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In The New Age of Communications, author John Green outlines how computers and the World Wide Web are revolutionizing our lives in the new global community. Originally published in 1997, Green covers the history of computers to how wired the world has become, to the nature of the Internet and the potential power of artificial intelligence.
A Scientific American Focus book.
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Para leer el GIF intenta medirse ante el reto que hoy supone pensar en la complejidad de las imágenes digitales, cuyos formatos se desarrollan siguiendo las pautas de la novedad impuesta como temporalidad: su seducción fantasmagórica es casi inevitable en una vorágine de mensajes, memes, emojis, stickers, deep fakes y una infinidad de nuevas especies mediáticas entre las que ha sido clasificado el GIF como objeto de estudio. En este texto se...
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Digital user behavior is evolving at an ever-increasing pace, and predicting future trends is a booming business as a result. Users associate technology with their identities now more than ever, and it is up to you as a product designer to enhance their experience for the better. Designing Products for Evolving Digital Users is a 21st century handbook that helps you do just that.
By providing insights that allow you to study UX (user experience) behavior...
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"Do you want to make social media your microphone to the world? Maybe you're a trend-setter or a social justice leader. Now is your chance to set out a path to social media domination. Face real-life choices that will help you learn about marketing, messaging, and what it takes to make it as a social media star"--
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"Social networking has grown into a staple of modern society, but its continued evolution is becoming increasingly detrimental to our lives. Shifts in communication and privacy are affecting us more than we realize or understand. Terms of Service crystallizes the current moment in technology and contemplates its implications: the identity-validating pleasures and perils of online visibility; our newly adopted view of daily life through the lens of...
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From the authors of the bestselling Fact vs. Fiction, this book offers easy-to-implement lessons to engage students in becoming media literacy "digital detectives," looking for clues, questioning motives, uncovering patterns, developing theories and, ultimately, delivering a verdict.
The current news landscape is driven by clicks, with every social media influencer, trained and citizen journalists chasing the same goal: a viral story. In this environment,...
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¿Alguna vez has escuchado un audio por internet? Si es así, lo más seguro es que te hayas encontrado con un podcast, un formato de contenidos inspirado en la radio tradicional. Voces en red: una aproximación al fenómeno del podcast en el Perú cuenta con entrevistas a personas—locales y extranjeras-vinculados a su producción para analizar su contribución dentro de las comunidades digitales en el Perú.
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El presente trabajo muestra un panorama de los dibujos animados al tiempo que da cuenta de cómo estos sistemas de expresión contemporáneos se han extendido hacia otras instancias audiovisuales. Particularmente, centra su mirada en la animación japonesa, también conocida como anime. De esta manera se rescatan cuestiones significativas relativas a su particular lenguaje, el impacto que ha tenido en la sociedad y los aspectos que involucra dentro...
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"Do you feel guilty about the hours you spend on social media every week? Have you ever felt down after scrolling through an instastar's feed as they appear to be living a far more amazing life than the rest of us? What if a doctor could tell you how to keep both your social media and your sanity? No more deleting all your online social accounts or digital abstinence, in this much needed reprieve amongst a society focused on the negative effects of...
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2018
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What does it mean to be biased? Emerging readers need to know the differences between facts, fiction, and opinions. Readers will also learn how facts, fiction, and opinions affect advertisements, news reports, blogs, and more. Straightforward, neutral text and vivid photographs provide readers with the tools they need to evaluate and understand the media literacy concept of facts, fiction, and opinions.
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IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
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How we send and receive news has changed over time. Without a constant evolution and progression of news media, the way in which people heard reports of the Great Depression, Pearl Harbor, and September 11 were very different than an event happening today. From Fireside Chats to paparazzi, there have been many different ways to communicate information. Featuring Time For Kids© content, this title will allow readers to learn how people and journalists...
14) Streaming TV
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Using the new C3 Framework for Social Studies Standards, Streaming TV in the Global Citizens: Modern Media series explores the topic through the lenses of History, Geography, Civics, and Economics. Text and photos look at the history, basic philosophies, and geography of the growing popularity of streaming TV. As they read, students will develop questions about the text, and use evidence from a variety of sources in order to form conclusions. Data-focused...
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Real democracy and the Internet are not mutually exclusive. Here, for the first time in one volume, are some of the most cogent thinkers and doers on the subject of the cooptation of the Internet, and how we can resist and reverse the process. The activists who have put together Ours to Hack and to Own argue for a new kind of online economy: platform cooperativism, which combines the rich heritage of cooperatives with the promise of 21st-century technologies,...
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As digital transformations continue to accelerate in the world, discourses of big data have come to dominate in a number of fields, from politics and economics, to media and education. But how can we really understand the digital world when so much of the writing through which we grapple with it remains deeply problematic?
In a compelling new work of feminist critical theory, Bassett, Kember and O'Riordan scrutinise many of the assumptions of...
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"An interestingly idiosyncratic and personal vision of how to make podcasts."-Ira Glass. Veteran podcast creator and strategist Eric Nuzum distills a career's worth of wisdom, advice, practical information, and big-picture thinking to help podcasters "make noise"-to stand out in this fastest of fastest-growing media universes. Nuzum identifies core principles, including what he considers the key to successful audio storytelling: learning to think...
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Looks at specific ways you can create social change through the tap of a screen. She provides examples of successful hashtag campaigns, viral videos and new socially conscious apps, as well as practical advice for using your smartphone as a tool for social justice.
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Social Media offers an exciting nonfiction reader that builds critical reading skills while students are immersed in engaging subject area content. This text is purposefully leveled to increase comprehension with different learner types. Social Media features complex and rigorous content appropriate for middle school students. Aligned with Common Core State Standards, this text connects with McREL, WIDA/TESOL standards and prepares students for college...
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