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  • Self-Tracking

    by Gina Neff, Dawn Nafus ...
    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    What happens when people turn their everyday experience into data: an introduction to the essential ideas and key challenges of self-tracking.People keep track. In the eighteenth century, Benjamin Franklin kept charts of time spent and virtues lived up to. Today, people use technology to self-track: hours slept, steps taken, calories consumed, medications administered. Ninety million wearable ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Venture Labor

    Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries

    by Gina Neff ...
    Series series Acting with Technology
    Why employees of pioneering Internet companies chose to invest their time, energy, hopes, and human capital in start-up ventures.In the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, employees of Internet startups took risks—left well-paying jobs for the chance of striking it rich through stock options (only to end up unemployed a year later), relocated to areas that were epicenters of a booming industry (that ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Human-Centered Data Science

    An Introduction

    by Cecilia Aragon, Shion Guha, Marina Kogan, Michael Muller, Gina Neff ...
    Best practices for addressing the bias and inequality that may result from the automated collection, analysis, and distribution of large datasets.Human-centered data science is a new interdisciplinary field that draws from human-computer interaction, social science, statistics, and computational techniques. This book, written by founders of the field, introduces best practices for addressing the ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Surviving the New Economy

    by John Amman, Tris Carpenter, Gina Neff ...
    The dot-com boom of the late 1990s marked the coming of age of the much-heralded New Economy, an economic, technological, and social transformation that was decades in the making. A highly mobile, and in many cases highly compensated, workforce faces a multitude of new risks: Jobs are no longer secure nor insulated from global competition, employer-provided health benefits are drying up, and ... Read more

    $138.78 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Self-Tracking

    by Dawn Nafus, Gina Neff ...
    Narrated by Karen Saltus ...
    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge

    Unabridged

    4 hours 36 min

    People keep track. In the eighteenth century, Benjamin Franklin kept charts of time spent and virtues lived up to. Today, people use technology to self-track: hours slept, steps taken, calories consumed, medications administered. Ninety million wearable sensors were shipped in 2014 to help us gather data about our lives. This audiobook examines how people record, analyze, and reflect on this data, ... Read more

    Was $38.99 CAD Now $21.97 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

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    Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture

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    Spreadable Media maps fundamental changes taking place in our contemporary media environment, a space where corporations no longer tightly control media distribution and many of us are directly involved in the circulation of content. It contrasts “stickiness”—aggregating attention in centralized places—with “spreadability”—dispersing content widely through both formal and informal networks,some ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • Building Better Public Services

    A Guide for Practitioners

    by Tony Dean ...
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    The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism

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    “An insightful guide to the forces shaping our economy” that explores the far-ranging implications of the shift to crowd-based capitalism—with case studies on Uber, Airbnb, and others (Hal Varian, Chief Economist at Google)Sharing isn’t new. Giving someone a ride, having a guest in your spare room, running errands for someone, participating in a supper club—these are not revolutionary concepts. ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

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  • Global Marketing

    Practical Insights and International Analysis

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    Practical Strategies for Non-Profit Success

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  • The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods

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    Online research methods are popular, dynamic and fast-changing. Following on from the great success of the first edition, published in 2008, The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods, Second Edition offers both updates of existing subject areas and new chapters covering more recent developments, such as social media, big data, data visualization and CAQDAS.Bringing together the leading names in ... Read more

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  • The New Global Road Map

    Enduring Strategies for Turbulent Times

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