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  • The Philosopher of Palo Alto

    Mark Weiser, Xerox PARC, and the Original Internet of Things

    by John Tinnell ...
    A compelling biography of Mark Weiser, a pioneering innovator whose legacy looms over the tech industry's quest to connect everything—and who hoped for something better.When developers and critics trace the roots of today's Internet of Things—our smart gadgets and smart cities—they may single out the same creative source: Mark Weiser (1952–99), the first chief technology officer at Xerox PARC and ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Actionable Media

    Digital Communication Beyond the Desktop

    by John Tinnell ...
    In 1991, Mark Weiser and his team at Xerox PARC declared they were reinventing computers for the twenty-first century. The computer would become integrated into the fabric of everyday life; it would shift to the background rather than being itself an object of focus. The resulting rise of ubiquitous computing (smartphones, smartglasses, smart cities) have since thoroughly colonized our digital ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman

    by Kristie S. Fleckenstein, Brendan Keogh, Jonathan Rey Lee, Matthew A. Levy, Emily McArthur, Josh Mehler, Nicole M. Merola, Anthony Miccoli, Elise Takehana, John Tinnell, Yoni Van Den Eede ...
    Series series Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology
    Though the progress of technology continually pushes life toward virtual existence, the last decade has witnessed a renewed focus on materiality. Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman bears witness to the attention paid byliterary theorists, digital humanists, rhetoricians, philosophers, and designers to the crafted environment, the manner in which artifacts mediate human relations, and the ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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    Understanding the New Rules of Language

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  • Teaching Graphic Design

    Course Offerings and Class Projects from the Leading Graduate and Undergraduate Programs

    by Steven Heller ...
    This priceless teaching tool features more than 70 proven-effective programs from the country’s leading graphic design schools. Spanning from traditional, bricks and mortar” approaches to the ever-widening digital frontier of graphic design, these syllabi include detailed introductions, weekly breakdowns, project suggestions, and selected readings, as well as offer valued background material on ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A World Without Email

    Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload

    by Cal Newport ...
    **A New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellerFrom New York Times bestselling author Cal Newport comes a bold vision for liberating workers from the tyranny of the inbox--and unleashing a new era of productivity.**Modern knowledge workers communicate constantly. Their days are defined by a relentless barrage of incoming messages and back-and-forth digital conversations--a state of constant, ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to Visual Communication

    From Cave Art to Second Life (2nd edition)

    by Susan B. Barnes ...
    Series Book 7 - Visual Communication
    Technological changes have radically altered the ways in which people use visual images. Since the invention of photography, imagery has increasingly been used for entertainment, journalism, information, medical diagnostics, instruction, branding and communication. These functions move the image beyond aesthetic issues associated with art and into the realm of communication studies.This ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Rewriting

    How to Do Things with Texts, Second Edition

    by Joseph Harris ...
    “Like all writers, intellectuals need to say something new and say it well. But for intellectuals, unlike many other writers, what we have to say is bound up with the books we are reading . . . and the ideas of the people we are talking with.”What are the moves that an academic writer makes? How does writing as an intellectual change the way we work from sources? In Rewriting, Joseph Harris draws ... Read more

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  • What Algorithms Want

    Imagination in the Age of Computing

    by Ed Finn ...
    The gap between theoretical ideas and messy reality, as seen in Neal Stephenson, Adam Smith, and Star Trek.We depend on—we believe in—algorithms to help us get a ride, choose which book to buy, execute a mathematical proof. It's as if we think of code as a magic spell, an incantation to reveal what we need to know and even what we want. Humans have always believed that certain invocations—the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Digital Divide

    Arguments for and Against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Networking

    by Mark Bauerlein ...
    This definitive work on the perils and promise of the social- media revolution collects writings by today's best thinkers and cultural commentators, with an all-new introduction by Bauerlein.Twitter, Facebook, e-publishing, blogs, distance-learning and other social media raise some of the most divisive cultural questions of our time. Some see the technological breakthroughs we live with as hopeful ... Read more

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  • New Media

    A Critical Introduction

    by Martin Lister, Jon Dovey, Seth Giddings, Iain Grant, Kieran Kelly ...
    New Media: A Critical Introduction is a comprehensive introduction to the culture, history, technologies and theories of new media. Written especially for students, the book considers the ways in which 'new media' really are new, assesses the claims that a media and technological revolution has taken place and formulates new ways for media studies to respond to new technologies.The authors ... Read more

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  • The Cluetrain Manifesto (10th Anniversary Edition)

    by Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, David Weinberger, Jake McKee, J. P. Rangaswami, Dan Gillmor ...
    The Cluetrain Manifesto began as a Web site (cluetrain.com) in 1999 when the authors, who have worked variously at IBM, Sun Microsystems, the Linux Journal, and NPR, posted 95 theses about the new reality of the networked marketplace. Ten years after its original publication, their message remains more relevant than ever. For example, thesis no. 2: "Markets consist of human beings, not demographic ... Read more

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