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Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Beginning with an examination of how our current digital age is negatively affecting our cognitive lives and overall intelligence, Toward a Holistic Intelligence then explores how an intelligence based on direct insight, one which germinates from our sensorial and emotive lives, might provide a possible solution"--
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The Equality Machine ignites a deeply informed, aggressively researched conversation about the path to digital era equality. From closing the gender pay gap to exposing and correcting biases in hiring and marketing, tracking and preventing workplace harassment, and diversifying the cultural images and voices we see and hear online, to increasing the privacy and safety of women and girls, artificial intelligence, big data, and digital platforms can...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Peter Pomerantsev takes us to the front lines of the disinformation age, where he meets Twitter revolutionaries and pop-up populists, "behavioral change" salesmen, Jihadi fanboys, Identitarians, truth cops, and many others. Forty years after his dissident parents were pursued by the KGB, Pomerantsev finds the Kremlin re-emerging as a great propaganda power. His research takes him back to Russia--but the answers he finds there are not what he expected."--Amazon.com....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As Tom Nichols shows in The Death of Expertise, this rejection of experts has occurred for many reasons, including the openness of the internet, the emergence of a customer satisfaction model in higher education, and the transformation of the news industry into a 24-hour entertainment machine. Paradoxically, the increasingly democratic dissemination of information, rather than producing an educated public, has instead created an army of ill-informed...
5) The Circle
Author
Language
English
Description
When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful Internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users' personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Online and mobile technologies profoundly influence how we read, write, learn and work. Online behaviour follows us all through our schooling and careers. Explore skills for communicating smartly across many digital technologies, how multitasking affects learning and work and how online posts can become skeletons in a digital closet, causing school expulsions, destroying college admissions, and blowing job offers. Discover how to protect your privacy,...
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