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“neil thurman”

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  • Media Change

    Contemporary Cases, Consequences, and Conceptualizations

    by Neil Thurman ...
    Explores the multifaceted dynamics of media change across technologies and societiesMedia change is constant, but it is rarely straightforward. While some shifts in the media landscape are rapid and transformative, others unfold slowly, unevenly, or even stall and reverse. Media Change: Contemporary Cases, Consequences, and Conceptualizations examines this complexity through a series of ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

  • Algorithms, Automation, and News

    New Directions in the Study of Computation and Journalism

    Edited by Neil Thurman, Seth C. Lewis, Jessica Kunert ...
    This book examines the growing importance of algorithms and automation—including emerging forms of artificial intelligence—in the gathering, composition, and distribution of news. In it the authors connect a long line of research on journalism and computation with scholarly and professional terrain yet to be explored.Taken as a whole, these chapters share some of the noble ambitions of the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • The SAGE Handbook of Social Media

    Edited by Jean Burgess, Thomas Poell, Alice E. Marwick ...
    The world is in the midst of a social media paradigm. Once viewed as trivial and peripheral, social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and WeChat have become an important part of the information and communication infrastructure of society. They are bound up with business and politics as well as everyday life, work, and personal relationships.This international Handbook addresses the most ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Facebook

    by Taina Bucher ...
    Series Book 104 - Digital Media and Society
    Facebook has fundamentally changed how the world connects. No other company has played a greater role in the history of social networking online. Yet Facebook is no longer simply a social networking site or social media platform. Facebook is Facebook.Taina Bucher shows how Facebook has become an idea of its own: something that cannot be fully described using broader categories. Facebook has become ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • Cell Phone Culture

    Mobile Technology in Everyday Life

    by Gerard Goggin ...
    Providing the first comprehensive, accessible, and international introduction to cell phone culture and theory, this book is and clear and sophisticated overview of mobile telecommunications, putting the technology in historical and technical context. Interdisciplinary in its conceptual framework, Cell Phone Culture draws on a wide range of nationa ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Search Engine Society

    by Alexander Halavais ...
    Series series Digital Media and Society
    Search engines have become a key part of our everyday lives. Yet while much has been written about how to use search engines and how they can be improved, there has been comparatively little exploration of what the social and cultural effects might be. Like all technologies, search engines exist within a larger political, cultural, and economic environment. This volume aims to redress this balance ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • The Internet

    An Introduction to New Media

    by Professor Lelia Green ...
    Series series Berg New Media Series
    Life without the internet, a very new technology, seems almost unimaginable for most people in western nations. Today the internet is intrinsic to media and communications, entertainment, politics, defence, business, banking, education and administrative systems as well as to social interaction. The Internet disentangles this extraordinarily complex information and communication technology from ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Search Engine Society

    by Alexander Halavais ...
    Series series Digital Media and Society
    Search engines have become a key part of our everyday lives. Yet there is growing concern with how algorithms, which run just beneath the surface of our interactions online, are affecting society. This timely new edition of Search Engine Society enlightens readers on the forms of bias that algorithms introduce into our knowledge and social spaces, drawing on recent changes to technology, ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • The Platform Society

    Public Values in a Connective World

    by José van Dijck, Thomas Poell, Martijn de Waal ...
    Individuals all over the world can use Airbnb to rent an apartment in a foreign city, check Coursera to find a course on statistics, join PatientsLikeMe to exchange information about one's disease, hail a cab using Uber, or read the news through Facebook's Instant Articles. The promise of connective platforms is that they offer personalized services and contribute to innovation and economic growth ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Digital Media and Society

    An Introduction

    by Adrian Athique ...
    The rise of digital media has been widely regarded as transforming the nature of our social experience in the twenty-first century. The speed with which new forms of connectivity and communication are being incorporated into our everyday lives often gives us little time to stop and consider the social implications of those practices. Nonetheless, it is critically important that we do so, and this ... Read more

    $32.00 USD

  • The Space of the World

    Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media and What If It Can't?

    by Nick Couldry ...
    Over the past thirty years, humanity has made a huge mistake. We handed over to big tech decisions that have allowed them to build what has become our "space of the world" – the highly artificial space of social media platforms where much of our social life now unfolds. This has proved reckless and has huge social consequences.The toxic effects on social life, young people’s mental health, and ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • The Computer Boys Take Over

    Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise

    by Nathan L. Ensmenger ...
    Series series History of Computing
    The contentious history of the computer programmers who developed the software that made the computer revolution possible.This is a book about the computer revolution of the mid-twentieth century and the people who made it possible. Unlike most histories of computing, it is not a book about machines, inventors, or entrepreneurs. Instead, it tells the story of the vast but largely anonymous legions ... Read more

    $28.99 USD