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by David Lindsay-Abaire (Author)A Pulitzer Prize-winning play about carrying on in the shadow of loss.Author BiographyDavid Lindsay-Abaire is the Pulitzer-winning author of Rabbit Hole, which was made into a feature film. He is the author of Good People, Fuddy Meers, Wonder of the World, A Devil Inside and Kimberly Akimbo, as well as the book and lyrics to Shrek the Musical. He has written the screenplays for Rabbit Hole, Rise of the Guardians and Oz: The Great and Powerful. Born in South Bos...

Your Obsolete Brain: Life and Death in the Age of Superintelligent Machines

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Report copyright infringementby Dennis L. Foster (Author) We live not only in a time of social and technological transition, but also of biological, evolutionary, and environmental change. It is also a time of great and growing upheaval--of societies, species, and the planet itself. Artificial intelligence has already permeated many aspects of daily life and will continue to alter the affairs of men and women, institutions, and warfare, in ways both positive and negative, beyond the lifetime ...

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Report copyright infringementby Samuel McQuade (Editor)There are today no more compelling sets of crime and security threats facing nations, communities, organizations, groups, families and individuals than those encompassed by cybercrime. For over fifty years crime enabled by computing and telecommunications technologies have increasingly threatened societies as they have become reliant on information systems for sustaining modernized living. Cybercrime is not a new phenomenon, rather an evo...

Celeb 2.0: How Social Media Foster Our Fascination with Popular Culture

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Report copyright infringementby Kelli Burns (Author)This volume looks at how the new capabilities of Web 2.0 are changing the worlds of celebrity fandom and gossip. With Ashton Kutcher's record-breaking "tweeting" more famous than his films, and Perez Hilton actually getting more attention than Paris, the actress often covered in his blog, the worlds of celebrity celebration and online social networking are pushing the public's crush on the famous and infamous into overdrive. Celeb 2.0: How S...

Cyberghetto or Cybertopia? Race, Class, and Gender on the Internet

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Report copyright infringementby Bosah Ebo (Author)Computer-mediated communication and cyberculture are dramatically changing the nature of social relationships. Whether cyberspace will simply retain vestiges of traditional communities with hierarchical social links and class-structured relationships or create new egalitarian social networks remains an open question. The chapters in this volume examine the issue of social justice on the Internet by using a variety of methodological and theoret...

The Information Society and the Black Community

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Report copyright infringementby John T. Barber (Editor), Alice A. Tait (Editor)Does the Information Age promise egalitarianism and democracy, or will it simply reinforce long-standing social and economic inequalities? This collection of essays analyzes the emerging role of African-Americans in post-industrial society from a variety of communications research perspectives. Accepting W.J. Wilson's theory of a socially and economically isolated African-American underclass, Barber and Tait ask th...

Winners and Losers of the Information Revolution: Psychosocial Change and Its Discontents

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Report copyright infringementby Bernard Rosen (Author)The second great transformation of our society in the modern era has demoted manufacturing to a position that is secondary to the service industries, thus originating today's information society. This volume examines how massive social change over the past few decades has created a new set of winners and losers and what this has done to society. The author rejects the orthodox explanations for the losers' plight--such as job stagnation, in...

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Report copyright infringementby Madhumita Murgia (Author)Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-FictionNamed a best book of the year by Esquire, The Spectator and Publishers WeeklyA riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial intelligence, revealing the perils and inequities of our growing reliance on automated decision-making On the surface, a British poet, an UberEats courier in Pittsburgh, an Indian doctor, and a Chinese activist in exile have nothing in...

AI Literacy: Understanding Shifts in our Digital Ecosystem

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel Bashir (Author)Author Daniel Bashir's AI Literacy is a book about AI at its best and worst: AI systems can and will do incredible things but why we need to be careful as we develop and use them. The book focuses on AI literacy, the simple act of understanding the abilities and limitations of AI systems.Through his experiences in academia and the tech industry, Bashir has been exposed to and called to question the ethical and societal impacts of AI. Ultim...

Internet-Ontologies-Things: Smart Objects, Hidden Problems, and Their Symmetries

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Report copyright infringementby Sungyong Ahn (Author)Internet-ontologies-Things explores how power mobilizes algorithmic and ontological objects, for example smartwatches and smart buildings, to uncover hidden problems within the physical domains of the IoT. One popular approach of software studies in recent times is to think of algorithmic objects - like the 'things' in what is known as the "Internet of Things" (IoT) - as ontological agents to the same extent as the humans who use them. Whil...

Let Them Eat Data: How Computers Affect Education, Cultural Diversity, and the Prospects of Ecological Sustainability

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Report copyright infringementby C. a. Bowers (Author)Do computers foster cultural diversity? Ecological sustainability? In our age of high-tech euphoria we seem content to leave tough questions like these to the experts. That dangerous inclination is at the heart of this important examination of the commercial and educational trends that have left us so uncritically optimistic about global computing. Contrary to the attitudes that have been marketed and taught to us, says C. A. Bowers, the fa...

Seeing Like a Platform: An Inquiry into the Condition of Digital Modernity

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Report copyright infringementby Petter Törnberg (Author), Justus Uitermark (Author)While industrial modernity saw society as a machinery to be designed according to detailed blueprints, digital modernity views society as organic and alive, to be herded and nudged through digital infrastructures, AI, and algorithms.This book explores the history, meaning and far-reaching consequences of this epistemological shift.Author BiographyPetter Törnberg is Assistant Professor in Computational Social Sc...

Ethical Reasoning for a Data-Centered World

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Report copyright infringementby Rochelle E. Tractenberg (Author)The American Statistical Association (ASA) and the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) have longstanding ethical practice standards that are explicitly intended to be utilized by all who use statistical practices or computing, or both. Since statistics and computing are critical in any data-centered activity, these practice standards are essential to instruction in the uses of statistical practices or computing across discip...

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Report copyright infringementby Munther A. Dahleh (Author)Harnessing the power of data and AI methods to tackle complex societal challenges requires transdisciplinary collaborations across academia, industry, and government. In this compelling book, Munther A. Dahleh, founder of the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), offers a blueprint for researchers, professionals, and institutions to create approaches to problems of high societal value using innovative, holistic, data-dri...

I Am Not a Slut: Slut-Shaming in the Age of the Internet

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Report copyright infringementby Leora Tanenbaum (Author)The author of the groundbreaking work Slut! explores the phenomenon of slut-shaming in the age of sexting, tweeting, and "liking." She shows that the sexual double standard is more dangerous than ever before and offers wisdom and strategies for alleviating its destructive effects on young women's lives.Young women are encouraged to express themselves sexually. Yet when they do, they are derided as "sluts." Caught in a double bind of mixe...

Frauds, Phones & Fingerprints: Proving Your Identity in the Digital Age

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Report copyright infringementby Almis Ledas (Author)The internet is a happy hunting ground for identity thieves, fraudsters and scammers. Criminal impersonation has evolved leaving established methods for protection against identity theft no longer effective. If you're active online, it's time to learn safe navigation in the digital world.Frauds, Phones and Fingerprints will help you understand what you need to know and what you need to do to stay safe. Entertaining and informative, it uses c...

Design Heuristics for Emerging Technologies: AI, Data, & Human-Centered Futures - Considerations for the Rights of Women

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Report copyright infringementby Kem-Laurin Lubin (Author) Number of Pages: 152 Dimensions: 0.33 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 26, 2025

No Modernism Without Lesbians - Paperback

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by Diana Souhami (Author)A Sunday Times Book of the Year Winner of the Polari Prize'A book about love, identity, acceptance and the freedom to write, paint, compose and wear corduroy breeches with gaiters. To swear, kiss, publish and be damned. It is vastly entertaining and often moving... There isn't a page without an entertaining vignette' The Times. The extraordinary story of how a singular group of women in a pivotal time and place - Paris, Between the Wars - fostered the birth of the Mo...

The role of media literacy in the fight against fakes and disinformation in the media space of Uzbekistan

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Report copyright infringementby Nozim Boronov (Author)With the unparalleled development of the internet in the 21st century, the world has effectively become 'one step closer'. News from one corner of the world now reaches the other in mere seconds. Media's influence on modern society's development continues to grow each year, shaping people's social and psychological understanding and evaluation of their environment. The main features of contemporary media are 'creativity and innovation'. Ho...

Introduction to the Ethics of Emerging Technologies

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Report copyright infringementby Wessel Reijers (Author), Mark Thomas Young (Author), Mark Coeckelbergh (Author)Introduction to Ethics of Emerging Technologies offers a set of lecture and seminar course materials for teaching ethics of emerging technologies. It covers the field in a comprehensive and accessible manner, emphasizing storytelling and examples, practical approaches and tools, and interactive assignments. The book addresses historical and current discourses, both academic and pract...

Digital Visual Art Education: Making, Learning, and Teaching with Digital Media

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Sweeny (Author)This book presents a detailed analysis of digital media as it is currently being used by visual artists. It places these works into a theoretical framework that is useful for research in fields such as Media Studies, Studio Art, and Art and Design Education. The primary goal is to emphasize the multidisciplinary aspects of digital visual art, and to propose a field of study that is unique to this type of art. Digital Visual Art Education c...

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Report copyright infringementby Roderick S. Graham (Author), 'Shawn K. Smith (Author)In Cybercrime and Digital Deviance, 2nd Edition, Graham and Smith conceptualize the online space as a distinct environment for social interaction, framing their work with assumptions informed by their respective work in urban sociology and spatial criminology.Author BiographyRoderick S. Graham is an Associate Professor of Sociology in the Sociology and Criminal Justice Department at Old Dominion University. H...

Computers and Society: Modern Perspectives

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Report copyright infringementby Ronald M. Baecker (Author)The last century has seen enormous leaps in the development of digital technologies, and most aspects of modern life have changed significantly with their widespread availability and use. Technology at various scales - supercomputers, corporate networks, desktop and laptop computers, the internet, tablets, mobile phones, and processors that are hidden in everyday devices and are so small you can barely see them with the naked eye - all...

Thinking with AI: Machine Learning the Humanities

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Report copyright infringementby Hannes Bajohr (Editor)The essays in this volume illustrate how AI can be used as a productive metaphor and intellectual tool for the humanities. From formalising concepts like Stimmung and vibe, to challenging traditional distinctions between writing and thought or between history and data, Thinking with AI shows how AI can be not just an object of study but a conceptual catalyst that ignites unexpected connections to long-standing humanistic concerns. With con...

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Report copyright infringementby Julia Angwin (Author)An inside look at who's watching you, what they know and why it matters. We are being watched.We see online ads from websites we've visited, long after we've moved on to other interests. Our smartphones and cars transmit our location, enabling us to know what's in the neighborhood but also enabling others to track us. And the federal government, we recently learned, has been conducting a massive data-gathering surveillance operation across ...

An Independent Man: Ed Roberts and the Fight for Disability Rights

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Report copyright infringementby Scot Danforth (Author)The first biography of one of the founders of the disability rights movement, An Independent Man chronicles the life of an activist who reimagined the meaning of equality and inspired generations of reformers. Before Jonas Salk's vaccine, polio was a social death sentence. The disabled were expected to disappear into their limitations, pitied by those around them. This might have been the story of Ed Roberts, paralyzed and consigned to sl...

Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho

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Report copyright infringementby Jon Katz (Author)"A story of triumph, friendship, love, and above all, about being human and reaching for dreams in a hard-wired world."--Seattle Times "Too often, writing about the online world lacks emotional punch, but Katz's obvious love for his 'lost boys' gives his narrative a rich taste."--The New York Times Book Review Jesse and Eric were geeks: suspicious of authority figures, proud of their status as outsiders, fervent in their belief in the positive ...

A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living - Paperback

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by Diane Osbon (Author)Celebrated scholar Joseph Campbell shares his intimate and inspiring reflections on the art of living in this beautifully packaged book, part of a new series to be based on his unpublished writings. Number of Pages: 320 Dimensions: 0.85 x 8.02 x 4.49 IN Publication Date: May 12, 1995

AI for Humanitarianism: Fostering Social Change Through Emerging Technologies

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Report copyright infringementby Adeyemi Abel Ajibesin (Editor), Narasimha Rao Vajjhala (Editor)This book explores the transformative potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in addressing critical humanitarian challenges. It examines AI's role in enhancing emergency responses, poverty alleviation, and healthcare.Author BiographyAdeyemi Abel Ajibesin is a distinguished academic scholar with over two decades of extensive experience in research, teaching, and leadership, particularly in Electri...

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The Coming Wave: Ai, Power, and Our Future

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Report copyright infringementby Mustafa Suleyman (Author), Michael Bhaskar (With)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance--from a co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company DeepMind and current CEO of Microsoft AI"A fascinating, well-written, and important book."--Yuval Noah Harari "Essential reading."--Daniel Kahneman"My...

Digital Shakedown: The Complete Guide to Understanding and Combating Ransomware

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Report copyright infringementby Harry Halikias (Author)Back JacketThis book is a comprehensive review of ransomware that covers ransomware from every angle. It presents origins, components, purpose, impacts, relevant laws, prevention techniques and proposed solutions. This book also introduces novel concepts such as the Three Cs of Ransomware and The Great Shut Down, Reboot, Pull the Plug Debate. This indispensable book provides readers with the most comprehensive information regarding ransom...