Visions Of A Digital Nation

Author : Jacob Ward
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262375535

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Why the privatization of British Telecom signaled a pivotal moment in the rise of neoliberalism, and how it was shaped by the longer development and digitalization of Britain’s telecommunications infrastructure. When Margaret Thatcher sold British Telecom for £3.6 billion in 1984, it became not only, at the time, the largest stock flotation in history, but also a watershed moment in the rise of neoliberalism and deregulation. In Visions of a Digital Nation, Jacob Ward offers an incisive interdisciplinary perspective on how technology prefigured this pivot. Giving due consideration to the politicians, engineers, and managers who paved the way for this historic moment, Ward illustrates how the decision validated the privatization of public utilities and tied digital technology to free market rationales. In this examination of the national and, at times, global history of technology, Ward’s approach is sweeping. Utilizing infrastructure studies, environmental history, and urban and local history, Ward explores Britain’s nationalist and welfarist plans for a digital information utility and shows how these projects contested and adapted to the “market turn” under Margaret Thatcher. Ultimately, Visions of a Digital Nation compellingly argues that politicians did not impose neoliberalism top-down, but that technology, engineers, and managers shaped these politics from the bottom up.

Author : Jacob Ward (Science and technology historian)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Digital communications
ISBN : 0262375524

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"Explores how the British telecom system shaped late social democracy and early neoliberalism"--

Author : Anthony G. Wilhelm
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262265119

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Digital Nation by Anthony G. Wilhelm Pdf

The long-term social benefits of building an inclusive information society: a national action plan. As our social institutions migrate into cyberspace, the digitally disenfranchised face increasing hardships. What happens when—in search of quick and cheap fixes—a government office shuts down and is replaced by a public Web site? What happens when a company accepts only online job applications? Inevitably, those most in need of the services and opportunities offered are further marginalized. In Digital Nation, Tony Wilhelm shows us how to build a more inclusive information society, offering a plan that reaps the benefits offered by the new technology while avoiding the pitfalls of social exclusion. Technology, he tells us, isn't the problem—it's the use of technology that can empower or control, unite or divide; we need to recover the ideas of social justice and fairness that have been lost in the rush to make things faster and cheaper. In Wilhelm's vision of an inclusive digital nation, everyone can take advantage of the new technology. With everyone part of the information society, we can revolutionize the way we educate our citizens, deliver healthcare, and engage in productive work. The result will be increased efficiency and productivity that will lead to long-term savings of billions of dollars and an enhanced quality of life as technology expands choice and opportunity. We can begin to bring this about by expanding access to computers and making it easier to acquire digital literacy skills. To do nothing—to turn a blind eye to the promise of an inclusive technology—would cost us socially and economically. Digital Nation's call for action sets the terms for a new debate on bridging the digital divide.

Author : Anthony G. Wilhelm
Publisher : Mit Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262232383

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The long-term social benefits of building an inclusive information society: a national action plan.

Author : Dr. S. Kalaivani & Dr. K. Saileela
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780359572298

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Empowering India Through Digital Literacy (Vol. 2) by Dr. S. Kalaivani & Dr. K. Saileela Pdf

Author : G. Schaffer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137314888

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The Vision of a Nation by G. Schaffer Pdf

Telling the stories behind television's approaches to race relations, multiculturalism and immigration in the 'Golden Age' of British television, the book focuses on the 1960s and 1970s and argues that the makers of television worked tirelessly to shape multiculturalism and undermine racist extremism.

Author : Tony Feldman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134734962

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An Introduction to Digital Media by Tony Feldman Pdf

In this clear and highly accessible book, Tony Feldman provides an account of the evolution and application of digital media. Clarifying its underlying technologies, he identifies its immense commercial and human potential. Using as a starting point a simplification which considers new media in two distinct sectors; packaged 'off-line' media such as CD-ROMs; and the world of transmitted media which includes digital broadcasting and interactive online services, Feldman provides a comprehensive overview of the digital media landscape. Focusing on multimedia and the entertainment media he describes and analyses the spectacular rise of CD-based information and the equally revolutionary development of the Internet and online services. Set within a commercial context, readers can identify the potential to generate revenue and profit from the new media. An Introduction to Digital Media concludes with a strategic assessment of the implications of going digital for individuals, companies and corporations.

Author : Mashau, Pfano,Farisani, Tshililo Ruddy
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781668491805

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Accessibility of Digital Higher Education in the Global South by Mashau, Pfano,Farisani, Tshililo Ruddy Pdf

Accessibility of Digital Higher Education in the Global South, authored by Pfano Mashau and Tshililo Farisani from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, is an academic book that examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on higher education in Africa. The book aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of the sustainability of the “new normal” approaches in African universities and institutions of learning as well as government responses to teaching and learning processes during and post pandemic. The sudden outbreak of COVID-19 triggered demands for informal, comfortable, and self-designed spaces that go beyond conventional formal classrooms where students can take initiative and demonstrate independence in learning. However, access to digitalized teaching methods remains problematic due to the digital divide among learners and the rural-urban dichotomy. The book invites researchers, academics, and scholars in the Global South to contribute to the narrative to document successes in and improve the higher education sector post pandemic. The book covers a range of themes including the sustainability of digitalized teaching approaches; integrative and interactive teaching and learning theories and practices; government responses to teaching and learning processes; comparative analysis of conventional and digitalized teaching and learning approaches; and equality, diversity, and participation in digitalized teaching and learning platforms, among others.

Author : Marita Sturken,Douglas Thomas,Sandra Ball-Rokeach
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1592132278

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Technological Visions by Marita Sturken,Douglas Thomas,Sandra Ball-Rokeach Pdf

For as long as people have developed new technologies, there has been debate over the purposes, shape, and potential for their use. In this exciting collection, a range of contributors, including Sherry Turkle, Lynn Spigel, John Perry Barlow, Langdon Winner, David Nye, and Lord Asa Briggs, discuss the visions that have shaped "new" technologies and the cultural implications of technological adaptation. Focusing on issues such as the nature of prediction, community, citizenship, consumption, and the nation, as well as the metaphors that have shaped public debates about technology, the authors examine innovations past and present, from the telegraph and the portable television to the Internet, to better understand how our visions and imagination have shaped the meaning and use of technology. Author note: Marita Sturken is Associate Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California and the author of Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering and Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture (with Lisa Cartwright). Douglas Thomas is Associate Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. He is author of three books, most recently Hacker Culture. Sandra Ball-Rokeach is a Professor and Director of the Communication Technology and Community Program in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. She is author of several books, including Theories of Mass Communication (with M. L. De Fleur).

Author : Lawrence B. Wolff,Steven A. Shafer,Glenn E. Healey
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1993-01-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781439865859

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Physics-Based Vision: Principles and Practice by Lawrence B. Wolff,Steven A. Shafer,Glenn E. Healey Pdf

Commentaries by the editors to this comprehensive anthology in the area of physics-based vision put the papers in perspective and guide the reader to a thorough understanding of the basics of the field. Paper Topics Include: - Intensity Reflection Models - Polarization and Refraction - Camera Calibration - Quantization and Sampling - Depth from Opt

Author : Shantanu Ganguly,P. K. Bhattacharya
Publisher : The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
Page : 1230 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9788179935545

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International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL) 2013 by Shantanu Ganguly,P. K. Bhattacharya Pdf

ICDL conferences are recognized on of the most important platform in the world where noted expert share their experiences. Many DL experts have contributed thought provoking papers in ICDL 2013. These important papers are reviewed and conceptualized into ICDL on different areas of DL proceedings. The Proceedings have two volumes and has over 1100 pages.

Author : Myron C. Truman
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1999-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0205291228

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Visions by Myron C. Truman Pdf

""Visions" presents readings organized by themes that stimulate readers to critically evaluate recent changes in our culture and society brought about by technological and business innovations. The readings in the book direct readers to question whether the rapid changes to our reality are all positive and whether society and culture is losing some of its basic values by so readily embracing change. The main issue running throughout most of the readings and assignments is the conflicting, often competing, roles that the lure of complex technologies and the comfort of simpler, older ones play in all our lives." Six thematic units contain readings separated into smaller units that enable students to focus on a limited topic, to read a few selections on that topic, and to write analytically in response to differing viewpoints. Extensive pedagogy includes reading headnotes with pre-reading questions, aphorisms that provide occasions for short writing assignments in each unit, and writing ssignments that consider each reading cluster together." For beginning composition writers.

Author : André Gagalowicz,Wilfried Philips
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642018107

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Computer Vision/Computer Graphics Collaboration Techniques by André Gagalowicz,Wilfried Philips Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer Vision/Computer Graphics Collaboration Techniques, MIRAGE 2009, held in Rocquencourt, France, in May 2009. The 41 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 83 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics with focus on Computer Vision/Computer Graphics collaboration techniques involving image analysis/synthesis approaches especially concerning theoretical, computational, experimental or industrial aspects of model-based image analysis and image-based model synthesis.

Author : Rohit Koul
Publisher : Sankalp Publication
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789390468003

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The New Scope of Technology in India – A Vision Beyond Covid -19 by Rohit Koul Pdf

About the Book The episode of COVID-19 is influencing each part of life be it social or affordable the world over. As India is now seeing the sweeping effects of the pandemic, this issue expects to give a knowledge into the most likely changes in the use of technology in India in the post covid-19 period. We intend to deliver what will be the scope of technology in india also, recommendations by the specialists and academicians for the change in the style of education The inconvenience of "Lock Down" to forestall the infectious impact of the said infection, has streamed down the antagonistic consequences for pretty much tech and other industries in India. Work from home, social removing, travel limitations, worldwide exchange limitation, limitations on household exchange and other such measures have influenced nearly each business segment. Numerous business areas were set down since the start of the episode of the pandemic, for example, the travel industry, retail area and advanced education to give some examples unavoidably that they needed to slash their representatives' compensations but parallelly it has given more scope and area for tech industry to flourish. Going computerized is another pattern occurring in pretty much every division including training. Because of conclusion of instructive foundations, online instruction is the main medium to let the instruction not endure because of the dread of infection contamination. On the web training is not liberated from difficulties and issues of its own, in any case, it is the need of great importance. With this book, an exertion has been made to give a stage in high contrast to the academicians and examination researchers to give their knowledge into the different social and conservative issues related with the COVID-19 pandemic. This will support the policymakers and the masterminds to lead the way forward in the 'New Normal' India.

Author : Gerard Goggin,Christopher Newell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0742518442

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Digital Disability by Gerard Goggin,Christopher Newell Pdf

Media representation of and for the disabled has been recharged in recent years with the expansion of new media worldwide. Interactive digital communications -- such as the Interact, new varieties of voice and text telephones, and digital broadcasting -- have created a need for a more innovative understanding of new media and disability issues. This engaging analysis offers a global perspective on how people with disabilities are represented as users, consumers, viewers, or listeners of new media, by policymakers, corporations, programmers, and the disabled themselves.