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Book SynopsisNightscape is one of the world's most exciting and inspirational online creators. His YouTube videos have received over thirty million views. He has over a million followers.Table of ContentsIntroduction - i: Introduction Section - ii: Before the craziness begins Section - iii: Top of the world Unit - 1: Ground Level - Starting Out Chapter - 1: In the beginning Chapter - 2: Risk Chapter - 3: Fail, get up, fail harder Chapter - 4: Avoid comfort zones Chapter - 5: Dancing with concrete Chapter - 6: Expand your possibilities Chapter - 7: Luck Chapter - 8: The city is a playground Unit - 2: Rooftoops - Finding My Way Chapter - 9: Getting higher Chapter - 10: Find something you love more than sleep Chapter - 11: Why art? Chapter - 12: No rehersals Chapter - 13: In love with the city Chapter - 14: Don't be ashamed of passion Chapter - 15: Fear Chapter - 16: Respect Chapter - 17: Life in the penthouse Unit - 3: Rooftops - Spreading My Wings Chapter - 18: Up in the clouds Chapter - 19: Perspective Chapter - 20: Outlaws Chapter - 21: Believe Chapter - 22: Opinions Chapter - 23: Your passion might no be someone else's Chapter - 24: Balfron Tower Chapter - 25: Petticoat Tower Chapter - 26: A bridge, Startford Chapter - 27: Residential building, Elephant and Castle Chapter - 28: Barbican Estate Unit - 4: Skyscrapers Chapter - 29: The City within the city Chapter - 30: Rebels Chapter - 31: London Stadium Chapter - 32: The Sidemen Tower Chapter - 33: Humber Bridge Chapter - 34: One Canada Square Unit - 5: Seeing the World Chapter - 35: Jakarta Chapter - 36: Santorini Chapter - 37: Make it challenging Chapter - 38: Dubai Chapter - 39: Shanghai Unit - 6: Behind the Scenes Chapter - 40: Kit Chapter - 41: Editing Chapter - 42: What's next?

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Book Synopsis Network revolutions of the past have shaped the present and set the stage for the revolution we are experiencing today In an era of seemingly instant change, it''s easy to think that today''s revolutionsin communications, business, and many areas of daily lifeare unprecedented. Today''s changes may be new and may be happening faster than ever before. But our ancestors at times were just as bewildered by rapid upheavals in what we now call networksthe physical links that bind any society together. In this fascinating book, former FCC chairman Tom Wheeler brings to life the two great network revolutions of the past and uses them to help put in perspective the confusion, uncertainty, and even excitement most people face today. The first big network revolution was the invention of movable-type printing in the fifteenth century. This book, its millions of predecessors, and even such broad trends as the Reformation, the Renaissance, and the multiple scientific revo

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Book SynopsisAre you looking to get the best out your new Mac, either as a complete novice or as a convert from a Windows PC?Or are you looking to learn about Microsoft Office 2008 or the latest updates of Apple''s latest iWork suite and its iLife applications?Make sure you''re getting the most out of your machine and understand its full potential. Get Started on your Mac offers a wider, more beginner-friendly scope - an all-in-one reference for those who want to understand the basic concepts rather than the in-depth technicalities. Focusing on the iLife applications which are bundled with Macs including email, iPhoto, iCal, iMovie, iTunes and others, it will help you to enjoy the full Mac experience, and see its appeal as a user-friendly computer that''s ready to be used straight away. Learn to live life to the full with your music, your photos, DVDs and email. With straightforward writing from expert authors, the Teach Yourself computing series cuts throTable of Contents : 1. Choosing a Mac: : 2. How Macs work : 3. Plug-in devices : 4. What’s new 5. Internet and email : 6. Word processing and presentations with iWork : 7. Mac Office 2008 : 8. Working alongside Windows PCs : 9. Manage your photos with iPhoto : 10. Using iTunes : 11. Make movies with iMovie and iDVD : 12. Organise your life with iCal and Address Book : 13. Get online with iWeb : 14. .Mac : 15. Dashboard Widgets : 16. Games and utilities : 17. Multiple users : 18. System Preferences : Index

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Book SynopsisSTRUGGLING TO STAY IN TOUCH WITH ELDERLY PARENTS DURING THE LOCKDOWN? WANTING TO HELP ISOLATED RELATIVES WITH ONLINE ORDERING? THIS IS THE PERFECT GUIDE FOR ANYONE GRAPPLING FOR THE FIRST TIME WITH FACETIME, GOOGLE HANGOUTS OR ANY OTHER ASPECT OF THE MODERN WORLD.A handy guide for anyone who says, ''The Facebook'' or ''The Google'' or who asks, ''Do they deliver emails on Sunday?'' This is a book for the elderly and not-so-elderly who are bamboozled not just by the technology of the contemporary world, but also various modern concepts and conceits that the more youthful take for granted.It explains a host of modern concepts and technologies that have entered everyday use and parlance but which are alien (and possibly frightening) not just to the elderly - but probably also to anyone over 45. These concepts are universal and should therefore appeal to readers in the UK, Australia, US and Europe. The definitions are all real, but entertaining, makin

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Book SynopsisThis is the ultimate guide to protect your data on the web. From passwords to opening emails, everyone knows what they should do but do you do it?''A must read for anyone looking to upskill their cyber awareness'' Steve Durbin, Managing Director, Information Security ForumTons of malicious content floods the internet which can compromise your system and your device, be it your laptop, tablet or phone. How often do you make payments online? Do you have children and want to ensure they stay safe online? How often do you sit at a coffee shop and log onto their free WIFI? How often do you use social media on the train or bus? If you believe using an antivirus software will keep devices safe... you are wrong. This book will guide you and provide solutions to avoid common mistakes and to combat cyber attacks.This Guide covers areas such as: Building resilience into our IT Lifestyle Online Identity Cyber Abuse: Scenarios and Stories Protecting Devices Download and share Gaming, gamble and travel Copycat websites I Spy and QR Codes Banking, apps and Passwords Includes chapers from Nick Wilding, General Manager at AXELOS, Tim Mitchell, Content Director at Get Safe Online, Maureen Kendal, Director at Cybercare, Nick Ioannou, Founder of Boolean Logical, and CYBERAWARE.''Conquer the Web is a full and comprehensive read for anyone wanting to know more about cyber-security. It takes it time to explain the many acronyms and jargon that are associated with our industry, and goes into detail where necessary.'' Sarah Jane MD of Layer8 Ltd''Online fraud, cyber bullying, identity theft and these are the unfortunate by products of the cyber age. The challenge is how do we protect ourselves in the online world? Conquer the Web provides practical guidance in an easy to understand language that allows readers to take a small number of steps that will greatly increase their online security. A must read for anyone looking to upskill their cyber awareness.'' Steve Durbin MD of Information Security Forum Limited

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Book SynopsisThe lockdowns and shutdowns due to COVID-19 encouraged accelerated experimental with new organization practices. The impacts of the pandemic were very strong, both in times of containment, the loosening of restrictions, and recovery periods. Whether in collective and individual commitment, health, and the rapid adoption of new working methods, companies were challenged to adjust very quickly to cope with the emergency. With the interconnection of health, economic, social, and environmental crises, the situation changed the market and economy, and the lasting impacts of this unprecedented and intense experience must be examined. This book explores the digital ecosystem through a historical, sociological, political, and economic approach. It discusses new organizational practices such as remote work, digital culture, and the implementation of transformation strategy using appropriate technological tools. This book deciphers the new paradigm proposed by the digital era and provides theoretical and empirical frameworks in the field of economics and technology.

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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 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 SynopsisWhile the sheer number of apps is overwhelming, as are the range of activities they address, each one offers an opportunity for us to seek out meaning in the mundane. Appified is the first scholarly volume to examine individual apps within the wider historical and cultural context of media and cultural studies scholarship.Trade ReviewThe theoretical and methodological breadth is impressive. From the popular to the forgotten, from casual games to rape reporting, these chapters weave a rich tapestry of the multiple meanings of apps for politics, society, and everyday life."" - Amelia Arsenault, Georgia State University""Morris and Murray have assembled an all-star cast to reveal the spectacular power of the software in all of our pockets. Appified is an essential collection for students and scholars of digital media culture, and all who seek to understand the indelible imprint of apps on our daily lives."" - ennifer Holt, University of California, Santa Barbara

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Book SynopsisIn order to fight capitalism in the digital age, we must understand Marx!Trade Review'A fascinating, comprehensive, and persuasive account of Marxism's continued relevance for understanding - and changing - our contemporary digital world' -- Nick Srnicek, author of 'Platform Capitalism''Christian Fuchs is the world's foremost Marxist analyst of contemporary capitalist media. With this important book, he demonstrates not just why Marx remains vital to understanding the world; he puts Marx to use in helping us figure out how to change it' -- Jodi Dean, author of 'The Communist Horizon''A 'creative renewal' of Marx, emphasising his relevance for digital capitalism. The concepts Fuchs revisits are essential to a critical media and communication theory for the twenty-first century. A must reread!' -- Janet Wasko, President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research'Christian Fuchs is among the most important critical theorists of communication writing today, Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism one of his most appealing books. Its fusion of deep Marxist scholarship with highly contemporary case studies, ranging from digital automation to new thinking about anti-capitalist struggle, is not to be missed' -- Nick Dyer-Witheford, author of 'Cyber-Proletariat: Global Labour in the Digital Vortex''Societies change with the pace of developments in technology and revolutionary practices. The contradictions that capital presently experiences arise with increasing frequency in the structures of communication and technology. Fuchs rereads Marx in the present, in that tangle of explosive contradictions, indicating with clarity and force the necessary path of theoretical militancy today' -- Antonio Negri, author of 'Political Descartes: Reason, Ideology and the Bourgeois Project'Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Introduction: Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism 2. Rereading Marx’s Capital in the Information Age 3. Rereading Marx as Critical Sociologist of Technology 4. Rereading Marx as Critical Theorist of Communication 5. Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism: The Case of Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet as the Digital German Ideology 6. Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism: Reflections on Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Book Assembly 7. Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCompanies like Facebook and Twitter have redefined social interaction. But what if machines like automobiles, bicycles, health monitors, appliances, instruments, and anything else you can connect to the Internet, could all become members of your social network, collect data you care about, and feed it back to you at just the right time? Nike+ is already doing this for your body, but every major industry, from healthcare to cars to home construction, is now building sensors and digital connectivity into their next generation of products. Companies like Ford, Pepsi, Verizon, and Procter and Gamble are also using social machines to reach new markets, improve brand/market awareness, and increase revenues.Social Machinesis the first book for business people, marketers,product developers, andtechnologists, explaining how this trend will change our world, how your business will benefit, and how to create connected products that customers love. Explains how smart phones Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Part I Social Machines: An Overview 1 Chapter 1 Introduction 3 Chapter 2 A Social Internet of Things 11 Chapter 3 Why Social Networks Must Evolve 21 Everything Will Get Connected 23 Everything Will Get Smarter 29 Everything Will Get Social 30 We’re Running Out of Humans! 33 Chapter 4 Social Machines and the Future of Humankind 35 Part II Every Product Is a Platform: Rethinking Product Design in the Age of Connectedness 47 Chapter 5 Overview 49 Chapter 6 A Brief History of Abstraction 53 Chapter 7 Social Product Design 65 Connected versus Social 68 Example 1—The Weather Station 73 Example 2—Wheelchairs and Hand Sanitizers 80 Example 3—The Social Bicycle 84 Chapter 8 Avatars and the Social Seven: Unique Characteristics of Social Machines 99 The Social Seven—Overview 102 The Social Seven—Details 105 Chapter 9 Spheres of Use, or Why Your New Product Should Do Things You Never Envisioned 117 Part III The Business of Social Machines 121 Chapter 10 Introduction 123 People Sharing Things 125 Things Sharing Data 130 Chapter 11 How to Build a Business Using Social Machines 137 Retrofit Model 139 Built-in Model 142 Chapter 12 My Customer’s Customer Is My Customer:The Beauty of a Social Value Chain 149 Chapter 13 The Art of Social Pricing 153 Part IV Getting Started 157 Chapter 14 Design Requirements: What Does It Take to Design and Build a Social Machine? 159 But First, a Quick Story 161 How Do I Make My Product Social? 167 Retrofit Model 183 Built-in Model 185 Chapter 15 Getting There from Here 189 Part V Scenarios 195 Chapter 16 Smart Home 197 Chapter 17 Retail 203 Chapter 18 Transportation 211 Chapter 19 Finance 217 Chapter 20 Health and Wellness 223 Part VI Resources 229 Index 235

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Book SynopsisTom Goodwin is a writer, speaker and advertising and media provocateur and consultant. He has been voted a top 10 voice in Marketing by LinkedIn, one of 30 people to follow on Twitter by Business Insider, and a 'must-follow' by Fast Company. An industry commentator on the future of marketing and business, he is a columnist for TechCrunch and Forbes and frequent contributor to the Guardian, GQ, Ad Age, Wired, Ad Week, Inc, MediaPost and Digiday. He is based between London, UK, and New York City in the United States.Trade Review"Big, bold ideas that make you think." * Scott Galloway, Professor of Marketing, NYU Stern School of Business, and bestselling author, 'The Four' and 'Algebra of Happiness' *"Digital Darwinism is a rare call for long-term thinking in a short-term world. Tom Goodwin has a gift for asking questions that don't let you off the hook. With Digital Darwinism, he asks some of the most pertinent, well-researched, brilliantly presented and hard to answer questions all businesses brave enough should be asking themselves." * Sam Conniff, Bestselling Author, 'Be More Pirate', and Director, Uncertainty Experts *"Digital Darwinism can be a threatening concept, but Tom Goodwin's advice is refreshingly optimistic: don't wait for the perfect moment - embrace change before you have to, change often, focus on possibilities rather than threats and act with common sense and urgency. Whether you're building a start-up or transforming an established legacy brand, you'll find value in Goodwin's perspective." * Jeff Dailey, CEO, Farmers Insurance *"The business book leaders need, but don't deserve." * Alex Roy, TV Host, and Director of Special Operations, Argo AI *Table of Contents Chapter - 01: Business in the age of disruption; Chapter - 02: The three phases of change; Chapter - 03: Disruption and the paradigm shift; Chapter - 04: The third era of management; Chapter - 05: Starting your digital transformation; Chapter - 06: How to provoke and inspire change; Chapter - 07: Creating a vision to transform; Chapter - 08: Operations for the digital age; Chapter - 09: A culture for transformation; Chapter - 10: Rethinking your future

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Book SynopsisTom Goodwin is a writer, speaker and advertising and media provocateur and consultant. He has been voted a top 10 voice in Marketing by LinkedIn, one of 30 people to follow on Twitter by Business Insider, and a 'must-follow' by Fast Company. An industry commentator on the future of marketing and business, he is a columnist for TechCrunch and Forbes and frequent contributor to the Guardian, GQ, Ad Age, Wired, Ad Week, Inc, MediaPost and Digiday. He is based between London, UK, and New York City in the United States.Trade Review"Big, bold ideas that make you think." * Scott Galloway, Professor of Marketing, NYU Stern School of Business, and bestselling author, 'The Four' and 'Algebra of Happiness' *"Digital Darwinism is a rare call for long-term thinking in a short-term world. Tom Goodwin has a gift for asking questions that don't let you off the hook. With Digital Darwinism, he asks some of the most pertinent, well-researched, brilliantly presented and hard to answer questions all businesses brave enough should be asking themselves." * Sam Conniff, Bestselling Author, 'Be More Pirate', and Director, Uncertainty Experts *"Digital Darwinism can be a threatening concept, but Tom Goodwin's advice is refreshingly optimistic: don't wait for the perfect moment - embrace change before you have to, change often, focus on possibilities rather than threats and act with common sense and urgency. Whether you're building a start-up or transforming an established legacy brand, you'll find value in Goodwin's perspective." * Jeff Dailey, CEO, Farmers Insurance *"The business book leaders need, but don't deserve." * Alex Roy, TV Host, and Director of Special Operations, Argo AI *Table of Contents Chapter - 01: Business in the age of disruption; Chapter - 02: The three phases of change; Chapter - 03: Disruption and the paradigm shift; Chapter - 04: The third era of management; Chapter - 05: Starting your digital transformation; Chapter - 06: How to provoke and inspire change; Chapter - 07: Creating a vision to transform; Chapter - 08: Operations for the digital age; Chapter - 09: A culture for transformation; Chapter - 10: Rethinking your future

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Book SynopsisNathalie Nahai is a speaker, author and consultant, whose work explores persuasive technology, ethics, and the psychology behind evolving consumer behaviours. With clients including Google, Unilever and Accenture, she teaches companies how to ethically apply behavioural science to enhance their online presence, communications and customer experience. A member of the BIMA Human Insights Council, Nathalie hosts The Hive Podcast and has spoken about the impact of emerging technologies in The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Stylist, The Telegraph, as well as TV and radio. She is based in Barcelona, Spain.Trade Review"As we face increasingly complex challenges, this book offers a vital road map for how we might transcend old ways of doing business and charter a more resilient, purposeful and values-driven path forward. Essential reading for business leaders and educators alike." * Scott Barry Kaufman, Humanistic Psychologist, author and podcaster *"Change happens to us or because of us. It's a choice, really. As Nathalie Nahai teaches us, life and work, and possibility, are all a process of becoming. It's what we do along the way that shapes our next adventure. Be the change." * Brian Solis, Anthropologist, Futurist and Bestselling authors of 'Lifescale' *"Through Nathalie Nahai's thoughtful application of behavioural science and the humanity of her stories, Business Unusual lights the way for the future of intelligent branding in a turbulent world. A highly engaging and informative read for anyone wondering how marketing can meet the moment in an authentic way." * Caroline Webb, Bestselling author of 'How To Have A Good Day' and Senior Adviser at McKinsey & Company *"Once again Nathalie Nahai has translated the latest findings from psychological science into an immense store of practical wisdom." * Rory Sutherland, Vice Chairman, Oglivy Group *"In a world where there is no longer any such thing as 'business as usual', Nathalie Nahai's Business Unusual is the timely guide to the future you need. This thoughtful and deeply researched study of a wide-ranging spectrum of business challenges - from the trap of 'wokewashing' to the issues of 'Zoom culture' - arms the reader with perspectives and insights that will enable anyone to future-proof their business with confidence." * Cindy Gallop, Founder and CEO, MakeLoveNotPorn *"Business Unusual is a powerful clarion call for business leaders to see themselves and their stakeholders differently. Nathalie Nahai explains these new rules of engagement with empathy and conviction. These are new rules that we can all embrace." * Sharath Jeevan, Author of 'Intrinsic' *"Very few thinkers, and even fewer writers, can articulate the complex nuances underlining today's biggest business challenges with the elegance, depth and eloquence of Nathalie Nahai. A rare polymath with deep expertise in tech, marketing and psychology, she has written one of the defining business books of our times. Every leader should study this book in detail - we will all be better off if they do." * Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Author and Professor of Business Psychology at University College London and Columbia University *"Nathalie Nahai richly illustrates the cultivation of bravely responsible, authentic and empathic values - those that build true resilience in this bewilderingly disruptive age." * Nell Watson, Tech Ethicist, Machine Intelligence Researcher and AI Faculty Member at Singularity University *"In Business Unusual, Nathalie Nahai successfully captures changing times as reflected in changing generations. She makes clear the old ways of doing things will no longer suffice in the third decade of the 21st century, when shifting preferences and proclivities dominate business as they do politics." * Barbara Kellerman, Author and James Macgregor Burns Lecturer in Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School *"A lively, practical guidebook for any business leader navigating the perils of pandemics, tech disruption and radically more judgmental expectations of customers and talent. Because the rules are changing in real time." * David Rowan, Founding Editor, Wired UK *Table of Contents Chapter - 00: Introduction; Chapter - 01: Times they are a-changin'; Chapter - 02: We demand more; Chapter - 03: Living the good life; Chapter - 04: Up close and personal - Deepening the people–business relationship; Chapter - 05: The lure of woke-washing - Values and virtue signalling; Chapter - 06: Emotionally intelligent communication - What not to do; Chapter - 07: How to recover when it hits the fan; Chapter - 08: Adapting to virtual-first relationships without losing touch; Chapter - 09: Business, unusual

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Book SynopsisCommunications and Mobility is a unique, interdisciplinary look at mobility, territory, communication, and transport in the 21st century with extended case studies of three icons of this era: the mobile phone, the migrant, and the container box. Urges scholars in media and communication to return to broader conceptions of the field that include mobility of all kindsinformation, people, and commodities Embraces perspectives from media studies, science and technology studies, sociology, media anthropology, and cultural geography Discusses ideas of virtual and embodied mobility, network geographies, de-territorialization, sedentarism, nomadology, connectivity, containment, and exclusion Integrates the often-neglected transport studies into contemporary communication studies and theories of globalization Trade Review“In sum, this book delivers a rich and nuanced illumination of the impact of the inseparable material and virtual dimensions of media and communications in our contemporary world.” -- Mobile Media and Communication Volume 8 (1) 2020 The book "weaves together perspectives on communication, mobility, territory and transport from various disciplines" and " offers a new and broader theoretical framework... historicizing and culturally contextualising communications, which will deepen and enrich readers` understanding of technologies and mobilities in the contemporary world" – European Journal of Cultural Studies, First Published 13 Jan 2020Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Redefining Communications 1 Part I The Return of Geopolitics 19 1 Communications, Transport, and Territory 21 2 Constituting Europe: Empires, Nations, and Techno]zones 37 Part II Reconceptualizing Communications: Mobilities and Geographies 57 3 Sedentarism, Nomadology, and “New Mobilities” 59 4 Disaggregating Mobilities: Zoning, Exclusion, and Containment 77 5 Geography, Topography, and Topology: Networks and Infrastructures 95 6 The Virtual and the Actual: Being There, Disembodiment, and Deterritorialization 113 Part III The Mobility of People, Information, and Commodities: Case Studies in Communications Geography 131 7 Migration: Changing Paradigms, Embodied Mobilities, and Material Practices 133 8 Mobile Communications and Ubiquitous Connectivity: Technologies of Transformation? 159 9 Containerization as Globalization: The Mobility of Commodities 199 Index 233

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Book SynopsisIn The Internet Trap, Ashesh Mukherjee uses the latest research in consumer psychology to highlight five hidden costs of living online: too many temptations, too much information, too much customization, too many comparisons, and too little privacy.Trade Review"Five traps to watch out for relate to temptation, information, customization, comparison, and privacy … How can traps be avoided? Mukherjee says an occasional "internet detox" may be in order … Recommended for upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers/faculty, and practitioners." -- P. G. Kishel * Choice Vol 55:12: August 2018 *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 : Too Many Temptations Chapter 2 : Too Much Information Chapter 3: Too Much Customization Chapter 4: Too Many Comparisons Chapter 5: Too Little Privacy Chapter 6: Looking Back & Ahead Endnotes References Index

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Book SynopsisBrings Semantic Web practice to enterprise. Fabien Gandon joins Dean Allemang and Jim Hendler, to open up the story to a modern view of global linked data. Examples have been brought up to date and applied in a modern setting, where enterprise and global data come together as a living, linked network of data.Table of Contents Preface What is the Semantic Web? Semantic modeling RDF—the basis of the Semantic Web Semantic Web application architecture Linked data Querying the Semantic Web—SPARQL Extending RDF: RDFS and SCHACL RDF Schema RDFS-Plus Using RDFS-Plus in the wild SKOS—managing vocabularies with RDFS-Plus Basic OWL Counting and sets in OWL Ontologies on the Web—putting it all together Good and bad modeling practices Expert modeling in OWL Conclusions and future work Bibliography

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Book SynopsisTells the story of the entrepreneurs who were able to harness the energy of computer science researchers supported by governments and universities, and the tremendous commercial demand for Internetworking computers. The centerpiece of this history comes from unpublished interviews from the late 1980s with over 80 computing industry pioneers.

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Book SynopsisHow cats became the undisputed mascot of the internet. The advertising slogan of the social news site Reddit is "Come for the cats. Stay for the empathy." Journalists and their readers seem to need no explanation for the line, "The internet is made of cats." Everyone understands the joke, but few know how it started. A Unified Theory of Cats on the Internet is the first book to explore the history of how the cat became the internet's best friend. Internet cats can differ in dramatic ways, from the goth cats of Twitter to the glamourpusses of Instagram to the giddy, nonsensical silliness of Nyan Cat. But they all share common traits and values. Bringing together fun anecdotes, thoughtful analyses, and hidden histories of the communities that built the internet, Elyse White shows how japonisme, punk culture, cute culture, and the battle among different communities for the soul of the internet informed the sensibility of online felines. Internet cats offer a playful—and useful—way to understand how culture shapes and is shaped by technology. Western culture has used cats for centuries as symbols of darkness, pathos, and alienation, and the communities that helped build the internet explicitly constructed themselves as outsiders, with snark and alienation at the core of their identity. Thus cats became the sine qua non of cultural literacy for the Extremely Online, not to mention an everyday medium of expression for the rest of us. Whatever direction the internet takes next, the "series of tubes" is likely to remain cat-shaped.Trade Review"I read the book I must applaud Some parts I ate Some parts I clawed"—Curious Zelda, author of The Adventures of a Curious Cat"Engaging and entertaining, A Unified Theory of Cats on the Internet traces the emergence of the internet's mascot from punk culture and japonisme, misogyny and trolling. Elyse White provides a definitive overview of one of online culture's least understood phenomena, and a fascinating ride through internet history."—Ethan Zuckerman, MIT Center for Civic Media, author of Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection"Ever-present and infinitely adaptable, cats are among the internet's most enduring memes. Elyse White gives the internet cat compendium its due, outlining the historical, social, and cultural significance of the felines that have long dominated our feeds. A Unified Theory of Cats on the Internet is an essential look at life online."—Ryan Milner, author of The World Made MemeTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Semiotic History of Grumpy Cats 2. The Great LOLcat Massacre 3. Extremely Online Felines 4. The Three Lives of Internet Cats Epilogue: Late Adopter

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Book SynopsisLiveness is a persistent and much-debated concept in media studies. Until recently, it was associated primarily with broadcast media, and television in particular. However, the emergence of social media has brought new forms of liveness into effect. These forms challenge common assumptions about and perspectives on liveness, provoking a revisiting of the concept. In this book, Karin van Es develops a comprehensive understanding of liveness today, and clarifies the stakes surrounding the category of the �live�. She argues that liveness is the product of a dynamic interaction between media institutions, technologies and users. In doing so, she challenges earlier conceptions of the notion, which tended to focus on either one of these contributors to its construction. By analyzing the �live� in four different cases – a live streaming platform, an online music collaboration website, an example of social TV, and a social networking site – van Es explores the operation of the category and pinpoints the conditions under which it comes into being. The analysis is the starting point for a broader reflection on the relation between broadcast and social media.Trade Review��Liveness� for decades has been a distinguishing feature of mass media, but on what terms will it survive in the era of social media? In this important book, Karin Van Es dissects the circuit of forces which underpin �liveness�, acknowledging the changing role of media institutions and media users alike. Sharply perceptive and historically well-grounded, Van Es� book is a landmark in our understanding of how media are socially constructed.� Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Political Science �Karin Van Es has made a key contribution to the study of liveness. She takes the topic beyond its original focus on broadcast television and live performance in the era of recording technologies, and explores it in relation to the internet and social media. The Future of Live is a fascinating and thought-provoking addition to a question of growing interest and importance. Strongly recommended!� Paddy Scannell, University of MichiganTable of ContentsContents pageAcknowledgmentsChapter One: IntroductionChapter Two: Constellations of LivenessChapter Three: Liveness and InstitutionalizationChapter Four: “Live” as an Evaluative CategoryChapter Five: Social TV and the Multiplicity of the LiveChapter Six: Social Media’s New Relation to the LiveConclusions

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Book SynopsisComputer software and its structures, devices and processes are woven into our everyday life. Their significance is not just technical: the algorithms, programming languages, abstractions and metadata that millions of people rely on every day have far-reaching implications for the way we understand the underlying dynamics of contemporary societies. In this innovative new book, software studies theorist Matthew Fuller examines how the introduction and expansion of computational systems into areas ranging from urban planning and state surveillance to games and voting systems are transforming our understanding of politics, culture and aesthetics in the twenty-first century. Combining historical insight and a deep understanding of the technology powering modern software systems with a powerful critical perspective, this book opens up new ways of understanding the fundamental infrastructures of contemporary life, economies, entertainment and warfare. In so doing Fuller shows that everyone must learn ‘how to be a geek’, as the seemingly opaque processes and structures of modern computer and software technology have a significance that no-one can afford to ignore. This powerful and engaging book will be of interest to everyone interested in a critical understanding of the political and cultural ramifications of digital media and computing in the modern world.Trade Review"Insightful, informative, provocative and brilliant, Fuller 'geeks out' the problematic of software. In a wide–ranging analysis that moves from object oriented languages to github, from metadata to urban models, Fuller reveals software's intersecting technical, cultural and political aspects. A must read for anyone interested in software and new media studies." —Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Brown University"This new book from the pioneer of software studies sets a new standard for critical discussion about the crucial part of contemporary culture and society – software. From mobile apps and social networks to email and word processing, we use software everyday. Yet critical thinking about software that can combine big ideas with careful attention to small details and genealogies of software concepts, tools, and interfaces is still rare. Fuller and his collaborators both give us fresh ideas and wonderful insights, and also show us what it means to study software culture." —Lev Manovich, City University of New YorkTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Biographies of Co-Authors Introduction Histories 1. The Obscure Objects of Object Orientation (with Andrew Goffey) 2. Abstract Urbanism (with Graham Harwood) Entities 3. Software Studies Methods 4. Big Diff, granularity, incoherence and production in the Github software repository, (with Andrew Goffey, Adrian Mackenzie, Richard Mills and Stuart Sharples) 5. The Author Name (with Nikita Mazurov and Dan McQuillan) Aesthetics 6. Always One Bit More, computing and the experience of ambiguity 7. Computational Aesthetics (with M. Beatrice Fazi) 8. Phrase (with Olga Goriunova) 9. Feral Computing: from ubiquitous computing to wild interactions (with Sónia Matos) 10. Just fun enough to go completely mad about: on games, procedures and amusement Powers 11. Black Sites and Transparency Layers 12. Algorithmic Tumult and the Brilliance of Chelsea Manning Index

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Book SynopsisComputer software and its structures, devices and processes are woven into our everyday life. Their significance is not just technical: the algorithms, programming languages, abstractions and metadata that millions of people rely on every day have far-reaching implications for the way we understand the underlying dynamics of contemporary societies. In this innovative new book, software studies theorist Matthew Fuller examines how the introduction and expansion of computational systems into areas ranging from urban planning and state surveillance to games and voting systems are transforming our understanding of politics, culture and aesthetics in the twenty-first century. Combining historical insight and a deep understanding of the technology powering modern software systems with a powerful critical perspective, this book opens up new ways of understanding the fundamental infrastructures of contemporary life, economies, entertainment and warfare. In so doing Fuller shows that everyone must learn ‘how to be a geek’, as the seemingly opaque processes and structures of modern computer and software technology have a significance that no-one can afford to ignore. This powerful and engaging book will be of interest to everyone interested in a critical understanding of the political and cultural ramifications of digital media and computing in the modern world.Trade Review"Insightful, informative, provocative and brilliant, Fuller 'geeks out' the problematic of software. In a wide–ranging analysis that moves from object oriented languages to github, from metadata to urban models, Fuller reveals software's intersecting technical, cultural and political aspects. A must read for anyone interested in software and new media studies." —Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Brown University"This new book from the pioneer of software studies sets a new standard for critical discussion about the crucial part of contemporary culture and society – software. From mobile apps and social networks to email and word processing, we use software everyday. Yet critical thinking about software that can combine big ideas with careful attention to small details and genealogies of software concepts, tools, and interfaces is still rare. Fuller and his collaborators both give us fresh ideas and wonderful insights, and also show us what it means to study software culture." —Lev Manovich, City University of New YorkTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Biographies of Co-Authors Introduction Histories 1. The Obscure Objects of Object Orientation (with Andrew Goffey) 2. Abstract Urbanism (with Graham Harwood) Entities 3. Software Studies Methods 4. Big Diff, granularity, incoherence and production in the Github software repository, (with Andrew Goffey, Adrian Mackenzie, Richard Mills and Stuart Sharples) 5. The Author Name (with Nikita Mazurov and Dan McQuillan) Aesthetics 6. Always One Bit More, computing and the experience of ambiguity 7. Computational Aesthetics (with M. Beatrice Fazi) 8. Phrase (with Olga Goriunova) 9. Feral Computing: from ubiquitous computing to wild interactions (with Sónia Matos) 10. Just fun enough to go completely mad about: on games, procedures and amusement Powers 11. Black Sites and Transparency Layers 12. Algorithmic Tumult and the Brilliance of Chelsea Manning Index

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Book SynopsisFeeling guilty about not networking enough? Stop! You can learn how to network effectively without attending networking events, collecting business cards, or getting a lot of LinkedIn followers. How? By learning how to Connect the Dots.Written by Inga Carboni, Ph.D., Connect the Dots is a fun, fast-paced, and fact-based book for working professionals seeking to take the next step in their careers. The truth is that networking is not about managing impressions or projecting your personal brand. Effective networkers build, nurture, and leverage relationships, real relationships built on genuine connection. When done correctly, networking isn’t sleazy or manipulative. Instead, it’s empowering — for you, for all the people you know, and for all the people they know.Connect the Dots: How to Build, Nurture, and Leverage Your Network to Achieve Your Personal and Professional Goals offers a combination of personal stories, business anecdotes, self-assessments, exercises, and concrete guidelines grounded in the latest scientific research. Connect the Dots focuses on developing your personal power and leadership skills by creating effective networks and networking effectively. This book is designed to benefit everyone, from young professionals to senior managers to human resource professionals to C-suite executives.Unleash the power of your network by learning how to connect the dots to make your network work for you.Trade ReviewIn Connect the Dots, Inga Carboni has accomplished an exceptional blend of findings housed in research with pragmatic insights that can be put into action immediately. The richness of her stories and examples will resonate with all as she makes the book a delight to read. Whether approaching the topic from a senior executive perspective with a focus on what should be done in your organization or from an individual standpoint in terms of actions you could personally take, Connect the Dots is one for the ages."" —Rob Cross, Edward A Madden Professor, Global Leadership Babson CollegeTable of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Slime Factor Chapter 3: Sticky Rice Feels So Good Chapter 4: Building Bridges Chapter 5: At Home on the Range Chapter 6: Circles and Sleepers Chapter 7: Casting Your Net Chapter 8: Nurture and Nature Chapter 9: The Magnificent Seven Chapter 10: Leverage Your Assets Chapter 11: Changing Your Lead Chapter 12: In Conclusion Toolbox A Toolbox B Toolbox C About the Author

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Book SynopsisFeeling guilty about not networking enough? Stop! You can learn how to network effectively without attending networking events, collecting business cards, or getting a lot of LinkedIn followers. How? By learning how to Connect the Dots.Written by Inga Carboni, Ph.D., Connect the Dots is a fun, fast-paced, and fact-based book for working professionals seeking to take the next step in their careers. The truth is that networking is not about managing impressions or projecting your personal brand. Effective networkers build, nurture, and leverage relationships, real relationships built on genuine connection. When done correctly, networking isn’t sleazy or manipulative. Instead, it’s empowering — for you, for all the people you know, and for all the people they know.Connect the Dots: How to Build, Nurture, and Leverage Your Network to Achieve Your Personal and Professional Goals offers a combination of personal stories, business anecdotes, self-assessments, exercises, and concrete guidelines grounded in the latest scientific research. Connect the Dots focuses on developing your personal power and leadership skills by creating effective networks and networking effectively. This book is designed to benefit everyone, from young professionals to senior managers to human resource professionals to C-suite executives.Unleash the power of your network by learning how to connect the dots to make your network work for you.Trade ReviewIn Connect the Dots, Inga Carboni has accomplished an exceptional blend of findings housed in research with pragmatic insights that can be put into action immediately. The richness of her stories and examples will resonate with all as she makes the book a delight to read. Whether approaching the topic from a senior executive perspective with a focus on what should be done in your organization or from an individual standpoint in terms of actions you could personally take, Connect the Dots is one for the ages."" —Rob Cross, Edward A Madden Professor, Global Leadership Babson CollegeTable of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Slime Factor Chapter 3: Sticky Rice Feels So Good Chapter 4: Building Bridges Chapter 5: At Home on the Range Chapter 6: Circles and Sleepers Chapter 7: Casting Your Net Chapter 8: Nurture and Nature Chapter 9: The Magnificent Seven Chapter 10: Leverage Your Assets Chapter 11: Changing Your Lead Chapter 12: In Conclusion Toolbox A Toolbox B Toolbox C About the Author

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Book SynopsisCrossing the Bridge of the Digital Divide: A Walk with Global Leaders explores the combined effect of the rapid growth of information as an increasingly fragmented information base, a large component of which is available only to people with money and/or acceptable institutional affiliations. In the recent past, the outcome of these challenges has been characterized as the ""digital divide"" between the information “haves” and “have nots” along racial and socio economic lines that seem to widen as time passes. To address the issues of digital equity and digital inequality in an effort to bridge the digital divide, educational scholars, researchers and practitioners are in positions to ensure equitable opportunities are made available for people of all ages, races, ability, sexual orientation, and ethnicity in support of social justice for bridging the digital divide. The digital divide addresses issues concerning equal opportunity, equity and access that have an effect on the development of marginalized and otherwise disenfranchised populations within and across systems nationally and internationally.The contributing authors- representing Unites States, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand, and the UK - posit that education institutions can serve as the bridge to close the digital divide for students who do not have access to information technology in their homes. At a time when more computers are made available in schools than ever before, the digital divide continues to widen and fewer people in the lowest SES groups are given the opportunity to join the world of computer technology and the internet. As a result, the influence of leadership activity on institutional racism, gender discrimination, inequality of opportunity, inequity of educational processes, digital exclusion, and justice have gained currency and attention.The contributing national and international authors examine the digital divide in terms of social justice leadership, equity and access. It is within this context that the authors offer discussions from a lens of their choice, i.e. conceptual, review of literature, epistemological, etc. By adopting an educational approach to bridging the digital divide, researchers and practitioners can connect and extend long- established lines of conceptual and empirical inquiry aimed at improving organizational practices and thereby gain insights that might be otherwise overlooked, or assumed. This holds great promise for generating, refining, and testing theories of leadership for equity and access, and helps strengthen already vibrant lines of inquiry on social justice.Table of Contents Foreword: Bridging Divides in Cyber-Lives, Jabari Mahiri. Introduction, Anthony H. Normore and Antonia Issa Lahera. Series Editor’s Preface, Jeffrey S. Brooks. Part I: Dynamics Of Digital And Social Inequity. Digital Equity and its Role in the Digital Divide, Kitty Fortner, Anthony H. Normore, and Jeffrey S. Brooks. An Examination of the Digital Divide and Its Dividing Factors in Formal Educational Settings, Albert D. Ritzhaupt and Tina N. Hohlfeld. Not All Young People “Use” the Internet: Exploring the Experiences of Ex-Use Amongst Young People in Britain, Rebecca Eynon and Anne Geniets. Part II: Digital Equity And Access Issues. Leading the Cohort across the Divide: Recent Best Practices to Enhance Cohort Teaching and Learning, Steven C. Williams. Walking the Pedagogical Line in Graduate Studies: Obstacles and Opportunities Transitioning to Digital and e-Learning, Duncan MacLellan and Heather Rintoul. A Model for Addressing Adaptive Challenges by Merging Ideas: How One Program Designed a Hacking Framework to Address Adaptive Challenges and Discovered the Ecotone, Kendall Zoller, Antonia Issa Lahera, and Julie K. Jhun. Emerging Technologies for Learning: Using Open Education Resources (OER), Ruben Caputo. Partnering with Teachers to Bridge Digital Divides, Doron Zinger, Jenell Krishnan, and Mark Warschauer. Social Networking Technology and the Social Justice Implications of Equitable Outcomes for First- Generation College Students, Yesenia Fernandez, Nancy Deng, and Meng Zhao. The Habitus and Technological Practices of Rural Students: A Case Study, Laura Czerniewicz and Cheryl Brown. Part III: Global Research And Development In Technology. The Digital Divide in Scientific Development and Research: The Case of the Arab World, Hamoud Salhi. Assistive Technology for Students with Disabilities: An International and Intersectional Approach, Saili S. Kulkarni, Jessica Parmar, Ann Selmi, and Avi Mendelson. Online Resource Courses to Enhance Education Abroad Learning: The Digital & Enhanced International Learning Divide, Gary M. Rhodes and Rosalind Latiner Raby. Biographies.

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Book SynopsisThe information age has opened a new front of adversarial statecraft. The past decades have seen the rise and refinement of conflict enacted in the world of information, with tactics including seeding disinformation, the theft of sensitive data, confusing or obscuring public opinion to forward specific goals, and beyond. Deterrence in the 21st Century asks how, and if it is indeed possible, to deter an enemy in the realm of information warfare.Setting the stage with an overview of key concepts of deterrence in the information age, the book presents new conceptual approaches and their possible applications. Bringing together some of the most respected analysts working today, Deterrence in the 21st Century looks beyond the technical aspects of the use of information and disinformation as adversarial statecraft to seek new avenues to deter the undermining of institutions and societies.Treating deterrence as a concept, a policy, a social challenge, and a series of practical solutions, Deterrence in the 21st Century presents theoretical approaches, conceptual analysis, empirical research, and content analysis. This is a thorough, thoughtful, and expert analysis of one of the most difficult and essential security challenges of our time.With contributions by: Christopher Ankersen, Yair Ansbacher, Oshri Bar-Gill, Stephen J. Cimbala, Maddie D'Agata, Molly Ellenberg, Leandre R. Fabrigar, Rachel Lea Heide, Nicole J. Jackson, Pierre Jolicoeur, Christian Leuprecht, Adam Lowther, Sarah Jane Meharg, Eric Ouellet, Ronald D. Porter, Anthony Seaboyer, Ron Schleifer, Miniqian Shen, Anne Speckhard, Keith Stewart, Joseph Szeman, and Alex Wilner

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Book SynopsisThe transformative impacts of digitalization on society are visible both within nation states and across borders. Information and communication technologies are typically considered beneficial for democracy. Nevertheless, this book explores the challenges that technology brings to democracy, and in so doing advances our understanding of this crucial digital, social and political phenomenon. It contributes to the broader discussion of the relationship between international, national and sub-national norms, institutions and actors in an increasingly connected world. Insightful and current, this book offers a wide variety of perspectives in an area where there is still not yet an extensive body of research. It considers, for example: the extent to which new forms of digital political engagement change traditional democratic decision-making; how receptive national governments and authorities are to digital democratic movements; how governments can uphold the values of democratic society while also ensuring flexibility with regard to the private sector; and how we should judge these developments in light of the cross-border effects of digitalization. Understanding the influence of digitalization on democracy is crucial. As such, this book will appeal to a broad audience including, but not limited to, social scientists, policy makers, legal researchers, NGOs, governments, students and lawyers.Contributors include: M. Adams, A. Banerjee, E. Bayamlioglu, C.L. Blake, J. Cudmore, C. Cuijpers, A. Dumas, C.R. Farina, M.-J. Garot, T. Gylfason, H.L. Kong, E.A. Lazzari, P.L. Lindseth, N. Luka, A. Meuwese, L.F.M. Moncau, C. Nam, M. Newhart, U. Pagallo, I. Pernice, C. Prins, R. Radu, M.S.G. Rosina, R. Weill, K. van Aeken, B. Zhao, N. ZingalesTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Digitalization through the lens of law and democracy Maurice Adams and Corien Prins Part I Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives 2. E-democracy, the global citizen, and multilevel constitutionalism Ingolf Pernice 3. In search of the Holy Grail: a principled approach to multistakeholder governance in internet policy-making Nicolo Zingales, Roxana Radu 4. The broken promises of democracy in the information era Ugo Pagallo 5. Depoliticization in the digital infosphere: When communication runs counter-democratic Emre Bayamlioglu 6. The ambivalence of the impact of digitalization on democracy through the lens of privacy and transparency Colette Cuijpers 7. Election integrity: the constitutionality of transitioning to electronic voting in comparative terms Rivka Weill Part II Case Studies 8. Digital democracy in Brazil: is technology a game-changer? Mônica Steffen Guise Rosina, Luiz Fernando Marrey Moncau and Eduardo Alves Lazzari 9. Deliberative democracy and digital urban design in a Canadian city: The case of the McGill Online Design Studio Hoi L. Kong, Nik Luka, Jaimie Cudmore and Andrea Dumas 10. Digital support for enhanced democratic participation in US rulemaking Cynthia R. Farina, Cheryl L. Blake, Mary Newhart and Chaebong Nam 11. The European Citizens’ Initiative: an effective tool to promote a digital European democracy? Marie-José Garot 12. Digital tools and the derailment of Iceland´s new constitution Thorvaldur Gylfason and Anne Meuwese 13. Digital democracy in Belgium and the Netherlands. A socio-legal analysis of technologies, embedding and expectations of two Fourth Wave innovations Koen van Aeken 14. Digitization and democracy in China: the new Hunger Games Bo Zhao 15. Internet censorship in India: Internet censorship in India: the law and beyond Arpan Banerjee Epilogue 16. Technology, Democracy, and Institutional Change Peter L. Lindseth Index

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