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  • Examining Internet and Technology around the World

    Edited by Laura M. Steckman ...
    Series series Global Viewpoints
    This book offers comparative insights into the challenges and opportunities surrounding emerging technology and the internet as it is used and perceived throughout the world, providing students with cross-cultural and cross-national perspectives.This volume examines issues pertaining to the internet and technology, including access and censorship, alternative energy technologies, artificial ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Online around the World

    A Geographic Encyclopedia of the Internet, Social Media, and Mobile Apps

    Edited by Laura M. Steckman, Marilyn J. Andrews ...
    Covering more than 80 countries around the world, this book provides a compelling, contemporary snapshot of how people in other countries are using the Internet, social media, and mobile apps.How do people in other countries use the social media platform Facebook differently than Americans do? What topics are discussed on the largest online forum—one in Indonesia, with more than seven million ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Global Women Leaders

    Studies in Feminist Political Rhetoric

    by Kathleen Mollick, William Carney, Charlotte Evans, Valerie M. Hennings, Nicole Khoury, Catherine Waithera Mwangi, Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar, Laura Steckman, Joy Williams-Black0, Janet M. Martin1, Oscar Gakuo Mwangi2 ...
    Global Women Leaders: Studies in Feminist Political Rhetoric demonstrates the ways in which women have used political rhetoric and political discourse to provide leadership, or assert their right to leadership, on a global level. This collection fits into the robust research area of international political women and their use of language in gaining and maintaining political power. It casts a wider ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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    Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives

    by Eric Schmidt, Jared Cohen ...
    In an unparalleled collaboration, two leading global thinkers in technology and foreign affairs give us their widely anticipated, transformational vision of the future: a world where everyone is connected—a world full of challenges and benefits that are ours to meet and to harness.Eric Schmidt is one of Silicon Valley’s great leaders, having taken Google from a small startup to one of the world’s ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Digital Silk Road

    China's Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future

    by Jonathan E. Hillman ...
    An expert on China’s global infrastructure expansion provides an urgent look at the battle to connect and control tomorrow’s networks.From the ocean floor to outer space, China’s Digital Silk Road aims to wire the world and rewrite the global order. Taking readers on a journey inside China’s surveillance state, rural America, and Africa’s megacities, Jonathan Hillman reveals what China’s expanding ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Zero Marginal Cost Society

    The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism

    by Jeremy Rifkin ...
    The New York Times–bestselling author describes how current trends will create an era when anything and everything is available for almost nothing.In The Zero Marginal Cost Society, New York Times–bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin uncovers a paradox at the heart of capitalism that has propelled it to greatness but is now taking it to its death—the inherent entrepreneurial dynamism of competitive ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Black Code

    Surveillance, Privacy, and the Dark Side of the Internet

    by Ronald J. Deibert ...
    In 2009, a group of digital technology experts at the Citizen Lab uncovered an espionage network affecting more than 100 countries and targeting ministries of foreign affairs, embassies, international organizations, and media outlets. The investigation was but one example of a contest for the future of cyberspace that was becoming more intense with each passing year. Drawing on the first-hand ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • 2030

    How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything

    by Mauro F. Guillén ...
    AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWall Street Journal BestsellerA Porchlight Book BestsellerFinancial Times Best Books of 2020Yahoo Finance Favorite Business Books of 2020JP Morgan NextList 2021 selection"Bold, provocative...illuminates why we're having fewer babies, the middle class is stagnating, unemployment is shifting, and new powers are rising."— ADAM GRANTThe world i... ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Antisocial Media

    How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy

    by Siva Vaidhyanathan ...
    A fully updated paperback edition that includes coverage of the key developments of the past two years, including the political controversies that swirled around Facebook with increasing intensity in the Trump era. If you wanted to build a machine that would distribute propaganda to millions of people, distract them from important issues, energize hatred and bigotry, erode social trust, undermine ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

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  • The Industries of the Future

    by Alec Ross ...
    The New York Times bestseller, from leading innovation expert Alec Ross, a “fascinating vision” (Forbes) of what’s next for the world and how to navigate the changes the future will bring.While Alec Ross was working as Senior Advisor for Innovation to the Secretary of State, he traveled to forty-one countries, exploring the latest advances coming out of every continent. From startup hubs in Kenya ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Consent of the Networked

    The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom

    by Rebecca MacKinnon ...
    The Internet was going to liberate us, but in truth it has not. For every story about the web's empowering role in events such as the Arab Spring, there are many more about the quiet corrosion of civil liberties by companies and governments using the same digital technologies we have come to depend upon. In Consent of the Networked, journalist and Internet policy specialist Rebecca MacKinnon ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Data Journalism Handbook

    How Journalists Can Use Data to Improve the News

    by Jonathan Gray, Lucy Chambers, Liliana Bounegru ...
    When you combine the sheer scale and range of digital information now available with a journalist’s "nose for news" and her ability to tell a compelling story, a new world of possibility opens up. With The Data Journalism Handbook, you’ll explore the potential, limits, and applied uses of this new and fascinating field.This valuable handbook has attracted scores of contributors since the European ... Read more

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