobile Device 308 Setting Up the Passcode Feature 310 Set the Passcode (iPhone or iPad) 311 Set the PIN (Android) 313 Turning On the Touch ID (iOS) or Finger Scanner (Android) 316 Activating Touch ID (iPhone or iPad) 316 Activating Fingerprint Scan (Android) 316 Taking Advantage of Face ID (iOS) 317 Restricting Access to Apps and Content 318 Taking Advantage of Parental Controls 318 Adjusting the App-Specific Privacy Settings on Your Mobile Device 319 Keeping Your Mobile Device’s Operating System and Apps Up to Date 322 Updating Your iPhone or iPad’s Operating System and Apps 322 Updating Your Android Mobile Device Operating System and Apps 324 Managing Your Mobile Device’s Wireless Connections 325 Turning On Bluetooth Settings 327 Using AirDrop (iPhone/iPad) 329 Send App-Specific Content Using AirDrop 330 Blocking and Managing Unwanted Calls to Your Smartphone 333 Block Specific Incoming Calls on Your iPhone 335 Block Specific Incoming Calls on an Android Smartphone 337 Glossary 339Index 345Bonus Online Chapters Bonus 1 How Web Surfing Affects the Online Ads You See (ONLINE) Bonus 2 Work with Smart Appliances, Smart Speakers, and Home Security Tools (ONLINE) Bonus 3 Protect Your Kids and Grandchildren Online (ONLINE)

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Book SynopsisBorn into a digital wonderland, our children are practically mini hackers right from the crib! Most of them were handed a device before they could walk, they clicked before they took their first bite and scrolled before they said their first words. But living online is a giant uncontrolled experiment. Cyberbullying, Internet addiction, body dysmorphia and other digital villains lurk in the shadows. How can parents ensure their kids navigate the digital world safely when there's no rulebook? Neha J Hiranandani's iParent comes to the rescue! This book decodes India's app generation and elevates the discussion beyond these kids and their phones!' Based on research, candid conversations and personal reflection, this timely book is a witty meditation on parenting in a digital world. Hilarious and informative in equal measure.

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Book Synopsis''A must-read to anyone interested in the digital world.'' - Valérie Schafer, Center for Contemporary and Digital History, University of LuxembourgA concise history of the digital revolution and the lore, rhetoric, and debates that surround it.The Digital Revolution aims to tell a story, one of the most powerful ideologies of recent decades: that digitalization constitutes a revolution, a break with the past, a radical change for the human beings who are living through it. The book aims to investigate the origins of this idea, how it evolved, which other past revolutions consciously or unconsciously inspired it, which great stories it has conveyed over time, which of its key elements have changed and which ones have persisted and have been repeated in different historical periods. All these discussions, large or small, have settled and condensed into a series of media, advertising, corporate, political, and technical sources. Readers will be introduced to new, previously unpublished hiTrade ReviewOffers timely insight into a timeless preoccupation with the digital age. * Benjamin Peters, Hazel Rogers Associate Professor of Media Studies and affiliated faculty Cyber Studies, University of Tulsa *Gabriele Balbi delves into a notion whose history, actors and developments shape our digital imaginaries and practices, as well as our relationship with technology, media and innovation. A must-read to anyone interested in the digital world. * Valérie Schafer, Center for Contemporary and Digital History, University of Luxembourg *This short book is both topical and timely. * Jane Winters, Professor of Digital Humanities, School of Advanced Study, University of London *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Understanding the Digital Revolution as an Ideology 1: Defining the Revolution: Blessed Uncertainty 2: Comparing the Revolution: Past Inheritance, Present Construction 3: Thinking About the Revolution: The Mantras 4: Believing in the Revolution: A Contemporary Quasi-Religion Conclusion: Who Needs the Digital Revolution and Why Does it Keep Going?

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Book SynopsisThe book seeks to empower the reader to shape their own and other people's experiences by considering the multisensory worlds in which we live. This book is a powerful and personal story about the authors' passion for, and viewpoint on, multisensory experiences.

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Book SynopsisIn Always On, Naomi S. Baron reveals that online and mobile technologies-including instant messaging, cell phones, multitasking, Facebooks, blogs, and wikis - are profoundly influencing how we read and write, speak and listen, but not in the ways we might suppose. Baron draws on a decade of research to provide an eye-opening look at language in an online and mobile world. She reveals for instance that email, IM, and text messaging have had surprisingly little impact on student writing. Electronic media has magnified the laid-back whatever attitude toward formal writing that young people everywhere have embraced, but it is not a cause of it. A more troubling trend, according to Baron, is the myriad ways in which we block incoming IMs, camouflage ourselves on Facebook, and use ring tones or caller ID to screen incoming calls on our mobile phones. Our ability to decide who to talk to, she argues, is likely to be among the most lasting influences that information technology has upon the waTrade ReviewNaomi Baron artfully combines historical surveys, research summaries, and findings of her own to give us a comprehensive, insightful, and thoughtful handbook for understanding electronic communication-what it is, how it works, and how it's changing our lives and our interpersonal relationships. * Deborah Tannen, Georgetown University, author of You Just Don't Understand and You're Wearing That? Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation *Table of ContentsPREFACE

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Book SynopsisAn optimistic and nuanced portrait of a generation that has much to teach us about how to live and collaborate in our digital world.Trade Review"This extraordinarily rich and empathetic account of Gen Z offers a groundbreaking understanding of this generation's habits and motivations without reducing them to the sum of their posts and tweets. This work excels in unpacking the subtle ways that identity formation and presentation of self are seamlessly interwoven with digital communication for zoomers. Parents, teachers, and anyone who cares about our future as a society should read this deeply informed contribution to the research on Gen Z."--Devorah Heitner, author of Screenwise: Helping Kids Thrive and Survive in Their Digital WorldTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Technology Shapes Postmillennial Life Chapter 2: Fine-Grained Identity Chapter 3: Being Authentic Chapter 4: Finding My Fam Chapter 5: OK Boomer Chapter 6: The Difficulty of Being a Gen Zer Chapter 7: Conclusion: The Art of Living in a Digital Age Acknowledgments Methodological Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Lively and pithy, suitable for students. . . . Engaging, insightful, and useful.” * American Biology Teacher *"Fortunately, a new book from two leading academics has arrived to help arm us against the flood of deliberate attempts to sow distrust and separate us from our own senses of what’s real and not.” * Chicago Tribune *“A much-anticipated book by two leading experts of the field, Verified goes beyond defining the problem and offers readers clear advice on how to navigate a world of spin, trolls, and lies. Wonderful to see this guide published!” -- Maria Ressa, winner of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for work to safeguard freedom of expression“Verified is the book and mindset that society needs right now. This is, of course, assuming that you want society to survive." -- Guy Kawasaki, Host of "Remarkable People and author of The Art of the Start“As the value of information literacy becomes increasingly clear, Verified offers timely, research-based solutions to the ever-present and elusive problem of misinformation run amok.” -- Daniel Willingham, Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia, author of Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning is Hard and How You Can Make it Easy"Verified is a sorely needed intervention into today’s chaotic, often deceitful, information environment of influencers, ChatGPT, deepfakes, viral videos, and distrust. Offering ways to combat the mindset of knee-jerk cynicism, it responds to a world in which political power, not truth seeking, has too often become the ultimate arbiter of truth. Verified will be a treasured resource for debunking internet disinformation to instructors, students, and for you (to hand to parents and skeptics)." -- André Brock, author of Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures“An indispensable guide for students and citizens of all ages and backgrounds.” -- Francis Fukuyama, Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford University, and author of The End of History and the Last Man and Liberalism and its Discontents“This book should be required reading for students, journalists, content creators, and anyone else who regularly consumes and shares information (i.e. pretty much everyone). Rich with actionable guidance and real-world examples, Verified helps readers learn the skills to stay out of the weeds of online misinformation and find the best available evidence for any claim. I’m so grateful to Caulfield and Wineburg for creating this resource.” -- Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, author of The Wellness Trap“Verified offers an ethos that can help all of us understand and confidently use what we find online. This book belongs in every backpack, classroom, library, workplace, and home.” -- Phillip Jones, Grinnell College Libraries“Verified does more than preach against the dangers of misinformation and online mischief, it provides clear, focused strategies for navigating and researching online that should become part of every literate person’s repertoire of skills. Every educator whose students touch the web—which is to say all of us—needs this book.” -- Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, Executive Director, National Writing Project“Verified is a lifeline. With research-verified and surprisingly simple techniques, the authors show us, step-by-step, how to sift the real, useful, true information from the tsunami of online bogosity. Read it, give it to parents and their high school-age children, give it as high school graduation gifts, and please teach it at colleges and universities.” -- Howard Rheingold, internet futurist and author of "Net Smart: How to Thrive Online"“Anyone who wants to avoid being duped by all the fake news, distorted videos, and stealth ads that populate today's online universe needs this book. Verified offers a multitude of user-friendly tools for navigating our digital new world in which we cannot always trust the seemingly trustworthy sources we encounter.” -- Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein, authors of "They Say, I Say" “The internet accelerated the spread of misinformation but has also given us veritable superpowers for vetting the information that we encounter. This is the genius of Caulfield and Wineburg’s approach. We don’t have to be passive dupes of online misinformation. We can use the wonders of an online world to become better information consumers than ever before.” -- Carl Bergstrom, coauthor, Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World “Caulfield and Wineburg have gone remarkably deep into how our children—and all the rest of us in America—think and learn. At the moment we are losing the battle against ignorance and misplaced assumptions, but this wonderfully written book could save us. Among many wise pieces of advice, they recommend we not only be critical thinkers, but savvy critical IGNORERS. That means learning how to detect crappy sources of information quickly and efficiently. We all need to read this.” -- Jay Mathews, education journalist“Under a deluge of disinformation and conspiracism, our modern world faces an epistemological crisis— an inability to parse reality from fiction, truth from lies. Verified offers readers the invaluable tools they need to navigate the flood; to regain clarity and attachment to the real world of facts, logic, and reason; and to restore the foundations of democratic discourse. It's essential reading for our chaotic times.” -- David Neiwert, author of The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Democracy“With humor, clarity, and real-world examples, the authors illustrate both simple and nuanced strategies for making sense of an increasingly complex digital realm. Students, everyday citizens, and educators at all levels will find their varied examples relevant and applicable.” -- Andrea Baer and Daniel Kipnis, Librarians at Rowan University“As the value of information literacy becomes increasingly clear to society at large, Verified offers timely, research-based solutions to the ever-present and often elusive problem of misinformation run amok.” -- Rob Detmering and Amber Willenborg, University of Louisville“Verified will help librarians, students, and anyone else move beyond well-meaning but oversimplified checklists to be better at sifting the wheat from the chaff when looking for good information online.” -- Brad Sietz, Director LOEXTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Get Quick Context: It Can Take as Little as Thirty Seconds—Seriously! The Three Contexts “Do I Know What I’m Looking At?” Introducing SIFT Stop! (Or, How to Fail at Source-Checking Even If You’re the New York Times) Investigate the Source Find Better Coverage Trace Claims, Quotes, and Media to Their Original Context Takeaways 2 Cheap Signals: Or, How Not to Get Duped Easily Fakeable Questions Gameable Signals of Credibility First Impressions Matter . . . Except When They Don’t URLs Matter . . . Except When They Don’t What about Dot-Coms? Going Deeper: The “Org” of Dot-Org Is Big Business Nonprofit Status: “Nearly Anything Goes” Numbers That Bamboozle Links That Lead Astray Takeaways 3 Google: The Bestie You Thought You Knew Interpreting and Mining Search Results Why Seeing on the Internet Isn’t Believing Decoding Google’s Knowledge Panel Different Sources, Different Purposes Going Deeper: What Arsonist Birds Teach Us about Different Sources When Featured Snippets Get It Wrong Going Deeper: Google’s Three Vertical Dots Are a Great Hack for Lateral Reading Keywords and Inferred Intent: How to Think like Your Search Engine Keywords: The Underlying Architecture of Search Inferred Intent: Providing Google with a “Tell” Google Is a Mirror Reflecting Back What You Give It A Search Engine, Not a “Truth Engine” Takeaways 4 Lateral Reading: Using the Web to Read the Web Get off the Page! Lateral Reading: Checking Information like a Fact-Checker Why Lateral Reading Works Little Shift, Big Payoff Lateral Reading Puts You in Control Avoid Promiscuous Clicking: Practice Click Restraint The “Vibe” of the Search Engine Results Page Takeaways 5 Reading the Room: Benefiting from Expertise When You Have Only a Bit Yourself Why You Can’t “Just Do the Math” Reading the Room: Quick Assessment of a Range of Expert Views Going Deeper: Why We Call This “Reading the Room” Trust Compression, or How to Avoid Info-Cynicism Reading the Room on the Mask Issue The Perils of the Single Academic Contrarian Going Deeper: What Makes a Good Summary Source? Takeaways 6 Show Me the Evidence: Why Scholarly Sources Are Better than Promotional Materials, Newsletters, and Random Tweets What’s Peer Review? Peer Review: “The Worst Way to Judge Research, Except for All the Others” The Problem of the Single Study Literature Reviews: A Bird’s-Eye View of Multiple Studies Going Deeper: Journals That Prey on Unsuspecting Victims Real History, Fake History: How to Tell the Difference Using Google Scholar to Find Scholarly Sources The Vibe of Google Scholar’s Results Page Using Google Scholar as a Quick Reputation Check Takeaways 7 Wikipedia: Not What Your Middle School Teacher Told You What about the Mistakes? Going Deeper: Wikipedia to Britannica: “He That Is without Sin . . .” Anyone Can Change Wikipedia, Can’t They? Isn’t Wikipedia Biased? Wikipedia as a Tool for Research Using Wikipedia to Validate Sources Going Deeper: Quickly Validating a Reference from a Book Using Wikipedia for Quick Checks of Unfamiliar Websites Quick Investigation of a Claim Quick Checks of an Unfamiliar Academic Source Using Wikipedia to “Read the Scholarly Room” Using Wikipedia to Jump-Start Your Research Going Deeper: Deciphering the Hieroglyphics of a Bibliographical Reference The Messiness of Making Knowledge Takeaways 8 Video Games: The Dirty Tricks of Deceptive Video False Context Exploiting “Seeing Is Believing” Going Deeper: Online News Is Often More Credible Than You Think Falsely Implied Date Connect My Dots, or Creating a False Sense of “Research” Deceptively Cropped Video Takeaways 9 Stealth Advertising: When Ads Masquerade as News The Problem: Stealth Advertising Works A Con Is Born Newspapers Become Ad Agencies The Problem in Three Words: Conflict of Interest Disappearing Warning Labels Sponsored Propaganda Half Truths Are Not Whole Truths When Stealth Ads Move to Social Media Going Deeper: How Stealth Ads Lose Their Warning Labels Protecting Yourself in an Age of Slimy Advertising Takeaways 10 Once More with Feeling: Using Your Emotions to Find the Truth Emotion Doesn’t Know the Truth, But It Knows What You Care About Going Deeper: Man versus Machine “Compellingness” Tells Us What’s Important to Check Surprise Is a Sign Our Assumptions Might Be Wrong Why Compellingness and Surprise Beat the Checklist Going Deeper: Mutant Flowers Feeling Overwhelmed? Rethink Your Approach Takeaways 11 Conclusion: Critical Ignoring Postscript: Large Language Models, ChatGPT, and the Future of Verification Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This study provides penetrating insight into how American and UK youth see the world—through their own words. By building 'appreciation for the challenges they [Gen Zers] face,' the volume encourages older readers to recognize the strengths of their progeny, particularly to appreciate the importance of navigating an increasingly digital world. No other book available brings readers into more intimate contact with Gen Z . For this reason alone it warrants a careful read." * Arts Fuse *“A textured and rich account. . . . Drawing on the notion that ‘generation’ reflects a shared experience and attitude, not simply shared birth dates, the authors argue that Generation Z is unique and significant, as it is the first generation to have always known the internet: ‘only knowing the world with the possibility of endless information and infinite connectivity of the digital age.’ This has greatly affected how Generation Z see their lives and values, bound together by a strong sense of connections and collaboration, and can be, the authors suggest, an example to older generations of how to live.” * Church Times *"Paints an optimistic portrait of a much misunderstood generation that has never known a world without the internet." * Observer *"In Gen Z, Explained: The Art of Living in a Digital Age, university professors Katz, Ogilvie, Shaw, and Woodhead (hereafter KOS&W) try to understand the digital medium by studying the first generation—mine—never to know life without the internet." * First Things *"Katz et al point out that Gen Zers have had to navigate the new online reality without the guidance of their elders, and have created rich and hard-to-penetrate subcultures. What they mostly like to do, the book argues, is to collaborate in leaderless groups. They use digital tools to create shared documents, sync their calendars, write and read fan fiction, play games together. They use apps to organize lift-sharing, couch-surfing and political activism." * London Review of Books *“This extraordinarily rich and empathetic account of Gen Z offers a groundbreaking understanding of this generation’s habits and motivations without reducing them to the sum of their posts and tweets. This work excels in unpacking the subtle ways that identity formation and presentation of self are seamlessly interwoven with digital communication for Zoomers. Parents, teachers, and anyone who cares about our future as a society should read this deeply informed contribution to the research on Gen Z.” -- Devorah Heitner, author of Screenwise: Helping Kids Thrive and Survive in Their Digital World“This book is [fire emoji] (an intimate and indispensable guide to the identities and belonging of postmillennials—and some surprising lessons for all of us). -- Richard A. Settersten, Jr., author of Living on the Edge: An American Generation’s Journey Through the Twentieth CenturyTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Technology Shapes Postmillennial Life Chapter 2: Fine-Grained Identity Chapter 3: Being Authentic Chapter 4: Finding My Fam Chapter 5: OK Boomer Chapter 6: The Difficulty of Being a Gen Zer Chapter 7: Conclusion: The Art of Living in a Digital Age Acknowledgments Methodological Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Lively and pithy, suitable for students. . . . Engaging, insightful, and useful.” * American Biology Teacher *"Fortunately, a new book from two leading academics has arrived to help arm us against the flood of deliberate attempts to sow distrust and separate us from our own senses of what’s real and not.” * Chicago Tribune *“A much-anticipated book by two leading experts of the field, Verified goes beyond defining the problem and offers readers clear advice on how to navigate a world of spin, trolls, and lies. Wonderful to see this guide published!” -- Maria Ressa, winner of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for work to safeguard freedom of expression“Verified is the book and mindset that society needs right now. This is, of course, assuming that you want society to survive." -- Guy Kawasaki, Host of "Remarkable People and author of The Art of the Start“As the value of information literacy becomes increasingly clear, Verified offers timely, research-based solutions to the ever-present and elusive problem of misinformation run amok.” -- Daniel Willingham, Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia, author of Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning is Hard and How You Can Make it Easy"Verified is a sorely needed intervention into today’s chaotic, often deceitful, information environment of influencers, ChatGPT, deepfakes, viral videos, and distrust. Offering ways to combat the mindset of knee-jerk cynicism, it responds to a world in which political power, not truth seeking, has too often become the ultimate arbiter of truth. Verified will be a treasured resource for debunking internet disinformation to instructors, students, and for you (to hand to parents and skeptics)." -- André Brock, author of Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures“An indispensable guide for students and citizens of all ages and backgrounds.” -- Francis Fukuyama, Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford University, and author of The End of History and the Last Man and Liberalism and its Discontents“This book should be required reading for students, journalists, content creators, and anyone else who regularly consumes and shares information (i.e. pretty much everyone). Rich with actionable guidance and real-world examples, Verified helps readers learn the skills to stay out of the weeds of online misinformation and find the best available evidence for any claim. I’m so grateful to Caulfield and Wineburg for creating this resource.” -- Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, author of The Wellness Trap“Verified offers an ethos that can help all of us understand and confidently use what we find online. This book belongs in every backpack, classroom, library, workplace, and home.” -- Phillip Jones, Grinnell College Libraries“Verified does more than preach against the dangers of misinformation and online mischief, it provides clear, focused strategies for navigating and researching online that should become part of every literate person’s repertoire of skills. Every educator whose students touch the web—which is to say all of us—needs this book.” -- Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, Executive Director, National Writing Project“Verified is a lifeline. With research-verified and surprisingly simple techniques, the authors show us, step-by-step, how to sift the real, useful, true information from the tsunami of online bogosity. Read it, give it to parents and their high school-age children, give it as high school graduation gifts, and please teach it at colleges and universities.” -- Howard Rheingold, internet futurist and author of "Net Smart: How to Thrive Online"“Anyone who wants to avoid being duped by all the fake news, distorted videos, and stealth ads that populate today's online universe needs this book. Verified offers a multitude of user-friendly tools for navigating our digital new world in which we cannot always trust the seemingly trustworthy sources we encounter.” -- Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein, authors of "They Say, I Say" “The internet accelerated the spread of misinformation but has also given us veritable superpowers for vetting the information that we encounter. This is the genius of Caulfield and Wineburg’s approach. We don’t have to be passive dupes of online misinformation. We can use the wonders of an online world to become better information consumers than ever before.” -- Carl Bergstrom, coauthor, Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World “Caulfield and Wineburg have gone remarkably deep into how our children—and all the rest of us in America—think and learn. At the moment we are losing the battle against ignorance and misplaced assumptions, but this wonderfully written book could save us. Among many wise pieces of advice, they recommend we not only be critical thinkers, but savvy critical IGNORERS. That means learning how to detect crappy sources of information quickly and efficiently. We all need to read this.” -- Jay Mathews, education journalist“Under a deluge of disinformation and conspiracism, our modern world faces an epistemological crisis— an inability to parse reality from fiction, truth from lies. Verified offers readers the invaluable tools they need to navigate the flood; to regain clarity and attachment to the real world of facts, logic, and reason; and to restore the foundations of democratic discourse. It's essential reading for our chaotic times.” -- David Neiwert, author of The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Democracy“With humor, clarity, and real-world examples, the authors illustrate both simple and nuanced strategies for making sense of an increasingly complex digital realm. Students, everyday citizens, and educators at all levels will find their varied examples relevant and applicable.” -- Andrea Baer and Daniel Kipnis, Librarians at Rowan University“As the value of information literacy becomes increasingly clear to society at large, Verified offers timely, research-based solutions to the ever-present and often elusive problem of misinformation run amok.” -- Rob Detmering and Amber Willenborg, University of Louisville“Verified will help librarians, students, and anyone else move beyond well-meaning but oversimplified checklists to be better at sifting the wheat from the chaff when looking for good information online.” -- Brad Sietz, Director LOEXTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Get Quick Context: It Can Take as Little as Thirty Seconds—Seriously! The Three Contexts “Do I Know What I’m Looking At?” Introducing SIFT Stop! (Or, How to Fail at Source-Checking Even If You’re the New York Times) Investigate the Source Find Better Coverage Trace Claims, Quotes, and Media to Their Original Context Takeaways 2 Cheap Signals: Or, How Not to Get Duped Easily Fakeable Questions Gameable Signals of Credibility First Impressions Matter . . . Except When They Don’t URLs Matter . . . Except When They Don’t What about Dot-Coms? Going Deeper: The “Org” of Dot-Org Is Big Business Nonprofit Status: “Nearly Anything Goes” Numbers That Bamboozle Links That Lead Astray Takeaways 3 Google: The Bestie You Thought You Knew Interpreting and Mining Search Results Why Seeing on the Internet Isn’t Believing Decoding Google’s Knowledge Panel Different Sources, Different Purposes Going Deeper: What Arsonist Birds Teach Us about Different Sources When Featured Snippets Get It Wrong Going Deeper: Google’s Three Vertical Dots Are a Great Hack for Lateral Reading Keywords and Inferred Intent: How to Think like Your Search Engine Keywords: The Underlying Architecture of Search Inferred Intent: Providing Google with a “Tell” Google Is a Mirror Reflecting Back What You Give It A Search Engine, Not a “Truth Engine” Takeaways 4 Lateral Reading: Using the Web to Read the Web Get off the Page! Lateral Reading: Checking Information like a Fact-Checker Why Lateral Reading Works Little Shift, Big Payoff Lateral Reading Puts You in Control Avoid Promiscuous Clicking: Practice Click Restraint The “Vibe” of the Search Engine Results Page Takeaways 5 Reading the Room: Benefiting from Expertise When You Have Only a Bit Yourself Why You Can’t “Just Do the Math” Reading the Room: Quick Assessment of a Range of Expert Views Going Deeper: Why We Call This “Reading the Room” Trust Compression, or How to Avoid Info-Cynicism Reading the Room on the Mask Issue The Perils of the Single Academic Contrarian Going Deeper: What Makes a Good Summary Source? Takeaways 6 Show Me the Evidence: Why Scholarly Sources Are Better than Promotional Materials, Newsletters, and Random Tweets What’s Peer Review? Peer Review: “The Worst Way to Judge Research, Except for All the Others” The Problem of the Single Study Literature Reviews: A Bird’s-Eye View of Multiple Studies Going Deeper: Journals That Prey on Unsuspecting Victims Real History, Fake History: How to Tell the Difference Using Google Scholar to Find Scholarly Sources The Vibe of Google Scholar’s Results Page Using Google Scholar as a Quick Reputation Check Takeaways 7 Wikipedia: Not What Your Middle School Teacher Told You What about the Mistakes? Going Deeper: Wikipedia to Britannica: “He That Is without Sin . . .” Anyone Can Change Wikipedia, Can’t They? Isn’t Wikipedia Biased? Wikipedia as a Tool for Research Using Wikipedia to Validate Sources Going Deeper: Quickly Validating a Reference from a Book Using Wikipedia for Quick Checks of Unfamiliar Websites Quick Investigation of a Claim Quick Checks of an Unfamiliar Academic Source Using Wikipedia to “Read the Scholarly Room” Using Wikipedia to Jump-Start Your Research Going Deeper: Deciphering the Hieroglyphics of a Bibliographical Reference The Messiness of Making Knowledge Takeaways 8 Video Games: The Dirty Tricks of Deceptive Video False Context Exploiting “Seeing Is Believing” Going Deeper: Online News Is Often More Credible Than You Think Falsely Implied Date Connect My Dots, or Creating a False Sense of “Research” Deceptively Cropped Video Takeaways 9 Stealth Advertising: When Ads Masquerade as News The Problem: Stealth Advertising Works A Con Is Born Newspapers Become Ad Agencies The Problem in Three Words: Conflict of Interest Disappearing Warning Labels Sponsored Propaganda Half Truths Are Not Whole Truths When Stealth Ads Move to Social Media Going Deeper: How Stealth Ads Lose Their Warning Labels Protecting Yourself in an Age of Slimy Advertising Takeaways 10 Once More with Feeling: Using Your Emotions to Find the Truth Emotion Doesn’t Know the Truth, But It Knows What You Care About Going Deeper: Man versus Machine “Compellingness” Tells Us What’s Important to Check Surprise Is a Sign Our Assumptions Might Be Wrong Why Compellingness and Surprise Beat the Checklist Going Deeper: Mutant Flowers Feeling Overwhelmed? Rethink Your Approach Takeaways 11 Conclusion: Critical Ignoring Postscript: Large Language Models, ChatGPT, and the Future of Verification Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisJessica Pressman explores the rise of “bookishness” as an identity and an aesthetic strategy that proliferates from store-window décor to experimental writing. Ranging from literature to kitsch objects, stop-motion animation films to book design, she considers the multivalent meanings of books in contemporary culture.Trade ReviewFizzing with ideas and sparkling with finds, this analysis of the digital age’s love affair with print shows Pressman’s keen eye for the paradoxes of contemporary cultural practices. -- Leah Price, author of What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of ReadingJessica Pressman’s great strength lies in her wonderful touch for the material. Her expansive command of exemplars runs the gamut from the high literary to cultural kitsch. Bookishness offers that rare and enviable combination of fascinating source material and an easily transportable take-away—the title term itself, which is sure to become widely adopted and relied upon. -- Matthew Kirschenbaum, author of Track Changes: A Literary History of Word ProcessingJessica Pressman has written an eloquent book on our attempts, at once kitschy and inspired, to maintain a sense of attachment to reading during the book's twilight. A profound reminder of the continued hold books have on our imaginations. -- Andrew Piper, author of Book Was There: Reading in Electronic TimesUltimately, both hobbyist and scholar will take bookishness seriously after reading Bookishness by Jessica Pressman. * Society for U.S. Intellectual History blog *A brainy exploration of what it means to be a book lover in the 21st century. * Everything Zoomer *Understanding how our relationship with words has changed, and recognising bookishness as a way of navigating this shift, is what Pressman’s clear-sighted study brings to light. * Money Control *Pressman absorbs academic debate into her sometimes heartfelt prose, and treads the line between readability and rigour with ease. If Bookishness articulates a democratic world where ‘books’ are enjoyed by a demographic of ‘readers’ more broadly conceived, then this book performs that aspirational inclusivity. * The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *A delight to read. * Choice Reviews *Bookishness is a trenchant, original exploration of a widespread contemporary phenomenon. Situated at the intersection of literary studies, media studies and book history, it innovatively combines analyses of literary fiction and material culture. * Publishing Research Quarterly *A quick, timely, provocative read that—as with the command "Don’t think of pink elephants"—readers won’t be able to walk away from seeing the world the way they did going in. It opens a field of inquiry that stretches to the far corners of culture. “Look there,” one wants to say, pointing at another example of bookishness. And there. And there! Bookishness makes one want to make such lists and then shout—er, write down on paper—The book is dead, long live the book! * The Rumpus *Bookishness will likely be of interest to technical communicators interested in literature and books broadly, and those concerned with how physical and digital mediums interact in our contemporary world. * Technical Communication *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. How and Now Bookishness2. Shelter3. Thing4. Fake5. Weapon6. MemorialCodaNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisJessica Pressman explores the rise of “bookishness” as an identity and an aesthetic strategy that proliferates from store-window décor to experimental writing. Ranging from literature to kitsch objects, stop-motion animation films to book design, she considers the multivalent meanings of books in contemporary culture.Trade ReviewFizzing with ideas and sparkling with finds, this analysis of the digital age’s love affair with print shows Pressman’s keen eye for the paradoxes of contemporary cultural practices. -- Leah Price, author of What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of ReadingJessica Pressman’s great strength lies in her wonderful touch for the material. Her expansive command of exemplars runs the gamut from the high literary to cultural kitsch. Bookishness offers that rare and enviable combination of fascinating source material and an easily transportable take-away—the title term itself, which is sure to become widely adopted and relied upon. -- Matthew Kirschenbaum, author of Track Changes: A Literary History of Word ProcessingJessica Pressman has written an eloquent book on our attempts, at once kitschy and inspired, to maintain a sense of attachment to reading during the book's twilight. A profound reminder of the continued hold books have on our imaginations. -- Andrew Piper, author of Book Was There: Reading in Electronic TimesUltimately, both hobbyist and scholar will take bookishness seriously after reading Bookishness by Jessica Pressman. * Society for U.S. Intellectual History blog *A brainy exploration of what it means to be a book lover in the 21st century. * Everything Zoomer *Understanding how our relationship with words has changed, and recognising bookishness as a way of navigating this shift, is what Pressman’s clear-sighted study brings to light. * Money Control *Pressman absorbs academic debate into her sometimes heartfelt prose, and treads the line between readability and rigour with ease. If Bookishness articulates a democratic world where ‘books’ are enjoyed by a demographic of ‘readers’ more broadly conceived, then this book performs that aspirational inclusivity. * The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *A delight to read. * Choice Reviews *Bookishness is a trenchant, original exploration of a widespread contemporary phenomenon. Situated at the intersection of literary studies, media studies and book history, it innovatively combines analyses of literary fiction and material culture. * Publishing Research Quarterly *A quick, timely, provocative read that—as with the command "Don’t think of pink elephants"—readers won’t be able to walk away from seeing the world the way they did going in. It opens a field of inquiry that stretches to the far corners of culture. “Look there,” one wants to say, pointing at another example of bookishness. And there. And there! Bookishness makes one want to make such lists and then shout—er, write down on paper—The book is dead, long live the book! * The Rumpus *Bookishness will likely be of interest to technical communicators interested in literature and books broadly, and those concerned with how physical and digital mediums interact in our contemporary world. * Technical Communication *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. How and Now Bookishness2. Shelter3. Thing4. Fake5. Weapon6. MemorialCodaNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe bestselling business classic on the power of relationships, updated with in-depth advice for making connections in the digital world ''Don''t walk . . . RUN to your closest bookstore. The most extraordinary and valuable book I''ve come across in a long, long time'' Tom PetersDo you want to get ahead in life? Climb the ladder to success? Master networker Keith Ferrazzi says the secret is in reaching out to others. As he discovered early in life, what distinguishes highly successful people is the way they use the power of relationships - so that everyone wins. Never Eat Alone: Expanded and Updated lays out the steps and mindset Ferrazzi uses to connect with thousands of colleagues, friends, and associates: people he has helped and who have helped him. This form of connecting to the world is based on generosity; Ferrazzi distinguishes genuine relationship-building from crude glad-handing. These practical, proven princi

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Book SynopsisLearn how to switch off and find calm - from the New York Times bestselling author of A World Without Email ''Digital Minimalism is the Marie Kondo of technology'' Evening Standard ''An eloquent, powerful and enjoyably practical guide to cutting back on screen time'' The Times ''An urgent call to action for anyone serious about being in command of their own life'' Ryan Holiday ''What a timely and useful book'' Naomi Alderman, author of The Power Do you find yourself endlessly scrolling through social media or the news while your anxiety rises? Are you feeling frazzled after a long day of endless video calls? In this timely book, professor Cal Newport shows us how to pair back digital distractions and live a more meaningful life with less technology. By following a ''digital declutter'' process, you''ll learn to: Rethink your relationship with social media Prioritize ''high bandwidth'' conversations over low quality text chains Rediscover the pleasures of the offline world Take back control from your devices and find calm amongst the chaos with Digital Minimalism. Trade ReviewA compelling case for cultivating intense focus, and offers immediately actionable steps for infusing more of it into our lives * Adam Grant, author of Originals on Deep Work *A wonderfully entangled, intertwined, and erudite series of strategies, philosophies, disciplines, and techniques to sharpen your focus and dive deep into your work * 800-CEO-READ on Deep Work *As a presence on the page, Newport is exceptional in the realm of self-help authors * New York Times Book Review *Cal Newport speaks human truth to digital power. He calls out our enslavement to modern devices and calmly presents a better way to live and work * author of Fully Connected *This book is an urgent call to action for anyone serious about being in command of their own life * author of The Obstacle is the Way *Cal Newport has discovered a cure for the techno-exhaustion that plagues our always-on, digitally caffeinated culture * The Minimalists *Cal Newport's Digital Minimalism is the best book I've read in some time about our fraught relationship with technology. If you're looking for a blueprint to guide you as you liberate yourself from the shackles of email, social networks, smartphones, and screens, let this book be your guide * author of Irresistible *You're not the user, you're the product. Hang up, log off, and tune in to a different way to be in the world. Bravo, Cal, smart advice for good people * author of This is Marketing *I hope that everyone who owns a mobile phone and has been wondering where their time goes gets a chance to absorb the ideas in this book. It's amazing how the same strategy can work for both financial success and mental well-being: Put more energy into what makes you happy, and ruthlessly strip away the things that don't * aka Mr. Money Mustache *I challenge you not to devour this wonderful book in one sitting. I certainly did and I started applying Cal's ideas to my own life immediately * author of Essentialism *Cal Newport's book is a refreshing antidote to the poisonous cycle of what's new? - what's new? that this digital, hyperconnected decade has seduced us into. Building on the economics of Henry David Thoreau, Cal's call for calmer waters, for meaningful and engaged interactions, is just what the world needs right now * author of The Organised Mind *Digital Minimalism is the Marie Kondo of mobile phones * Evening Standard *Willpower, tips, and vague resolutions are not sufficient by themselves to tame the ability of new technologies to invade your cognitive landscape * The New Yorker *What a timely and useful book! It's neither hysterical nor complacent - a workable guide to being thoughtful about digital media. It's already made me rethink some of my media use in a considered way * Naomi Alderman, author of The Power *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"To my knowledge, this is the first monograph solely devoted to social media texts in a Sub-Saharan society. Yéku shows us how digital media performances are in constant dialogue with nondigital popular culture in Nigeria. Most compelling is his attention to the political subtexts of Nigerian social media, while reconstructing a micro-history of the digital world. Nigeria's social media users are politicking online; we learn how the forms and aesthetics of politicking change, thus challenging scholars to be constantly alert to digital innovations and their political potential. Cultural Netizenship is an important addition to the growing library in digital humanities."—Katrien Pype, author of The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama. Religion, Media, and Gender in Kinshasa"In Cultural Netizenship, Nigeria's rambunctious, energetic, and impelling digital culture finds its most enthusiastic and intellectually gifted exponent, and the result is a work of rare penetration, analytic verve, and sumptuous literacy. Yékú's expository power conjures images of the finest espresso- richly concentrated, delicately brewed, and revivifying the remotest corners of the palate. This debut work, a distillation of the finest insights across the length and breadth of the social sciences, sets a new standard for scholarship in African and interdisciplinary studies."—Ebenezer Obadare, author of Humor, Silence, and Civil Society in Nigeria"Through its incisive analysis of digital cultures in Nigeria, Cultural Netizenship offers a groundbreaking model for studying the relationship between digital media and the nation in a range of postcolonial contexts. Scholars and students of new media studies have much to learn from Yékú's innovative, ethnographic approach to social media and popular culture."—Roopika Risam, author of New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities"James Yékú might as well have erected the entire framework of Cultural Netizenship on Brecht's "In the contradiction lies the hope." Surely, you can hardly miss the manner in which the author navigates neural lines of digital thought and the quotidian reality of our circumspective analogue choices within structures of power and agency in Nigeria's pop street vis-à-vis the virtual nudity of capital's hidden hands. The strength of this work is in its walking of the tensions, the tight rope of the dialogic and the dialectical mechanism of social media, popular culture, and performance in Nigeria."—Sola Olorunyomi, author of AFROBEAT! Fela and the Imagined Continent"It is by now a commonplace that Nigerians have exerted a conspicuous influence on the interactive landscapes of social media. Wherever in the world one is accessing Facebook or Twitter, and for whatever purpose, one is bound to encounter a meme of Nigerian origin. Cultural Netizenship is the first comprehensive investigation of the performative work of Nigerian digital subjects in a period marked not only by a global pandemic, political unrest, and all manner of protest movements, but also by the globalization of Nollywood and other sources of Nigerian popular culture. James Yékú offers a rich and remarkably varied account of the roles of social media in the cultural and political currents of contemporary Nigeria. His insights will be of importance to Africanists and anyone interested in vernacular uses of digital networks. This is a book of considerable scholarly sophistication that also honors what is riotously funny about some of our most cherished memes."—Noah Tsika, author of Nollywood Stars and Cinematic IndependenceTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Cultural Netizenship and Viral Practices1. Afropolitan Anti-heroes and the Performative Politics of Internet Scambaiting2. The Memeification of Nollywood3. Self-Spectatoriality and the Performance of Political Selves4. Visualizing Resistance and Performing with the Visual5. Social Media Humor and Carnivalesque Aesthetics6. Virality and Instagram Comedy in A State of PandemicEpilogue: Cultural Netizenship and the Praxis of RecoveryReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisHow does social media activism in Nigeria intersect with online popular formsfrom GIFs to memes to videosand become shaped by the repressive postcolonial state that propels resistance to dominant articulations of power? James Yékú proposes the concept of cultural netizenshipinternet citizenship and its aesthetico-cultural dimensionsas a way of being on the social web and articulating counter-hegemonic self-presentations through viral popular images. Yékú explores the cultural politics of protest selfies, Nollywood-derived memes and GIFs, hashtags, and political cartoons as visual texts for postcolonial studies, and he examines how digital subjects in Nigeria, a nation with one of the most vibrant digital spheres in Africa, deconstruct state power through performed popular culture on social media. As a rubric for the new digital genres of popular and visual expressions on social media, cultural netizenship indexes the digital everyday through the affordances of the participatory web. Trade Review"To my knowledge, this is the first monograph solely devoted to social media texts in a Sub-Saharan society. Yéku shows us how digital media performances are in constant dialogue with nondigital popular culture in Nigeria. Most compelling is his attention to the political subtexts of Nigerian social media, while reconstructing a micro-history of the digital world. Nigeria's social media users are politicking online; we learn how the forms and aesthetics of politicking change, thus challenging scholars to be constantly alert to digital innovations and their political potential. Cultural Netizenship is an important addition to the growing library in digital humanities."—Katrien Pype, author of The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama. Religion, Media, and Gender in Kinshasa"In Cultural Netizenship, Nigeria's rambunctious, energetic, and impelling digital culture finds its most enthusiastic and intellectually gifted exponent, and the result is a work of rare penetration, analytic verve, and sumptuous literacy. Yékú's expository power conjures images of the finest espresso- richly concentrated, delicately brewed, and revivifying the remotest corners of the palate. This debut work, a distillation of the finest insights across the length and breadth of the social sciences, sets a new standard for scholarship in African and interdisciplinary studies."—Ebenezer Obadare, author of Humor, Silence, and Civil Society in Nigeria"Through its incisive analysis of digital cultures in Nigeria, Cultural Netizenship offers a groundbreaking model for studying the relationship between digital media and the nation in a range of postcolonial contexts. Scholars and students of new media studies have much to learn from Yékú's innovative, ethnographic approach to social media and popular culture."—Roopika Risam, author of New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities"James Yékú might as well have erected the entire framework of Cultural Netizenship on Brecht's "In the contradiction lies the hope." Surely, you can hardly miss the manner in which the author navigates neural lines of digital thought and the quotidian reality of our circumspective analogue choices within structures of power and agency in Nigeria's pop street vis-à-vis the virtual nudity of capital's hidden hands. The strength of this work is in its walking of the tensions, the tight rope of the dialogic and the dialectical mechanism of social media, popular culture, and performance in Nigeria."—Sola Olorunyomi, author of AFROBEAT! Fela and the Imagined Continent"It is by now a commonplace that Nigerians have exerted a conspicuous influence on the interactive landscapes of social media. Wherever in the world one is accessing Facebook or Twitter, and for whatever purpose, one is bound to encounter a meme of Nigerian origin. Cultural Netizenship is the first comprehensive investigation of the performative work of Nigerian digital subjects in a period marked not only by a global pandemic, political unrest, and all manner of protest movements, but also by the globalization of Nollywood and other sources of Nigerian popular culture. James Yékú offers a rich and remarkably varied account of the roles of social media in the cultural and political currents of contemporary Nigeria. His insights will be of importance to Africanists and anyone interested in vernacular uses of digital networks. This is a book of considerable scholarly sophistication that also honors what is riotously funny about some of our most cherished memes."—Noah Tsika, author of Nollywood Stars and Cinematic IndependenceTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Cultural Netizenship and Viral Practices1. Afropolitan Anti-heroes and the Performative Politics of Internet Scambaiting2. The Memeification of Nollywood3. Self-Spectatoriality and the Performance of Political Selves4. Visualizing Resistance and Performing with the Visual5. Social Media Humor and Carnivalesque Aesthetics6. Virality and Instagram Comedy in A State of PandemicEpilogue: Cultural Netizenship and the Praxis of RecoveryReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisWhen it comes to evangelical Christianity, the internet is both a refuge and a threat. It hosts Zoom prayer groups and pornographic videos, religious revolutions and silly cat videos. Platforms such as social media, podcasts, blogs, and digital Bibles all constitute new arenas for debate about social and religious boundaries, theological and ecclesial orthodoxy, and the internet's inherent danger and value. In The Digital Evangelicals, Travis Warren Cooper locates evangelicalism as a media event rather than as a coherent religious tradition by focusing on the intertwined narratives of evangelical Christianity and emerging digital culture in the United States. He focuses on two dominant media traditions: media sincerity, immediate and direct interpersonal communication, and media promiscuity, communication with the primary goal of extending the Christian community regardless of physical distance. Cooper, whose work is informed by ethnographic fieldwork, traces these conflicting paradiTrade ReviewShedding light on the profound phenomenon of digital evangelicalism, this book sparkles with illuminating insights on the contemporary tensions and paradoxes of religious authority, as well as the vital role of new media for religious organizing in a datafied world. The Digital Evangelicals assembles a range of multimodal data across platforms to help us think more deeply about the communicative constitution of religious authority, authenticity and community. -- Pauline Hope Cheong, co-editor of Digital Religion, Social Media and Culture: Perspectives, Practices and FuturesThe Digital Evangelicals is much-needed intervention in a field chock full of books telling you what so-called evangelicals "really are" or "really should be." Cooper's attention to the discourses that define the boundaries of evangelical identity and community offer an important corrective to the search for the best definition of evangelicalism. Drawing on a unique archive of digital sources, The Digital Evangelicals shows how claims about "authentic" evangelicalism are really battles over authority and power. -- Michael J. Altman, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of AlabamaThe Digital Evangelicals is an ambitious, impressive, unprecedented work. Part cultural history, part critical textual analysis, part ethnography, it is more than the sum of these parts. Cooper's book demands a fundamental reconsideration of what it means to analyze evangelicalism as a hybrid online-offline cultural form. -- James Bielo, author of Emerging Evangelicals: Faith, Modernity, and the Desire for AuthenticityThe Digital Evangelicals is an impressive text. In addition to detailing how today's emerging evangelicals engage new media, Cooper also provides a framework for rethinking what, exactly, this thing called 'evangelicalism' even is. Through richly detailed ethnographies of Twitter debates, Instagram rituals, and Zoom church services, the book charts how communities constitute evangelicalism through media—and how social media might play a role in evangelicalism's undoing. The book is impressive both for its breadth of its analysis and the depth of its theoretical critique. -- Christopher Cantwell, co-editor of Introduction to Digital Humanities: Research Methods in the Study of ReligionTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Media and Message1. Media Sincerity and Promiscuity: Origins2. Evangelical Media Ecologies from Print to the Internet3. Evangelical Theories of the DigitalPart II: Authenticity Construction across New Media: Case Studies4. #FareWellRobBell: Heresy Discourse and the Horizontalization of Authority5. Feminist Publics and the Progressive Evangelical Blogosphere6. Instagram, Authenticity, AffectPart III: Local Technologies in a Global World7. Emerging Midwestern Evangelicals and Digital Media8. Media Ambivalence in Emerging EvangelicalismConclusion: Zoom Church, Cancel Culture, and the Exportation of Evangelical MediaAppendixGlossaryBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisWhen it comes to evangelical Christianity, the internet is both a refuge and a threat. It hosts Zoom prayer groups and pornographic videos, religious revolutions and silly cat videos. Platforms such as social media, podcasts, blogs, and digital Bibles all constitute new arenas for debate about social and religious boundaries, theological and ecclesial orthodoxy, and the internet's inherent danger and value. In The Digital Evangelicals, Travis Warren Cooper locates evangelicalism as a media event rather than as a coherent religious tradition by focusing on the intertwined narratives of evangelical Christianity and emerging digital culture in the United States. He focuses on two dominant media traditions: media sincerity, immediate and direct interpersonal communication, and media promiscuity, communication with the primary goal of extending the Christian community regardless of physical distance. Cooper, whose work is informed by ethnographic fieldwork, traces these conflicting paradiTrade ReviewShedding light on the profound phenomenon of digital evangelicalism, this book sparkles with illuminating insights on the contemporary tensions and paradoxes of religious authority, as well as the vital role of new media for religious organizing in a datafied world. The Digital Evangelicals assembles a range of multimodal data across platforms to help us think more deeply about the communicative constitution of religious authority, authenticity and community. -- Pauline Hope Cheong, co-editor of Digital Religion, Social Media and Culture: Perspectives, Practices and FuturesThe Digital Evangelicals is much-needed intervention in a field chock full of books telling you what so-called evangelicals "really are" or "really should be." Cooper's attention to the discourses that define the boundaries of evangelical identity and community offer an important corrective to the search for the best definition of evangelicalism. Drawing on a unique archive of digital sources, The Digital Evangelicals shows how claims about "authentic" evangelicalism are really battles over authority and power. -- Michael J. Altman, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of AlabamaThe Digital Evangelicals is an ambitious, impressive, unprecedented work. Part cultural history, part critical textual analysis, part ethnography, it is more than the sum of these parts. Cooper's book demands a fundamental reconsideration of what it means to analyze evangelicalism as a hybrid online-offline cultural form. -- James Bielo, author of Emerging Evangelicals: Faith, Modernity, and the Desire for AuthenticityThe Digital Evangelicals is an impressive text. In addition to detailing how today's emerging evangelicals engage new media, Cooper also provides a framework for rethinking what, exactly, this thing called 'evangelicalism' even is. Through richly detailed ethnographies of Twitter debates, Instagram rituals, and Zoom church services, the book charts how communities constitute evangelicalism through media—and how social media might play a role in evangelicalism's undoing. The book is impressive both for its breadth of its analysis and the depth of its theoretical critique. -- Christopher Cantwell, co-editor of Introduction to Digital Humanities: Research Methods in the Study of ReligionTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Media and Message1. Media Sincerity and Promiscuity: Origins2. Evangelical Media Ecologies from Print to the Internet3. Evangelical Theories of the DigitalPart II: Authenticity Construction across New Media: Case Studies4. #FareWellRobBell: Heresy Discourse and the Horizontalization of Authority5. Feminist Publics and the Progressive Evangelical Blogosphere6. Instagram, Authenticity, AffectPart III: Local Technologies in a Global World7. Emerging Midwestern Evangelicals and Digital Media8. Media Ambivalence in Emerging EvangelicalismConclusion: Zoom Church, Cancel Culture, and the Exportation of Evangelical MediaAppendixGlossaryBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA Google researcher offers accessible tips, tricks, and interesting stories on maximizing the power of search engines like Google and Wikipedia—proving you don’t have to be a computer whiz to master the art of online searching.We all know how to look up something online by typing words into a search engine. We do this so often that we have made the most famous search engine a verb: we Google it—“Japan population” or “Nobel Peace Prize” or “poison ivy” or whatever we want to know. But knowing how to Google something doesn't make us search experts; there’s much more we can do to access the massive collective knowledge available online.In The Joy of Search, Daniel Russell shows us how to be great online researchers. We don’t have to be computer geeks or a scholar searching out obscure facts; we just need to know some basic methods. Russell demonstrates these methods with step-by-step searches f

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Book SynopsisHow to be a great online searcher, demonstrated with step-by-step searches for answers to a series of intriguing questions (for example, “Is that plant poisonous?”).We all know how to look up something online by typing words into a search engine. We do this so often that we have made the most famous search engine a verb: we Google it—“Japan population” or “Nobel Peace Prize” or “poison ivy” or whatever we want to know. But knowing how to Google something doesn't make us search experts; there's much more we can do to access the massive collective knowledge available online. In The Joy of Search, Daniel Russell shows us how to be great online researchers. We don't have to be computer geeks or a scholar searching out obscure facts; we just need to know some basic methods. Russell demonstrates these methods with step-by-step searches for answers to a series of intriguing questions—from “what is the wron

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Duffy’s exploration of sexism, as well as her probe of the gig economy, makes this an interesting and informative read for anyone—even those who aren’t following Instagram’s foodies and fashionistas.”—Wired.com“[A] timely and important book” —Zoe Glatt, Convergence“A fascinating, meticulously researched study that shows how these creative women exemplify modern workers. Her lessons are essential for all those interested in fashion studies, gender studies, and the creative economy.”—Angela McRobbie, author of Be Creative: Making a Living in the New Culture Industries“Duffy is an excellent guide to the contemporary anxieties of aspirational labor, showing both the very calculated nature of investments these women are trying to make in their futures, while pointing to the larger social forces that shape and constrict their possibilities.”—Gina Neff, author of Venture Labor“This immensely valuable book reveals the trapdoor for female workers who pursue their talents on social media. Duffy expertly dissects a system which attracts many, rewards a few, and exploits the rest.”— Andrew Ross, author of Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times“Contrary to optimists who hoped that the internet would bail women out of the family-career bind, Duffy finds that female ‘digital-media hopefuls’ rarely get paid for their work. The phenomenon Duffy describes is fascinating.”—Frances McCall Rosenbluth, coauthor of both Forged Through Fire and Women, Work, and Politics“Duffy's critically astute study reveals the intersection of pleasure and power in contemporary capitalism and clearly articulates an essential new perspective on digital labor.”— Kylie Jarrett, author of The Digital Housewife

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