Critical Perspectives On The Internet

Author : Greg Elmer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0742511324

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Critical Perspectives on the Internet by Greg Elmer Pdf

This critical reader of original essays places the boom and bust years of the Internet in a broad cultural context. Exploring the world of html, web browsers, cookies, online net guides, portals, and Internet service providers, this text includes the history of the Internet, interesting case studies and discussions on online community, user inequalities, and governance. Within the larger issues of technological infrastructure, government policy, and globalization, Critical Perspectives on the Internet highlights both the limitations and possibilities of everyday Internet use. Does the net function as a space for radical social and political change? For challenging established media? What opportunities lie in the cracks and crevasses of net structure? With its critical agenda for Internet studies, this text is a valuable tool for upper-level courses on the Internet, online communication, computer-mediated communication, communication and information technologies, and media and politics.

Author : Ann Malaspina
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1404205373

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Critical Perspectives on Globalization by Ann Malaspina Pdf

Primary and secondary source documents discuss the role of governments and corporations in globalizing the world, how globalization affects economies, the role of technology, globalization and society, and the future of globalization.

Author : Tobias Olsson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Internet
ISBN : 9186523597

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Producing the Internet by Tobias Olsson Pdf

But they also share a critical interest in problematizing and analysing the forms of power built into this culture.

Author : Van Loon, Joost
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780335214464

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Media Technology: Critical Perspectives by Van Loon, Joost Pdf

Using philosophical and historical analysis, this book illustrates how throughout the course of society, different forms of media have helped to shape our perceptions, expectations and interpretations.

Author : Njogu, Kimani,Adem, Seifudein
Publisher : Twaweza Communications
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789966028679

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Critical Perspectives on Culture and Globalisation by Njogu, Kimani,Adem, Seifudein Pdf

In 1996 President Nelson Mandela described Professor Ali A. Mazrui (1933-2014) as "an outstanding educationist and freedom fighter." In 2002 the former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan referred to Professor Mazrui as "Africa's gift to the world." Author of more than 35 books and hundreds of articles, Professor Mazrui was an African scholar who had treated with uncommon verve and flair a wide-range of themes that included globalization, the triple heritage, peace, and social justice. This volume engages with some of those themes that excited his mind for over six decades. The multidisciplinary essays seek to underline the highlights of Mazrui's intellectual journey and attest to the fact that he was public intellectual par excellence. Indeed, in 2005, he was named one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world. This book is a product of a symposium held from 15 to 17 July 2016 in Nairobi, Kenya. The symposium was jointly organized by the Twaweza Communications, Nairobi, Kenya, and the Institute of Global Cultural Studies (State University of New York at Binghamton) which Ali Mazrui created and presided over as the Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities from 1991 to 2014.

Author : K. Orton-Johnson,N. Prior
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137297792

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Digital Sociology by K. Orton-Johnson,N. Prior Pdf

Sociology and our sociological imaginations are having to confront new digital landscapes spanning mediated social relationships, practices and social structures. This volume assesses the substantive challenges faced by the discipline as it critically reassesses its position in the digital age.

Author : Jennifer Peters
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-15
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766098497

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Critical Perspectives on Digital Monopolies by Jennifer Peters Pdf

In our digital age, online companies such as Google and Amazon are experiencing tremendous growth. The power and influence of these digital companies was demonstrated in September 2017 when Amazon bought the popular organic grocery Whole Foods for a record 13 million dollars. Do companies such as Amazon have too much influence in the digital space? Should they be broken up to allow more competition? In this book, these questions and more are considered by a range of experts in the subject, from legal experts, to CEOs, to corporate players, and journalists.

Author : Rita Santos
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-15
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766098626

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Critical Perspectives on Whistleblowers and Leakers by Rita Santos Pdf

Whistleblowers and leakers have played a long and influential role in our history. For example, Samuel Shaw, a U.S. midshipman during the Revolutionary War, exposed the torture of British soldiers in 1777. His actions led to the first law protecting whistleblowers in the United States. More recently, Edward Snowden released top-secret National Security Administration (NSA) documents showing the extent of the U.S. surveillance program. His actions have been both criticized and praised. In this text, experts weigh in on the importance of whistleblowers and leakers, and the damage they might cause, so that readers can form their own opinions on this important issue.

Author : Sandro Carnicelli,David McGillivray,Gayle McPherson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317355618

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Digital Leisure Cultures by Sandro Carnicelli,David McGillivray,Gayle McPherson Pdf

The digital turn in leisure has opened up a vast array of new opportunities to play, learn, participate and be entertained – opportunities that have transformed what we recognise as leisure. This edited collection provides a significant contribution to our changing understanding of digital leisure cultures, reflecting on the socio-historical context within which the digital age emerged, while engaging with new debates about the evolving and controversial role of digital platforms in contemporary leisure cultures. This book also demonstrates the interdisciplinary nature of studying digital leisure cultures. To make sense of how individuals and institutions use digital spaces it is necessary to draw on history, science and technology, philosophy, cultural studies, sociology and geography, as well as sport and leisure studies. This important and timely study discusses both the promise of the digital sphere as a realm of liberation, and the darker side of the internet associated with control, surveillance, exclusion and dehumanisation. Digital Leisure Cultures: Critical perspectives is fascinating reading for any student or scholar of sociology, sport and leisure studies, geography or media studies.

Author : Silva, Carlos Nunes
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781799840190

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Citizen-Responsive Urban E-Planning: Recent Developments and Critical Perspectives by Silva, Carlos Nunes Pdf

Among the many ways the world has changed in recent decades, using technology for city planning has become one of the most innovative. Using new, pioneering methods that are reshaping the world into a more efficient and effective society has become the new reality. Citizen-Responsive Urban E-Planning: Recent Developments and Critical Perspectives is a collection of innovative research that presents and discusses various perspectives on facets of citizen engagement in open urban policy processes, all of them based on the widespread use of information and communication technologies in the field of urban/spatial planning. The book offers an updated outline of recent advances in this field as well as a critical perspective of the challenges with which citizen e-participation in urban e-planning is confronted. While highlighting topics including smart ecosystems, urban development, and global intelligence, this book is ideally designed for urban planners, IT consultants, government officials, policymakers, academicians, researchers, students, and industry professionals.

Author : Anwar Mhajne,Alexis Henshaw
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197695890

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Critical Perspectives on Cybersecurity by Anwar Mhajne,Alexis Henshaw Pdf

Critical Perspectives on Cybersecurity offers a new approach to understanding cybersecurity in international relations. As a counterpoint to existing work, which focuses largely on the security of states, private actors, and infrastructure, chapter authors examine how women and communities across the Global South understand "cybersecurity," including what threats and forms of resistance are most important to them. Bringing together contributions from a globally diverse range of authors, Anwar Mhajne and Alexis Henshaw provide a human security perspective on cybersecurity that pays attention to the interplay of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and other social hierarchies, especially regarding cybersecurity in the Global South.

Author : Jennifer Peters
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-15
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766098459

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Critical Perspectives on Cyberwarfare by Jennifer Peters Pdf

In the twenty-first century, political hostilities have moved largely from the battlefield to cyberspace. Since the Stuxnet virus was uncovered in 2010, built jointly by U.S. and Israeli intelligence to disarm the Iranian nuclear program, attention has been drawn to the real-life damage that such virtual programs can inflict. In this book, a range of experts, from journalists, to lawyers, to government officials, offer their varied opinions on the dawn of cyberwarfare, allowing readers to determine where they stand on this important issue.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1846637023

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Critical Perspectives on International Business.. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Fenwick McKelvey
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781452957579

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Internet Daemons by Fenwick McKelvey Pdf

A complete history and theory of internet daemons brings these little-known—but very consequential—programs into the spotlight We’re used to talking about how tech giants like Google, Facebook, and Amazon rule the internet, but what about daemons? Ubiquitous programs that have colonized the Net’s infrastructure—as well as the devices we use to access it—daemons are little known. Fenwick McKelvey weaves together history, theory, and policy to give a full account of where daemons come from and how they influence our lives—including their role in hot-button issues like network neutrality. Going back to Victorian times and the popular thought experiment Maxwell’s Demon, McKelvey charts how daemons evolved from concept to reality, eventually blossoming into the pandaemonium of code-based creatures that today orchestrates our internet. Digging into real-life examples like sluggish connection speeds, Comcast’s efforts to control peer-to-peer networking, and Pirate Bay’s attempts to elude daemonic control (and skirt copyright), McKelvey shows how daemons have been central to the internet, greatly influencing everyday users. Internet Daemons asks important questions about how much control is being handed over to these automated, autonomous programs, and the consequences for transparency and oversight.

Author : Daniel J. Paré
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0742518469

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Internet Governance in Transition by Daniel J. Paré Pdf

All Internet users will find this book a useful tool for understanding the increasingly complex web of Internet control.