The Digital A Continent

Author : Vera Bühlmann
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035627701

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The Digital, a Continent? by Vera Bühlmann Pdf

In The Digital, a Continent?, the author argues in favor of a way of thinking about digital technology that draws on the new materialism. She uses photosynthesis and nuclear fission as examples of processes that are as artificial as they are natural to explain how digital technology can be viewed within the paradigm of a "communicative physics" in which poetics interacts with mathematical thinking. The author concludes that we can better understand ourselves and digital technology by developing notions of the multifaceted ways energy, form, and intellect interact in global architectonics. Theoretical consideration of digital technology Visual language and science New volume in the Applied Virtuality Book Series

Author : Mohammad Amir Anwar,Mark Graham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780192577498

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The Digital Continent by Mohammad Amir Anwar,Mark Graham Pdf

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. As recently as the early 2010s, there were more internet users in countries like France or Germany than in all of Africa put together. But much changed in that decade, and 2018 marked the first year in human history in which a majority of the world's population is now connected to the internet. This mass connectivity means that we have an internet that no longer connects only the world's wealthy. Workers from Lagos to Johannesburg to Nairobi, and everywhere in between, can now apply for and carry out jobs coming from clients who themselves can be located anywhere in the world. Digital outsourcing firms can now also set up operations in the most unlikely of places in order to tap into hitherto disconnected labour forces. With CEOs in the Global North proclaiming that location is a concern of the past, and governments and civil society in Africa promising to create millions of jobs on the continent, The Digital Continent investigates what this new world of digital work means to the lives of African workers. Anwar and Graham draw on a five-year-long field study in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, and Uganda, and over 200 interviews conducted with participants including gig workers, call and contact centre workers, small self-employed freelancers, business owners, government officials, labour union officials, and industry experts. Focusing on both platform-based remote work and call and contact centre work, the book examines the job quality implications of digital work for the lives and livelihoods of African workers.

Author : Nicolas Friederici,Michel Wahome,Mark Graham
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262362832

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Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa by Nicolas Friederici,Michel Wahome,Mark Graham Pdf

The hope and hype about African digital entrepreneurship, contrasted with the reality on the ground in local ecosystems. In recent years, Africa has seen a digital entrepreneurship boom, with hundreds of millions of dollars poured into tech cities, entrepreneurship trainings, coworking spaces, innovation prizes, and investment funds. Politicians and technologists have offered Silicon Valley-influenced narratives of boundless opportunity and exponential growth, in which internet-enabled entrepreneurship allows Africa to "leapfrog" developmental stages to take a leading role in the digital revolution. This book contrasts these aspirations with empirical research about what is actually happening on the ground. The authors find that although the digital revolution has empowered local entrepreneurs, it does not untether local economies from the continent's structural legacies.

Author : Mohammad Amir Anwar,Mark Graham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198840800

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The Digital Continent by Mohammad Amir Anwar,Mark Graham Pdf

The Digital Continent investigates what the impact of the growth of digital work in Africa means for workers. The volume draws on a year-long field study conducted in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, and Uganda to provide one of the first empirical studies on the topic.

Author : Lisa Bullard
Publisher : Lerner Digital ™
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781512484786

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This Is My Continent by Lisa Bullard Pdf

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Noah has a big imagination, and he's using it to go on an even bigger adventure! He and his babysitter, Ruby, are zooming around Earth in their spaceship. With the help of Ruby's SpacePhone, they're learning about the people, places, and climates of the seven continents. Ride along as they explore landforms and landmarks from Asia to North America.

Author : Nigel Eltringham
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781782380740

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Framing Africa by Nigel Eltringham Pdf

The first decade of the 21st century has seen a proliferation of North American and European films that focus on African politics and society. While once the continent was the setting for narratives of heroic ascendancy over self (The African Queen, 1951; The Snows of Kilimanjaro, 1952), military odds (Zulu, 1964; Khartoum, 1966) and nature (Mogambo, 1953; Hatari!,1962; Born Free, 1966; The Last Safari, 1967), this new wave of films portrays a continent blighted by transnational corruption (The Constant Gardener, 2005), genocide (Hotel Rwanda, 2004; Shooting Dogs, 2006), ‘failed states’ (Black Hawk Down, 2001), illicit transnational commerce (Blood Diamond, 2006) and the unfulfilled promises of decolonization (The Last King of Scotland, 2006). Conversely, where once Apartheid South Africa was a brutal foil for the romance of East Africa (Cry Freedom, 1987; A Dry White Season, 1989), South Africa now serves as a redeemed contrast to the rest of the continent (Red Dust, 2004; Invictus, 2009). Writing from the perspective of long-term engagement with the contexts in which the films are set, anthropologists and historians reflect on these films and assess the contemporary place Africa holds in the North American and European cinematic imagination.

Author : P. Thandika Mkandawire,Charles Chukwuma Soludo
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781552502044

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Our Continent, Our Future by P. Thandika Mkandawire,Charles Chukwuma Soludo Pdf

Our Continent, Our Future presents the emerging African perspective on this complex issue. The authors use as background their own extensive experience and a collection of 30 individual studies, 25 of which were from African economists, to summarize this African perspective and articulate a path for the future. They underscore the need to be sensitive to each country's unique history and current condition. They argue for a broader policy agenda and for a much more active role for the state within what is largely a market economy. Finally, they stress that Africa must, and can, compete in an increasingly globalized world and, perhaps most importantly, that Africans must assume the leading role in defining the continent's development agenda.

Author : Mohammad Amir Anwar,Mark Graham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Technological innovations
ISBN : 0192577484

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The Digital Continent by Mohammad Amir Anwar,Mark Graham Pdf

The Digital Continent investigates what the impact of the growth of digital work in Africa means for workers. The volume draws on a year-long field study conducted in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, and Uganda to provide one of the first empirical studies on the topic.

Author : Shola Adenekan
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781847012388

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African Literature in the Digital Age by Shola Adenekan Pdf

The first book-length study on the relationship between African literature and new media.

Author : Jennifer Wemigwans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0889775516

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A Digital Bundle by Jennifer Wemigwans Pdf

A Digital Bundle explores how online and digital technologies can help spread Indigenous Knowledges and serve Indigenous resurgence.

Author : Nicolas Friederici,Michel Wahome,Mark Graham
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262538183

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Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa by Nicolas Friederici,Michel Wahome,Mark Graham Pdf

The hope and hype about African digital entrepreneurship, contrasted with the reality on the ground in local ecosystems. In recent years, Africa has seen a digital entrepreneurship boom, with hundreds of millions of dollars poured into tech cities, entrepreneurship trainings, coworking spaces, innovation prizes, and investment funds. Politicians and technologists have offered Silicon Valley–influenced narratives of boundless opportunity and exponential growth, in which internet-enabled entrepreneurship allows Africa to “leapfrog” developmental stages to take a leading role in the digital revolution. This book contrasts these aspirations with empirical research about what is actually happening on the ground. The authors find that although the digital revolution has empowered local entrepreneurs, it does not untether local economies from the continent's structural legacies. Drawing on a five-year research project, the authors show how entrepreneurs creatively and productively adapt digital technologies to local markets rather than dreaming of global dominance, achieving sustainable businesses by scaling based on relationships and customizing digital platform business models for African infrastructure challenge. The authors examine African entrepreneurial ecosystems; show that African digital entrepreneurs have begun to form a new professional class, becoming part of a relatively exclusive cultural and economic elite; and discuss the impact of Silicon Valley's mythologies and expectations. Finally, they consider the implications of their findings and offer recommendations to policymakers and others.

Author : Jeffrey L. Hantman,Douglas Seefeldt,Peter S. Onuf
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0813925959

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Across the Continent by Jeffrey L. Hantman,Douglas Seefeldt,Peter S. Onuf Pdf

Arriving as the country commemorates the expedition's bicentennial, Across the Continent is an examination of the explorers' world and the complicated ways in which it relates to our own. The essays collected here look at the global geopolitics that provided the context for the expedition. Finally, the discussion considers the various legacies of the expedition, in particular its impact on Native Americans, and the current struggle over who will control the narrative of the expansion of the American Empire. --from publisher description.

Author : William Drozdiak
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780393608694

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Fractured Continent: Europe's Crises and the Fate of the West by William Drozdiak Pdf

A Financial Times Best Political Book of 2017 An urgent examination of how the political and social volatility in Europe impacts the United States and the rest of the world. The dream of a United States of Europe is unraveling in the wake of several crises now afflicting the continent. The single Euro currency threatens to break apart amid bitter arguments between rich northern creditors and poor southern debtors. Russia is back as an aggressive power, annexing Crimea, supporting rebels in eastern Ukraine, and waging media and cyber warfare against the West. Marine Le Pen’s National Front won a record 34 percent of the French presidential vote despite the election of Emmanuel Macron. Europe struggles to cope with nearly two million refugees who fled conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa. Britain has voted to leave the European Union after forty-three years, the first time a member state has opted to quit the world’s leading commercial bloc. At the same time, President Trump has vowed to pursue America First policies that may curtail U.S. security guarantees and provoke trade conflicts with its allies abroad. These developments and a growing backlash against globalization have contributed to a loss of faith in mainstream ruling parties throughout the West. Voters in the United States and Europe are abandoning traditional ways of governing in favor of authoritarian, populist, and nationalist alternatives, raising a profound threat to the future of our democracies. In Fractured Continent, William Drozdiak, the former foreign editor of The Washington Post, persuasively argues that these events have dramatic consequences for Americans as well as Europeans, changing the nature of our relationships with longtime allies and even threatening global security. By speaking with world leaders from Brussels to Berlin, Rome to Riga, Drozdiak describes the crises. the proposed solutions, and considers where Europe and America go from here. The result is a timely character- and narrative-driven book about this tumultuous phase of contemporary European history.

Author : George Bancroft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : United States
ISBN : HARVARD:32044037698586

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History of the United States of America by George Bancroft Pdf

Author : Andrew Nikiforuk
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781553656272

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Tar Sands by Andrew Nikiforuk Pdf

Tar Sands critically examines the frenzied development in the Canadian tar sands and the far-reaching implications for all of North America. Bitumen, the sticky stuff that ancients used to glue the Tower of Babel together, is the world’s most expensive hydrocarbon. This difficult-to-find resource has made Canada the number-one supplier of oil to the United States, and every major oil company now owns a lease in the Alberta tar sands. The region has become a global Deadwood, complete with rapturous engineers, cut-throat cocaine dealers, Muslim extremists, and a huge population of homeless individuals. In this award-winning book, a Canadian bestseller, journalist Andrew Nikiforuk exposes the disastrous environmental, social, and political costs of the tar sands, arguing forcefully for change. This updated edition includes new chapters on the most energy-inefficient tar sands projects (the steam plants), as well as new material on the controversial carbon cemeteries and nuclear proposals to accelerate bitumen production.