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Virtually Amish - Preserving Community At The Internet''S Margins

by Lindsay Ems

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 How the Amish have adopted certain digital tools in ways that allow them to work and live according to their own value system.The Amish are famous for their disconnection from the modern world and all its devices. But, as Lindsay Ems shows in Virtually Amish, Old Order Amish today are selectively engaging with digital technology. The Amish need digital tools to participate in the economy—websites for ecommerce, for example, and cell phones for communication on the road—but they have developed strategies for making limited use of these tools while still living and working according to the values of their community. The way they do this, Ems suggests, holds lessons for all of us about resisting the negative forces of what has been called "high-tech capitalism."Ems shows how the Amish do not allow technology to drive their behavior; instead, they actively configure their sociotechnical world to align with their values and protect their community''s autonomy. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork conducted in two Old Order Amish settlements in Indiana, Ems explores explicit rules and implicit norms as innovations for resisting negative impacts of digital technology. She describes the ingenious contraptions the Amish devise—including "the black-box phone," a landline phone attached to a device that connects to a cellular network when plugged into a car''s cigarette lighter—and considers the value of human-centered approaches to communication. Non-Amish technology users would do well to take note of Amish methods of adopting digital technologies in ways that empower people and acknowledge their shared humanity.
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Good Drone - How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance

by Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick

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 How small-scale drones, satellites, kites, and balloons are used by social movements for the greater good.Drones are famous for doing bad things: weaponized, they implement remote-control war; used for surveillance, they threaten civil liberties and violate privacy. In The Good Drone, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick examines a different range of uses: the deployment of drones for the greater good. Choi-Fitzpatrick analyzes the way small-scale drones—as well as satellites, kites, and balloons—are used for a great many things, including documenting human rights abuses, estimating demonstration crowd size, supporting anti-poaching advocacy, and advancing climate change research. In fact, he finds, small drones are used disproportionately for good; nonviolent prosocial uses predominate.Choi-Fitzpatrick''s broader point is that the use of technology by social movements goes beyond social media—and began before social media. From the barricades in Les Misérables to hacking attacks on corporate servers to the spread of #MeToo on Twitter, technology is used to raise awareness, but is also crucial in raising the cost of the status quo.New technology in the air changes politics on the ground, and raises provocative questions along the way. What is the nature and future of the camera, when it is taken out of human hands? How will our ideas about privacy evolve when the altitude of a penthouse suite no longer guarantees it? Working at the leading edge of an emerging technology, Choi-Fitzpatrick takes a broad view, suggesting social change efforts rely on technology in new and unexpected ways.
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Heteromation, And Other Stories Of Computing And Capitalism

by Bonnie A. Nardi e Hamid R. Ekbia

92,75€ + 10% CARD

 An exploration of a new division of labor between machines and humans, in which people provide value to the economy with little or no compensation.The computerization of the economy—and everyday life—has transformed the division of labor between humans and machines, shifting many people into work that is hidden, poorly compensated, or accepted as part of being a "user" of digital technology. Through our clicks and swipes, logins and profiles, emails and posts, we are, more or less willingly, participating in digital activities that yield economic value to others but little or no return to us. Hamid Ekbia and Bonnie Nardi call this kind of participation—the extraction of economic value from low-cost or free labor in computer-mediated networks—"heteromation." In this book, they explore the social and technological processes through which economic value is extracted from digitally mediated work, the nature of the value created, and what prompts people to participate in the process.Arguing that heteromation is a new logic of capital accumulation, Ekbia and Nardi consider different kinds of heteromated labor: communicative labor, seen in user-generated content on social media; cognitive labor, including microwork and self-service; creative labor, from gaming environments to literary productions; emotional labor, often hidden within paid jobs; and organizing labor, made up of collaborative groups such as citizen scientists. Ekbia and Nardi then offer a utopian vision: heteromation refigured to bring end users more fully into the prosperity of capitalism.
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Shifting Practices - Reflections On Technology, Practice, And Innovation

by Giovan Francesco Lanzara

103,35€ + 10% CARD

 How disruptions and discontinuities caused by the introduction of new technologies often reveal aspects of practice not previously observed.
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Technology Choices - Why Occupations Differ In Their Embrace Of New Technology

by Diane E. Bailey e Paul M. Leonardi

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 An analysis of the occupational factors that shape the technology choices made by people who perform the same type of work.
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Coding Places - Software Practice In A South American City

by Yuri Takhteyev

106,00€ + 10% CARD

 An examination of software practice in Brazil that reveals both the globalization and the localization of software development.
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Digitally Enabled Social Change - Activism In The Internet Age

by Jennifer Earl e Katrina Kimport

66,25€ + 10% CARD

 An investigation into how specific Web technologies can change the dynamics of organizing and participating in political and social protest.
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Scientific Collaboration On The Internet

124,55€ + 10% CARD

 Offers views of how technology is enabling novel kinds of science and engineering collaboration. This book points to a future of scientific collaborations that build successfully on aspects from multiple disciplines.
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Semiotic Engineering Of Human-Computer Interaction

by Clarisse Sieckenius De Souza

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 A theory of HCI that uses concepts from semiotics and computer science to focus on the communication between designers and users during interaction.
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Group Cognition - Computer Support For Building Collaborative Knowledge

by Gerry Stahl

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 Explores the technological and social reconfigurations that are needed to achieve computer-supported collaborative knowledge building - group cognition that transcends the limits of individual cognition. Offering software design prototypes, the author elaborates a theory of collaboration that takes the group as the unit of analysis.
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Tracing Genres Through Organizations - A Sociocultural Approach To Information Design

by Clay Spinuzzi

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 A sociocultural study of workers' ad hoc genre innovations and their significance for information design.
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Car Crashes Without Cars - Lessons About Simulation Technology And Organizational Change From Automotive Design - Lessons About Simulation Technology And Organizational Change From Automotive Design

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 A novel theory of organizational and technological change, illustrated by an account of the development and implementation of a computer-based simulation technology.
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Invisible Users - Youth In The Internet Cafés Of Urban Ghana

by Jenna Burrell

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 An account of how young people in Ghana''s capital city adopt and adapt digital technology in the margins of the global economy.The urban youth frequenting the Internet cafés of Accra, Ghana, who are decidedly not members of their country''s elite, use the Internet largely as a way to orchestrate encounters across distance and amass foreign ties—activities once limited to the wealthy, university-educated classes. The Internet, accessed on second-hand computers (castoffs from the United States and Europe), has become for these youths a means of enacting a more cosmopolitan self. In Invisible Users, Jenna Burrell offers a richly observed account of how these Internet enthusiasts have adopted, and adapted to their own priorities, a technological system that was not designed with them in mind.Burrell describes the material space of the urban Internet café and the virtual space of push and pull between young Ghanaians and the foreigners they encounter online; the region''s famous 419 scam strategies and the rumors of "big gains" that fuel them; the influential role of churches and theories about how the supernatural operates through the network; and development rhetoric about digital technologies and the future viability of African Internet cafés in the region.Burrell, integrating concepts from science and technology studies and African studies with empirical findings from her own field work in Ghana, captures the interpretive flexibility of technology by users in the margins but also highlights how their invisibility puts limits on their full inclusion into a global network society.
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Venture Labor - Work And The Burden Of Risk In Innovative Industries

by Gina Neff

106,00€ + 10% CARD

 Why employees of pioneering Internet companies chose to invest their time, energy, hopes, and human capital in start-up ventures.
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Acting With Technology - Activity Theory And Interaction Design

by Bonnie A. Nardi e Victor Kaptelinin

66,25€ + 10% CARD

 Activity theory holds that the human mind is the product of our interaction with people and artifacts in the context of everyday activity. This book makes the case for activity theory as a basis for understanding our relationship with technology. It describes activity theory's principles, history, and relationship to other theoretical approaches.
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Web Campaigning

by Kirsten A. Foot e Steven M. Schneider

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 Examines the evolution of campaigns' Web practices, based on several campaign Web sites produced by a range of political actors during the US elections of 2000, 2002, and 2004. This book explores the tension between the desire of campaigns to maintain control over messages and resources and the decentralizing dynamic of Web-based communication.
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Activity-Centered Design - An Ecological Approach To Designing Smart Tools And Usable Systems

by Geraldine Gay e Helene Hembrooke

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 An examination of the shift to context-based human-computer interaction design practice, illuminated by the concepts of Activity Theory and related methods.
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Virtually Amish - Preserving Community At The Internet'S Margins

by Lindsay Ems

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Tap - Unlocking The Mobile Economy

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 How the smartphone can become a personal concierge (not a stalker) in the mobile marketing revolution of smarter companies, value-seeking consumers, and curated offers.
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Heteromation, And Other Stories Of Computing And Capitalism

by Bonnie A. Nardi

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Winning The Reputation Game - Creating Stakeholder Value And Competitive Advantage

by Grahame R. Dowling

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 Core strategies for creating a corporate reputation that will provide a competitive advantage in the marketplace: a back-to-basics approach.
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Shifting Practices - Reflections On Technology, Practice, And Innovation

by Giovan Francesco (University Of Bologna) Lanzara

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 How disruptions and discontinuities caused by the introduction of new technologies often reveal aspects of practice not previously observed.
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The Least Likely Man - Marshall Nirenberg And The Discovery Of The Genetic Code

by Franklin H. Portugal

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 How unassuming government researcher Marshall Nirenberg beat James Watson, Francis Crick, and other world-famous scientists in the race to discover the genetic code.
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Alien Agency - Experimental Encounters With Art In The Making

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 An investigation into what happens in creative practice when the materials of art and research behave and perform in ways beyond the creators' intentions.
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