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Society of the Query Reader

Author : Miriam Rasch
Publisher : Instituut Voor Netwerkcultuur
ISBN 13 : 9789081857581
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (575 download)

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Download or read book Society of the Query Reader written by Miriam Rasch and published by Instituut Voor Netwerkcultuur. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking up something online is one of the most common applications of the web. Whether with a laptop or smartphone, we search the web from wherever we are, at any given moment. 'Googling' has become so entwined in our daily routines that we rarely question it. However, search engines such as Google or Bing determine what part of the web we get to see, shaping our knowledge and perceptions of the world. But there is a world beyond Google - geographically, culturally, and technologically. The Society of the Query network was founded in 2009 to delve into the larger societal and cultural consequences that are triggered by search technology. In this Reader, which is published after two conferences held in Amsterdam in 2009 and 2013, twenty authors - new media scholars, historians, computer scientists, and artists - try to answer a number of pressing questions about online search.

Digital Culture & Society (DCS)

Author : Mathias Fuchs
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839459044
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Digital Culture & Society (DCS) written by Mathias Fuchs and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happened to the 1960s ideas of machine art, cybernetic art, »algorithmic revolution«, and the hopes for a democratization of the art market? How do contemporary art practitioners cope with the political situation and with the attempts of the Silicon Valley giants to appropriate algorithmic generation of art-like artefacts? This issue aims to discuss how the early concept of computer art is now being reframed as digital, post-digital or algorithmic art under the prevailing conditions of big data, smart AI, an almost all-encompassing surveillance technology and the political state of neo-liberalism.

The Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society

Author : Welsh Bibliographical Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society written by Welsh Bibliographical Society and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes reports of the annual meetings 1911-1974

The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies

Author : Timon Beyes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192537962
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies written by Timon Beyes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our most basic relationship with the world is one of technological mediation. Nowadays our available tools are digital, and increasingly what counts in economic, social, and cultural life is what can be digitally stored, distributed, replayed, augmented, and switched. Yet the digital remains very much materially configured, and though it now permeates nearly all human life it has not eclipsed all older technologies. This Handbook is grounded in an understanding that our technologically mediated condition is a condition of organization. It maps and theorizes the largely unchartered territory of media, technology, and organization studies. Written by scholars of organization and theorists of media and technology, the chapters focus on specific, and specifically mediating, objects that shape the practices, processes, and effects of organization. It is in this spirit that each chapter focuses on a specific technological object, such as the Battery, Clock, High Heels, Container, or Smartphone, asking the question, how does this object or process organize? In staying with the object the chapters remain committed to the everyday, empirical world, rather than being confined to established disciplinary concerns and theoretical developments. As the first sustained and systematic interrogation of the relation between technologies, media, and organization, this Handbook consolidates, deepens, and further develops the empirics and concepts required to make sense of the material forces of organization.

Investigating Google’s Search Engine

Author : Rosie Graham
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350325228
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Investigating Google’s Search Engine written by Rosie Graham and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do search engines do? And what should they do? These questions seem relatively simple but are actually urgent social and ethical issues. The influence of Google's search engine is enormous. It does not only shape how Internet users find pages on the World Wide Web, but how we think as individuals, how we collectively remember the past, and how we communicate with one another. This book explores the impact of search engines within contemporary digital culture, focusing on the social, cultural, and philosophical influence of Google. Using case studies like Google's role in the rise of fake news, instances of sexist and misogynistic Autocomplete suggestions, and search queries relating to LGBTQ+ values, it offers original evidence to intervene practically in existing debates. It also addresses other understudied aspects of Google's influence, including the profound implications of its revenue generation for wider society. In doing this, this important book helps to evaluate the real cost of search engines on an individual and global scale.

Weaving the Dark Web

Author : Robert W. Gehl
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262347598
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Weaving the Dark Web written by Robert W. Gehl and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the Dark Web—websites accessible only with special routing software—that examines the history of three anonymizing networks, Freenet, Tor, and I2P. The term “Dark Web” conjures up drug markets, unregulated gun sales, stolen credit cards. But, as Robert Gehl points out in Weaving the Dark Web, for each of these illegitimate uses, there are other, legitimate ones: the New York Times's anonymous whistleblowing system, for example, and the use of encryption by political dissidents. Defining the Dark Web straightforwardly as websites that can be accessed only with special routing software, and noting the frequent use of “legitimate” and its variations by users, journalists, and law enforcement to describe Dark Web practices (judging them “legit” or “sh!t”), Gehl uses the concept of legitimacy as a window into the Dark Web. He does so by examining the history of three Dark Web systems: Freenet, Tor, and I2P. Gehl presents three distinct meanings of legitimate: legitimate force, or the state's claim to a monopoly on violence; organizational propriety; and authenticity. He explores how Freenet, Tor, and I2P grappled with these different meanings, and then discusses each form of legitimacy in detail by examining Dark Web markets, search engines, and social networking sites. Finally, taking a broader view of the Dark Web, Gehl argues for the value of anonymous political speech in a time of ubiquitous surveillance. If we shut down the Dark Web, he argues, we lose a valuable channel for dissent.

Being Digital Citizens

Author : Engin Isin, Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and University of London Institute in Paris (ULIP)
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1783480572
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Being Digital Citizens written by Engin Isin, Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and University of London Institute in Paris (ULIP) and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing a critical perspective on the challenges and possibilities presented by cyberspace, this book explores where and how political subjects perform new rights and duties that govern themselves and others online.

China's Digital Nationalism

Author : Florian Schneider
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190876816
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book China's Digital Nationalism written by Florian Schneider and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nationalism, in China as much as elsewhere, is today adopted, filtered, transformed, enhanced, and accelerated through digital networks. And as we have increasingly seen, nationalism in digital spheres interacts in complicated ways with nationalism "on the ground". If we are to understand the social and political complexities of the twenty-first century, we need to ask: what happens to nationalism when it goes digital? In China's Digital Nationalism, Florian Schneider explores the issue by looking at digital China first hand, exploring what search engines, online encyclopedias, websites, hyperlink networks, and social media can tell us about the way that different actors construct and manage a crucial topic in contemporary Chinese politics: the protracted historical relationship with neighbouring Japan. Using two cases, the infamous Nanjing Massacre of 1937 and the ongoing disputes over islands in the East China Sea, Schneider shows how various stakeholders in China construct networks and deploy power to shape nationalism for their own ends. These dynamics provide crucial lessons on how nation states adapt to the shifting terrain of the digital age and highlight how digital nationalism is today an emergent property of complex communication networks.

Big Data in the Arts and Humanities

Author : Giovanni Schiuma
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 135117259X
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Big Data in the Arts and Humanities written by Giovanni Schiuma and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As digital technologies occupy a more central role in working and everyday human life, individual and social realities are increasingly constructed and communicated through digital objects, which are progressively replacing and representing physical objects. They are even shaping new forms of virtual reality. This growing digital transformation coupled with technological evolution and the development of computer computation is shaping a cyber society whose working mechanisms are grounded upon the production, deployment, and exploitation of big data. In the arts and humanities, however, the notion of big data is still in its embryonic stage, and only in the last few years, have arts and cultural organizations and institutions, artists, and humanists started to investigate, explore, and experiment with the deployment and exploitation of big data as well as understand the possible forms of collaborations based on it. Big Data in the Arts and Humanities: Theory and Practice explores the meaning, properties, and applications of big data. This book examines therelevance of big data to the arts and humanities, digital humanities, and management of big data with and for the arts and humanities. It explores the reasons and opportunities for the arts and humanities to embrace the big data revolution. The book also delineates managerial implications to successfully shape a mutually beneficial partnership between the arts and humanities and the big data- and computational digital-based sciences. Big data and arts and humanities can be likened to the rational and emotional aspects of the human mind. This book attempts to integrate these two aspects of human thought to advance decision-making and to enhance the expression of the best of human life.

Global Technology and Legal Theory

Author : Guilherme Cintra Guimarães
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429594623
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Global Technology and Legal Theory written by Guilherme Cintra Guimarães and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-05 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise and spread of the Internet has accelerated the global flows of money, technology and information that are increasingly perceived as a challenge to the traditional regulatory powers of nation states and the effectiveness of their constitutions. The acceleration of these flows poses new legal and political problems to their regulation and control, as shown by recent conflicts between Google and the European Union (EU). This book investigates the transnational constitutional dimension of recent conflicts between Google and the EU in the areas of competition, taxation and human rights. More than a simple case study, it explores how the new conflicts originating from the worldwide expansion of the Internet economy are being dealt with by the institutional mechanisms available at the European level. The analysis of these conflicts exposes the tensions and contradictions between, on the one hand, legal and political systems that are limited by territory, and, on the other hand, the inherently global functioning of the Internet. The EU’s promising initiatives to extend the protection of privacy in cyberspace set the stage for a broader dialogue on constitutional problems related to the enforcement of fundamental rights and the legitimate exercise of power that are common to different legal orders of world society. Nevertheless, the different ways of dealing with the competition and fiscal aspects of the conflicts with Google also indicate the same limits that are generally attributed to the very project of European integration, showing that the constitutionalization of the economy tends to outpace the constitutionalization of politics. Providing a detailed account of the unfolding of these conflicts, and their wider consequences to the future of the Internet, this book will appeal to scholars working in EU law, international law and constitutional law, as well as those in the fields of political science and sociology.

The Social Power of Algorithms

Author : David Beer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351200658
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book The Social Power of Algorithms written by David Beer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vast circulations of mobile devices, sensors and data mean that the social world is now defined by a complex interweaving of human and machine agency. Key to this is the growing power of algorithms – the decision-making parts of code – in our software dense and data rich environments. Algorithms can shape how we are retreated, what we know, who we connect with and what we encounter, and they present us with some important questions about how society operates and how we understand it. This book offers a series of concepts, approaches and ideas for understanding the relations between algorithms and power. Each chapter provides a unique perspective on the integration of algorithms into the social world. As such, this book directly tackles some of the most important questions facing the social sciences today. This book was originally published as a special issue of Information, Communication & Society.

The Browning Society's Papers

Author : Browning Society (London, England)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Browning Society's Papers written by Browning Society (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Consumer Society Reader

Author : Juliet Schor
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1595587586
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)

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Download or read book The Consumer Society Reader written by Juliet Schor and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Consumer Society Reader features a range of key works on the nature and evolution of consumer society. Included here is much-discussed work by leading critics such as Jean Baudrillard, Susan Bordo, Dick Hebdige, bell hooks, and Janice Radway. Also included is a full range of classics, such as Frankfurt School writers Adorno and Horkheimer on the Culture Industry; Thorstein Veblen's oft-cited writings on "conspicuous consumption"; Betty Friedan on the housewife's central role in consumer society; John Kenneth Galbraith's influential analysis of the "affluent society"; and Pierre Bourdieu on the notion of "taste." "Consumer society--the 'air we breathe,' as George Orwell has described it--disappears during economic downtruns and political crises. It becomes visible again when prosperity seems secure, cultural transformation is too rapid, or enviornmental disasters occur. Such is the time in which we now find ourselves. As the roads clog with gas-guzzling SUVs and McMansions proliferate in the suburbs, the nation is once again asking fundamental questions about lifestyle. Has 'luxury fever,' to use Robert Frank's phrase, gotten out of hand? Are we really comfortable with the 'Brand Is Me' mentality? Have we gone too far in pursuit of the almighty dollar, to the detriment of our families, communities, and natural enviornment? Even politicians, ordinarily impermeable to questions about consumerism, are voicing doubts... [and] polls suggest majorities of Americans feel the country has become too materialistic, too focused on getting and spending, and increasingly removed from long-standing non-materialist values." —From the introduction by Douglas B. Holt and Juliet B. Schor

Code and the City

Author : Rob Kitchin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317413814
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Code and the City written by Rob Kitchin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Software has become essential to the functioning of cities. It is deeply embedded into the systems and infrastructure of the built environment and is entrenched in the management and governance of urban societies. Software-enabled technologies and services enhance the ways in which we understand and plan cities. It even has an effect on how we manage urban services and utilities. Code and the City explores the extent and depth of the ways in which software mediates how people work, consume, communication, travel and play. The reach of these systems is set to become even more pervasive through efforts to create smart cities: cities that employ ICTs to underpin and drive their economy and governance. Yet, despite the roll-out of software-enabled systems across all aspects of city life, the relationship between code and the city has barely been explored from a critical social science perspective. This collection of essays seeks to fill that gap, and offers an interdisciplinary examination of the relationship between software and contemporary urbanism. This book will be of interest to those researching or studying smart cities and urban infrastructure.

Semantic Media

Author : Andrew Iliadis
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509542590
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Semantic Media written by Andrew Iliadis and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Media technologies now provide facts, answers, and “knowledge” to people – search engines, apps, and virtual assistants increasingly articulate responses rather than direct people to other sources. Semantic Media is about this emerging era of meaning-making technologies. Companies like Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft organize information in new media products that seek to “intuitively” grasp what people want to know and the actions they want to take. This book describes some of the insidious technological practices through which organizations achieve this while addressing the changing contexts of internet searches, and examines the social and political consequences of what happens when large companies become primary sources of information. Written in an accessible style, Semantic Media will be of interest to students and scholars in media, science and technology, communication, and internet studies, as well as professionals wanting to learn more about the changing dynamics of contemporary data practices.

Partners for Preservation

Author : Jeanne Kramer-Smyth
Publisher : Facet Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783303476
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Partners for Preservation written by Jeanne Kramer-Smyth and published by Facet Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-23 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who could be partners to archivists working in digital preservation? This book features chapters from international contributors from diverse backgrounds and professions discussing their challenges with and victories over digital problems that share common issues with those facing digital preservationists. The only certainty about technology is that it will change. The speed of that change, and the ever increasing diversity of digital formats, tools, and platforms, will present stark challenges to the long-term preservation of digital records. Archivists are frequently challenged by the technical expertise, subject matter knowledge, time, and resource requirements needed to solve the broad set of challenges sure to be faced by the archival profession. Partners for Preservation advocates the need for archivists to recruit partners and learn lessons from across diverse professions to work more effectively within the digital landscape. Includes discussion of: - the internet of things - digital architecture - research data and collaboration - open source programming - privacy, memory and transparency - inheritance of digital media. This book will be useful reading for professional archivists and others responsible for digital preservation, students of archival studies and digital preservation.

Qualitative Research in Digital Environments

Author : Alessandro Caliandro
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317282183
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Qualitative Research in Digital Environments written by Alessandro Caliandro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a toolkit of methods and technologies to undertake qualitative research on digital spaces. Unlike commonly used traditional methodological strategies, which are ‘retrofitted’ to digital spaces, Qualitative Research in Digital Environments offers researchers a set of ‘digitally native’ tools that are designed for online social environments. Thanks to a broad range of cases including Louis Vuitton, YouTube and the concept of ‘hipsterism’, this text illustrates the practical applications of techniques and tools over the most popular social media environments. This book will be a valuable guide to qualitative research for marketing students, researchers and practitioners, as well as a central reference point for tutors in the growing field of Digital Sociology.