Lost In Cyburbia

Author : James Harkin
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307373983
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost in Cyburbia written by James Harkin and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early twentieth century saw the slow but steady exodus of the population from inner cities to the suburbs. We are currently witnessing a similar transformation as our new century establishes itself, but in an entirely different realm. As new technologies proliferate — personal computers, the communication gadgetry of mobile devices and access to the internet — our culture is participating in a mass electronic migration. James Harkin christens this destination to “Cyburbia” — the ether of “online,” where we spend so much of our lives. Once upon a time there were no text messaging, no e-mail and no social networking sites like Facebook, Bebo, Twitter and MySpace. The introduction of these new forums for communication has radically transformed the way that we live — and we can only guess what will come next. Innovative and extremely timely, Lost in Cyburbia describes the architecture of our digital life, how it has developed over the past seventy years and how it will evolve in the future. The narrative recounts how the theories of Norbert Weiner (the inventor of cybernetics) and Marshall McLuhan inspired the counterculture radicals in the sixties and seventies, and traces how their pioneering idealistic and theoretical work laid the groundwork for a system whose central idea is bringing about direct communication between peers, outside the reach of authority. Harkin explores what it means to be in the loop — and our obsession with instant access to information and how it is shared over networks — and considers what has been lost and what has been gained. Are we more connected than ever before or more isolated? Have our thinking processes been forever altered? Is the democratic nature of the net slowly being eroded by corporate interests? Or, as once hoped, will the net enable the awakening of a new kind of global consciousness?

Author : Mark Howard Moss
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739169882
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Education and Its Discontents written by Mark Howard Moss and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education and Its Discontents: Teaching, the Humanities, and the Importance of a Liberal Education in the Age of Mass Information, by Mark Moss, is an exploration of how the traditional educational environment, particularly in the post-secondary world, is changing as a consequence of the influx of new technology. Students come to the classroom or lecture hall expecting to have their habits and tastes, gleaned from the online world, replicated in an Educational environment. Faculty who do not adapt face enormous obstacles, and faculty that do adapt run the risk of eroding the integrity of what they have been trained to teach. Students now have access to myriad of technologies that instead of supplementing the educational process, have actually taken it over. Issues that run from plagiarism to the erosion of the humanities are now rampant concerns in the post secondary world. Behavior issues, YouTube videos, cell phones, and the incessant clicking of the computer keys are just a few of the technologies altering the educational landscape. Moss discusses that it is now not only how we learn, but what we continue to teach, and how that enormously important legacy is protected. Education and Its Discontents: Teaching, the Humanities, and the Importance of a Liberal Education in the Age of Mass Information, by Mark Moss, argues that education has changed and the supremacy of the book and the lecture is now open for debate. What has been gained over the last five hundred years is now susceptible to the vagaries of technology, which compel us to question their continuing relevance.

Author : Bill Ivey
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619021242
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handmaking America written by Bill Ivey and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America has survived an economic near–disaster. While the state of employment and housing will one day improve, we will never return to the delusional prosperity that defined the first decade of the 21st century. Progressives should hold the key to quality of life in our coming post–consumerist society, but today Democrats have become timid, our vision of the good life marginalized by three decades of partisan attacks and the think tank–induced assumption that an unfettered marketplace, low taxes, and international adventurism will somehow give us an America capable of inspiring the world. Handmaking America, reaches back to the Arts–and–Crafts roots of progressive thought, confronting the way right–wing ideology and the power of post–industrial capitalism have undermined work, government; our very way of life, advancing a practical, achievable vision for a good society that can use the capacity of government to recover the essential strength of the American idea.

Author : Niaz Chowdhury
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 100050770X
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside Blockchain, Bitcoin, and Cryptocurrencies written by Niaz Chowdhury and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-08-16 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers blockchain from the underlying principles to how it enables applications to survive and surf on its shoulder. Having covered the fundamentals of blockchain, the book turns to cryptocurrency. It thoroughly examines Bitcoin before presenting six other major currencies in a rounded discussion. The book then bridges between technology and finance, concentrating on how blockchain-based applications, including cryptocurrencies, have pushed hard against mainstream industries in a bid to cement their positions permanent. It discusses blockchain as underlying banking technology, crypto mining and offering, cryptocurrency as investment instruments, crypto regulations, and markets.

Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442217847
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Culture written by Marcel Danesi and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2012-08-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Culture: Introductory Perspectives seeks to define pop culture by exploring the ways that it fulfills our human desire for meaning. The second edition investigates current contexts for popular culture, including the rise of the digital global village through new technology and offers up-to-date examples that connect with today's students.

Author : Roger Parry
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1857889460
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ascent of Media written by Roger Parry and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Media’s story from its earliest incarnation in the clay tablets of Gilgamesh up to the world of digital content

Author : Ivo Quartiroli
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 8897233015
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Digitally Divided Self written by Ivo Quartiroli and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It isn't easy to find an informed and critical look at the impact of digital media practices on human lives and minds. Ivo Quartiroli offers an informed critique based in both an understanding of technology and of human consciousness." --Howard Rheingold, author of The Virtual Community and Smart Mobs. Howard Rheingold, Derrick de Kerckhove, Arthur Kroker, Eric McLuhan, Michael McLuhan, Douglas Rushkoff, Michael Wesch, Hilarie Cash, Erik Davis, Michael Heim, Maggie Jackson, Ervin Laszlo and others on the forefront of technology and media studies praised The Digitally Divided Self as a milestone in the understanding of human nature in relationship with digital technology. Intersecting media studies, psychology and spirituality, The Digitally Divided Self exposes the nature of the malleable mind and explores the religious and philosophical influences which leave it obsessed with the incessant flow of information.

Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442695536
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Media and Communication written by Marcel Danesi and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive encyclopedia for the growing fields of media and communication studies, the Encyclopedia of Media and Communication is an essential resource for beginners and seasoned academics alike. Contributions from over fifty experts and practitioners provide an accessible introduction to these disciplines' most important concepts, figures, and schools of thought – from Jean Baudrillard to Tim Berners Lee, and podcasting to Peircean semiotics. Detailed and up-to-date, the Encyclopedia of Media and Communication synthesizes a wide array of works and perspectives on the making of meaning. The appendix includes timelines covering the whole historical record for each medium, from either antiquity or their inception to the present day. Each entry also features a bibliography linking readers to relevant resources for further reading. The most coherent treatment yet of these fields, the Encyclopedia of Media and Communication promises to be the standard reference text for the next generation of media and communication students and scholars.

Author : Don Tapscott
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101443588
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Macrowikinomics written by Don Tapscott and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their bestseller Wikinomics, Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams showed the world how mass collaboration was changing the way businesses commu­nicate, create value, and compete in the new global marketplace. This sequel shows that in more than a dozen fields—from finance to health care, science to education, the media to the environment—we have reached a historic turning point. Collaborative innovation is revolutionizing not only the way we work, but how we live, learn, create, govern, and care for one another. The wiki revolutions of the Arab Spring were only one example of how rebuilding civilization was not only possible but necessary. With vivid examples from diverse sectors, Macrowikinomics is a hand­book for people everywhere seeking a transformation of industry and institu­tions by embracing a new set of guiding principles, including openness and interdependence. Tapscott and Williams argue that this new communications medium, like the printing press before it, is enabling nothing less than the birth of a new civilization.

Author : Susan Maushart
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101486120
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Winter of Our Disconnect written by Susan Maushart and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wise and hilarious story of a family who discovered that having fewer tools to communicate with led them to actually communicate more. When Susan Maushart first announced her intention to pull the plug on her family's entire armory of electronic weaponry for six months-from the itsy-bitsiest iPod Shuffle to her son's seriously souped-up gaming PC-her three kids didn't blink an eye. Says Maushart: "Looking back, I can understand why. They didn't hear me." For any parent who's ever IM-ed their child to the dinner table, this account of one family's self-imposed exile from the Information Age will leave you LOLing with recognition. But it will also make you think. The Winter of Our Disconnect challenges readers to examine the toll that technology is taking on their own family connections, and to create a media ecology that instead encourages kids-and parents-to thrive. Indeed, as a self-confessed single mom who "slept with her iPhone," Maushart knew her family's exile from Cyburbia wasn't going to be any easier for her than for her three teenagers, ages fourteen, fifteen, and eighteen. Yet they all soon discovered that the rewards of becoming "unplugged" were more rich and varied than any cyber reality could ever be.