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The American Dream in the Information Age

Author : Otto Newman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0333983599
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (339 download)

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Download or read book The American Dream in the Information Age written by Otto Newman and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-05-19 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's current transformation from an industrial to a new information-based culture presents new challenges as well as new perspectives on old debates. This book offers a comprehensive survey of America's changing values. It examines notions of American exceptionalism and how the 'melting pot' is coping with race relations and changing demographics; it assesses the agenda of government, the domestic and global constraints, and how social exclusion can be tackled. Current changes in the US are likely to be a harbinger for other societies, and the authors examine new models of civic society, of learning and of reconfiguring social values for a fast-changing world.

Left to Their Own Devices

Author : Julie M. Albright
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1633884457
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book Left to Their Own Devices written by Julie M. Albright and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sociologist explores the many ways that digital natives' interaction with technology has changed their relationship with people, places, jobs, and other stabilizing structures and created a new way of life that is at odds with the American Dream of past generations. Digital natives are hacking the American Dream. Young people brought up with the Internet, smartphones, and social media are quickly rendering old habits, values, behaviors, and norms a distant memory--creating the greatest generation gap in history. In this eye-opening book, digital sociologist Julie M. Albright looks at the many ways in which younger people, facilitated by technology, are coming "untethered" from traditional aspirations and ideals, and asks: What are the effects of being disconnected from traditional, stabilizing social structures like churches, marriage, political parties, and long-term employment? What does it mean to be human when one's ties to people, places, jobs, and societal institutions are weakened or broken, displaced by digital hyper-connectivity? Albright sees both positives and negatives. On the one hand, mobile connectivity has given digital nomads the unprecedented opportunity to work or live anywhere. But, new threats to well-being are emerging, including increased isolation, anxiety, and loneliness, decreased physical exercise, ephemeral relationships, fragmented attention spans, and detachment from the calm of nature. In this time of rapid, global, technologically driven change, this book offers fresh insights into the unintended societal and psychological implications of lives exclusively lived in a digital world.

Global politics in the information age

Author : Mark J. Lacy
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 152618611X
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Global politics in the information age written by Mark J. Lacy and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global politics in the information age, available in paperback for the first time, presents a provocative and wide-ranging introduction to the notion that information technologies are creating new formations of power, control and resistance across the planet. The essays - ranging from the language used by the Bush administration to shape the war on terror, the attempts to control the circulation of informational products, the strategies of media management deployed to shape how the war in Iraq during 2003 was presented in the public sphere, through to the attempts to ‘brand’ economic globalisation and strategies of resistance developed by the anti-globalisation movement - unearth the new transformations that are unfolding in the twenty first century. This collection of essays brings together academics working across the social sciences - from International Relations, Political Economy, Sociology and Media Studies - to provide the reader with a number of different perspectives on the way that flows of images, capital, ideologies and informational goods are creating global spaces of control and resistance. The book seeks to rethink approaches to global politics that see information society as closing down spaces of resistance, while at the same time exploring the new formations of power that informational society is making possible. The book offers clearly explained theoretical insight into the debates that are shaping discussion on global politics and information society, with case studies that will be of interest to the student seeking to make sense of the changes that are unfolding.

Left to Their Own Devices

Author : Julie M. Albright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1633884449
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book Left to Their Own Devices written by Julie M. Albright and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Digital natives" are hacking the American Dream. Young people brought up with the Internet, smartphones, and social media are quickly rendering old habits and norms a distant memory, creating the greatest generation gap in history. In this eye-opening book, digital sociologist Julie M. Albright looks at our device-obsessed society, and the many ways in which the post World War II American Dream is waning for the Millennial generation. Albright notes that in the former age of traditional media (dominated by three major TV networks and the national print media), values were more harmonized and time, synchronized. Today, with a deluge of information available 24/7, we are experiencing a sort of digital tribalism, with people coalescing inside of increasingly fragmented informational echo chambers. Digital media allows bad actors to enlarge the rifts between these siloed tribes in divide-and-conquer fashion, frothing up fears by propagating fake news and fake people online. What are other effects of hyper-connectivity coupled with disconnection from stabilizing social structures? Albright sees both positives and negatives. On the one hand, mobile connectivity has given "digital nomads" the unprecedented opportunity to work or live anywhere. On the other hand, new threats are emerging, including cyberbullying and the ability to radicalize marginalized youth, decreased physical exercise, increased isolation, anxiety and loneliness, ephemeral relationships, fragmented attention spans, lack of participation in community activities and the political process, and detachment from the calm of nature or the refuge of religion. In this time of rapid, global, technologically driven change, this book offers fresh insights into the effects of always-on devices on the family, community, business, and society at large.

Citizenship and Participation in the Information Age

Author : Manjunath Pendakur
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1551930358
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Citizenship and Participation in the Information Age written by Manjunath Pendakur and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reflects each contributor's vision of the future, visions that range from the enthusiastic and hopeful to the pessimistic and fearful.

The American Dream?

Author : Shing Yin Khor
Publisher : Zest Books
ISBN 13 : 1942186371
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book The American Dream? written by Shing Yin Khor and published by Zest Books. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a child growing up in Malaysia, Shing Yin Khor had two very different ideas of what “America” meant. The first looked a lot like Hollywood, full of beautiful people and sunlight and freeways. The second looked more like The Grapes of Wrath - a nightmare landscape filled with impoverished people, broken-down cars, barren landscapes, and broken dreams. Those contrasting ideas have stuck with Shing ever since, even now that she lives and works in LA. The American Dream? A Journey on Route 66 is Shing’s attempt to find what she can of both of these Americas on a solo journey (small adventure-dog included) across the entire expanse of that iconic road, beginning in Santa Monica and ending up Chicago. And what begins as a road trip ends up as something more like a pilgrimage in search of an American landscape that seems forever shifting, forever out of place.

Global Political Economy in the Information Age

Author : Gillian Youngs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134174896
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Global Political Economy in the Information Age written by Gillian Youngs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-01-24 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: 20th-21st century imaginings and realities Section 1: Time/Space Frameworks 1. States and Markets: understanding geospatial time 2. Virtual Realities: exploring sociospatiality 3. The Political Economy of Time: historical time, speed and mobility Section 2: Borders and Inequality 4. Transcendence and Communication 5. Inequality as Driver 6. Embedding Patriarchy: feminism and inequality in the Internet era Section 3: Technofutures and Power 7. Complex Hegemony in the 21st Century: power and inequality Conclusion

Reading Marx in the Information Age

Author : Christian Fuchs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317364481
Total Pages : 603 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Reading Marx in the Information Age written by Christian Fuchs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned Marxist scholar and critical media theorist Christian Fuchs provides a thorough, chapter-by-chapter introduction to Capital Volume 1 that assists readers in making sense of Karl Marx’s most important and groundbreaking work in the information age, exploring Marx’s key concepts through the lens of media and communication studies via contemporary phenomena like the Internet, digital labour, social media, the media industries, and digital class struggles. Through a range of international, current-day examples, Fuchs emphasises the continued importance of Marx and his work in a time when transnational media companies like Amazon, Google, and Facebook play an increasingly important role in global capitalism. Discussion questions and exercises at the end of each chapter help readers to further apply Marx’s work to a modern-day context.

Chasing the American Dream

Author : Mark Robert Rank PhD
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199703302
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Chasing the American Dream written by Mark Robert Rank PhD and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States has been epitomized as a land of opportunity, where hard work and skill can bring personal success and economic well-being. The American Dream has captured the imagination of people from all walks of life, and to many, it represents the heart and soul of the country. But there is another, darker side to the bargain that America strikes with its people -- it is the price we pay for our individual pursuit of the American Dream. That price can be found in the economic hardship present in the lives of millions of Americans. In Chasing the American Dream, leading social scientists Mark Robert Rank, Thomas A. Hirschl, and Kirk A. Foster provide a new and innovative look into a curious dynamic -- the tension between the promise of economic opportunities and rewards and the amount of turmoil that Americans encounter in their quest for those rewards. The authors explore questions such as: -What percentage of Americans achieve affluence, and how much income mobility do we actually have? -Are most Americans able to own a home, and at what age? -How is it that nearly 80 percent of us will experience significant economic insecurity at some point between ages 25 and 60? -How can access to the American Dream be increased? Combining personal interviews with dozens of Americans and a longitudinal study covering 40 years of income data, the authors tell the story of the American Dream and reveal a number of surprises. The risk of economic vulnerability has increased substantially over the past four decades, and the American Dream is becoming harder to reach and harder to keep. Yet for most Americans, the Dream lies not in wealth, but in economic security, pursuing one's passions, and looking toward the future. Chasing the American Dream provides us with a new understanding into the dynamics that shape our fortunes and a deeper insight into the importance of the American Dream for the future of the country.

The (Dis)Information Age: From Post-Truth to Post-Postmodernism

Author : Jonathan Austad
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book The (Dis)Information Age: From Post-Truth to Post-Postmodernism written by Jonathan Austad and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2025-01-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has yet to be a strong consensus regarding when and if postmodernism ended. As such, there is no agreement about the new age’s name, origins, or tenets. Nealson’s 'Post-Postmodernism: or The Cultural Logic of Just-in-Time Capitalism' leaves out the impact of the internet and social media. Other books fail to explore post-postmodernism within a larger social-political framework and do not examine the cultural trends that have responded to such forces. This book undertakes these complexities by examining the interplay between the sociohistorical events and visual culture of the last two decades and posits that postmodernism ended with the terror attacks on September 11, 2001. Few events have such a tremendous impact on the collective consciousness that they cause immense social, political, and cultural changes, but the terror attacks marked the beginning of a new era filled with greater anxiety and uncertainty. The Bush Administration used news outlets to promote a false narrative and mislead the public, manipulating information to further its agenda and altering the nature and efficacy of mass media and ultimately launching society into an age of disinformation. 'The (Dis)Information Age' is comprised of two main phenomena: post-truth and post-postmodernism. Truth and reality have become increasingly difficult to ascertain in this post-truth world and created increased skepticism towards those in the government and media. The rise of the internet and social media has exacerbated this trend by individualizing facts and data, further fragmenting society along ideological lines. The result is people share fewer common ideas than in previous eras and are no longer living in a shared reality. Post-postmodernism, on the other hand, is a cultural movement that has responded to post-truth’s weaponization, misuse, and individualization of information. Artists of post-postmodernism seek greater connectivity and common ground to combat individualized information and ideological warfare. To them, truth resides in the collective. This study examines the intricate relationship between recent socio-historic events and cultural manifestations that respond to them to better understand the world in which we live.

Tendencies and Tensions of the Information Age

Author : Jorge Reina Schement
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412835688
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Tendencies and Tensions of the Information Age written by Jorge Reina Schement and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of technology and the hunger for information has caused a wave of change in daily life in America. Nearly every American's environment now consists of cable television, video cassette players, answering machines, fax machines, and personal computers. Schement and Curtis argue that the information age has evolved gradually throughout the twentieth century. National focus on the production and distribution of information stems directly from the organizing principles and realities of the market system, not from a revolution sparked by the invention of the computer. Now available in paperback, Tendencies and Tensions of the Information Age, brings together findings from many disciplines, including classical studies, etymology, political sociology, and macroeconomics. This valuable resource will be enjoyed by sociologists, historians, and scholars of communication and information studies.

American Documentary Filmmaking in the Digital Age

Author : Lucia Ricciardelli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135036144
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book American Documentary Filmmaking in the Digital Age written by Lucia Ricciardelli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Documentary Filmmaking in the Digital Age examines the recent challenges to the conventions of realist documentary through the lens of war documentary films by Ken Burns, Michael Moore, and Errol Morris. During the twentieth century, the invention of new technologies of audiovisual representation such as cinema, television, video, and digital media have transformed the modes of historical narration and with it forced historians to assess the impact of new visual technologies on the construction of history. This book investigates the manner in which this contemporary Western "crisis" in historical narrative is produced by a larger epistemological shift in visual culture. Ricciardelli uses the theme of war as depicted in these directors’ films to focus her study and look at the model(s) of national identity that Burns, Morris, and Moore shape through their depictions of US military actions. She examines how postcolonial critiques of historicism and the advent of digitization have affected the narrative structure of documentary film and the shaping of historical consciousness through cinematic representation.

The American Dream

Author : Joseph L. Daleiden
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1616140909
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The American Dream written by Joseph L. Daleiden and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can each of us achieve our own American dream while recognizing needs of other individuals, society, and future generations? Not if our present national policies continue, warns long term planning expert Joseph L. Daleiden. He persuasively argues that if present socioeconomic trends remain, our nation faces social disaster before the middle of the 21st century.These trends can be reversed, he insists, but only if we are willing to (1) reject failed policies both liberal and conservative directed at population growth, the environment, the national debt, trade, poverty, crime, race relations, education, healthcare, social security, and tax reform; (2) accept that all of these areas of concern are intertwined; and (3) take responsibility for our decisions.Avoiding ideology and platitudes, Daleiden's pragmatic approach relies on actual evidence of how prospective policies will influence human behavior and whether their outcomes will increase or decrease human happiness in the long run.Joseph L. Daleiden (Evanston, IL) is also the author of The Final Superstition: A Critical Evaluation of the Judeo-Christian Legacy, and The Science of Morality: The Individual, Community, and Future Generations.

Maintaining Community in the Information Age

Author : Karen F. Evans
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230006205
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Maintaining Community in the Information Age written by Karen F. Evans and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-09-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By exploring the experiences of community activists and organizations working with information and communication technology (ICT) to build communities, this book offers a grounded and informed study of the role ICT plays in people's lives. The author emphasizes the importance of networks built around trust, shared spaces and local knowledge bases in the formation of significant relationships in contemporary Western societies and in doing so, questions many of the assumptions which inform the rhetorics of the information age.

The American Dream Declassified

Author : Frank PN Adjei-Mensah
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 149691466X
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book The American Dream Declassified written by Frank PN Adjei-Mensah and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must-read, insightful blueprint to fulfilling your dreams and potentials of becoming financially emancipated. This book is a culmination of 4 years of extensive and meticulous research to uncover why some people do so well in the capitalist economy while the vast majority struggle to make ends meet. My quest was to discover answers to these elusive questions about the few who are doing so handsomely well: What do they know? What do they do differently? The research results were a total shock to my very core. I simply could not believe how uncomplicated it really is to create wealth and live the American Dream. For lack of knowledge my people perish.---Hosea 4:6. Education is THE KEY to success in any endeavor. Financial Education is THE KEY to financial success, and in the current globalized economic environment, everyone needs that in addition to their degrees, diplomas, and professional training. That need is essential and cardinal now than ever before. This book provides the entire Financial Education package, which would help readers expand their means rather than just managing their current, often meagre means, in an easy-to understand step-by-step approach towards Financial Freedom.

How to Achieve the American Dream - Without Losing Your Latin Soul!

Author : Don Daniel Ortiz
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1481709372
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book How to Achieve the American Dream - Without Losing Your Latin Soul! written by Don Daniel Ortiz and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Latinos have a deep desire to achieve the "American Dream", to attain success and discover their life purpose. Yet, in the pursuit of these elusive goals, many end up merely "Keeping up with the Joneses" or realize too late that the ladder of success they are climbing is leaning against the wrong wall. Now, in How to Achieve the 'American Dream' – Without Losing Your Latin Soul, author and "America's #1 Latino Success Coach" Don Daniel Ortiz shows readers of all backgrounds that not only is reaching your "American Dream" possible, he also reveals a secret path, hidden in the stories of ancient mythology, that will lead you directly to the achievement of your deepest desire, your highest hopes and personal fulfillment. In, How to Achieve the 'American Dream' – Without Losing Your Latin Soul, readers will discover how to: * Stop chasing success and start living your life purpose * Bridge the gap between your "Two Worlds" * Harness the power of Latino values Faith, Family & Frijoles * Define your Latino version of the "American Dream" * Unlock the secrets of your personal story * Follow a proven 7-Step path for achieving your "American Dream" * Overcome fear to find peace, happiness and fulfillment * And much more Written with a unique Latino perspective, How to Achieve the 'American Dream' – Without Losing Your Latin Soul is an inspiring, insightful and entertaining book that unlocks the powerful, profound secrets hidden in your personal story – and about overcoming fear to achieve your American Dream.

Refocusing the African-American Dream

Author : Edwin E. Thompson RIA MBA
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1728361834
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book Refocusing the African-American Dream written by Edwin E. Thompson RIA MBA and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book depicts the challenging experiences of two twins - Dreams, Hope, and Passion in obtaining the American Dream." Establishing the argument for " Refocusing the African American Dream" is precipitated by the need to clarify what is freedom, and what makes freedom so important? Generally, dreams are food for the soul. Dreams also give us hope. Whereas, hope is the opportunity for expectation, and passion is the need and desire to turn those hopes and dreams into reality. With freedom comes responsibility. There are three fundamental critical societal problems, which impacts "The African American Dream," they are fundamentally social problems notably: an increase in single-parent households, inadequate education preparation, and no economic foundation. Despite the difficulties associated with single-family households, inadequate education preparation and, no financial foundation. The Declaration of Independence depicts the concept of freedom in terms of inalienable rights, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. As a result, there is no mention of economic independence. Economics is an important issue, which confronts our families; because it is a necessary means for financial freedom, and it facilitates our participation in a market economy. If a culture has no strong economic base, then it resembles a plantation. The civil rights movement was very much about gaining control over economic means, and not so much about getting political power as an end in itself. Your circumstances at birth—mainly, what your parents do for a living—are an even more significant factor in how far you get in life than we had previously realized. On the other hand, if you are first-generation educated like the Thompson twins, it is your Dreams, Hope, and Passion that makes the difference. In either case, you are the foundation for the next generation's success. The process only works if you have a flourishing economy at best.