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  • If...Then

    Algorithmic Power and Politics

    by Taina Bucher ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
    We live in a world in which Google's search algorithms determine how we access information, Facebook's News Feed algorithms shape how we socialize, and Netflix collaborative filtering algorithms choose the media products we consume. As such, we live algorithmic lives. Life, however, is not blindly controlled or determined by algorithms. Nor are we simply victims of an ever-expanding artificial ... Read more

    $30.59 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

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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

    $59.39 USD

  • Reverse Engineering Social Media

    Software, Culture, and Political Economy in New Media Capitalism

    by Robert W Gehl ...
    Robert Gehl's timely critique, Reverse Engineering Social Media, rigorously analyzes the ideas of social media and software engineers, using these ideas to find contradictions and fissures beneath the surfaces of glossy sites such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter.Gehl adeptly uses a mix of software studies, science and technology studies, and political economy to reveal the histories and contexts ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Web 2.0

    by Sam Han ...
    Series series Shortcuts
    Web 2.0 is a highly accessible introductory text examining all the crucial discussions and issues which surround the changing nature of the World Wide Web. It not only contextualises the Web 2.0 within the history of the Web, but also goes on to explore its position within the broader dispositif of emerging media technologies.The book uncovers the connections between diverse media technologies ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • We Are Data

    Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves

    by John Cheney-Lippold ...
    Do algorithms get to decide who we are? "Essential reading for anyone who cares about the internet's extraordinary impact on each of us and on our society." ― Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Derived from our every search, like, click, and purchase, algorithms determine the news we get, the ads we see, the information accessible to us, and even who our friends are. These complex configurations not ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Understanding Spatial Media

    Edited by Rob Kitchin, Tracey P. Lauriault, Matthew W. Wilson ...
    Over the past decade, a new set of interactive, open, participatory and networked spatial media have become widespread. These include mapping platforms, virtual globes, user-generated spatial databases, geodesign and architectural and planning tools, urban dashboards and citizen reporting geo-systems, augmented reality media, and locative media. Collectively these produce and mediate spatial big ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media

    A Critical History of Social Media

    by Jose van Dijck ...
    Social media penetrate our lives: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and many other platforms define daily habits of communication and creative production. This book studies the rise of social media, providing both a historical and a critical analysis of the emergence of major platforms in the context of a rapidly changing ecosystem of connective media. Author Jose van Dijck offers an analytical prism ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • The Discipline of Organizing

    Edited by Robert J. Glushko ...
    A framework for the theory and practice of organizing that integrates the concepts and methods of information organization and information retrieval.Organizing is such a common activity that we often do it without thinking much about it. In our daily lives we organize physical things—books on shelves, cutlery in kitchen drawers—and digital things—Web pages, MP3 files, scientific datasets. Millions ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Digital Literacy for Technical Communication

    21st Century Theory and Practice

    Edited by Rachel Spilka ...
    Digital Literacy for Technical Communication helps technical communicators make better sense of technology’s impact on their work, so they can identify new ways to adapt, adjust, and evolve, fulfilling their own professional potential. This collection is comprised of three sections, each designed to explore answers to these questions:How has technical communication work changed in response to the ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Automating Open Source Intelligence

    Algorithms for OSINT

    by Robert Layton, Paul A Watters ...
    Algorithms for Automating Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) presents information on the gathering of information and extraction of actionable intelligence from openly available sources, including news broadcasts, public repositories, and more recently, social media. As OSINT has applications in crime fighting, state-based intelligence, and social research, this book provides recent advances in text ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Crowdsourcing

    by Daren C. Brabham ...
    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    A concise introduction to crowdsourcing that goes beyond social media buzzwords to explain what crowdsourcing really is and how it works.Ever since the term “crowdsourcing” was coined in 2006 by Wired writer Jeff Howe, group activities ranging from the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary to the choosing of new colors for M&Ms have been labeled with this most buzz-generating of media ... Read more

    $12.99 USD