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Everybody lies : what the internet can tell us about who we really care

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Author | London : Bloomsbury Publishing | 2017

This huge database of secrets unprecedented in human history offers astonishing, even revolutionary, insights into humankind. Anxiety, for instance, does not increase after a terrorist attack. Crime levels drop when a violent film is released. A[...]

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The four-dimensional human : ways of being in the digital world /

Laurence Scott, Author | [S.l.] : W. W. Norton & Company | 2015

"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 com[...]

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PaxTechnica : how the internet of things may set us free or lock us up

Philip N. Howard, Author | New Haven : Yale University Press | 2015

Should we fear or welcome the internet's evolution? The “internet of things” is the rapidly growing network of everyday objects—eyeglasses, cars, thermostats—made smart with sensors and internet addresses. The author looks to a future of global [...]

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PaxTechnica : how the internet of things may set us free or lock us up

Philip N. Howard, Author | New Haven : Yale University Press | 2015

Should we fear or welcome the internet's evolution? The “internet of things” is the rapidly growing network of everyday objects—eyeglasses, cars, thermostats—made smart with sensors and internet addresses. The author looks to a future of global [...]

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Dataclysm : who we are when we think no one's looking /

Christian Rudder, Author | [S.l.] : Broadway Books | 2014

An irreverent, provocative, and visually fascinating look at what our online lives reveal about who we really are--and how this deluge of data will transform the science of human behavior. Big Data is used to spy on us, hire and fire us, and sel[...]

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Smarter than you think : how technology is changing our minds for the better /

Clive Thompson, Author | New York : Penguin Press | 2013

" It's undeniabletechnology is changing the way we think. But is it for the better? Amid a chorus of doomsayers, Clive Thompson delivers a resounding "yes." The Internet age has produced a radical new style of human intelligence, worthy of both[...]

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Networked : the new social operating system

Harrison Rainie, Author ; Barry Wellman, Author | Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press | 2012

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The new media environment : an introduction

Andrea Lee Press, Author ; Bruce Alan Williams, Author | Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley-Blackwell | 2010

The book chronicles the recent dramatic changes in communication technologies. The authors discuss the development of cable and satellite television, VCRs, DVDs, the Internet and personal computers, and emphasize the broader political, social, a[...]

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