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Grown Up Digital : How The Net Generation Is Changing Your World

  • Grown Up Digital : How The Net Generation Is Changing  Your World
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    Don Tapscott
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    Book, McGraw-Hill, 2009
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    . . . . . . The bottom line is this: If you understand the Net Generation, you will understand the future. . . . . A fascinating inside look at the Net Generation, Grown Up Digital is inspired by a $4 million private research study. . . Grown Up Digital reveals: . . How the brain of the Net Generation processes information . Parenting 2.0: There’s no place like the new home . . . . . (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     RESERVE BOOK  C24-B  AVAILABLE

After Thought : The Computer Challenge To Human Intelligence

  • After Thought : The Computer Challenge To Human  Intelligence
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    James Bailey
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    Book, 1st ed, Basic Books, 1996
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    Through the first fifty years of the computer revolution, scientists have been trying to program electronic circuits to process information the same way humans do. A work that ranges widely over the history of ideas from Galileo to Newton to Darwin yet is just as comfortable in the cutting-edge world of parallel processing that is at this very moment yielding a new form of intelligence, After Thought describes why the real computer age is just beginning. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  QA76.9.C66 B35 1996  AVAILABLE

The Big Switch : Rewiring The World, From Edison To Google

Understanding And Communicating Social Informatics : A Framework For Studying And Teaching The Human Contexts Of Information And Communication Technologies

Computers And People : Essays From The Profession

  • Computers And People : Essays From The Profession
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    W. Neville Holmes
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    Book, Wiley-IEEE Computer Society, 2006
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    Thought-provoking perspectives on how computers and people interact This intriguing collection of essays and overviews presents new insights and perspectives into the roles that computers and digital technology have played and could play in society. Computers and People has six main chapters: * The Basis of Computing considers what technology is, and why digital technology is particularly significant in today’s world. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (LOWER LEVEL)  HM851 .H654 2006  AVAILABLE

Critical Cyberculture Studies

  • Critical Cyberculture Studies
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    edited by David Silver and Adrienne Massanari ; with a foreword by Steve Jones
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    Book, New York University Press, 2006
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    ?M/C Reviews “As studies of the Internet and cyberculture begin to mature, it is a particularly important time for critical studies–critical of the subject matter, and critical of the emerging field itself. The consciously interdisciplinary approach of Critical Cyberculture Studies, and the depth and breadth of the contributions, make this an important foundational work for a new field of study. Taking stock of the exciting work that is being done and positing what cyberculture’s future might look like, Critical Cyberculture Studies brings together a diverse and multidisciplinary group of scholars from around the world to assess the state of the field. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  QA76.9.C66 C744 2006  AVAILABLE

Digital Nation : Toward An Inclusive Information Society

What The Dormouse Said : How The Sixties Counterculture Shaped The Personal Computer Industry

  • What The Dormouse Said : How The Sixties Counterculture  Shaped The Personal Computer Industry
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    John Markoff
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    Book, Viking Penguin, 2005
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    While there have been several histories of the personal computer, well-known technology writer John Markoff has created the first ever to spotlight the unique political and cultural forces that gave rise to this revolutionary technology. Based on interviews with all the major surviving players, Markoff vividly captures the lives and times of those who laid the groundwork for the PC revolution, introducing the reader to such colorful characters as Fred Moore, a teenage antiwar protester who went on to ignite the computer industry, and Cap?n Crunch, who wrote the first word processing software for the IBM PC (EZ Writer) in prison, became a millionaire, and ended up homeless. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  QA76.17 .M37 2005  AVAILABLE

Fab : The Coming Revolution On Your Desktop–from Personal Computers To Personal Fabrication

  • Fab : The Coming Revolution On Your Desktop--from  Personal Computers To Personal Fabrication
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    Neil Gershenfeld
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    Book, Basic Books, 2005
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    Personal fabricators (PF?s) are about to revolutionize the world just as personal computers did a generation ago. PF?s will bring the programmability of the digital world to the rest of the world, by being able to make almost anything-including new personal fabricators. In FAB, Gershenfeld describes how personal fabrication is possible today, and how it is meeting local needs with locally developed solutions. In this groundbreaking book, the scientist pioneering the revolution in personal fabrication reveals exactly what is being done, and how. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  T174 .G476 2005  AVAILABLE

Welcome To The Machine : Science, Surveillance, And The Culture Of Control

  • Welcome To The Machine : Science, Surveillance, And The  Culture Of Control
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    Derrick Jensen, George Draffan
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    Book, Chelsea Green Pub, 2004
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    In their new book, Welcome to the Machine: Science, Surveillance, and the Culture of Control, Jensen and Draffan take a hart-hitting look at the way technology is used as a machine, to control us and our environment. In this timely and important new collaboration, Jensen and Draffan take on all aspects of Control Culture: everything from the government?s policy of total information awareness to a disturbing new technology where soldiers can be given medication to prevent them from feeling fear. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  QA76.9.C66 J48 2004  AVAILABLE

High-tech Heretic : Reflections Of A Computer Contrarian

User Error : Resisting Computer Culture

What Just Happened : A Chronicle From The Information Frontier

  • What Just Happened : A Chronicle From The Information  Frontier
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    James Gleick
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    Book, 1st ed, Pantheon Books, 2002
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    A new world, located no one knew exactly where, came into being, called ?virtual? As all this was happening, James Gleick, author of the groundbreaking Chaos, columnist for The New York TimesMagazine, and?very briefly?an Internet entrepreneur, emerged as one of our most astute guides to this new world. We found that if the human species is evolving a sort of global brain, it?s susceptible to new forms of hysteria and multiple-personality disorder. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  TK5101 .G58 2002  AVAILABLE

Reload : Rethinking Women + Cyberculture

Let Them Eat Data : How Computers Affect Education, Cultural Diversity, And The Prospects Of Ecological Sustainability

  • Let Them Eat Data : How Computers Affect Education,  Cultural Diversity, And The Prospects Of Ecological  Sustainability
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    C.A. Bowers
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    Book, University of Georgia Press, 2000
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    In Let Them Eat Data Bowers discusses important issues that have fallen into the gap between our perceptions and the realities of global computing, including the misuse of the theory of evolution to justify and legitimate the global spread of computers, and the ecological and cultural implications of unmoving knowledge from its local contexts as it is digitized, commodified, and packaged for global consumption. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  QA76.9.C66 B68 2000  AVAILABLE