Harris, Ashley Rae.
Summary: Explores the pros and cons of modern techology in the lives of girls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. Co. 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y 303.48 HARLagorio-Chafkin, Christine
Summary: Presents the history of the Internet forum Reddit, whose intensely-engaged users have changed the culture of the Internet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2018
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Summary: These days it's become easier than ever to customize social media feeds to include only information you think is relevant to your interests. But is that necessarily a positive development? Your Personalized Internet uncovers the problematic aspects of online customization, including the dangers of echo chambers and filter bubbles and the loss of privacy that can result from companies sharing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 302.2 HARScott, Laurence
Summary: "Hailed as a 'New Generation Thinker" by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the BBC, the author, blending tech-philosophy with a vast array of insights, shows how we are entering into a four-dimensional world, filled with ceaseless communication, instant information and global connection, that is dramatically changing us,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.2 SCOVaidhyanathan, Siva.
Summary: University of Virginia media studies and law professor Vaidhyanathan thoughtfully examines the insidious influence of Google on our society. In just over a decade, Google has moved so rapidly in its mission to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" that cries of "Google it!" resound through high school classrooms, business offices, academic halls, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.761 VAIShirky, Clay.
Summary: Evaluates the significant role of technological advances on the formation and experience of modern group dynamics, citing such examples as Wikipedia and MySpace to demonstrate the Internet's power in bridging geographical and cultural gaps.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 SHIKeen, Andrew
Summary: "Since its creation during the Cold War, the Internet, together with the World Wide Web, personal computers, tablets, and smartphones, has ushered in the Digital Revolution, one of the greatest shifts in society since the Industrial Revolution. There are many positive ways in which the Internet has contributed to the world, but as a society we are less aware of the Internet's deeply negative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302 KEESummary: Documentarian Werner Herzog chronicles the virtual world from its origins to its outermost reaches, exploring the digital landscape with the same curiosity and imagination he previously trained on earthly destinations. Herzog leads viewers on a journey through a series of provocative conversations that reveal the ways in which the online world has transformed how virtually everything in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LOSummary: Aaron Swartz was a programming prodigy who helped shape the digital landscape of today. He helped develop the internet protocol RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit. Chronicling his pioneering efforts crusading for open access and free speech and the resulting legal nightmare and tragedy that ensued, the documentary is a dynamic and moving portrait of a brilliant tech millionaire who renounced...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC INTSummary: Reveals the complicated effects the web is having on our society as seen through the eyes of artist, futurist, and visionary, Josh Harris. Director Ondi Timoner documented more than a decade of Harris' increasingly tumultuous life and experiments, including one that involved living under 24-hour electronic surveillance, which led to his mental collapse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Indiepix Films 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WEPhillips, Whitney
Summary: Internet trolls live to upset as many people as possible, using all the technical and psychological tools at their disposal. They gleefully whip the media into a frenzy over a fake teen drug crisis; they post offensive messages on Facebook memorial pages, traumatizing grief-stricken friends and family; they use unabashedly racist language and images. They take pleasure in ruining a complete...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303 PHIMacKinnon, Rebecca.
Summary: Google has a history of censoring at the behest of Communist China. Research in Motion happily opens up the BlackBerry to such stalwarts of liberty as Saudi Arabia. Yahoo has betrayed the email accounts of dissidents to the PRC. Facebook's obsession with personal transparency has revealed the identities of protesters to governments. For all the overheated rhetoric of liberty and cyber-utopia,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 MACBasar, Shumon.
Summary: THE AGE OF EARTHQUAKES is a quick-fire paperback, harnessing the images, language and perceptions of our unfurling digital lives. The authors offer five characteristics of the Extreme Present (see below); invent a glossary of new words to describe how we are truly feeling today; and ‘mindsource’ images and illustrations from over 30 contemporary artists. Wayne Daly’s striking graphic design ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 BASStephens-Davidowitz, Seth
Summary: "How much sex are people really having? How many Americans are actually racist? Is America experiencing a hidden back-alley abortion crisis? Can you game the stock market? Does violent entertainment increase the rate of violent crime? Do parents treat sons differently from daughters? How many people actually read the books they buy? In this groundbreaking work, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.2 STELewis, Michael (Michael M.)
Summary: Explores the revolutionary changes wrought by the advent of the Internet and examines the potential effects of the dismantling of power structures--economically, politically, and otherwise--which the Internet makes possible.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.4834 LEWAiden, Erez.
Summary: " "One of the most exciting developments from the world of ideas in decades, presented with panache by two frighteningly brilliant, endearingly unpretentious, and endlessly creative young scientists." - Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature Our society has gone from writing snippets of information by hand to generating a vast flood of 1s and 0s that record almost every...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 AIDSummary: WIRED magazine delivers the latest news and reviews on current trends in the world of technology, business and culture. Also find gear, gadget and gizmo reviews and articles on innovative people and ideas in each issue of WIRED magazine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wired USA 1993
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Case, Steve
Summary: Steve Case, co-founder of America Online (AOL) and one of America's most accomplished entrepreneurs, shares a roadmap for how anyone can succeed in a world of rapidly changing technology. We are entering, he explains, a new paradigm called the "Third Wave" of the Internet. The first wave saw AOL and other companies lay the foundation for consumers to connect to the Internet. The second wave saw...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338 CASBauerlein, Mark.
Summary: "The technology that was supposed to make young adults more astute, diversify their tastes, and improve their minds had the opposite effect. According to recent reports from government agencies, foundations, survey firms, and scholarly institutions, most young people in the United States do not read literature (or fully know how to), work reliably (just ask employers), visit cultural...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 BAUSirota, David (David J.)
Summary: Job outsourcing. Perpetual busy signals at government agencies. Slashed paychecks. Stolen elections. A war without end, fatally mismanaged. Ordinary Americans on both the Right and Left are tired of being disenfranchised by corrupt politicians of both parties and are organizing to change the status quo. Author Sirota takes us far from the national media spotlight into the trenches where real...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 SIRClaypoole, Ted
Summary: "Protecting Your Internet Identity illustrates the depth and importance of a person?s online persona and reputation, and provides strategies for building the best possible online identity. This updated edition addresses the newest ways that people live their lives online, the pressing legal changes that you need to know, and cutting edge technical developments and new ways to protect your...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 302.3 CLAShlain, Tiffany
Summary: "Tiffany Shlain explores how turning off screens one day a week can work wonders on your brain, body, and soul." -- from book jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A digital footprint is the data trace left by one's activity in a digital environment, whether on the Internet, buying something with a credit card, or using a mobile phone. Like everything on the web, digital data cannot be washed away; it remains forever, a permanent footprint. Discover how things done in a digital environment can ultimately impact one's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Learning ZoneXpress 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 004.67 STAMcKnight, Mindy
Summary: "A guide to raising responsible, safe, and communicative kids in the digital world. From cell phone contracts, rules for earning an allowance, and creating a family mantra, this book teaches readers to solve problems before they happen"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019