Digital History
Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web provides for the first time a plainspoken and thorough introduction to the web for historians--teachers and students, archivists and museum curators, professors as well as amateur enthusiasts--who wish to produce online historical work or to build upon and improve the projects they have already started in this important new medium.
Cable Mergers and Monopolies
Cable Mergers and Monopolies: Market Power in Digital Media and Communications Networks provides a detailed study of the increasingly concentrated cable TV industry, which has dominated the video market for decades and is rapidly gaining dominance in the high-speed Internet market.
Tools for Thought
Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology by Howard Rheingold is available online.
INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
The material of this book is aimed at advanced undergraduate information (or computer) science students, postgraduate library science students, and research workers in the field of IR
Trapped in the Net:The Unanticipated Consequences of Computerization
As the electronic digital computer and the networks it supports become ever more deeply embedded as constituent elements of life in modern industrial societies, stories about the frustrations and problems of dealing with computers, from automated voice mail to airline reservation systems, have become increasingly common. But even when really amusing, such stories generally deal with the roughness of the human-machine interface and the inherent inability of preprogrammed, automated systems, however clever, to deal effectively with the variety and unpredictability of human beings.
Netiquette
This book brings etiquette to the bustling frontiers of cyberspace. In a series of entertaining essays, the author establishes the do's and the don'ts of communicating online.
Open Architecture as Communications Policy
The book explores new, technology-neutral approaches to preserving both open communications networks and the freedom of the Internet.
Media Ownership and Democracy in the Digital Information Age
Media Ownership and Democracy in the Digital Information Age combines a detailed review of First Amendment jurisprudence with rigorous economic analysis to demonstrate the continuing need for structural limits on media ownership to promote democratic discourse.
Media Ownership and Democracy in the Digital Information Age
Media Ownership and Democracy in the Digital Information Age combines a detailed review of First Amendment jurisprudence with rigorous economic analysis to demonstrate the continuing need for structural limits on media ownership to promote democratic discourse.
The Wealth of Networks
In this free book, Yale law professor Benkler offers a comprehensive catalog of flashpoints in the conflict between old and new information creators. In Benkler's view, the new 'networked information economy' allows individuals and groups to be more productive than profit-seeking ventures.
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