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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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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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Text and photos look at the history, basic philosophies, and geography of how body image is portrayed in the media. 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 backmatter is included, as well as a bibliography, glossary, and index.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
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910L
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Reality Television provides a balanced look at a hot-button topic. Discover what reality television is, its popularity, and its history, from Candid Camera to The Real World and Survivor. Learn what makes it controversial, including contestant behavior and show themes.--Publisher.
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A total departure from previous writing about television, this book is the first ever to advocate that the medium is not reformable. Its problems are inherent in the technology itself and are so dangerous-to personal health and sanity, to the environment, and to democratic processes-that TV ought to be eliminated forever.
Weaving personal experiences through meticulous research, the author ranges widely over aspects of television that have rarely...
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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 your personal information.
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This wide-ranging, insightful book will make readers keenly aware of the media's power, while underscoring the role that we all play in fostering a media climate that cultivates a greater sense of humanity, cooperation, and fulfillment of human potential. What role do the media have in creating the conditions for atrocities such as occurred in Rwanda? Conversely, can the media be used to preserve democracy and safeguard the human rights of all citizens...
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"Alexa Tsoulis-Reay's Finding Normal is an author's up close tour of people who are using the Internet to challenge the boundaries of what's taboo and what it means to be normal. Based on a popular series of candid interviews conducted for New York magazine's human science column-"What It's Like"-Finding Normal explores the ways that real people are using the Internet to find community, forge connections, and create identity in ways that challenge...
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Orca think volume 10
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"This just in: Becoming a savvy news consumer is more important than ever! People are spending more time on the internet, where they're exposed to fake news and clickbait. And as major news events such as the COVID-19 pandemic have shown us, the spread of misinformation puts lives at risk. Breaking News: Why Media Matters explores the history of the media industry, the important role it plays today and the challenges it faces. It also gives kids the...
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Michael Dertouzos has been an insightful commentator and an active participant in the creation of the Information Age.Now, in What Will Be, he offers a thought-provoking and entertaining vision of the world of the next decade -- and of the next century. Dertouzos examines the impact that the following new technologies and challenges will have on our lives as the Information Revolution progresses:
• all the music, film and text ever produced will...
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There's a well-known story about an older fish who swims by two younger fish and asks, "How's the water?" The younger fish are puzzled. "What's water?" they ask.
Many of us today might ask a similar question: What's technology? Technology defines the world we live in, yet we're so immersed in it, so encompassed by it, that we mostly take it for granted. Seldom, if ever, do we stop to ask what technology is. Failing to ask that question, we fail...
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"What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media affect the quality of teens' lives? In this eye-opening book, youth culture and technology expert danah boyd uncovers some of the major myths regarding teens' use of social media. She explores tropes about identity, privacy, safety, danger, and bullying. Ultimately, boyd argues that society fails young people when paternalism and...
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"It's hard today to remember how recently cancer was a silent killer, a dreaded disease about which people rarely spoke in public. In hospitals and doctors' offices, conversations about malignancy were hushed and hope was limited. In this deeply researched book, Elaine Schattner reveals a sea change-from before 1900 to the present day-in how ordinary people talk about cancer. From Whispers to Shouts examines public perception of cancer through stories...
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We are in the middle of a 'desirevolution' - a fundamental and political transformation of the way we desire as human beings. Perhaps as always, new technologies - with their associated and inherited political biases - are organising and mapping the future. What we don't seem to notice is that the primary way in which our lives are being transformed is through the manipulation and control of desire itself.
Our very impulses, drives and urges are...
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¿Es una contradicción hablar de tecnologías y de bien común?
En los tiempos que corren, la tecnología parece servir exclusivamente a la propiedad privada o pública, pero no al común. Los dispositivos técnicos que vieron establecer el mundo del productivismo no fueron fabricados para favorecer a las mayorías, sino para perfeccionar los modelos y la capacidad de producción.
Sin embargo, desde el surgimiento de las tecnologías digitales algún...
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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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Fewer Canadians than ever are lacing up skates, swimming lengths at the pool, practicing their curve ball, and experiencing the thrill of competition. However, despite a decline in active participation, Canadians spend enormous amounts of time and money on sports, as fans and followers of sporting events and sports culture. Never has media coverage of sports been more exhaustive, and never has it been more driven by commercial interests and the need...
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Que dit la toile de soi, de son patron, d'un candidat, d'un concurrent ? L'e-réputation joue un rle important de nos jours...
L'e-réputation, l'identité numérique jouent un rle sans cesse croissant dans le monde économique, associatif ou politique. Aujourd'hui, on googlise à tour de bras : que dit la toile de soi, de son patron, d'un candidat, d'un concurrent ? Le réflexe est bien installé et on aurait tort de s'en passer, au risque de perdre...
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