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

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Author | [S.l.] : Bloomsbury Pub. | 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 | [S.l.] : 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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Networks, crowds, and markets : reasoning about a highly connected world /

David Easley, Author ; Jon Kleinberg, Author | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | 2010

"Over the past decade there has been a growing public fascination with the complex connectedness of modern society. This connectedness is found in many incarnations: in the rapid growth of the Internet, in the ease with which global communicatio[...]

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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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