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In today's digitally driven world, disaster is only a click away. A rogue tweet could bring down a business; an army of trolls can run a celebrity off-line; and virtual harassment might cause real psychological damage. Shame Nation explores the fascinating phenomenon of online shaming and offers practical guidance and advice on how to prevent and protect against cyber blunders and faceless bullies. Internet safety expert Sue Scheff draws from the...
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"The first full account of the Slenderman stabbing, a true crime narrative of mental illness, the American judicial system, the trials of adolescence, and the power of the internet. On May 31, 2014, in the Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha, Wisconsin, two twelve-year-old girls attempted to stab their classmate to death. Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier's violence was extreme, but what seemed even more frightening was that they committed their crime under...
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Power Play looks to the future of games as a global movement. Asi Burak and Laura Parker profile the luminaries behind some of the movement's most iconic games, including former Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor and Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. Burak and Parker also explore the promise of virtual reality to address social and political issues with unprecedented immersion, and see what the next generation...
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"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 effects. In 2007, Andrew Keen, a longtime Silicon Valley-based...
5) Adicción a los Smartphones, Tabletas o Computadoras: Cómo Evitar que los Móviles y Otros Aparatos El
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Do you find yourself checking your smartphone almost every minute, as an automatic impulse? Do you spend most of your day looking at a screen? Has your dependence on certain devices been increasing over time? Then keep reading... "If technology dominates and orders your life, you are its slave."-Anonymous. But what an exaggeration! Talk about addiction to technology, to mobile! You can't even use your mobile anymore because you consider yourself addicted!......
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The only sustainable advantage in our hypercompetitive marketplace is the ability to learn and adapt faster than everyone else. Companies that cling to management practices of a bygone era continue to fade away. They desperately need managers who empower people to seek out learning at a moment's notice.
“Minds at Work” can help you be that manager. This book captures the role managers play in the knowledge economy-where uninhibited, on-demand...
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A chronicle of the Internet's development explores behind the scenes to see the heart of the Internet itself, from the room in Los Angeles where the Internet came to life to the Pacific Northwest, where Google, Microsoft, and Facebook have built huge data centers.
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Navigating the AI Revolution: A Guide for the Uninitiated is an essential guide to understanding the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) given the increasing prevalence of mass-adopted AI tools such as ChatGPT. In this book, King provides a comprehensive overview of AI, its history, and its current state of development, in addition to delving into the potential impact of AI on society and the economy, including the opportunities and challenges it...
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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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Dice Margarita Martínez: "Cada uno de los capítulos de este libro es un fogonazo. La escena iluminada pertenece a la historia de la comunicación, la figuración pública o la política. Y al mostrarnos un estado de cosas en la polis digital, Patricio Erb nos revela qué tipo de pactos se nos invita a sostener, cuáles son sus puntos ciegos o sus derrames en ganancias.
Así, La villa miseria digital narra la administración interesada de la palabra...
11) Computer Science
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How can computers talk to one another . . . and to you? Why is artificial intelligence the new buzzword? How can computers make you healthier? The answers to all those questions- and more-are in science . . . and in this book. Computers are a vital part of the world today, so the more you know about them and how they work, the better off you'll be. Read on to find out more about how they are made and used. And it's not just computers-science is all...
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When Technocultures Collide provides rich and diverse studies of collision courses between technologically inspired subcultures and the corporate and governmental entities they seek to undermine. The adventures and exploits of computer hackers, phone phreaks, urban explorers, calculator and computer collectors, "CrackBerry" users, whistle-blowers, Yippies, zinsters, roulette cheats, chess geeks, and a range of losers and tinkerers feature prominently...
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It's easy and reflexive to view our online presence as fake, to see the internet as a space we enter when we aren't living our real, offline lives. Yet so much of who we are and what we do now happens online, making it hard to know which parts of our lives are real. IRL, Chris Stedman's personal and searing exploration of authenticity in the digital age, shines a light on how age-old notions of realness--who we are and where we fit in the world--can...
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En este fascinante libro electrónico nos sumergimos en el futuro de la humanidad, arrojando luz sobre la profunda influencia que la tecnología ejerce en nuestra sociedad. Descubra las provocadoras ideas y los reveladores análisis que se presentan, que nos preparan para navegar por el dinámico terreno tecnológico.La narrativa nos impulsa a través de los avances científicos y tecnológicos, revelando tanto las enormes oportunidades como los inminentes...
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Recent years have seen a revival of the heated culture wars of the 1990s, but this time its battle ground is the internet. On one side the "alt right" ranges from the once obscure neo-reactionary and white separatist movements, to geeky subcultures like 4chan, to more mainstream manifestations such as the Trump-supporting gay libertarian Milo Yiannopolous. On the other side, a culture of struggle sessions and virtue signalling lurks behind a therapeutic...
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Insiders Info on Social Site Gaming
This course is designed to build awareness and knowledge to those individuals with an interest in earning incomes from the online gaming industry. Within this course, the student will learn:
How to find products to represent as an affiliate marketer
How to upload a new game to the Facebook Game Room
How Twitch works for those interested in streaming games and earning revenues while playing games on this platform...
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Mientras los ejecutivos de Silicon Valley envían a sus hijos a escuelas Waldorf, nosotros estamos cada vez más conectados y dependientes de las redes. Perfilados como usuarios antes que ciudadanos, enviamos compulsiva y obsesivamente corazones y emojis para expresar nuestras "emociones" al tiempo que crece en la sociedad la falta de empatía y solidaridad. Todo lo que el humanismo del Renacimiento definió como humano parece estar en crisis. En...
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Al for Dummies: Understanding the Impact of Artificial Intelligence is an accessible and engaging introduction to the world of AI. Whether you're a curious beginner or someone who wants to understand the impact of AI on our lives and society, this book is the perfect guide.
AI is rapidly transforming the way we live and work, from personalized recommendations on streaming platforms to self-driving cars on the streets. But with this new technology...
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In When Things Start to Think, Neil Gershenfeld tells the story of his Things that Think group at MIT's Media Lab, the group of innovative scientists and researchers dedicated to integrating digital technology into the fabric of our lives.
Gershenfeld offers a glimpse at the brave new post-computerized world, where microchips work for us instead of against us. He argues that we waste the potential of the microchip when we confine it to a box on our...
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Esta nueva edición de Psicopatología básica abarca en forma didáctica los conocimientos de esta ciencia del funcionamiento psicológico, en los aspectos patológicos de la conducta del ser humano Este texto es un aporte a la comprensión, a la luz del conocimiento actual, de conceptos psicopatológicos que intentan reiterar que el psiquismo humano, producto de una sofisticada evolución, funciona de una manera unitaria, global, profunda y compleja...
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