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Good Faith Collaboration - The Culture Of Wikipedia - The Culture Of Wikipedia

by Joseph M., Jr. (Assistant Professor, Northeastern University) Reagle

36,57€ + 10% CARD

 How Wikipedia collaboration addresses the challenges of openness, consensus, and leadership in a historical pursuit for a universal encyclopedia.
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Infographic - A History Of Data Graphics In News And Communications

by Murray Dick

92,75€ + 10% CARD

 An exploration of infographics and data visualization as a cultural phenomenon, from eighteenth-century print culture to today''s data journalism.Infographics and data visualization are ubiquitous in our everyday media diet, particularly in news—in print newspapers, on television news, and online. It has been argued that infographics are changing what it means to be literate in the twenty-first century—and even that they harmonize uniquely with human cognition. In this first serious exploration of the subject, Murray Dick traces the cultural evolution of the infographic, examining its use in news—and resistance to its use—from eighteenth-century print culture to today''s data journalism. He identifies six historical phases of infographics in popular culture: the proto-infographic, the classical, the improving, the commercial, the ideological, and the professional.Dick describes the emergence of infographic forms within a wider history of journalism, culture, and communications, focusing his analysis on the UK. He considers their use in the partisan British journalism of late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century print media; their later deployment as a vehicle for reform and improvement; their mass-market debut in the twentieth century as a means of explanation (and sometimes propaganda); and their use for both ideological and professional purposes in the post-World War II marketized newspaper culture. Finally, he proposes best practices for news infographics and defends infographics and data visualization against a range of criticism. Dick offers not only a history of how the public has experienced and understood the infographic, but also an account of what data visualization can tell us about the past.
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Documentarity - Evidence, Ontology, And Inscription

by Ronald E. Day

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 A historical-conceptual account of the different genres, technologies, modes of inscription, and innate powers of expression by which something becomes evident.In this book, Ronald Day offers a historical-conceptual account of how something becomes evident. Crossing philosophical ontology with documentary ontology, Day investigates the different genres, technologies, modes of inscription, and innate powers of expression by which something comes into presence and makes itself evident. He calls this philosophy of evidence documentarity, and it is through this theoretical lens that he examines documentary evidence (and documentation) within the tradition of Western philosophy, largely understood as representational in its epistemology, ontology, aesthetics, and politics.Day discusses the expression of beings or entities as evidence of what exists through a range of categories and modes, from Plato''s notion that ideas are universal types expressed in evidential particulars to the representation of powerful particulars in social media and machine learning algorithms. He considers, among other topics, the contrast between positivist and anthropological documentation traditions; the ontological and epistemological importance of the documentary index; the nineteenth-century French novel''s documentary realism and the avant-garde''s critique of representation; performative literary genres; expression as a form of self evidence; and the "post-documentation" technologies of social media and machine learning, described as a posteriori, real-time technologies of documentation. Ultimately, the representational means are not only information and knowledge technologies but technologies of judgment, judging entities both descriptively and prescriptively.
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Information Manifold - Why Computers Can''T Solve Algorithmic Bias And Fake News

by Antonio Badia

132,50€ + 10% CARD

 An argument that information exists at different levels of analysis—syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic—and an exploration of the implications.Although this is the Information Age, there is no universal agreement about what information really is. Different disciplines view information differently; engineers, computer scientists, economists, linguists, and philosophers all take varying and apparently disconnected approaches. In this book, Antonio Badia distinguishes four levels of analysis brought to bear on information: syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and network-based. Badia explains each of these theoretical approaches in turn, discussing, among other topics, theories of Claude Shannon and Andrey Kolomogorov, Fred Dretske''s description of information flow, and ideas on receiver impact and informational interactions. Badia argues that all these theories describe the same phenomena from different perspectives, each one narrower than the previous one. The syntactic approach is the more general one, but it fails to specify when information is meaningful to an agent, which is the focus of the semantic and pragmatic approaches. The network-based approach, meanwhile, provides a framework to understand information use among agents.Badia then explores the consequences of understanding information as existing at several levels. Humans live at the semantic and pragmatic level (and at the network level as a society), computers at the syntactic level. This sheds light on some recent issues, including "fake news" (computers cannot tell whether a statement is true or not, because truth is a semantic notion) and "algorithmic bias" (a pragmatic, not syntactic concern). Humans, not computers, the book argues, have the ability to solve these issues.
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Search Foundations - Toward A Science Of Technology-Mediated Experience

by Elham Ashoori e Sachi Arafat

198,75€ + 10% CARD

 A call to redirect the intellectual focus of information retrieval and science (IR&S) toward the phenomenon of technology-mediated experience.In this book, Sachi Arafat and Elham Ashoori issue a call to reorient the intellectual focus of information retrieval and science (IR&S) away from search and related processes toward the more general phenomenon of technology-mediated experience. Technology-mediated experience accounts for an increasing proportion of human lived experience; the phenomenon of mediation gets at the heart of the human-machine relationship. Framing IR&S more broadly in this way generalizes its problems and perspectives, dovetailing them with those shared across disciplines dealing with socio-technical phenomena. This reorientation of IR&S requires imagining it as a new kind of science: a science of technology-mediated experience (STME). Arafat and Ashoori not only offer detailed analysis of the foundational concepts underlying IR&S and other technical disciplines but also boldly call for a radical, systematic appropriation of the sciences and humanities to create a better understanding of the human-technology relationship.Arafat and Ashoori discuss the notion of progress in IR&S and consider ideas of progress from the history and philosophy of science. They argue that progress in IR&S requires explicit linking between technical and nontechnical aspects of discourse. They develop a network of basic questions and present a discursive framework for addressing these questions. With this book, Arafat and Ashoori provide both a manifesto for the reimagining of their field and the foundations on which a reframed IR&S would rest.
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Information And Intrigue - From Index Cards To Dewey Decimals To Alger Hiss

by Colin B. Burke

132,50€ + 10% CARD

 An account of Herbert Field's quest for a new way of organizing information and how information systems are produced by ideology as well as technology.
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Indexing It All - The Subject In The Age Of Documentation, Information, And Data

by Ronald E. Day

68,90€ + 10% CARD

 A critical history of the modern tradition of documentation, tracing the representation of individuals and groups in the form of documents, information, and data.
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Paper Machines - About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929

by Markus Krajewski

106,00€ + 10% CARD

 Why the card catalog--a "paper machine" with rearrangeable elements--can be regarded as a precursor of the computer.
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Human Information Retrieval

by Julian (Professor, The Queen'S University Of Belfast) Warner

69,96€ + 10% CARD

 An overview of information retrieval rooted in the humanities and social sciences but informed by an understanding of information technology and information theory.
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Bibliometrics And Research Evaluation - Uses And Abuses

by Yves Gingras

79,50€ + 10% CARD

 Why bibliometrics is useful for understanding the global dynamics of science but generate perverse effects when applied inappropriately in research evaluation and university rankings.The research evaluation market is booming. "Ranking," "metrics," "h-index," and "impact factors" are reigning buzzwords. Government and research administrators want to evaluate everything—teachers, professors, training programs, universities—using quantitative indicators. Among the tools used to measure "research excellence," bibliometrics—aggregate data on publications and citations—has become dominant. Bibliometrics is hailed as an "objective" measure of research quality, a quantitative measure more useful than "subjective" and intuitive evaluation methods such as peer review that have been used since scientific papers were first published in the seventeenth century. In this book, Yves Gingras offers a spirited argument against an unquestioning reliance on bibliometrics as an indicator of research quality. Gingras shows that bibliometric rankings have no real scientific validity, rarely measuring what they pretend to.Although the study of publication and citation patterns, at the proper scales, can yield insights on the global dynamics of science over time, ill-defined quantitative indicators often generate perverse and unintended effects on the direction of research. Moreover, abuse of bibliometrics occurs when data is manipulated to boost rankings. Gingras looks at the politics of evaluation and argues that using numbers can be a way to control scientists and diminish their autonomy in the evaluation process. Proposing precise criteria for establishing the validity of indicators at a given scale of analysis, Gingras questions why universities are so eager to let invalid indicators influence their research strategy.
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Bibliometrics And Research Evaluation - Uses And Abuses

by Yves (Universite Du Quebec A Montreal) Gingras

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Search Foundations - Toward A Science Of Technology-Mediated Experience

by Elham (Imperial College London) Ashoori e Sachi (University Of Glasgow) Arafat

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Paper Machines - About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929

by Markus (Professor Of Media Studies, University Of Basel) Krajewski

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A Logical Theory Of Causality

by Alexander Bochman

66,95€

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Power Of Position - Classification And The Biodiversity Sciences

by Robert D. Montoya

48,93€

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Inequality

by Carles Lalueza-Fox

33,48€

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Terra Forma

by Alexandra Arenes e Frederique Ait-Touati

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Parallel Public

by Sara Blaylock

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Reimagining Design

by Kevin G. Bethune

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The Intermittent Fasting Revolution

by Mark P. Mattson

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The Digital Multinational

by Satish Nambisan e Yadong Lup

34,76€

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Treacherous Play

by Marcus Carter

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Star Power

by Alain Becoulet e Erik Butler

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Paper Graveyards

by Eduardo Cadava

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