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This reissue marks the thirtieth anniversary (1964-1994) of McLuhan's classic expose on the state of the then emerging phenomenon of mass media. Terms and phrases such as "the global village" and "the medium is the message" are now part of the lexicon, and McLuhan's theories continue to challenge our sensibilities and our assumptions about how and what we communicate. There has been a notable resurgence of interest in McLuhan's work in recent years,...
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John Wiley
Pub. Date
©2002
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1 online resource (xx, 348 pages) : illustrations
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English
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A complete set of best practices, tools, and techniques for turning conversations into a rich source of business information. Many organizations are now recognizing that the untapped knowledge of their members can be used to benefit every aspect of their business, from making smarter and faster decisions to improving products and efficiency. This book offers a clear-cut road map for building a successful knowledge management system to capture and...
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ABC-CLIO
Pub. Date
©1997
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1 online resource (viii, 355 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
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From Talking Drums to the Internet is the story of the human quest to communicate more effectively. It reaches far back into prehistory to explore cave paintings, hieroglyphics, and smoke signals - all technological giant steps in their day. But the volume focuses primarily on the twentieth century, when the pace of innovation became an explosion and we progressed from listening to radio early in the century to watching color television at the halfway...
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Publisher
Intellect
Pub. Date
2001
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1 online resource (iv, 190 pages) : illustrations (some color)
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English
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Beth Porter presents The Net Effect - exploring not just how it evolved and what it does, but how it relates to the way we live. Most writing about the Net focuses on a particular aspect: its use for business, its driving technology, etc. This book aims at a broader target. It does contain some useful information about the How of the Internet, but it is more concerned with the Why of it.
7) Knowledge-based economies and basing economies on knowledge: skills a missing link in GCC countries
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Publisher
RAND
Pub. Date
2013.
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1 online resource (50 pages)
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Español
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While an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure is a crucial ingredient of a knowledge-based economy (KBE), a skilled labor force and a supportive institutional and business environment are equally important in that they facilitate an economy to use knowledge in a way that is appropriate to its level of development to increase productivity. Skills, education, and training are given their own importance in many countries, but...
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NYU Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
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1 online resource (318 pages).
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English
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New technologies, whether text message or telegraph, inevitably raise questions about emotion. New forms of communication bring with them both fear and hope, on one hand allowing us deeper emotional connections and the ability to forge global communities, while on the other prompting anxieties about isolation and over-stimulation. Feeling Mediated investigates the larger context of such concerns, considering both how media technologies intersect with...
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Pub. Date
2005
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xii, 161 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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Multitasking teens can talk on their cell phones while instant messaging, then toggle between discussion board, blog, and e-mail account, possibly collaborate on a project, or more likely chat with friends. If technology is ever-present for this wireless generation, what is the best way to share lessons about online content, behavior, and ethics with these digital natives? Recognizing that teens are still teens, author and educator Jacobson draws...
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Duke University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
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1 online resource (xiv, 238 pages) : illustrations
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English
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"In Nonhuman Witnessing, Michael Richardson argues that we must decenter humans as the subjects of witnessing and expand the concept of witness to encompass nonhuman and machinic perception. Richardson contends that by opening witness to the nonhuman, we can gain a more finely tuned understanding of events in an era of escalating technoscientific war, algorithmic enclosure, and planetary ecological catastrophe. Further, nonhuman witnessing provides...
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Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2024.
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244 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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"Will language as we know it cease to exist? What could this mean for the way we live our lives? Shining a light on the technology currently being developed to revolutionise communication, The Future of Language distinguishes myth from reality and superstition from scientifically-based prediction as it plots out the importance of language and raises questions about its future.From the rise of artificial intelligence and speaking robots, to brain implants...
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Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers
Pub. Date
2003
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1 online resource (xix, 230 pages)
Language
English
Description
Discussing a wide array of topics on how the body and technology interact, this work aims to improve our understanding of the experience of body as it is mediated among competing forces and intellectual domains. The perspectives include literary analysis and speculative interpretations.
13) Eagle eye
Pub. Date
2008
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Widescreen ver.
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1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Jerry and Rachel are two strangers who are thrown together by a mysterious phone call from a woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, she pushes Jerry and Rachel into a series of increasingly dangerous situations, using the technology of everyday life to track and control their every move. Now they must carry out a high-tech assassination plot of an unscrupulous artificial intelligence system.
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