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“wim westera”

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  • The Digital Turn

    How the Internet Transforms Our Existence

    by Wim Westera ...
    Awarded with the US National Indie Excellence Award 2014 in Social Media. This book is about digital media. Even more, the book is about us. It explains how the ever-growing flood of digital media affects our perceptions of the world, change our behaviors and eventually transform our very existence. In the era of Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Apple, being online is the standard. We spend many ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Blockchain

    Blueprint for a New Economy

    by Melanie Swan ...
    Bitcoin is starting to come into its own as a digital currency, but the blockchain technology behind it could prove to be much more significant. This book takes you beyond the currency ("Blockchain 1.0") and smart contracts ("Blockchain 2.0") to demonstrate how the blockchain is in position to become the fifth disruptive computing paradigm after mainframes, PCs, the Internet, and mobile/social ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Art of Invisibility

    The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data

    by Kevin Mitnick ...
    Real-world advice on how to be invisible online from "the FBI's most wanted hacker" (Wired).Be online without leaving a trace. Your every step online is being tracked and stored, and your identity literally stolen. Big companies and big governments want to know and exploit what you do, and privacy is a luxury few can afford or understand.In this explosive yet practical book, Kevin Mitnick uses ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Hackers & Painters

    Big Ideas from the Computer Age

    by Paul Graham ...
    "The computer world is like an intellectual Wild West, in which you can shoot anyone you wish with your ideas, if you're willing to risk the consequences. " --from Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, by Paul GrahamWe are living in the computer age, in a world increasingly designed and engineered by computer programmers and software designers, by people who call themselves hackers. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Cathedral & the Bazaar

    Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary

    by Eric S. Raymond ...
    Open source provides the competitive advantage in the Internet Age. According to the August Forrester Report, 56 percent of IT managers interviewed at Global 2,500 companies are already using some type of open source software in their infrastructure and another 6 percent will install it in the next two years. This revolutionary model for collaborative software development is being embraced and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Hacking ISIS

    How to Destroy the Cyber Jihad

    by Malcolm Nance, Chris Sampson ...
    This book is written by two of the leading terrorist experts in the world - Malcolm Nance, NBC News/MSNBC terrorism analyst and Christopher Sampson, cyber-terrorist expert. Malcolm Nance is a 35 year practitioner in Middle East Special Operations and terrorism intelligence activities. Chris Sampson is the terrorism media and cyber warfare expert for the Terror Asymmetric Project and has spent 15 ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The People's Platform

    Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

    by Astra Taylor ...
    "An invaluable primer for anyone seeking to understand why our networked world isn't all that it is cracked up to be." — The GuardianThe Internet has been hailed as an unprecedented democratizing force, a place where everyone can be heard and all can participate equally. But how true is this claim? In a seminal dismantling of techno-utopian visions, The People's Platform argues that for all that ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL

    Insights from a Connected World

    by Derek Hansen, Ben Shneiderman, Marc A. Smith ...
    Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL offers backgrounds in information studies, computer science, and sociology. This book is divided into three parts: analyzing social media, NodeXL tutorial, and social-media network analysis case studies. Part I provides background in the history and concepts of social media and social networks. Also included here is social network analysis, which flows ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Who Controls the Internet? : Illusions of a Borderless World

    Illusions of a Borderless World

    by Jack Goldsmith;Tim Wu ...
    Is the Internet erasing national borders? Will the future of the Net be set by Internet engineers rogue programmers the United Nations or powerful countries? Who's really in control of what's happening on the Net? In this provocative new book Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu tell the fascinating story of the Internet's challenge to governmental rule in the 1990s and the ensuing battles with governments ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • XMPP: The Definitive Guide

    Building Real-Time Applications with Jabber Technologies

    by Peter Saint-Andre, Kevin Smith, Remko Tronçon ...
    This practical book provides everything you need to know about the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). This open technology for real-time communication is used in many diverse applications such as instant messaging, Voice over IP, real-time collaboration, social networking, microblogging, lightweight middleware, cloud computing, and more.XMPP: The Definitive Guide walks you through ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Myth of Digital Democracy

    by Matthew Hindman ...
    Is the Internet democratizing American politics? Do political Web sites and blogs mobilize inactive citizens and make the public sphere more inclusive? The Myth of Digital Democracy reveals that, contrary to popular belief, the Internet has done little to broaden political discourse but in fact empowers a small set of elites--some new, but most familiar.Matthew Hindman argues that, though hundreds ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Database Nation

    The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century

    by Simson Garfinkel ...
    Fifty years ago, in 1984, George Orwell imagined a future in which privacy was demolished by a totalitarian state that used spies, video surveillance, historical revisionism, and control over the media to maintain its power. Those who worry about personal privacy and identity--especially in this day of technologies that encroach upon these rights--still use Orwell's "Big Brother" language to ... Read more

    $10.79 USD