Inside the life of a hacker and cybercrime culture. Public discourse, from pop culture to political rhetoric, portrays hackers as deceptive, digital villains. But what do we actually know about them? In Hacked, Kevin F. Steinmetz explores what it means to be a hacker and the nuances of hacker culture. Through extensive interviews ......
How to Find Balance and Benefit in Your Child's Use of Social Media, Apps, and Digital Devices
Even for today's most tech-savvy parents, managing kids' technology use is a huge challenge fraught with uncertainties. What kinds (and amounts) of screen time boost learning and development--and what kinds may be harmful? When is the right age for a game console or a smartphone? How can kids and teens be protected from cyberbullying and learn to ......
How to Find Balance and Benefit in Your Child's Use of Social Media, Apps, and Digital Devices
Even for today's most tech-savvy parents, managing kids' technology use is a huge challenge fraught with uncertainties. What kinds (and amounts) of screen time boost learning and development--and what kinds may be harmful? When is the right age for a game console or a smartphone? How can kids and teens be protected from cyberbullying and learn to ......
The Culture and Political Economy of the Digital Revolution
Information and communication technologies are said to be transforming urban life dramatically and bringing about rapid economic and cultural globalization. This book explores the many fascinating and urgent issues involved by relating advanced theoretical debates to practical matters of communication with cultural policy. It maps out a range of ......
This collection of articles brings together many writers on the Net and Cyberspace in one volume. This volume examines the arrival of E-mail and online discussion groups, and considers the prospects for an "online world" - a playground for virtual bodies in which identities are flexible, swappable and disconnected from real-world bodies. The book: systematically describes the development of the Internet, including its history in the military-industrial complex, and the role of state policies leading, for example, to the creation of Minitel and the building of information superhighways; traces the rise of virtual conviviality and how it appears about to replace physical encounters between actors in public places, which will become the sole preserve of the homeless; and explores the development of this technology as a commercialized leisure form and a forum for underground political organization and critique.
Cutting though the exaggerated and fanciful beliefs about the new possibilities of `net life', Hine produces a distinctive understanding of the significance of the Internet and addresses such questions as: what challenges do the new technologies of communication pose for research methods? Does the Internet force us to rethink traditional ......
From the author of the bestselling Theories of Communication this short introduction, Armand Mattelart unpacks the notion of the information society, and examines why it has become the dominant paradigm for social change in the twenty-first century. There are few areas of social, political and economic life that have not been affected or ......
