Understanding Media

Understanding Media
Author: Marshall McLuhan
Publsiher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2016-09-04
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 153743005X

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When first published, Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media made history with its radical view of the effects of electronic communications upon man and life in the twentieth century.

Humanistic futures of learning

Humanistic futures of learning
Author: UNESCO
Publsiher: UNESCO Publishing
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2020-01-28
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 9789231003691

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It s Complicated

It s Complicated
Author: Danah Boyd
Publsiher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2014-02-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780300166316

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Surveys the online social habits of American teens and analyzes the role technology and social media plays in their lives, examining common misconceptions about such topics as identity, privacy, danger, and bullying.

Getting the Word Out

Getting the Word Out
Author: Maria Bonn,Mike Furlough
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Academic libraries
ISBN: 0838986978

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In the past decade there has been an intense growth in the number of library publishing services supporting faculty and students. Unified by a commitment to both access and service, library publishing programs have grown from an early focus on backlist digitization to encompass publication of student works, textbooks, research data, as well as books and journals. This growing engagement with publishing is a natural extension of the academic library's commitment to support the creation of and access to scholarship. This volume includes chapters by some of the most talented thinkers in this area of librarianship, exploring topics such as the economics of publishing and the challenges of collaboration, and surveying the service landscape for publishing in support of a variety of formats and methods.0.

Transforming the Future Open Access

Transforming the Future  Open Access
Author: Riel Miller
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2018-04-27
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9781351047982

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People are using the future to search for better ways to achieve sustainability, inclusiveness, prosperity, well-being and peace. In addition, the way the future is understood and used is changing in almost all domains, from social science to daily life. This book presents the results of significant research undertaken by UNESCO with a number of partners to detect and define the theory and practice of anticipation around the world today. It uses the concept of ‘Futures Literacy’ as a tool to define the understanding of anticipatory systems and processes – also known as the Discipline of Anticipation. This innovative title explores: • new topics such as Futures Literacy and the Discipline of Anticipation; • the evidence collected from over 30 Futures Literacy Laboratories and presented in 14 full case studies; • the need and opportunity for significant innovation in human decision-making systems. This book will be of great interest to scholars, researchers, policy-makers and students, as well as activists working on sustainability issues and innovation, future studies and anticipation studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351047999, has been made available under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO (CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO) license.

American Indian Education

American Indian Education
Author: Jon Reyhner,Jeanne Eder
Publsiher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2015-01-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780806180403

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In this comprehensive history of American Indian education in the United States from colonial times to the present, historians and educators Jon Reyhner and Jeanne Eder explore the broad spectrum of Native experiences in missionary, government, and tribal boarding and day schools. This up-to-date survey is the first one-volume source for those interested in educational reform policies and missionary and government efforts to Christianize and “civilize” American Indian children. Drawing on firsthand accounts from teachers and students, American Indian Education considers and analyzes shifting educational policies and philosophies, paying special attention to the passage of the Native American Languages Act and current efforts to revitalize Native American cultures.

Digital Roots

Digital Roots
Author: Gabriele Balbi,Nelson Ribeiro,Valérie Schafer,Christian Schwarzenegger
Publsiher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2021-09-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9783110740288

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As media environments and communication practices evolve over time, so do theoretical concepts. This book analyzes some of the most well-known and fiercely discussed concepts of the digital age from a historical perspective, showing how many of them have pre-digital roots and how they have changed and still are constantly changing in the digital era. Written by leading authors in media and communication studies, the chapters historicize 16 concepts that have become central in the digital media literature, focusing on three main areas. The first part, Technologies and Connections, historicises concepts like network, media convergence, multimedia, interactivity and artificial intelligence. The second one is related to Agency and Politics and explores global governance, datafication, fake news, echo chambers, digital media activism. The last one, Users and Practices, is finally devoted to telepresence, digital loneliness, amateurism, user generated content, fandom and authenticity. The book aims to shed light on how concepts emerge and are co-shaped, circulated, used and reappropriated in different contexts. It argues for the need for a conceptual media and communication history that will reveal new developments without concealing continuities and it demonstrates how the analogue/digital dichotomy is often a misleading one.

The Network Reshapes the Library

The Network Reshapes the Library
Author: Lorcan Dempsey
Publsiher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2014-08-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780838919972

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Since he began posting in 2003, Dempsey has used his blog to explore nearly every important facet of library technology, from the emergence of Web 2.0 as a concept to open source ILS tools and the push to web-scale library management systems.