"Despite being a heavily-censored society, China has over 560 million active internet users, more than double that of the USA. In this book, social media expert and China-watcher Liz Carter tells the story of how the internet in China is leading to a coming together of activists, ordinary people and
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cultural trendsetters on a scale unknown in modern history. News about protests and natural disasters, or gossip and satirical jokes, are practically uncensorable and spread quickly through Weibo – the Chinese Twitter - and the Chinese internet underground. More than that, a grassroots, foundational shift of assumptions and expectations is taking place, as Chinese men and women cast off the communist era ‘stability at all costs’ mantra and find new forms of selfexpression, creativity and communication with the world." (Publisher description)
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"On compte aujourd'hui plus d'un milliard de sites web et applications mobiles. Dans un environnement aussi compétitif, la fidélité de l'internaute à une interface ou à une ressource dépend en grande partie de l'expérience de sa visite. C'est pourquoi le rôle de l'architecte de l'information
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est primordial : organiser les espaces informationnels, en particulier numériques, afin de garantir à l'utilisateur un accès facile et intuitif au contenu recherché. Cela suppose une excellente connaissance du numérique, de l'organisation de l'information, du design de l'expérience utilisateur, mais aussi un dialogue avec des métiers variés et une attention constante à l'innovation. Premier manuel francophone sur le sujet, cet ouvrage aborde ces différents aspects et présente les principales approches et méthodes de l'architecture de l'information, démontant les logiques des systèmes d'information contemporains. L'architecture de l'information fait également l'objet d'un Mooc international sur la plateforme France Université Numérique. Cet ouvrage en est le support. Pour les professionnels ou étudiants en numérique (webmaster, community manager), en informatique (développeur web), en sciences de l'information (bibliothécaire, documentaliste, archiviste), en design et en marketing." (Quatrième de couverture)
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"Die öffentliche Diskussion über das Wissen wird täglich und in allen Medien geführt: Was wissen wir, was weiß man über uns, und wie können wir die Hoheit über dieses Wissen behalten oder zurückerlangen? Wieso bemühen wir heute, wenn wir etwas wissen wollen, eine Suchmaschine? Warum werden
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wir zu »Informationsgiganten«, laufen aber Gefahr, zu »Wissenszwergen« zu verkommen? Welche Folgen hat die McDonaldisierung des Wissens? Die meisten Beiträge zur Debatte über das Wissen nähern sich dem Thema in praktischen Einzelaspekten oder stochern im Nebel medienwissenschaftlicher Theorien. Niemand außer Peter Burke wagte sich bisher an eine derart weitgefächerte Analyse unserer Wissensgesellschaft. Dank seiner enormen Kenntnisse vermag er die komplexen Prozesse für jeden verständlich zu beschreiben und einzuordnen: etwa die Professionalisierung und die Demokratisierung, die Anhäufung und die Zerstörung von Wissen. Dabei ist Burke nicht nur einer der hochrangigsten Denker, sondern auch selbst ein glänzender Vermittler." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Video games have become a global industry, and their history spans dozens of national industries where foreign imports compete with domestic productions, legitimate industry contends with piracy, and national identity faces the global marketplace. This volume describes video game history and cultur
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e across every continent, with essays covering areas as disparate and far-flung as Argentina and Thailand, Hungary and Indonesia, Iran and Ireland. Most of the essays are written by natives of the countries they discuss, many of them game designers and founders of game companies, offering distinctively firsthand perspectives. Some of these national histories appear for the first time in English, and some for the first time in any language." (Back cover)
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"ReaGilès are pre-fabricated, self-contained, education and entertainment complexes situated on 400m2 sites at local schools or public open spaces consisting of a 60-seat cinema, 30- seat computer and Internet facility, community care and policing centre. These complexes are intended to service his
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torically underserviced peri-urban black dormitory townships of South Africa and to help create jobs, especially amongst the youth, women and the disabled. The ReaGilè concept, on roll-out, has the potential to revolutionise exhibition and distribution in local film industries in ways mirroring the ground-breaking Nollywood straight-to-DVD model. The article discusses the potential of the ReaGilè concept to offer solutions to the twin crises of 1) representation stemming from existing film distribution networks that limit micro-budget filmmakers, and 2) of government departments and local municipalities' tendency towards dividing practices that objectivise the subject through frustrating development via delays, paperwork, never-ending meetings, fees, endless formalities and legalities, and red tape. The authors posit that ReaGilè has the potential to creatively disrupt and redesign formal distribution models and to fracture the narrow modernisation paradigm they deploy, replacing them with a responsive communication re/ordering and flexible distribution that restore subjectivity to the disenfranchised South African subject (the filmmaker and audience from the township)." (Abstract)
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"The book first provides a historical reference, detailing the emergence of viruses, worms, malware, and other cyber threats that created the need for the cybersecurity field. It then discusses the vulnerabilities of our critical infrastructures, the broad arsenal of cyber attack tools, and the vari
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ous engineering design issues involved in protecting our infrastructures. It goes on to cover cyber intelligence tactics, recent examples of cyber conflict and warfare, and the key issues in formulating a national strategy to defend against cyber warfare. The book also discusses how to assess and measure the cost of cybersecurity. It examines the many associated cost factors and presents the results of several important industry-based economic studies of security breaches that have occurred within many nations. The book concludes with a look at future trends in cybersecurity. It discusses the potential impact of industry-wide transformational changes, such as virtualization, social media, cloud computing, structured and unstructured data, big data, and data analytics." (Publisher description)
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"[...] Specifically, we argue that development programs with an eye on instrumental outcomes are well-served by the cultivation of an understanding of broader digital practices—of people’s increasingly digital lives. This work explores not only what devices people use, but also how they get onli
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ne and what they do once there. These representations of digital practices must be fluid and current, given the rapidly changing landscape of Internet connectivity and digital services, and must identify opportunities for new inclusive business models and behavioral interventions. Therefore, this report contributes to the evidence base for development practice and for theory in several ways.
Chapter One offers a sketch of Caribou Digital’s three-part overarching approach to understanding emerging digital practices in context, with an eye specifically on bridging the gaps between development and daily life, and between the micro-level perspective of individual users and the macro-level forces impacting the landscape of digital resources available to them. Chapter Two details results from extensive interviews with experts in the field of Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) that help place the current M4D wave in the context of more durable past and future factors. In Chapter Three, our reports on new primary research with users in Uganda, Ghana, and Kenya yield a broader and up-to-the-minute story of how mobile technologies are currently the center of users’ digital lives. Chapter Four concludes the report with a synthesis of these two streams, suggesting that our portrayal of users’ “Digital Days” can provide a user-centric lens to understand how technologies and practices are intertwined, how they vary between contexts, and how they might enable and structure development interventions." (Executive summary)
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"We see the smartphone more clearly as the defining device for digital news with a disruptive impact on consumption, formats, and business models. Our data suggest it provides an environment dominated by a few successful brands, with others struggling to reach a wider audience, both via apps and bro
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wsers. The move to online video, new visual formats, and social media coincides in many countries with a fall in audiences for traditional TV bulletins. The trend is most pronounced amongst the under 35s. We see a strengthening in the role played by Facebook in finding, discussing and sharing news. Facebook-owned Instagram and WhatsApp are playing a big role amongst younger groups." (Executive summary)
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"The paper focuses on the social media use in religious communication by Kerala Christians who largely migrated after India's independence to Ahmedabat, Gujarat, India. Further, the paper attempts to analyze the way digital and social media are accessed and utilized by the migrant Kerala Christians
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in Ahmedabat for religious as well as non-religious purposes. The paper is basedon a survey of social media and a pilot study was carried out by interns of a business school in Ahmedabat which was followed by a large survey of three religious groups namely Hindu, Muslim and Christian during February-April 2015. The present paper is based on a survey of 211 Christian respondents in the total sample of 711." (Page 67)
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"With a focus on online hate speech, protection of journalism sources, the role of internet intermediaries in fostering freedom online, and the safety of journalists, the report highlights the importance of new actors in promoting and protecting freedom of expression online and off-line." (Back cove
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"Die Nutzung von sozialen Medien ist 2015 ein weiteres Jahr in Folge nicht angestiegen. Die wahrscheinlichste Ursache hierfür ist, dass private Kommunikation verstärkt ins Instant Messaging – namentlich WhatsApp – abwandert. In der jungen Zielgruppe steigen vor allem die Nutzerzahlen der Fotoc
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ommunity Instagram, womit sie sich in dieser Altersgruppe als zweitgrößtes Netzwerk hinter Facebook positioniert. 43 Prozent aller Onliner (24 Millionen Menschen) nutzen zumindest selten Online- Communitys wie Facebook. Fotocommunitys erreichen insgesamt 15 Prozent (8 Millionen) aller Onliner, Twitter kommt auf eine Reichweite von 7 Prozent (4 Millionen). Den größten Nutzerkreis können Instant-Messaging-Dienste wie WhatsApp versammeln: 59 Prozent aller Onliner (33 Millionen) verwenden diese zumindest gelegentlich. Bei der Nachrichtennutzung über soziale Medien sind Apps wichtiger geworden. Medienanbieter können diesen Umstand nutzen, ihre Rezipienten auch auf diesen Wegen zu erreichen. Beliebt ist die Nachrichtennutzung über Onlinecommunitys vor allem bei den unter 30-Jährigen: Gut jeder fünfte Onliner zwischen 14 und 29 Jahren informiert sich mindestens einmal wöchentlich auf diese Weise über das aktuelle Geschehen, 14 Prozent tun dies täglich." (Zusammenfassung)
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"Mit unserer digitalen Identität müssen wir pfleglich umgehen, denn sie wird immer wichtiger für uns und ist zunehmend Gefahren ausgesetzt. Dieser Ratgeber stellt einfache Maßnahmen vor, wie Sie sich gegen Phishing-Attacken und Virenangriffe wehren. Praktische Tipps zeigen, wie Sie Ihre persönl
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ichen Daten vor Datenkraken schützen, die personenbezogene Informationen auswerten und weiterverkaufen. Und ein Thema, das – bisher noch weitgehend unbemerkt – immer wichtiger wird: Ein ausführlicher Leitfaden mit Anleitungen hilft, das eigene Onlineleben zu dokumentieren und den digitalen Nachlass zu regeln." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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