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Access Denied : The Practice And Policy Of Global Internet Filtering
Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town
Edited Clean Version : Technology And The Culture Of Control
Privacy And The Internet : Your Expectations And Rights Under The Law

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revised and updated by Margaret C. JasperPublication Details
Book2nd edOceana2009Description
This almanac discusses some of the most important security methods, including the effective use of passwords, utilizing virus software, installing firewalls, understanding encryption technology, and being vigilant about the type of information one shares on the Internet. In addition, this fully revised publication outlines Internet privacy policies and applicable laws placed upon various entities designed to protect private information of Internet users. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS REFERENCE (MAIN) KF1263.C65 J38 2009 AVAILABLE
Coming Of Age In Second Life : An Anthropologist Explores The Virtually Human

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Tom BoellstorffPublication Details
BookPrinceton University Press2008Description
Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. The residents of Second Life create communities, buy property and build homes, go to concerts, meet in bars, attend weddings and religious services, buy and sell virtual goods and services, find friendship, fall in love–the possibilities are endless, and all encountered through a computer screen. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
The Hyperlinked Society : Questioning Connections In The Digital Age

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Joseph Turow and Lokman Tsui, editorsPublication Details
BookUniversity of Michigan Press2008Links
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—Charles Steinfield, Professor and Chairperson, Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media, Michigan State University Joseph Turow is Robert Lewis Shayon Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, and author of nine books, including Niche Envy: Marketing Discrimination in the Digital Age and Breaking up America: Advertisers and the New Media World. digitalculturebooks (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HM851 .T87 2008 NEW BOOK(MAIN)
The Inner History Of Devices

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edited and with an introductory essay by Sherry TurklePublication Details
BookMIT Press2008Description
For more than two decades, in such landmark studies as The Second Self and Life on the Screen, Sherry Turkle has challenged our collective imagination with her insights about how technology enters our private worlds. One personal computer owner tells Turkle: “This computer means everything to me. In the memoirs, ethnographies, and clinical cases collected in this volume, we read about an American student who comes to terms with her conflicting identities as she contemplates a cell phone she used in Japan (”Tokyo sat trapped inside it”); (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) T14.5 .I5643 2008 DUE 02-03-10
Electronic Tribes : The Virtual Worlds Of Geeks, Gamers, Shamans, And Scammers

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edited by Tyrone L. Adams and Stephen A. SmithPublication Details
Book1st edUniversity of Texas Press2008Description
Whether people want to play games and download music, engage in social networking and professional collaboration, or view pornography and incite terror, the Internet provides myriad opportunities for people who share common interests to find each other. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) TK5105.88817 .E53 2008 AVAILABLE
Zero Comments : Blogging And Critical Internet Culture

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Geert LovinkPublication Details
BookRoutledge2008Links
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In Zero Comments, internationally renowned media theorist and ‘net critic’ Geert Lovink upgrades worn out concepts about the Internet and interrogates the latest hype surrounding blogs and social network sites. In this third volume of his studies into critical Internet culture, following the influential Dark Fiber and My First Recession, Lovink develops a ‘general theory of blogging.’ Unlike most critiques of blogging, Lovink is not focusing here on the dynamics between bloggers and the mainstream news media, but rather unpacking the ways that blogs exhibit a ‘nihilist impulse’ to empty out established meaning structures. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HM851 .L689 2008 AVAILABLE
Beyond The Box : Television And The Internet

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Sharon Marie RossPublication Details
BookBlackwell Pub2008Links
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From voting practices on American Idol and text-messaging on Degrassi, to online forums for connecting with other Buffy the Vampire fans and “Save-the-Show” write-in campaigns aimed at television execs, the power of the Internet has fundamentally altered television viewing. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HE8700.65 .R67 2008 AVAILABLE
Citizen Media Law Project
Here Comes Everybody : The Power Of Organizing Without Organizations

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Clay ShirkyPublication Details
BookPenguin Press2008Description
A revelatory examination of how the wildfirelike spread of new forms of social interaction enabled by technology is changing the way humans form groups and exist within them, with profound long-term economic and social effects-for good and for ill A handful of kite hobbyists scattered around the world find each other online and collaborate on the most radical improvement in kite design in decades. With accelerating velocity, our age’s new technologies of social networking are evolving, and evolving us, into new groups doing new things in new ways, and old and new groups alike doing the old things better and more easily. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS BROWSING (MAIN) HM851 .S5465 2008 AVAILABLE
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