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Book SynopsisA New York Times bestselling author and tech columnist's counter-intuitive guide to staying relevant - and employable - in the machine age by becoming irreplaceably human.It's not a future scenario any more. We've been taught that to compete with automation and AI, we'll have to become more like the machines themselves, building up technical skills like coding. But, there's simply no way to keep up. What if all the advice is wrong? And what do we need to do instead to become futureproof?We tend to think of automation as a blue-collar phenomenon that will affect truck drivers, factory workers, and other people with repetitive manual jobs. But it's much, much broader than that. Lawyers are being automated out of existence. Last year, JPMorgan Chase built a piece of software called COIN, which uses machine learning to review complicated contracts and documents. It used to take the firm's lawyers more than 300,000 hours every year to review all of those documents. Now, it takes a few seconds, and requires just one human to run the program. Doctors are being automated out of existence, too. Last summer, a Chinese tech company built a deep learning algorithm that diagnosed brain cancer and other diseases faster and more accurately than a team of 15 top Chinese doctors.Kevin Roose has spent the past few years studying the question of how people, communities, and organisations adapt to periods of change, from the Industrial Revolution to the present. And the insight that is sweeping through Silicon Valley as we speak -- that in an age dominated by machines, it's human skills that really matter - is one of the more profound and counter-intuitive ideas he's discovered. It's the antidote to the doom-and-gloom worries many people feel when they think about AI and automation. And it's something everyone needs to hear.In nine accessible, prescriptive chapters, Roose distills what he has learned about how we will survive the future, that the way to become futureproof is to become incredibly, irreplaceably human.Trade ReviewA concise, insightful and sophisticated guide to maintaining humane values in an age of new machines -- The New York Times Book ReviewWhile we need to rewrite the rules of the twenty-first-century economy, Kevin's book is a great look at how people can do this on a personal level to always put humanity first -- Andrew YangLightly written and engaging * The Times *Kevin Roose provides a clear, compelling strategy for surviving the next wave of technology with our jobs - and souls - intact... Futureproof is the survival guide you need. * Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit *AI will be a far bigger game changer for the world than COVID-19. And unless we start thinking and planning for it far more seriously now, we will be in even greater peril. Futureproof is a brilliant book that explains what we need to do, all of us, right now * Anthony Seldon *Roose offers an upbeat, practical guide for dealing with "a world that is increasingly arranged by and for machines" . . . Helpful advice to quell workers' anxiety * Kirkus Reviews *PRAISE FOR YOUNG MONEY - If Kevin Roose's finely crafted Young Money does not scare you straight about the life of a young financial analyst on Wall Street, it can't be done. Roose's frolic through Wall Street's playpen is a must-read. * House of Cards; Money and Power *Despite all the press about Wall Street, the stories that don't usually get told are those of the recent college graduates who clamour for the chance to work 100 hour plus weeks at the big banks. Kevin Roose's new book, which follows a handful of analysts through the trials and tribulations of their early years on the Street, is a thoughtful exploration of their motivations and their experiences - and it's a great read. * The Smartest Guys in the Room and All the Devils are Here *A cautionary true-life tale, Young Money should be required reading for every college student who is contemplating a job on Wall Street. As for the rest of us, who remember Wall Street before 2008, Kevin Roose has provided a great window into how that world has changed-and how it hasn't. * The Predator's Ball *Highly entertaining and impressive ...Roose's captivating read is sure to appeal to readers young and old who are interested in the zeitgeist of Wall Street since the crash * Publisher's Weekly *[Young Money] offers a compelling glimpse of Wall Street in the post-2008 recession era...thought provoking, excellent book * Booklist *The young people who have flocked to Wall Street are often badly used, caught up in power struggles among middle management and little appreciated ... [Young Money] captures the daily indignities to which the junior capitalists are subjected * Kirkus Reviews *

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Book SynopsisLaurence Scott's book The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World (2015) was shortlisted for The Samuel Johnson Prize, won the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Prize, and was named the Sunday Times Thought Book of the Year'. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman, Boston Globe, Wired and the London Review of Books. In 2011 he was named a New Generation Thinker' by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the BBC, and now regularly writes and presents documentaries for BBC radio, as well as presenting and contributing to the Radio 3 arts and ideas programme, Free Thinking. He is a Lecturer in Writing at New York University in London, where he lives.Trade ReviewIn this sequence of almost Montaigne-like essays, blending observation, philosophical inquiry and a highly literary sort of layering, Scott exquisitely articulates not what the digital world can do but how it feels to engage with it. He resists the usual polarisation of debate, capturing instead our “breathless” mix of excitement and unease. Scott’s writing is exceptionally fine, and his cultural range extravagant. Describing YouTube’s “enveloping of the past”, he moves from Ian McEwan to Katie Price. Pondering the phenomenon of digital detox, he recalls EM?Forster’s yearning for the greenwood. He flits from Google’s Desert View to early Christian hermits, from Airbnb to late-Victorian science fiction — and it is always insightful, never pretentious. An astounding debut. * Sunday Times, Thought Book of the Year *Scott's references are admirably broad, spanning high and low culture in a layered and complex (and Samuel Johnson shortlisted) account. * Financial Times, Books of the Year *Clever, allusive, with a capacious sense of humour, the book sizzles with intelligence ... brilliant. * New York Times *Scott is an ideal person to tackle this subject... Moreover, he is both a creative writer and a perceptive literary critic, who leavens his text with some mercurially brilliant turns of phrase and poetic coinages, while at the same time stiffening it up with huge dollops of literary explication and quotation… with his joyful phrase-making and sharp eye for the follies and absurdities of wired life, Scott would be the perfect investigator to report back on what it feels like to be… uploaded. -- Will Self * Guardian *A book that delivers a nourishing counterpoint to the ephemerality of the digital age. Scott offers layered and complex thought in a style that is elegant and artful. He has worked long and hard, you imagine, at these thoughts and words – and to prove that it can still be done, despite the glow of distraction emanating from a smartphone inevitably sitting on a table nearby, is worth celebrating in itself. -- Sophie Elmhirst * Financial Times *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The first edition became my ‘go-to’ book for mastering user requirements gathering. Ten years later, this second edition is even better. Don’t leave your office without it!" --Joe Dumas, Editor in Chief, Journal of Usability Studies "Do you believe in driving while blindfolded? That's what you're doing if you design and market a technological product without studying your target users and tasks. This book is a comprehensive handbook on the "why" and "how" of user research, illustrated with vivid real-world examples. Don't drive your design project while blindfolded. Get this book, read it, and follow its prescriptions. It will repay its cost many times over." --Jeff Johnson, author of GUI Bloopers 2.0 and Designing with the Mind in Mind "Very authoritative, this work combines the experience of senior practitioners and an academic, with lots of specific guidelines, tips and examples, and with pointers to other readings for deeper insights. Useful for students and practitioners alike, this should be on everyone's bookshelf. The authors do a great job of explaining the importance of business-side stakeholders (C-suite, marketing, sales, development) and how to speak their language." --James D. Foley, Professor, College of Computing, Stephen Fleming Chair in Telecommunications, Georgia Institute of Technology "Understanding Your Users is a thorough guide to user experience for designers both technical and non-technical. Instructors, students and practitioners will find this book very useful to your success as an user experience expert." --Juan E. Gilbert, Ph.D., Andrew Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Chair, Computer & Information Science & Engineering Department, University of Florida "Understanding Your Users is handbook of practical wisdom for the serious human centered design practitioner. This second edition includes updated content around emerging best practices. It is a must have in any design team’s library." --Janaki Kumar, Head of Strategic Design Services, America, Design and Co-Innovation Center, SAP Labs Palo Alto "With the massive expansion of digital products, new processes for faster development cycles, and competition that can appear out of nowhere in days, the product design has become the major differentiator, and key to success. Understanding your end user is more important than it ever has been, how they really work, and how your assumptions match up to their reality. This book takes tried and true methodology and shows how any or all of it can be applied to your products now." --Jeremy Ashley, VP, Oracle Cloud UX "A great introductory book for anyone wishing to understand and engage in traditional user research methods. The language is clear and straightforward, allowing the reader to try and use the methods on their own project. Each method is accompanied with an extensive bibliography allowing the curious mind to further delve into any of the described methods. Samples of forms, letters and examples enhance the practical nature of the book, making this title a staple for the beginning practitioner." --Joseph Kramer is a Service Design Lead at Fjord - Design and Innovation from Accenture Interactive "The difference between product success and failure often comes down to the user experience. Baxter, Courage, and Cain share the methods you need to better understand your users so that you can design delightful experiences." --Craig Villamor, Chief Design Architect at Salesforce.comTable of ContentsPart 1: What You Need to Know Before Choosing An Activity 1. Introduction to User Experience 2. Before You Choose an Activity: Learning About Your Product and Users 3. Ethical and Legal Considerations 4. Setting Up Research Facilities 5. Choosing a User Experience Research Activity Part 2: Get Up and Running 6. Preparing For Your User Research Activity 7. During Your User Research Activity Part 3: The Methods 8. Diary Studies 9. Interviews 10. Surveys 11. Card Sorting 12. Focus Groups 13. Field Studies 14. Evaluating Methods Part 4: Wrapping Up 15. Concluding Final Part 5: Appendices Appendix A. Requirements for Creating a Participant Recruitment Database Appendix B. Report Template Appendix C. Glossary Appendix D. References

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Book SynopsisOver the course of a generation, algorithms have gone from mathematical abstractions to powerful mediators of daily life. In evolving from static computer programs hand-coded by engineers to the products of machine learning, these technologies have made our lives more efficient, more entertaining, and, sometimes, better informed. At the same time, complex algorithms are increasingly crushing the basic rights of individual citizens. Allegedly anonymized datasets and statistical models routinely leak our most sensitive personal information; applications for everything from loans to college reflect racial and gender bias. Meanwhile, users manipulate algorithms to game search engines, spam filters, online reviewing services and navigation apps. Understanding and improving the science behind the algorithms that run our lives is quickly becoming one of the most pressing issues of this century. Traditional solutions, such as laws, regulations and watchdog groups, have proven woefully inadequate, at best. Derived from the cutting-edge of scientific research, The Ethical Algorithm offers a new approach: a set of principled solutions based on the emerging and exciting science of socially aware algorithm design. Weaving together the science behind algorithm design with stories of citizens, lawyers, scientists, and activists experiencing the trial-and-error of research in real-time, Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth present a strikingly original way forward, showing how we can begin to work together to protect people from the unintended impacts of algorithms--and, sometimes, protect the science that could save us from ourselves.Trade Review...the authors take us on a journey through the main socio-algorithmic problems representing social constraints upon algorithms, their consequences and trade-offs. [T]hey provide concrete technical solutions for the challenges discussed throughout the book's 5 chapters: privacy, fairness, user-data-algorithm feedback loop, data-driven scientific discoveries and (brief) thoughts on the ethical issues (transparency, accountability, morality) yet to be pursued scientifically. * ESSSAT News & Reviews *It is elegantly written, easy to read and full of entertaining examples. * Martin Peterson, Prometheus *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Algorithmic Privacy: The Power of Randomization Chapter 2: Fairness: Discriminating Algorithms Chapter 3: Games People Play (With Algorithms) Chapter 4: Lost in the Garden: Led Astray by Data Chapter 5: Risky Business: Interpretability, Morality, and the Singularity Some Concluding Thoughts Acknowledgements Notes

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Book SynopsisPresenting a ground-breaking view of technology trends and their impact on our society, Artificial Era contributes to the current debate about the consequences of technological innovations. Alongside different viewpoints and statistics on the use of robots worldwide, productivity, and job displacement, Gissel Velarde identifies the particular problem of the lack of diversity in AI communities - and how that can exacerbate representation issues in employment, civil rights, gender, and education if no actions are taken.A timely, inciteful book which will be required reading for scholars and professionals working with AI and automation, and leaders in business and government interested in better understanding it and its effects on business and society.Trade ReviewOriginal, informative and easy to read. A good guide for understanding the future and facing it * Carlota Perez, Author of Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages *Highly recommended. * Alexis Marechal Marin, Head of the Computer Systems Engineering Department, Universidad Privada Boliviana, La Paz, Bolivia *There are already numerous books on artificial intelligence and its social impact, but Gissel Velarde's book has two characteristics that make it valuable and different. The first is that it is based on some 300 references in its bibliography, which gives it a very remarkable scientific character. The second is that AI is presented from the point of view of a Bolivian woman, who has lived in several European countries, and with a multidisciplinary professional profile. * Emilia Gómez, AI and Music Researcher, emiliagomez.com *A very natural and human vision of this new artificial era. * Isabel Barbancho, Full Professor, Universidad de Málaga, Spain *From the very beginning, the book invites us to think, to reflect, to question; and it does it from the freedom that we have to positioning ourselves in some place of the world of knowledge and reasoning. Is it fiction? Is it reality?...I invite you to read this text without fear or prejudice, enjoy it from beginning to end not only to include it in the reading list of the year, but to reflect, decide and act. * Willy Castro Guzmán, University Professor and Researcher, Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica *Dr. Velarde presents in this book a realistic perspective of the role technology, in particular artificial intelligence (AI), is playing and will play in our lives both at a personal level and at the society level. Instead of focusing only on the potential dilemmas of general artificial intelligence, she discusses important topics including the need for national and international strategies for AI development, as well as the consequences of developing biased AI models in a world with large inequalities (gender, racial, class, etc.). * Carlos Cancino-Chacón, Assistant Professor Institute of Computational Perception, Johannes Kepler University Linz *

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive overview into digital literary studies that equips readers to navigate the difficult contentions in this space.The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of ''the literary'' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly it is dismissed or is unrecognised as a way of thinking or an arena for thought. It is sceptically challenged from within, for example, by the sometimes rival claims of cultural history, contextualized explanation, or media studies. It is shaken from without by even greater pressures: by economic exigency and the severe social attitudes that can follow from it; by technological change that may leave the traditional forms of serious human communication looking merely antiquated. For just these reasons this is the right time for renewal, to start reinvigorated work into the meaning and value of literary reading.You may have heard of the digital humanities--and what you may have heard may not have been good. Yet like an oncoming storm, the relentless growth of the use of digital methods for the study of literature seems inevitable. This book gives an insight into the ways in which digital approaches can be used to study literature and the ways in which humanistic study can be used to explore digital literature. Examining its subject across the axes of authorship, space, and visualization, maps and place, distance and history, and ethical approaches to the digital humanities, this book introduces newcomers to the topic while also offering plenty for seasoned digital humanities pros. Combining original research with third-party case studies and examples, this book will appeal both to students and researchers across all levels who wish to learn about digital literary studies.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Authors and Writing 2: Space and Visualization 3: Maps and Place 4: Distance and History 5: Conclusion: Ethical Digitalism Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWe live in the midst of a revolution in communication technologies that affects the way in which people feel, think, and behave. The media have become the space where power strategies are played out. In the current technological context mass communication goes beyond traditional media and includes the Internet and mobile communication. In this wide-ranging and powerful book, Manuel Castells analyses the transformation of the global media industry by this revolution in communication technologies. He argues that a new communication system, mass self-communication, has emerged, and power relationships have been profoundly modified by the emergence of this new communication environment. Created in the commons of the Internet this communication can be locally based, but globally connected. It is built through messaging, social networks sites, and blogging, and is now being used by the millions around the world who have access to the Internet.Drawing on a wide range of social and psychologicTrade ReviewReview from previous edition Manuel Castells has shaped himself into the most prominent and influential theorist and analyst of the modern communications and network age. He is the Marshall McLuhan of our time. * John Lloyd, Financial Times *a challenging and intriguing work [in its] ambitions, scope and concepts. * Paschal Preston, Media, Culture & Society, Volume 32 (6), 2010 *A sustained inquiry into the nature of political and economic power in the modern world. * Steven Livingston, Political Communicatoin (27) *Castells has done it again, a masterpiece of global perspective and enviable erudition. Moving beyond his trilogy on the information age, Castells focuses on how cultural, economic and particularly political power relationships are constituted and sustained through systematic communication flows. A new line of analysis draws on neuroscience and cognitive psychology to track the role of emotion in political communication. Case studies include global media deregulation, the politics of scandal, framing the war in Iraq, ecological social movements, the Obama presidential candidacy and a fascinating comparison of media control dynamics in Russia and China. * Advance praise from W. Russell Neuman, Evans Professor of Media Technology, University of Michigan *How could Manuel Castells have predicted that now is the time of the perfect storm? I do not know. But I do know that his new book coincides with the largest downturn in global economies since the 1930s, with the most important American election since the 1960s, with a most radical transformation of world politics in many generations, and with the most profound reevaluation of the lives of modern citizens, from what they value to how they communicate. We have become used to Castells' careful scholarship and penetrating analyses but in this new book he cuts deeper into the heart of the matter. Sometimes he provides illuminating answers and where he cannot, he frames the questions that must be answered. This is a powerful and much needed book for a world in crisis. * Advance praise from Antonio Damasio, David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience, Director, Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California *Manuel Castells unites the mind of a social scientist with the soul of an artist. His trilogy took us to the edge of the millennium. This book takes us beyond to the critical crossroads of the 21st century, where technology, communication, and power converge. * Advance praise from Rosalind Williams, Dibner Professor and Director, Program on Science, Technology and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology *In this timely book, Professor Castells turns his attention from the impact of the internet on the economy to its impact on communications and politics. I can warmly recommend it to all communications practitioners. But his clear analysis and vivid case studies make this book of interest to anyone who wants to understand the nature of power in today's democracy and the meaning of the campaign that swept Barack Obama into the White House. * Advance praise from Margot Wallström, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for Communication Policy *Table of ContentsOpening ; Introduction to the Revised Edition ; 1. Power in the Network Society ; 2. Communication in the Digital Age ; 3. Networks of Mind and Power ; 4. Programming Communication Networks: Media Politics, Scandal Politics, and the Crisis of Democracy ; 5. Reprogramming Communication Networks: Social Movements, Insurgent Politics, and the New Public Space ; 6. Toward a Communication Theory of Power

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Book Synopsis“Magisterial…Draws an elegant and illuminating parallel between the late-19th-century electrification of America and today’s computing world.” —SalonTrade Review"Future Shock for the Web-apps era…Compulsively readable—for nontechies, too—as it compellingly weaves together news stories, anecdotes, and data." -- Fast Company"The best read so far about the significance of the shift to cloud computing." -- Financial Times"Mr. Carr’s provocations are destined to influence CEOs and the boards and investors that support them as companies grapple with the constant change of the digital age." -- Wall Street Journal"Exceedingly good." -- TechWorld"The Big Switch is thought-provoking and an enjoyable read, and the history of American electricity that makes up the first half of the book is riveting stuff." -- New York Post"Carr stimulates, provokes and entertains superbly." -- Information Age

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Book SynopsisA shocking exposé of the huge social, political and environmental costs of cryptocurrenciesTrade Review'A methodical and essential resource. Howson strikes not just at cryptocurrency, but the frauds who promote blockchain technology as a solution to any social problem - when they only exploit the vulnerable to pump their coins.' -- David Gerard, author of 'Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain'Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. Banking the Unbanked 2. The Crypto Colonists 3. Green Wash Trading 4. Bad Samaritans 5. Bloke Chains 6. For Betterverse or Metaworse 7. A World Without Web3 Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTo make sense of data and use it effectively, it is essential to know where it comes from and how it has been processed and used. This is the domain of paradata, an emerging interdisciplinary field with wide applications. As digital data rapidly accumulates in repositories worldwide, this comprehensive introductory book, the first of its kind, shows how to make that data accessible and reusable. In addition to covering basic concepts of paradata, the book supports practice with coverage of methods for generating, documenting, identifying and managing paradata, including formal metadata, narrative descriptions and qualitative and quantitative backtracking. The book also develops a unifying reference model to help readers contextualise the role of paradata within a wider system of knowledge, practices and processes, and provides a vision for the future of the field. This guide to general principles and practice is ideal for researchers, students and data managers.

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Book SynopsisWhat is artificial intelligence (AI)? How can AI help a learner, a teacher or a system designer? What are the positive impacts of AI on human learning? AI for Learning examines how artificial intelligence can, and should, positively impact human learning, whether it be in formal or informal educational and training contexts. The notion of can' is bound up with ongoing technological developments. The notion of should' is bound up with an ethical stance that recognises the complementary capabilities of human and artificial intelligence, as well as the objectives of doing good, not doing harm, increasing justice and maintaining fairness. The book considers the different supporting roles that can help a learner from AI as a tutor and learning aid to AI as a classroom moderator, among others and examines both the opportunities and risks associated with each.Trade Review"AI for Learning addresses important questions related to how AI will impact both teaching and learning in an educational context. This book could be used by all sorts of educators or those in educational policy. I would use this book for my AI and instructional communication graduate class." --Chad Edwards, Western Michigan University"This book is very timely, and there is a great need for it. Artificial intelligence has great potential to promote learning and empower teaching. But this potential will go largely unrealized unless learners, teachers, and parents understand it. AI for Learning clearly explains the potential benefits and risks of AI in education. It's an excellent model for how to take a complex technical subject and present it in a way that anyone can comprehend, without dumbing it down." --Dr. W. Lewis Johnson, co-founder, Alelo Inc."AI for Learning addresses important questions related to how AI will impact both teaching and learning in an educational context. This book could be used by all sorts of educators or those in educational policy. I would use this book for my AI and instructional communication graduate class." --Chad Edwards, Western Michigan University"This book is very timely, and there is a great need for it. Artificial intelligence has great potential to promote learning and empower teaching. But this potential will go largely unrealized unless learners, teachers, and parents understand it. AI for Learning clearly explains the potential benefits and risks of AI in education. It's an excellent model for how to take a complex technical subject and present it in a way that anyone can comprehend, without dumbing it down." --Dr. W. Lewis Johnson, co-founder, Alelo Inc.Table of ContentsForeword: The Power of Learning, The Power of AI by Rose Luckin. Introduction: What Is All This about AI in Education? 1 How Do I Tell the Difference between Good AI and Bad?: Or – About Our Five-Step Evaluation of Cake Mixes. 2 AI as a Learner: How Can AI Help Me Learn Things That I Did Not Understand Before? 3 AI as a Tutor: How Can AI Tutor Me about Stuff? 4 AI as a Classroom Moderator: How Can AI Give Me Eyes in the Back of My Head? 5 Conclusion: So, Are We Friends Now? Glossary. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates the spaces where architecture and computer science share a common set of assumptions and goals, using methods and objectives from architecture, ethnography, and human-computer interaction.Architecture and HCI depend on and borrow from each other, and even share some vocabulary in their divergent disciplinary agendas. The authors here unpack the past, present, and potential futures of architecture and the user interface, using the lens of ethnography and ethnographic practices to launch this exciting cross-disciplinary inquiry. The goal is the creation of an interface that is able to connect the wide range of embodied architectural space, the modes of interaction afforded by computation and the social process of creating meaningful places.This will be of great interest to upper-level students and academics in the fields of architecture, human computer interaction, and ethnography.

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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays explores the present and future of digital communication through a range of interdisciplinary approaches, all of which focus on the so-called metaverse. The metaverse is a combination of multiple elements of technology including virtual reality, augmented reality, and video where users live within a digital universe. The vision for this new universe is that its users can work, play, and stay connected with friends through everything. Such a vision is hinted at in existing phenomena such as online game universes.Table of Contents1. Geneses, Evolution and Metafuture, 2. The Metaverse in Communication: Reflections from Neuroscience, 3. New Linguistic Spaces in Cyberculture: The Influence of the Metaverse on the Minifiction of Social Networks, 4. Metaverse and New Narrative: Storyliving in the Age of Metaverse, 5. Customized Metaverse: The Study of Factors Influencing the Use of Humanlike Avatars of Social Media Content Creators in Communication with Their Audience, 6. Metaverse and Diversity, 7. Queering the Metaverse: Queer Approaches to Virtual Reality in Contemporary Art, 8. Film Practices in the Metaverse: Methodological Approach for Prosocial VR Storytelling Creation, 9. Video Game Design: A Blueprint for the Metaverse and Education, 10. Film Production and Architecture Education in the Metaverse, 11. Gone with the Wind: From Virtual Reality to the Metaverse at Film Festivals

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Book SynopsisThe ultimate guide to assessing and exploiting the customer value and revenue potential of the Cloud A new business model is sweeping the worldthe Cloud. And, as with any new technology, there is a great deal of fear, uncertainty, and doubt surrounding cloud computing. Cloudonomics radically upends the conventional wisdom, clearly explains the underlying principles and illustrates through understandable examples how Cloud computing can create compelling valuewhether you are a customer, a provider, a strategist, or an investor. Cloudonomics covers everything you need to consider for the delivery of business solutions, opportunities, and customer satisfaction through the Cloud, so you can understand itand put it to work for your business. Cloudonomics also delivers insight into when to avoid the cloud, and why. Quantifies how customers, users, and cloud providers can collaborate to create win-wins Reveals how to use the Laws of CloudoTrade Review"In his new book, Joe Weinman explores many of the areas being impacted by the cloud computing phenomenon, offering compelling value propositions. He spells out, extremely thoroughly, the business cases and cost justifications that go behind cloud computing efforts. He also provides 28 business areas where cloud does and doesn't make business and financial sense." (Forbes.com, September 2012)Table of ContentsPreface xv Acknowledgments xxi Chapter 1 A Cloudy Forecast 1 Clouds Everywhere 2 Cashing In on the Cloud 6 Beyond Business 8 Clarifying the Cloud 11 Farther On 12 Summary 13 Notes 13 Chapter 2 Does the Cloud Matter? 17 Productivity Paradox 19 Competitiveness Confrontation 21 Summary 26 Notes 26 Chapter 3 Cloud Strategy 29 Insanity or Inevitability? 30 Democratization of IT 31 Industrialization of IT 32 Strategy 33 The Cloud: More than IT 35 The Networked Organization 38 Form Follows Function, IT Follows Form 41 Aligning Cloud with Strategy 42 Everyware, Anywhere 42 Summary 44 Notes 44 Chapter 4 Challenging Convention 49 What Is the Cloud? 50 Economies of Scale 50 Competitive Advantage and Customer Value 52 Cloud Ecosystem Dynamics 55 IT Spend 58 Issues with the Cloud 59 Summary 61 Notes 61 Chapter 5 What Is a Cloud? 63 Defining the Cloud 64 On-Demand Resources 66 Utility Pricing 67 Common Infrastructure 68 Location Independence 69 Online Accessibility 70 Difference from Traditional Purchase and Ownership 70 Cloud Criteria and Implications 72 Is the Cloud New or a New Buzzword? 73 Summary 75 Notes 76 Chapter 6 Strategy and Value 77 Access to Competencies 77 Availability 79 Capacity 79 Comparative Advantage and Core versus Context 80 Unit Cost 80 Delivered Cost 80 Total Solution Cost 82 Opportunity Cost and Cost Avoidance 83 Agility 83 Time Compression 84 Margin Expansion 85 Customer and User Experience and Loyalty 86 Employee Satisfaction 87 Revenue Growth 87 Community and Sustainability 87 Risk Reduction 88 Competitive Vitality and Survival 88 Summary 89 Notes 89 Chapter 7 When—and When Not—to Use the Cloud 91 Use Cases for the Cloud 91 Inappropriate Cloud Use Cases 101 Summary 104 Notes 104 Chapter 8 Demand Dilemma 107 A Diversity of Demands 108 Examples of Variability 109 Chase Demand or Shape It? 120 Summary 121 Notes 122 Chapter 9 Capacity Conundrum 125 Service Quality Impacts 126 Fixed Capacity versus Variable Demand 127 Splitting the Difference 129 Better Safe than Sorry 131 Capacity Inertia 134 Summary 135 Notes 135 Chapter 10 Significance of Scale 137 Is the Cloud Like Electricity? 139 Distributed Power Generation 140 Is the Cloud Like Rental Cars? 141 Capital Expenditures versus Operating Expenses 143 Benchmark Data 145 Cost Factors 147 Benchmarking the Leaders 150 Size Matters 151 Summary 155 Notes 155 Chapter 11 More Is Less 159 Is the Cloud Less Expensive? 159 Characterizing Relative Costs and Workload Variability 161 When Clouds Cost Less or the Same 163 If Clouds Are More Expensive 164 Beauty of Hybrids 164 Cost of the Network 167 Summary 169 Notes 170 Chapter 12 Hybrids 171 Users, Enterprise, and Cloud 172 Hybrid Architecture Implementations 174 Summary 180 Notes 180 Chapter 13 Fallibility of Forecasting 181 Even Stranger than Strange 182 Demand for Products and Services 183 System Dynamics 185 Whips and Chains 186 Exogenous Uncertainty 186 Behavioral Cloudonomics of Forecasting 187 Summary 190 Notes 191 Chapter 14 Money Value of Time 193 Demand and Resource Functions 193 Cost of Excess Capacity 195 Cost of Insufficient Capacity 196 Asymmetric Penalty Functions, Perfect Capacity, and On Demand 197 Flat Demand 197 Uniformly Distributed Demand 197 Better Never than Late 199 MAD about Being Normal 200 Triangular Distributions 201 Linear Growth 201 Exponential Growth 202 Random Walks 204 Variable Penalty Functions 206 Summary 207 Notes 208 Chapter 15 Peak Performance 209 Relationships between Demands 210 Lessons from Rolling Dice 212 Coefficient of Variation and Other Statistics 215 Statistical Effects in Independent Demand Aggregation 216 Significance of 1/√m 218 Issues with Perfectly Correlated Demand 220 Community Clouds 220 Simultaneous Peaks 221 Peak of the Sum Is Never Greater than the Sum of the Peaks 222 Utilization Improvements 224 Summary 225 Notes 226 Chapter 16 Million-Dollar Microsecond 227 On Time 228 Rapidity Drives Revenue 230 Built for Speed 232 Summary 233 Notes 233 Chapter 17 Parallel Universe 235 Limits to Speedup 236 Amdahl versus Google 237 Free Time 240 Summary 243 Notes 243 Chapter 18 Shortcuts to Success 245 Rapid Transit 246 Sending Letters 247 Short on Time 249 Bandwidth Isn’t Enough 252 Summary 253 Notes 253 Chapter 19 Location, Location, Location 255 Latency and Distance 255 Circle Covering and Circle Packing 257 Inverse Square Root Law 258 Spherical Caps and the Tammes Problem 260 Summary 263 Notes 263 Chapter 20 Dispersion Dilemma 265 Strategies for Response Time Reduction 266 Consolidation versus Dispersion 268 Trade-offs between Consolidation and Dispersion 269 Benefits of Consolidation 270 Benefits of Dispersion 271 The Network Is the Computer 272 Summary 274 Notes 274 Chapter 21 Platform and Software Services 277 Infrastructure as a Service Benefit 279 Paying on Actuals versus Forecasts 280 Installation 280 Investment 281 Updates 281 Service-Level Agreements 281 Continuously Earned Trust 282 Visibility and Transparency 282 Big Data and Computing Power 283 Ubiquitous Access 283 Response Time and Availability 284 Multitenancy, Shared Data 284 Cloud-Centric Applications 284 Scalability 285 Communities and Markets 285 Lock-in 285 Security and Compliance 286 PaaS: Assembly versus Fabrication 287 Innovation and Democratization 287 Deconstructing the Pure SaaS Model 288 Summary 290 Notes 291 Chapter 22 Availability 293 Uptime versus Downtime 295 Availability and Probability 296 Availability of Networked Resources 296 Availability via Redundancy and Diversity 297 On-Demand, Pay-per-Use Redundancy 300 Summary 301 Notes 301 Chapter 23 Lazy, Hazy, Crazy 303 Behavioral Economics 303 Loss and Risk Aversion 304 Flat-Rate Bias 305 Framing and Context 307 Need for Control and Autonomy 307 Fear of Change 308 Herding and Conformity 309 Endowment Effect 310 Need for Status 311 Paralysis by Analysis of Choice 311 Hyperbolic Discounts and Instant Gratification 312 Zero-Price Effect 313 Summary 313 Notes 314 Chapter 24 Cloud Patterns 317 Communications Patterns 317 Hierarchies 321 Markets 323 Repository 326 Perimeters and Checkpoints 326 Summary 327 Notes 328 Chapter 25 What’s Next for Cloud? 329 Pricing 329 Ecosystems, Intermediaries, and the Intercloud 332 Products versus Services 336 Consolidation and Concentration 336 City in the Clouds 338 Spending More while Paying Less 339 Enabling Vendor Strategies 340 Standards, APIs, Certification, and Rating Agencies 344 Commoditization or Innovation? 345 Notes 349 About the Author 353 About the Web Site 355 Index 357

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Book SynopsisFeaturing contributions from an international array of futurists, The Future Starts Now provides fascinating insights and guidance into how society and business will transform in the years to come.The future is an uncertain, uncomfortable prospect for employees, employers and society at large. A flurry of unprecedented events have proven that, despite what some politicians and economists may tell us, the future is not set in stone. In light of this uncertainty, The Future Starts Now looks toward the various innovations and technologies that may shape our future. Authors Theo Priestley and Bronwyn Williams have brought together the world''s leading futurists to articulate and clarify the current trajectories in technology, economics, politics and business. This is a comprehensive history of tomorrow, exploring groundbreaking topics such as AI, privacy, education and the future of work. While the guidance, insight and predictions are fascinating foTrade ReviewA fascinating and profoundly inspiring read that offers both practical advice, dazzlingly provocative and exciting ideas and that is a joy to read. A collection of the finest minds, in their very best form, doing the most valuable of things in offering us clarity, wisdom, inspiration and guidance. -- Tom Goodwin, consultant, speaker and author of 'Digital Darwinism'The future isn’t what it used to be. It is now open to the dreamers, thinkers and creatives to create the future that benefits us all. Theo and Bronwyn have personally curated the thoughts of those who care about a brighter, more prosperous future for everyone. The future starts now… with you. -- Brian Solis, digital anthropologist, futurist and author of LifescaleA mind-blowing journey that challenges the reader, with essays both fascinating and challenging. -- Michael Dolbec, Executive Managing Director, GE VenturesA wonderful compendium from some of today’s most thoughtful futurists, ethicists, economists, technologists, and researchers. If you are curious about what the future holds, this is the place to start. -- Dave Evans, CIO, Computer History MuseumBronwyn and Theo have extracted and curated a treasure trove of scenarios, ideas and strategies for succeeding in an increasingly uncertain tomorrow. Devoid of shtick or snake oil, this book is an indispensable tool for the modern business leader. -- Mike Stopforth, Director, Beyond BinaryA necessary wake-up call! We need to be asking these tougher questions, as part of honest and pragmatic conversations, with a broad range of voices, to avoid sleepwalking into an inhuman future. -- Ed Greig, Chief Disruptor, DeloitteDizzying, provocative and smart analysis on what should matter to humankind, today and tomorrow. Factual, contemporary and realistic, this story encourages positive thinking about the decisions we must take to deliver on the promise of a better future. -- Martin Jetter, Chairman, IBM Europe, Middle East & AfricaThe Future Starts Now offers diverse narratives of the future: positive and negative, fearful and hopeful, social and technological. In particular, by emphasising social change and empowering to shape our own future in the present, it provides a contemporary view of foresight. -- Tanja Schindler, Futurist and Founder, Futures SpaceWhether you are pessimistic or optimistic about the future… read this book! -- Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Founder & CEO, TNWWith excellent essays exploring topics as diverse as education and Mars, this is an inspirational read for anyone aspiring for a pragmatic utopia! -- Stefan Ferber, Co-CEO & CTO, Bosch.IO

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Book SynopsisIn India, the practice of jugaad—finding workarounds or hacks to solve problems—emerged out of subaltern strategies of negotiating poverty, discrimination, and violence but is now celebrated in management literature as a disruptive innovation. In Jugaad Time Amit S. Rai explores how jugaad operates within contemporary Indian digital media cultures through the use of the mobile phone. Rai shows that despite being co-opted by capitalism to extract free creative labor from the workforce, jugaad is simultaneously a practice of everyday resistance, as workers and communities employ hacks to oppose corporate, caste, and gender power. Locating the tensions surrounding jugaad—as both premodern and postdigital, innovative and oppressive—Rai maps how jugaad can be used to undermine neoliberal capitalist media ecologies and nationalist politics.Trade Review"Jugaad Time will be of great interest to an array of scholars of South Asia who are committed to ethnographically and historically examining assemblages of affect, media technologies, and temporality. The book offers a novel and important opportunity for these scholars to examine how the Global South is implicated in and by innovation studies." -- Anisha Chadha * Visual Anthropology Review *"Researchers of waste, maintenance, and repair or of the Anthropocene will be interested in jugaad and jugaadus, and Rai’s offering is a welcome challenge to the innovation-dominated framings of consumer capitalist marketing. . . . Even as he emphasizes Indian experiences of jugaad, Rai shows us a way toward wider understandings of how information technologies interlock with contingent and individuated labor to produce the subjectivities of a digital neoliberalism." -- Juris Milestone * Exertions *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xix Introduction. A Political Ecology of Jugaad 1 Fables of the Reinvention I. Toward a Universal History of Hacking 39 1. The Affect of Jugaad: "Frugal Innovation" and the Workaround Ecologies of Postcolonial Practice 45 2. Neoliberal Assemblages of Perception and Digital Media in India 68 Fables of the Reinvention II. New Desiring Machines 102 3. Jugaad Ecologies of Social Reproduction 106 4. Diagramming Affect: Smart Cities and Plasticity in India's Informal Economy 128 Fables of the Reinvention III. A Series of Minor Events 150 Conclusion. Jugaad Jugaading: Time, Language, Misogyny in Hacking Ecologies 153 Notes 167 References 175 Index 203

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Book SynopsisFor decades, lesbian feminists across the United States and Canada have created information to build movements and survive in a world that doesn''t want them. In Information Activism Cait McKinney traces how these women developed communication networks, databases, and digital archives that formed the foundation for their work. Often learning on the fly and using everything from index cards to computers, these activists brought people and their visions of justice together to organize, store, and provide access to information. Focusing on the transition from paper to digital-based archival techniques from the 1970s to the present, McKinney shows how media technologies animate the collective and unspectacular labor that sustains social movements, including their antiracist and trans-inclusive endeavors. By bringing sexuality studies to bear on media history, McKinney demonstrates how groups with precarious access to control over information create their own innovative and resourcefTrade Review“In an age when technological innovation itself is often assumed to make the world a better place, Cait McKinney reminds us that, for the past fifty years, lesbian feminist activists have resourcefully patched together their own heterodox information infrastructures—composed of telephone hotlines and spiral-bound notebooks, index cards and digitization technologies, hacked tools and customized protocols—to serve clear social and ethical ends. Their information activism enabled them to create systems of connection and care that are responsive to human need, rather than, as is so common today, to advertisers and algorithms.” -- Shannon Mattern, author of * Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban Media *“Through what might seem like an unlikely mashup of lesbian feminism and information studies, Cait McKinney illuminates both in original and compelling ways. The novel concept of information activism is a valuable contribution to understandings of social movements and counterpublics. And McKinney sheds new light on often misunderstood or neglected histories of lesbian feminism by exploring amateur obsessions with circulating information, including digital media. Together, information and lesbian feminism become unexpectedly sexy, erotic, and affectively charged.” -- Ann Cvetkovich, author of * Depression: A Public Feeling *"Steeped in the words, culture, vernacular, ephemera, and ways of interacting that have been refined by decades of lesbians, queers, and other feminists. The details are delightful. The writing is warm. Individuals and communities come to life on the page." -- Alexandra Juhasz * Lambda Literary Review *"What can we extrapolate from the sparse log that is left behind? In Information Activism, McKinney ... approaches this question with palpable respect for those doing the work at the time and with a sharp curiosity for the pieces of information that they didn’t leave behind. Each chapter examines a different kind of network—newsletters, hotlines, indexing projects, and archives—and centers the women who created and maintained them to make lifesaving, community-sustaining information available and accessible." -- Meerabelle Jesuthasan * The Nation *"Saturated with vivid historical detail, a testimony to McKinney’s extensive archival research. . . . The book’s intimate depictions of pre-digital information management invite its readers to reflect on the staggering amount of slow, painstaking technology work that went into feminism’s second wave." -- Deborah Thurman * Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *"I loved reading this book. . . . McKinney illustrates the interconnectedness of past social movements, present activism, and the attainability of liberatory futures." -- aems emswiler * Information & Culture *"McKinney's Information Activism reinforces why information activism matters. . . . McKinney's work does not feel wholly bound to either the past or present. Like many meaningful queer projects, it is oriented toward a sense of futurity: a perpetual process of improvisation, revision, and worldmaking." -- Harris Kornstein * Catalyst *"McKinney compellingly argues against strict and discrete definitions of print and digital, drawing instead a through-line between current pressing questions of ethics, access, and search retrieval on the one hand and past archiving practices of lesbian feminist activists on the other. . . . This work is a fascinating read for scholars of media and information, archives, queer histories, and activism. It raises a number of important questions about medium-specific affordances, privacy, and access that merit further study." -- Nelanthi Hewa * Canadian Journal Of Communication *"Information Activism is a critical celebration of activist-archivism, practiced via newsletters, crisis lines, periodicals, and other archive-community hybrid spaces. . . . Through a refusal of the safe, straight archive, and an embrace of strategic opacity and theft . . . McKinney invite[s] us to an archive that loves us back. Information is care, passed in the verb of love for ourselves and for each other, and these texts sustain kinship lines both new and old." -- Sarah Cavar * Feminist Media Studies *"Information Activism is a perfect book for readers interested in lesbian feminist activist histories and how social movements are sustained through old and new media technologies and productions. . . . McKinney offers readers a perfect entrée into thinking critically about LGBTQ+ archives and communities. Media studies and archival studies scholars might consider joining together to build on McKinney’s timely and important research to center the role that community archives play in building and sustaining community networks." -- Jamie A. Lee * Journal of the History of Sexuality *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Internet That Lesbians Built: Newsletter Networks 33 2. Calling to Talk and Listening Well: Information as Care at Telephone Hotlines 67 3. The Indexers: Dreaming of Computers while Shuffling Paper Cards 105 4. Feminist Digitization Practices at the Lesbian Herstory Archives 153 Epilogue. Doing Lesbian Feminism in an Age of Information Abundance 205 Notes 217 Bibliography 261 Index 281

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Book SynopsisObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Barcodes are about as ordinary as an object can be. Billions of them are scanned each day and they impact everything from how we shop to how we travel to how the global economy is managed. But few people likely give them more than a second thought. In a way, the barcode's ordinariness is the ultimate symbol of its success. However, behind the mundanity of the barcode lies an important history. Barcodes bridged the gap between physical objects and digital databases and paved the way for the contemporary Internet of Things, the idea to connect all devices to the web. They were highly controversial at points, protested by consumer groups and labor unions, and used as a symbol of dystopian capitalism and surveillance in science fiction and art installations. This book tells the story of the barcode's complicated history and examines how an object so crucial to so many parts of ourTrade ReviewJordan Frith’s engaging storytelling and analysis makes Barcode a page-turner. He transforms the technical into the human, bringing lively cultural, political, and social analysis to something most of us overlook every day. But beware: After reading this book, you’ll want to talk about barcodes all the time. * Torie Bosch, Editor, First Opinion, STAT *Table of Contents1. The little black lines that changed the world 2. How we almost ended up with a bullseye barcode 3. An early bridge between the digital and the physical 4. Consumer protests, labor rights, and automation 5. President Bush and the barcode 6. Barcodes and the Bible 7. The cultural imaginary of the barcode 8. The long and winding road of the QR Code 9. Barcodes and fifty years of misplaced eulogies Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe concept of transhumanism emerged in the middle of the 20th century, and has influenced discussions around AI, brain–computer interfaces, genetic technologies and life extension. Despite its enduring influence in the public imagination, a fully developed philosophy of transhumanism has not yet been presented. In this new book, leading philosopher Stefan Lorenz Sorgner explores the critical issues that link transhumanism with digitalization, gene technologies and ethics. He examines the history and meaning of transhumanism and asks bold questions about human perfection, cyborgs, genetically enhanced entities, and uploaded minds. Offering insightful reflections on values, norms and utopia, this will be an important guide for readers interested in contemporary digital culture, gene ethics, and policy making.Table of ContentsTranshumanism: In a Nutshell On a Silicon- based Transhumanism On a Carbon- based Transhumanism A Fictive Ethics The End as a New Beginning

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the evolution of digital platform economies through the lens of online gaming. Offering valuable empirical work on Valve’s ‘Steam’ platform, Thorhauge examines the architecture of this global online videogame marketplace and the way it enables new markets and economic transactions. Drawing on infrastructure, software, platform and game studies, the book interrogates the implications of these transactions, both in terms of their legality, but also in how they create new forms of immaterial labour. Shedding new light on a previously under-explored branch of the study of digital platforms, this book brings a unique economic sociology perspective into the growing literature on videogame studies.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Steam’s tangled markets 2. Platform configurations in gaming 3. Economic sociology and the analysis of platforms as markets 4. Valve corporation and the Steam platform 5. Steam’s business model 6. Shaping market interactions on the Steam platform 7. Economic actors on the steam platform 8. Player trading beyond Steam 9. User monetisation and value creation in tangled markets

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Book SynopsisWhen you think of AI, you might imagine a walking, talking robot or you might think of a giant computer that wants to take over the world, but the reality is that AI is a brilliant human invention that can be found in nearly every modern device from our computers to our cars. AI can seem scary at times, so working out where we use AI and why is an important part of making the best of this exciting technology. So, what is an algorithm and can it help you choose pizza? Can ChatGPT do your homework? And when you watch TV, is it watching you back? All these questions and more about AI are answered in a fun, funny and engaging way.Dr Matt Agnew has a Doctorate in Astrophysics and a Masters in Artificial Intelligence, and believes in making STEM accessible for everyone.

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Book SynopsisIs the Brexit vote successful big data politics or the end of democracy? Why do airlines overbook, and why do banks get it wrong so often? How does big data enable Netflix to forecast a hit, CERN to find the Higgs boson and medics to discover if red wine really is good for you? And how are companies using big data to benefit from smart meters, use advertising that spies on you and develop the gig economy, where workers are managed by the whim of an algorithm?The volumes of data we now access can give unparalleled abilities to make predictions, respond to customer demand and solve problems. But Big Brother's shadow hovers over it. Though big data can set us free and enhance our lives, it has the potential to create an underclass and a totalitarian state. With big data ever-present, you can't afford to ignore it. Acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg - a habitual early adopter of new technology (and the owner of the second-ever copy of Windows in the UK) - brings big data to life.Trade ReviewAs always, Clegg writes with an easy clarity that draws us in - no technical expertise required to understand his exploration of this essential subject - and throughout Big Data's highly enjoyable pages, the spread and range of material is highly impressive - dizzying in fact. I personally found entirely new perspectives on the subject that will keep me pondering for quite some time. I should add that, if I were still a statistics lecturer at Oxford, I would recommend the book to my students as bedside reading. -- Peet Morris * Former Lecturer in Statistics (St Hilda’s College Oxford), Lecturer/Researcher in software development *Clegg provides an engaging insight, reflecting on its positives and negatives. A holiday workout for the brain. * Saga Magazine *Acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg - a habitual early adopter of new technology (and the owner of the second-ever copy of Windows in the UK) brings big data to life. * Laboratory News *

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Book SynopsisThis clear and accessible textbookand its associated website offer a state of the art introduction to the burgeoning field of computer ethics and professional responsibility. Includes discussion of hot topics such as the history of computing; the social context of computing; methods of ethical analysis; professional responsibility and codes of ethics; computer security, risks and liabilities; computer crime, viruses and hacking; data protection and privacy; intellectual property and the “open source” movement; global ethics and the internet Introduces key issues and concepts at the start of each section, and features classroom-tested study questions, and lists of useful websites and further reading Provides a wealth of relevant case studies, and an easy-to learn case-analysis technique Is accompanied by a website, offering sample student answers, additional study questions, example case analyses, and discussion forums Visit the website at www.southernct.edu/organizations/RCCS/Textbook Trade Review"Bynum and Rogerson succeed at the difficult task of putting together a lasting collection of papers for a cutting-edge field that changes direction every other month. The collection is essential for anyone doing advanced research on the ethical standards of computer professions. At the same time, the collection stands as an outstanding teaching text for most university courses." John Snapper, Illinois Institute of Technology "This book includes significant pieces from members of the global computer ethics community. Among its strengths are the worked-out case studies for ethical analysis and a nice section on computer security. It is an ideal text for those teaching professional ethics." Frances S. Grodzinsky, Sacred Heart UniversityTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements. Foreword: About The Computing Curricula 2001 Guidelines Of Ieee-Cs And Acm. Editors’ Introduction: Ethics In The Information Age. Part I: What Is Computer Ethics?. Introduction: Defining Computer Ethics. 1. Reason, Relativity, And Responsibility In Computer Ethics: James H. Moor. 2. Unique Ethical Problems In Information Technology: Walter Maner. 3. Ethical Decision Making And Case Analysis In Computer Ethics: Terrell Ward Bynum. Additional Readings And Web Resources On The Nature Of Computer Ethics. Part II: Professional Responsibility:. Introduction To Professional Responsibility. 4. Unintentional Power In The Design Of Computing Systems: Chuck Huff. 5. Informatics And Professional Responsibility: Donald Gotterbarn. 6. The Ethics Of Software Development Project Management: Simon Rogerson. Case To Analyze: The London Ambulance Case. Additional Readings And Web Resources On Professional Responsibility. Part III: Codes of Ethics:. Introduction To Codes Of Ethics. 7. No PAPA: Why Incomplete Codes Of Ethics Are Worse Than None At All: N. Ben Fairweather. 8. On Licensing Computer Professionals: Donald Gotterbarn. Case To Analyze: The Chemco Case. Additional Readings And Web Resources On Codes Of Ethics. Appendix To Part III: Example Codes of Ethics. The Software Engineering Code Of Ethics. IEEE-CS/ACM Joint Task Force On Software Engineering. The ACM Code Of Ethics And Professional Conduct. Association For Computing Machinery. The ACS Code Of Ethics. The Australian Computer Society. The BCS Code Of Conduct. The British Computer Society. The IEEE Code Of Ethics. The Institute Of Electrical And Electronics Engineers. The IMIS Code Of Ethics. Institute For The Management Of Information Systems. Part IV: Sample Topics In Computer Ethics:. Computer Security. Introduction To Computer Security. 9. Computer Security And Human Values: Peter G. Neumann. 10. Are Computer Hacker Break-Ins Ethical? Eugene H. Spafford. Case To Analyze: A Flight Of Fancy At Aero Wright. Additional Readings And Web Resources On Computer Security. Privacy And Computing. Introduction To Privacy And Computing. 11. Towards A Theory Of Privacy In The Information Age: James H. Moor. 12. Data Protection In A Changing World: Elizabeth France. Case To Analyze: A Small Matter Of Privacy. Additional Readings And Web Resources On Privacy. Computing And Intellectual Property. Introduction To Computing And Intellectual Property. 13. Proprietary Rights In Computer Software: Deborah G. Johnson. 14. Why Software Should Be Free: Richard Stallman. Case To Analyze: Free-Range Property. Additional Readings And Web Resources On Intellectual Property. Global Information Ethics. Introduction To Global Information Ethics. 15. The Computer Revolution And The Problem Of Global Ethics: Krystyna Gorniak-Kocikowska. 16. Giving Offence On The Internet: John Weckert. Case To Analyze: A Clever Idea. Additional Readings And Web Resources On Global Information Ethics. A Final Case To Analyze. Case To Analyze: Corner Shop Goes Virtual. Bibliography. Index

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Book SynopsisHow many times do you check something on the internet but find you are drifting aimlessly from one link to another? If you can't not answer the phone when it rings, and you spend hours a week on social media, and you read your texts instead of kissing your loved one goodnight, and you don't give your kids proper attention because you just have to prioritize new responses to your tweet...then this book is for you. The digital world is spreading like an inferno - a swirling, hot storm of change, possibility, addiction, passion, manipulation, creativity and abuse. It demands our attention and encourages us to be always on, with its constant updates and feedback. It is exciting, but it can also be overwhelming. And it's developing faster than our ability to deal with it. To adherents of digital living and working, any criticism is uncool, a sign of being out of touch. Refreshingly, Digital Inferno is neither simple indictment nor unqualified endorsement. Rather, it's about holding your own in the digital realm - adapting in a healthy way to the new reality. It offers a conscious path that allows you to derive the benefits you need but also to manage the dangers. Packed with a wealth of practical advice, Digital Inferno describes numerous methods to enable you to step back from constant digital activity and virtual living, and to pay more attention to the real world. You'll find exercises to overcome tiredness from digital contact and to develop skills to enable you to remain awake and aware. Crucially, you will be master of the digital realm: to abstain from contact when you need to, but also freely to immerse yourself when you choose to. We don't need to shun new technology, but we do need to be armed with an understanding of its challenges, problems and limitations. This book provides the tools you will need to meet the future consciously.Trade Review'This book is visionary and practical and both are needed at this time as the digital inferno spreads, setting fire to more and more elements of daily life.' - Tom Bourner, Emeritus Professor of Personal and Professional Development, University of Brighton, co-author of Workshops That Work 'An exciting book, full of hope for the future. By applying the concept of mindfulness to digital interactions, Paul Levy shows how we can get the most out of technology without losing touch with our essential humanity. Great stuff - thoughtful, insightful and very timely.' - Sue Palmer, author of Toxic Childhood 'An insightful guide for those seeking to consciously navigate the noise and confusion of the digital age.' - Daniel T. Jones, author of The Machine That Changed The World and founder of the Lean Enterprise Academy 'A fascinating and thought-provoking survey of our digital times.' - Cliff McNish, author of The Doomspell Trilogy 'Our generation is gradually noticing the subtle effects of digital media in our lives. There are no clear answers as the effects are generative and emergent but it is useful to be mindful of the path we are creating. Paul Levy's book is an eye opener. It is written with precision and full of insights on this ongoing interplay between people and technology. It is a great book for anyone keen to regain control of their relationship with gadgets and digital media in general.' - Professor John Baptista, Associate Professor of Information Systems, University of Warwick 'A fascinating, moving and practical dance of content exploring what awfully is and what awe fully might be as human civilization embraces digital virtuality. Brilliantly conceived and written.' - Angus Jenkinson, author of From Stress to Serenity, Chief Organising Officer of the Civil Society Forum

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Book SynopsisThis book argues that identity is changing profoundly and that money is changing equally profoundly. Because of technological change the two trends are converging so that all that we need for transacting will be our identities captured in the unique record of our online social contacts. Social networks and mobile phones are the key technologies. They will enable the building of an identity infrastructure that can enhance both privacy and security - there is no trade-off. The long-term consequences of these changes are impossible to predict, partly because how they take shape will depend on how companies (probably not banks) take advantage of business opportunities to deliver transaction services. But one prediction made here is that cash will soon be redundant - and a good thing too. In its place we will see a proliferation of new digital currencies.Trade Review"Dave Birch gives one of the best accounts available today on how we'll navigate the challenges of the emerging payments landscape, and how traditional data points on identity don't really make sense in a digital world. An outstanding piece of work which may well define our journey moving forward." Brett King, Founder and CEO of Moven.com. "Dave Birch's thoughts on digital identity were seminal to the UK's Identity Assurance Scheme. Anyone entering the field of digital identity should take this book with them." David Rennie, Identity Assurance Programme, Government Digital Service, Cabinet Office.

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Book SynopsisThe two most wanted terrorists in Southeast Asia — a Malaysian and a Singaporean — are on the run in the Philippines, but they manage to keep their friends and family updated on Facebook. Filipinos connect with al-Qaeda-linked groups in Somalia and Yemen. The black flag — embedded in al-Qaeda lore — pops up on websites and Facebook pages from around the world, including the Philippines, Indonesia, the Middle East, Afghanistan, Australia, and North Africa. The black flag is believed to herald an apocalypse that brings Islam's triumph. These are a few of the signs that define terrorism's new battleground: the Internet and social media.In this groundbreaking work of investigative journalism, Maria Ressa traces the spread of terrorism from the training camps of Afghanistan to Southeast Asia and the Philippines. Through research done at the International Center for Political Violence & Terrorism Research in Singapore and sociograms created by the CORE Lab at the Naval Postgraduate School, the book examines the social networks which spread the virulent ideology that powered terrorist attacks in the past 10 years.Many of the stories here have never been told before, including details about the 10 days during which Ressa led the crisis team in the Ces Drilon kidnapping case by the Abu Sayyaf in 2008. The book forms the powerful narrative that glues together the social networks — both physical and virtual — which spread the jihadi virus from bin Laden to Facebook.Table of ContentsKidnapped; Crisis; Roots; A Piece of the Action; The Virus; Deadline; Ultimatum; Double-Cross; Breakdown; Homecoming.

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Book SynopsisAfter many years on the fringe, online counselling has rapidly become mainstream practice, propelled by the Covid-19 pandemic. Yet too often practitioners assume they can transition from in-person counselling without need for further training. In this essential book, Sarah Worley-James brings her many years' experience of online counselling and supervision to explore with the reader the practical and technical requirements of the work and also, importantly, the relational issues that working online brings. The book covers video, audio and text-based counselling, using vivid vignettes and case examples to bring to life its contents. All aspects, from transitioning and setting up the room and the equipment needed through to contracts, data storage and, above all, risk, are covered, with practical exercises to help you gain confidence in using these emerging media to their full creative potential.Trade Review'Reading Online Counselling made me realise just of how far online therapy has matured as a profession over the past 10 years. Sarah's warm and inviting style of writing nails the subject of online therapy from page one. Any online therapist, whether experienced or not, will find so much in this book that will benefit them and, consequently, their online clients.' Pip Weitz, Training Director, Academy for Online Therapy - 'This is sure to be a core text for counselling courses.' Adrian Rhodes, Chair, ACTO; President, European Confederation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies (ECPP) - 'Sarah Worley-James has written the book we have been waiting for. It is up-to-date and has a clear, inclusive, user-friendly style.' Anne Stokes, Patron of ACTO; Director (retired) of Online Training Ltd - 'The book is an excellent resource for those new to online therapy and practitioners who are fine-tuning their existing online knowledge and skills.' Jane Evans MA, BACP (Senior Accred), author of Online Counselling and Guidance Skills (2009).Table of ContentsIntroduction, 1. What is online counselling? 2. Transitioning to online counselling, 3. Getting started, 4. Ethical practice online, 5. Developing a therapeutic relationship through video, 6. Developing a therapeutic relationship in audio and telephone counselling, 7. Developing a therapeutic relationship in text-based counselling, 8. Assessing risk online, 9. Working with risk online, 10. Supervision for online counsellors, 11. Self-care for online counselling

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Book SynopsisMetaverse?.- Where from ... where to ... or: what is it anyway?.- The merging of worlds and ... verses.- Another dimension: Economic merging.- What cannot be omitted: Critique.- The real vision.- Now is the time to build!.- Addendum 1 - Because it is so current: Artificial Intelligence in the Metaverse?.- Addendum 2 Almost Even More Current: Is the Hype Already Over?.

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Book SynopsisGitOps and Kubernetes introduces a radical idea—managing your infrastructure with the same Git pull requests you use to manage your codebase. In this in-depth tutorial, you’ll learn to operate infrastructures based on powerful-but-complex technologies with the same Git version control tools most developers use daily. GitOps and Kubernetes is half reference, half practical tutorial for operating Kubernetes the GitOps way. Through fast-paced chapters, you’ll unlock the benefits of GitOps for flexible configuration management, monitoring, robustness, multi-environment support, and discover tricks and tips for managing secrets in the unique GitOps fashion. Key Features · Multiple-environments management with branching, namespace, and configuration · Access Control with Git, Kubernetes, and Pipeline · Using Kubernetes with Argo CD, JenkinsX, and Flux · Multi-step deployment strategies like Blue-Green, Canary in a declarative GitOps model For developers familiar with Continuous Delivery principles and the basics of Git and Kubernetes. About the technology The tools to monitor and manage software delivery and deployment can be complex to set up and intimidating to learn. But with the “GitOps“ method, you can manage your entire Kubernetes infrastructure with Git pull requests, giving you a single control interface and making it easy to assess and roll back changes! Billy Yuen, Alexander Matyushentsev, Todd Ekenstam, and Jesse Suen are principal engineers for the Intuit platform. They are widely recognized as industry leads in GitOps for Kubernetes, having presented numerous related talks at industry conferences.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Pederson brings a particular and consistent understanding of what a 'game' is, one that distinguishes her work from that of other gaming scholars."—Kevin Hamilton, author of Lookout America! The Secret Hollywood Studio at the Heart of the Cold War"Gaming Utopia is meticulously researched and provides original insights through its focus on the relationship between avant-garde traditions and political theories of emancipatory social change. . . . It uses highly accessible language and will most definitely be of interest to a general audience interested in the history and culture of videogames, as well as in issues relating to activism and emancipatory social change."—Judith Aston, editor of I-Docs: The Evolving Practices of Interactive DocumentaryTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Avant-Garde Plays2. Action, Participation, and the Digital Avant-Garde3. Cybernetic Ecologies of Art and Counterculture4. Gaming Electronic Civil Disobedience5. A Dreampolitik of Persuasive and Other Queer GamesConclusion: Unfinished ProcessesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Masterful. . . . Immediately relevant. . . . Breaking the Social Media Prism answers important questions about the origins of our current political environment and suggests how existing platforms and reward systems might be redesigned to make things better. Bail’s scientific conclusions are refreshing in a space dominated by informed speculation, and the book offers hope that data-driven solutions can bring us back from the brink."---Jennifer Golbeck, Science"Smartly and engagingly challenges assumptions about how [ideological and cultural echo] chambers work."---Frank Bruni, New York Times"[Bail] draws on extensive interviews with social media users to explore the profound differences between people’s online and real-life personas, and lucidly details his own efforts to develop a new social media platform that cultivates more civil discourse. This is a persuasive and well-informed look at one of today’s most pressing social issues." * Publishers Weekly *"Every one of Bail's chapters threads together multiple lines of thought — some dating back decades or centuries — interweaving the frontiers of online social science research with the traditions they emerge from. . . . Bail's analysis of the problem of online polarization is clarifying and compelling."---Paul Rosenberg, Salon"[A] brilliant case . . . for social science research." * Library Journal *"Surprising. . . . Bail’s findings point to an interesting conclusion for the building of society: when it comes to bridging differences, in-person contact really helps."---Nathan Heller, New Yorker"Provides useful pointers for understanding online (mis)behavior." * Kirkus Reviews *"Wonderful. . . . Bail has provided social scientists, concerned citizens, and policymakers with an invaluable piece of work for understanding how social media is exacerbating our political divisions, and how we might forge a better future both online and off."---Thomas Koenig, Merion West"A really, really important book and really educational."---Sophie Roell, Five Books"Bail offers needed insights into the distortions that result when human persons are reduced to a set of data points."---Jeffrey Bilbro, New Atlantis"Bail delivers an efficient, engaging treatise on the polarizing effects of social media in the USA. . . . He expertly marshals evidence from his own research and modern computational social science to demonstrate how common narratives of social media miss the mark. . . . A thoughtful, compelling story of polarization on social media. . . .[Breaking the Social Media Prism] adds admirably to the dialog on political polarization. It synthesizes a body of research—both seminal and emerging—into a coherent picture, while making its own contributions. The prose is playfully conversational, accessible to a lay audience, and at fewer than 150 pages in the main text, refreshingly concise."---Jason Jeffrey Jones, Social Forces"Breaking The Social Media Prism challenges the accepted wisdom of echo chambers and algorithms and suggests that if we really want to solve political tribalism online the solution isn’t just some isolated thing called technology but also inside ourselves."---Samira Shackle, With Reason Podcast"Essential reading for many of us who are concerned with the impact of social media on civility and democracy."---Andrew Keen, Keen On podcast"Every once in a while, something comes along and causes a paradigm shift in its respective field or medium, a breakthrough that challenges prevailing narratives for explaining the world. Sometimes those breakthroughs are few and far between. For fields marked by rapid change and development, those breakthroughs can occur more frequently. In the rapidly changing field of social media and its impact on society, Chris Bail’s Breaking the Social Media Prism stands to become one of those paradigm shifts."---Austin Gravley, FaithTech"There is something for everyone in this book. . . . Drawing from rich interview data with people who use social media every day, Bail vividly depicts people’s lives and motives that result in political polarization on social media. Through engaging storytelling that puts a human face on political extremists and silent moderates on social media platforms, the book highlights the responsibility and agency of individual users to reduce political polarization on social media. Bail empowers readers and holds them accountable by shining a light on their instincts and motives that contribute to the social media’s prismatic effect."---Elizabeth Baik, New Media & Society"This misperception of reality that we see through the networks is what Bail calls 'prism' in the title of the book. 'The people who exaggerate the extremism of the other side are significantly higher among those who use the networks for information,' he explains. This causes a wrong idea of ​​society for those who are there a lot and for those who use Twitter as an opinion thermometer. 'More pernicious is when the media uses Twitter as a display of public opinion, because it amplifies this misperception.'"---Jordi Pérez Colomé, El País"Shattering popular myths and in the process, uncovering some extraordinary revelations, Chris Bail’s enormously influential book, Breaking the Social Media Prism is a much needed antidote in, and, for bewildering times where fake news proliferates and political polarization runs amok on various social media platforms." * Blogternator *"Innovative. . . .this book will challenge many of your beliefs about the online world including that the solution is to completely disengage. . . . We suggest you read Breaking the Social Media Prism and evaluate your own online behavior and those you bump into." * Purple Principle podcast *"A very thought-provoking book, full of rich empirical evidence, a well-articulated narrative on the social media prism and it introduces potential solutions for the problems it discusses."---Xiuhua Wang, Sociology"Fascinating."---Michael Jensen, Eternity"Terrific book." * Democracy Works podcast *

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Book SynopsisThis open access book deals with cultural and philosophical aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) and pleads for a “digital humanism”. This term is beginning to be en vogue everywhere. Due to a growing discontentment with the way digitalization is being used in the world, particularly formulated by former heroes of Internet, social media and search engine companies, philosophical as well as industrial thought leaders begin to plead for a humane use of digital tools. Yet the term “digital humanism” is a particular terminology that lacks a sound conceptual and philosophical basis and needs clarification still – and this gap is exactly filled by this book. It propagates a vision of society in which digitization is used to strengthen human self-determination, autonomy and dignity and whose time has come to be propagated throughout the world. The advantage of this book is that it is philosophically sound and yet written in a way that will make it accessible for everybody interested in the subject. Every chapters begins with a film scene illustrating a precise philosophical problem with AI and how we look at it – making the book not only readable, but even entertaining. And after having read the book the reader will have a clear vision of what it means to live in a world where digitization and AI are central technologies for a better and more humane civilization.Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. Robots as New (Digital) Slaves.- 3. Digital Simulations of Emotions.- 4. The Problem of Autonomy and Determination in the Digital World.- 5. The World as the Perfect Machine Universe.- 6. Digital Optimization, Utilitarianism and AI.- 7. Economic Rationality as a Software Program.- 8. Why Robots Don't Have Moral Judgment.- 9. Ethical Non-Comparability.- 10. Why AIs Fail at Moral Dilemmas.- 11. Why AIs Can't Think.- 12. Digital Virtualities and Sober Realities.- 13. On the Ethics of Internet Communication.- 14. On the Ethics of Communication between Humans and AI.- 15. Cultural Aspects of Digitalisation.- 16. Digital Education.- 17. Utopia of Liquid Democracy.- 18. Socio-Economic Aspects of Digitisation.- 19. Transhumanist Temptations.- 20. On the Metaphysics of digitalisation.- 21. Afterword.

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Book SynopsisRecent technological advances have resulted in a new generation of powerful text processing and generation tools, that produce text very similar to what a human could do. Such tools have the potential to change the way we work, learn and teach – and this book enables you to understand and be part of this exciting development. Did you wonder how tools like ChatGPT or Bard work, but do not have a technical background? Then this is the right book for you! To discuss and better understand what such technologies are capable of and how this will impact our lives and our society, a basic background knowledge about text processing and generation technologies is required. In particular, the book discusses the following questions: How did the field of automated text processing and generation evolve over the last years, and what happened to allow the incredible recent advances? Are chatbots such as ChatGPT or Bard truly understanding humans? What pitfalls exist and how are stereotypes of the society reflected in such models? What is the potential of such technology, and how will the digital society of the future look like in terms of human-chatbot-collaboration? The book is aimed for a general audience, briefly explaining mathematical or technical background when necessary. After having read this book, you will be confident to participate in public discussions about how this new generation of language models will impact society. You will be aware of the risks and pitfalls these technologies can bring along, and how to deal responsibly when making use of tools built from AI technology in general.Trade Review“Mascha Kurpicz-Briki’s book takes readers under the hood of today’s chatbots by explaining how LLMs work and looks through the hype. ... Her guide to how LLMs work steps through all of the need-to-know concepts underpinning natural language processing. And by the end of the journey, readers will have a clear understanding of what it takes for computers to process written text.” (James Tyrrell, T_HQ technology and business, techhq.com, December 20, 2023)Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. An Introduction to Machine Learning.- 3. Processing Written Language.- 4. Do Chatbots Have Emotions?.- 5. The True and the False.- 6. Stereotypes in Language Models.- 7. The Future of Humans and Language Models.

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Book SynopsisDigital Playgrounds explores the key developments, trends, debates, and controversies that have shaped children’s commercial digital play spaces over the past two decades. It argues that children’s online playgrounds, virtual worlds, and connected games are much more than mere sources of fun and diversion they serve as the sites of complex negotiations of power between children, parents, developers, politicians, and other actors with a stake in determining what, how, and where children’s play unfolds. Through an innovative, transdisciplinary framework combining science and technology studies, critical communication studies, and children’s cultural studies, Digital Playgrounds focuses on the contents and contexts of actual technological artefacts as a necessary entry point for understanding the meanings and politics of children’s digital play. The discussion draws on several research studies on a wide range of digital playgTrade Review"In framing the implications of her inquiry around questions of children’s rights, Grimes’ work models the attention that these topics warrant and highlights the urgent stakes of children’s online play. This book charts a history and a theoretical framework that establishes a new and higher bar for children’s media research. It is a foundational text in contemporary children’s media studies and will remain so for the foreseeable future." -- Meredith A. Bak, Rutgers University-Camden * Media Industries Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction Digitizing Playgrounds and Technologizing Play What This Book Is About Why Looking Back Helps Us Move Forward Building a Children’s Technology Studies Framework Chapter Overview 1. The Importance of Digital Play Conflicting Views of Children’s Play Conflicting Views of Mediated Play Licensed Toys and Media Supersystems Digital Game Controversies and Dichotomies Dangerous Games and Risky Gamers Games for “Good” Girls Bad Game(r)s, Good Game(r)s Moving Forward Looking at “Stuff” and Structures Resituating Children’s Play Conclusion 2. Small Worlds and Walled Gardens A Brief History of Children’s Digital Playgrounds Online Games: Portals, Arcades, and Environments, 2003–2005 Neopets The Virtual World Boom, 2005–2008 Design Trends and Disparities Beyond the Computer Screen Web-Enabled Consoles Connected Games Go Mobile Toys-to-Life and Cross-Platform Games Conclusion 3. Commercializing Play(grounds) Revisiting Supersystems and Structures Texts and Contexts Affordances and Design Limitations Commercializing Gameplay The Velvet Rope Cross-Promotion and Branding Immersive Third-Party Advertising Brand Ambassadors When Stories, Designs, and Commercial Priorities Align Conclusion 4. From Rules of Play to Censorship The Primacy of Rules in Digital Games Design(ed) Rules Written Rules, Rulebooks, and Codes of Conduct Who Follows the Rules Anyway? Why Breaking Rules Is Important Negotiating Encoded Rules Children Bending, but Not Breaking, the Rules Ice Goths and BarbieBoys Flash Mobs and Copycats Playing in the Margins of Manoeuvre Conclusion 5. Safety First, Privacy Later Children’s Data and Privacy The COPPA Rule Revised Reframing Privacy Protections as Safety Mechanisms Privacy Policies “Safety” by Design Safety as a Key Selling Point Freedom of Expression as a Collateral Cost of Safety Secret Spaces and “Unsafe” Places Unsafe and Risky Play Conclusion 6. Playing as Making and Creating Playing and Making Digital Games Children’s Literacy, Agency, and Cultural Rights Terms of Service, Terms of Play Who Owns Children’s Content in Digital Playgrounds? New Creative Opportunities, Same Old Terms User Rights in Minecraft Fandom and Fair Use as Consumer Practice Conclusion 7. The Politics of Children’s Digital Play Where We Are, and How We Got Here The (Four) Problems with Digital Playgrounds Privacy, Secrets, and Selfhood Censorship and Freedom of Expression Ownership, Authorship, and Copyright Commercial Content and Control The Digital Playground as Public Sphere Bibliography

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Book SynopsisTerms and phrases such as the global village and the medium is the message are now part of the lexicon, and McLuhan''s theories continue to challenge our sensibilities and our assumptions about how and what we communicate.This reissue of Understanding Media marks the thirtieth anniversary (1964-1994) of Marshall McLuhan''s classic expose on the state of the then emerging phenomenon of mass media. Terms and phrases such as the global village and the medium is the message are now part of the lexicon, and McLuhan''s theories continue to challenge our sensibilities and our assumptions about how and what we communicate.There has been a notable resurgence of interest in McLuhan''s work in the last few years, fueled by the recent and continuing conjunctions between the cable companies and the regional phone companies, the appearance of magazines such as WiRed, and the development of new media models and information ecologies, many of which were spawned from MIT''s Media Lab. In effect, media now begs to be redefined. In a new introduction to this edition of Understanding Media, Harper''s editor Lewis Lapham reevaluates McLuhan''s work in the light of the technological as well as the political and social changes that have occurred in the last part of this century.

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Book SynopsisIt seems that artificial intelligence (AI) is always just five years away, but it never arrives. Recently, however, developments have made the practical utility of game theory a genuine reality. Will sport provide the petri dish in which AI will prove itself? What do domain specialists like managers and coaches want to know that they can't currently find out, and can AI provide the answer? What competitive advantages might AI provide for recruitment, performance and tactics, health and fitness, pedagogy, broadcasting, eSports, gambling and stadium design in the future? Written by leading experts in both sports management and AI, AI for Sports begins to answer these and many other questions on the future of AI for sports.Trade Review“Artificial Intelligence can drive your car, select your favourite music and outfox grandmasters at the chessboard, but it is also becoming a crucial tool in global sports. AI is now able to predict when athletes are most likely to suffer injuries and which areas of their body are most at risk of fatigue. We are at the beginning of the AI age in sports and the next decade is likely to see it become increasingly important to all athletes and teams. In AI for Sports, Brady, Tuyls, and Omidshafiei give readers a glimpse into the future and explain just why AI is not only here to stay, but how it will become central to the thinking of team owners, coaches and athletes.” -- Mark Ogden, ESPN Senior Football Writer"AI for Sports is the perfect book for the perfect moment; this time when sports are changing rapidly; and teams, executives and athletes are looking at the games that people play through new, fresh and important lenses. Brady, Tuyls, and Omidshafiei explore that new landscape in a unique way, examining the exploding corner of artificial intelligence through a sports-specific lens, but also, and this is important, looking ahead to potential pitfalls to a relatively new approach. For readers who enjoy learning about teams, their famous processes, and how building rosters and getting the most out of players are changing, they won't be disappointed." -- Greg Bishop, Senior Writer at Sports Illustrated“By providing unique and challenging problems to be solved, and supported by decades’ worth of high-dimensional data streams, the Sports sector can contribute immensely to the development of Artificial Intelligence. In AI for Sports, Brady, Tuyls, & Omidshafiei discuss many different angles and applications within sport which can be supported or improved by the use of AI. It is a truly valuable resource for sports enthusiasts to learn how sports will evolve with the advent of advanced AI, and also for those working in theoretical AI domains to understand the nature of real-world applications and challenges posed by the sports sector.” -- Varuna De-Silva, Senior Lecturer in Machine Intelligence, Loughborough University“Artificial Intelligence can drive your car, select your favourite music and outfox grandmasters at the chessboard, but it is also becoming a crucial tool in global sports. AI is now able to predict when athletes are most likely to suffer injuries and which areas of their body are most at risk of fatigue. We are at the beginning of the AI age in sports and the next decade is likely to see it become increasingly important to all athletes and teams. In AI for Sports, Brady, Tuyls, and Omidshafiei give readers a glimpse into the future and explain just why AI is not only here to stay, but how it will become central to the thinking of team owners, coaches and athletes.” -- Mark Ogden, ESPN Senior Football Writer"AI for Sports is the perfect book for the perfect moment; this time when sports are changing rapidly; and teams, executives and athletes are looking at the games that people play through new, fresh and important lenses. Brady, Tuyls, and Omidshafiei explore that new landscape in a unique way, examining the exploding corner of artificial intelligence through a sports-specific lens, but also, and this is important, looking ahead to potential pitfalls to a relatively new approach. For readers who enjoy learning about teams, their famous processes, and how building rosters and getting the most out of players are changing, they won't be disappointed." -- Greg Bishop, Senior Writer at Sports Illustrated“By providing unique and challenging problems to be solved, and supported by decades’ worth of high-dimensional data streams, the Sports sector can contribute immensely to the development of Artificial Intelligence. In AI for Sports, Brady, Tuyls, & Omidshafiei discuss many different angles and applications within sport which can be supported or improved by the use of AI. It is a truly valuable resource for sports enthusiasts to learn how sports will evolve with the advent of advanced AI, and also for those working in theoretical AI domains to understand the nature of real-world applications and challenges posed by the sports sector.” -- Varuna De-Silva, Senior Lecturer in Machine Intelligence, Loughborough UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. About the Authors. Introduction. Part 1 How Did We Get to Where We Are? 1 Before Turing (pre-1950). 2 The Sports Analyst Cometh. 3 Sabermetrics, Moneyball and AI. Part 2 Where Are We Now? 4 Technology Closes the Gap on Theory. 5 The Sports Ecosystem. 6 The Performance. 7 AI in the Game. 8 AI around the Game. Part 3 Where Do We Go from Here? 9 A Future within the Game. 10 A Future around the Game. Conclusion. Index.

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Book SynopsisHow Computer Games Help Children Learn shows how video and computer games can help teach children to build successful futures - but only if we think in new ways about education itself.Trade Review"Shaffer offers practical advice to assist parents and educators to respond to his call to radically transform an increasingly outdated educational system..." Barry Joseph, Online Leadership Director, Global Kids "This totally enchanting book shows what education in the 21st century couldlook likeif we are willing to expand our notions of learning in ways that foster productive inquiry and design An extremely readable book that should be on the bookshelf of anyone who cares about having schools that help young people prepare to compete in the global economy." John Seely Brown, Former Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and Director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Senior Fellow, Annenberg Center, USC, and co-author, The Social Life of Information and The Only Sustainable Edge "Beautifully written...How Computer Games Help Children Learn breaks new ground in exciting ways. What a treat! A book about the development of innovative thinking that is refreshingly innovative...A tour de force." Deborah Lowe Vandell, Chair, Department of Education, University of California, Irvine "You may have asked yourself if computer games are destroying the minds of our nation's children. How Computer Games Help Children Learn shows that the exact opposite is true. Parents, educators, and computer game makers take note: by combining years of research and his front-line classroom experiences, Shaffer makes a cogent and compelling argument for the educational power of intelligently crafted games that can serve as tools to help children think and learn about real world problems and their solutions." Michael McCormick, Senior Designer, Backbone Entertainment, and Lead Designer of SimCity 4 "Shaffer's book moves from vivid case studies and accessible accounts of key ideas from the learning sciences to practical advice on how parents can help theirchildren learn more from the games they play. This book represents the logical next step in a conversation started by James Paul Gee's What Video GamesHave toTeach Us about Learning and Literacy and Steven Johnson's Everything Bad Is Good For You." Henry Jenkins, Director, Comparative Media Studies Program, MIT "This well-written and important book will introduce parents and teachers to a radical idea: video games can be good for children. When children play games like Sim City or The Oregon Trail, they learn about urban planning or the American West in spite of themselves. But these games are just the tip of the iceberg; Shaffer describes a wide range of fascinating new learning games that are just now emerging...Because these games give children the chance to creatively manipulate a virtual world, they can teach creativity and innovation, abilities that are more important than ever in today's competitive global economy Shaffer advises parents how to pick out a good learning game, how to play it with your children, and how to make sure they are learning from it." R. Keith Sawyer, author of Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration "Shaffer's book points out forcefully a paradigm of future schooling: to better prepare our kids for a globally competitive world, we have to bring the thinking, practices, and cultures of various professions into school learning. With convincing examples of simulated professional games that can integrate learning, working, and playing, he proves that this is feasible." Tak-Wai Chan, National Central University, Taiwan 'This groundbreaking book raises fundamental issues concerning the goals of education and highlights the need for innovative thinkers in the 21st century. Written in a clear, lucid, and direct manner, Shaffer makes his ideas easily accessible to professional as well as lay readers. The book will benefit educators, school administrators, policy makers, and, most importantly, parents.' Yam San Chee, Associate Professor, Learning Sciences & Technologies Academic Group & Learning Sciences Lab, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University "Deep learning, technical learning, learning that leads to the ability to innovate: these are the most important natural resources in our global high-tech world. Will our children be able to compete with kids in China and India? Shaffer shows us how to mine the potential of video game technologies to transform learning at home, in communities, and in schools." James Paul Gee, University of Wisconsin-Madison, author of What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy "Like Dewey, Piaget, and Papert before him, Shaffer challenges us to rethink learning in a new age. He uses vivid examples - backed by solid research - to show what education should look like in the 21st century." - Kurt D. Squire, Assistant Professor of Education, University ofWisconsin-Madison,and Game Designer"A must read for anyone who cares about learning. Game designers depend on having millions of people voluntarily learn more than anyone would dare put into a school curriculum. So studying games - how they are designed and how they are played - is one of the best sources of insight about learning, and Shaffer is an excellent guide to making the most of it." - Seymour Papert, Professor Emeritus, Media and Education Technology, MIT Media LabTable of ContentsForeword: Seeing the Future; J.P.Gee Introduction Epistemology: The Debating Game Knowledge: The Digital Zoo Skills: Escher's World Values: The Pandora Project Identity: Science.net Beyond the Industrial School: The Future of Education and How We Get There

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Book SynopsisDespite the range of studies into grief and mourning in relation to the digital, research to date largely focuses on the cultural practices and meanings that are played out in and through digital environments. Digital Afterlife brings together experts from diverse fields who share an interest in Digital Afterlife and the wide-ranging issues that relate to this. The book covers a variety of matters that have been neglected in other research texts, for example:The legal, ethical, and philosophical conundrums of Digital AfterlifeThe ways digital media are currently being used to expand the possibilities of commemorating the dead and managing the grief of those left behindOur lives are shaped by and shape the creation of our Digital Afterlife as the digital has become a taken for granted aspect of human experience. This book will be of interest to undergraduates from computing, theology, business studies, philosophy, pTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Editors. Contributors. Introduction. Chapter 1 ◾ Perspectives on Digital Afterlife. Chapter 2 ◾ Social Media and Digital Afterlife. Chapter 3 ◾ Posthumous Digital Material: Does It ‘Live On’ in Survivors’ Accounts of Their Dead? Chapter 4 ◾ The Transition from Life to the Digital Afterlife: Thanatechnology and Its Impact on Grief. Chapter 5 ◾ Profit and Loss: The Mortality of the Digital Immortality Platforms. Chapter 6 ◾ The ‘New(ish)’ Property, Informational Bodies, and Postmortality. Chapter 7 ◾ Digital Remains: The Users’ Perspectives. Chapter 8 ◾ Legal Issues in Digital Afterlife. Chapter 9 ◾ Building a Digital Immortal. Chapter 10 ◾ Philosophical Investigations into Digital Afterlife. Chapter 11 ◾ Postdigital Afterlife: A Philosophical Framework. Chapter 12 ◾ Digital Afterlife Matters. GLOSSARY. INDEX.

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Book SynopsisLeading theorists explore how the Internet impacts privacy issues, sensitivity to wrongdoing, and cultural and personal identity.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers the first comprehensive philosophical account of digital technology. It provides a detailed explanation of how the internet and digital technology are transforming culture, politics, aesthetics, and human relationships. It argues that digital technology is different from all prior technologies: the first 'natural technology.'Trade Review'There have been plenty of books written about the digital age, but Antón Barba-Kay gives us something genuinely new. With a clinical yet passionate intelligence, he explains how the fusion of technology and being has forever changed who we are and how we live. A Web of Our Own Making is fierce, uncompromising, and essential.' Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows and The Glass Cage'In compelling, elegant prose, Antón Barba-Kay lucidly diagnoses the full extent of our current technocultural crisis. His analysis is unflinching, and does not settle for any facile reassurances. But do not call his approach nostalgic, or, even worse, 'Luddit'. For Barba-Kay is not seeking to go back to anything, but rather is helping to advance the very urgent project of finding a way forward that preserves the irreducibly human within a complex and unprecedented technological landscape. This book is timely and necessary indeed.' Justin E. H. Smith, professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Paris, author of The Internet Is Not What You Think It IsTable of Contents1. Left to our own devices; 2. Led by our own lights; 3. The sound of our own voice; 4. Realities of our own contrivance; 5. From my inbox.

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Book SynopsisAI by Design introduces AI and its importance to our future. Exploring behavioural psychology, economics, and real-life and historical examples, Campbell predicts five future scenarios with AI, orientated around the "Singularity" - the moment when AI exceeds human capabilities, presenting perhaps the biggest challenge to our existence.Trade Review"The book offers a comprehensive discussion of the challenges of AI and begins to discuss ways that we can prevent the worst-case scenarios. This book will help readers to think critically about technology and begin to question the stories they have been told about technology being bad. Instead they can decide to take control, using design and planning to make better technology." --Carol J. Smith, Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, www.carologic.com"An essential and authoritative overview of the dazzling future of artificial intelligence and a wake-up call to the world to join together to control the development of AI for the benefit—and, possibly, preservation—of humanity." --Blackpool Gazette, 'Must-read of the week', 17 MayTable of ContentsAuthor. Acknowledgement. 1 Sleepwalking into Singularity. 2 AI by Design and the Future-Back Methodology. 3 Should We Be Afraid of the Current State of AI? 4 Current State of AI Governance & Regulation. 5 Current State of AI Ethics. 6 Options for Our Future with AI. 7 Creating a Roadmap – A Plan for Living with Artificial Intelligence. 8 A New Hope for Artificial Intelligence. Conclusion. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the recent rise of infodemics as forms of disinformation, misinformation and mal-information saturate contemporary media platforms, shaping public opinion to advance agendas.The internet in general and social media in particular have relativized, through their global, complex and instantaneous information flows, assumptions about truth and authority in fact-based content. This has created new opportunities for state actors to use information beyond traditional conceptions of propaganda to directly assault a public's conception of reality. Additionally, almost anyone has the capability to challenge evidential claims through narratives and imagery alone as there is a wide appetite online for alternative realities. This requires new approaches to media literacy in education, the creative arts and our acts of media consumption and dissemination. The volume covers the ways that social media platforms amplify and catalyze the messages of politicians and influenTable of Contents1. #dominant voices in the new disinformation order; 2. Curse or Cure? The Role of Algorithm in Promoting or Countering Information Disorder; 3. For the sake of sharing: fake news as memes; 4. AIBO – An Emotionally Intelligent Artificial Intelligence Brainwave Opera - Or I Built A "Sicko" AI, And So Can You

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Book SynopsisMemes work as rhetorical weapons and discursive arguments in political conflicts. Across digital platforms, they confirm, contest and challenge political power and hierarchies. They simultaneously create social distortion, hostility, and a sense of community. Memes thus not only reflect norms but also work as a tool for negotiating them. At the same time, memes meld symbolic and cultural elements with technological functionalities, allowing for replicability and remixing.This book studies how memes disrupt and reimagine politics in humorous ways. Memes create a playful activity that follows a shared set of rules and gives a (shared) voice, which may generate togetherness and political identities but also increase polarization. As their template travels, memes continue to appropriate new political contexts and to (re)negotiate frontiers in the political. The chapters in this book allow us to chart the playful politics of memes and how they establish or push frontiers in variouTable of Contents1. The playful politics of memes 2. Messy on the inside: internet memes as mapping tools of everyday life 3. Memes, brands and the politics of post-terror togetherness: following the Manchester bee after the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing 4. Memetising the pandemic: memes, COVID-19 mundanity and political cultures 5. ‘Don’t panic people! Trump will tweet the virus away’: memes contesting and confirming populist political leaders during the COVID-19 crisis 6. ‘#OkBoomer, time to meet the Zoomers’: studying the memefication of intergenerational politics on TikTok 7. Memetic commemorations: remixing far-right values in digital spheres 8. Sharing the hate? Memes and transnationality in the far right’s digital visual culture 9. Murder fantasies in memes: fascist aesthetics of death threats and the banalization of white supremacist violence

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Book SynopsisThrough empirical material as well as theoretical discussions, this book explores developments in gender-technology relations from the 1980s to today. The author draws on her long-lasting research in the field, providing insight in both historical and more recent discussions of gender in relation to computers and computing.Trade Review'Corneliussen examines why expansive gender equity in Norway seems to influence every major segment of society - except computing technology. Her discourse analysis explores reasons for stability in gender-ICT relations, and suggests pressure points for change.' - Thomas J. Misa, University of Minnesota, USA 'Corneliussen's book is a challenging intervention into the debate over gender and technology. Through a diffractive reading of the research, Corneliussen tells an alternative story about gender and technology, demonstrating that their relations are not stable and fixed but hold potential for change.' - Susan Hekman, University of Texas at Arlington, USATable of ContentsAcknowledgements Disrupting the Impression of Stability in the Gender-Technology Relation Changing Images of Computers and its Users since 1980 Discursive Developments Within Computer Education Variations in Gender-ICT Relations Among Male and Female Computer Students Stories About Individual Change and Transformation Layered Meanings and Differences Within Is there an Elsewhere? References Endnotes Index

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