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It's Complicated The Social Lives of Networked Teens
ISBN: PB: 9780300199000, Yale University Press, December 2014
296 pp., 21x14 cm
<p>What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? Does social media affect the quality of teens' lives? In this eye-opening book, youth culture and technology expert Danah Boyd uncovers some...
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£10,99
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Status Update Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age
ISBN: PB: 9780300209389, ISBN: HB: 9780300176728, Yale University Press, December 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.
Social media technologies such as YouTube, Twitter and Facebook promised a new participatory online culture. Yet, technology insider Alice Marwick contends in this insightful book, "Web 2.0" only encouraged a preoccupation with status and attention....
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£16,99
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£21,00
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Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness
ISBN: PB: 9780226192307, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 4 line drawings
Few virtues are as celebrated in contemporary culture as openness. Rooted in software culture and carrying more than a whiff of Silicon Valley technical utopianism, openness – of decision-making, data, and organizational structure – is seen as the cu...
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£19,00
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Feed-Forward On the Future of Twenty-First-Century Media
ISBN: PB: 9780226199726, ISBN: HB: 9780226199696, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Even as media in myriad forms increasingly saturate our lives, we nonetheless tend to describe our relationship to it in terms from the twentieth century: we are consumers of media, choosing to engage with it. In "Feed-Forward", Mark B. N. Hansen sho...
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£20,50
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£67,00
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Sensing the Future Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts
ISBN: HB: 9783037784334, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2014
192 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 80 illus.
Life in the digital economy of information and images enriches us but often induces a sense of being overwhelmed. "Sensing the Future: Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts" considers the impact of technology by exploring ways it was addressed in the pract...
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£28,00
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Journalism and Technological Change Historical Perspectives, Contemporary Trends
ISBN: PB: 9783593501048, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2014
250 pp., 22x14 cm
Technology, media, and journalism are closely related, both in the present time and from a historical perspective. New technologies, however, only develop their specific potential within the cultural and social contexts in which they are created and...
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£42,00
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Huns Have Got My Gramophone! Advertisements from the Great War
ISBN: HB: 9781851243990, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2014
112 pp., 17x11 cm, 50 black&white illus.
Fountain-Pens – The Super-Pen for Our Super-Men Ladies! Learn To Drive! Your Country Needs Women Drivers! Do you drink German water? When Britain declared war on Germany in 1914, companies wasted no time in seizing the commercial opportunities presen...
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£5,00
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