Islam in the Digital Age Pluto Books

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The Internet is an increasingly important source of information for many people in the Muslim world. Many Muslims in majority and minority contexts rely on the Internet -- including websites and e-mail -- as a primary source of news, information and communication about Islam. As a result, a new media culture is emerging which is having a significant impact on areas of global Muslim consciousness. Post-September 11th, this phenomena has grown more rapidly than ever. Gary R. Bunt provides a fascinating account of the issues at stake, identifying two radical new concepts: firstly, the emergence of e-jihad ('Electronic Jihad') originating from diverse Muslim perspectives -- this is described in its many forms relating to the different definitions of 'jihad', including on-line activism (ranging from promoting militaristic activities to hacking to co-ordinating peaceful protests) and Muslim expression post 9/11; secondly, he discusses religious authority on the Internet -- including the concept of on-line fatwas and their influence in diverse settings, and the complexities of conflicting notions of religious authority. Highlighting contradictory and diverse concepts of 'Islamic' authority in this way, Islam in the Digital Age offers a unique insight into contemporary Muslim cultures in a post-9/11 context

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Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better METROPOLITAN BOOKS

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Art in the Age of Anxiety Morel Books

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Artists and writers examine the bombardment of information, misinformation, emotion, deception, and secrecy in online and offline life in the post-digital age.Every day we are bombarded by information, misinformation, emotion, deception, and secrecy in our online and offline lives. How does the never-ending flow of data affect our powers of perception and decision making? This richly illustrated and boldly designed collection of essays and artworks investigates visual culture in the post-digital age. The essays, by such leading cultural thinkers as Douglas Coupland and W. J. T. Mitchell, consider topics that range from the future of money to the role of art in a post-COVID-19 world; from mental health in the digital age to online grieving; and from the mediation of visual culture to the thickening of the digital sphere. Accompanying an ambitious exhibition conceived by the Sharjah Art Foundation and volume editor and curator Omar Kholeif, the book is a work of art and a labor of love, emulating the labyrinthine corridors of the exhibition itself. Created by a group of writers, artists, designers, photographers, and publishers, Art in the Age of Anxiety calls upon us to consider what our collective future will be and how humanity will adapt to it.

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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Profile Books

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THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control us. The heady optimism of the Internet's early days is gone. Technologies that were meant to liberate us have deepened inequality and stoked divisions.Tech companies gather our information online and sell it to the highest bidder, whether government or retailer. Profits now depend not only on predicting our behaviour but modifying it too. How will this fusion of capitalism and the digital shape our values and define our future?Shoshana Zuboff shows that we are at a crossroads.We still have the power to decide what kind of world we want to live in, and what we decide now will shape the rest of the century. Our choices: allow technology to enrich the few and impoverish the many, or harness it and distribute its benefits. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is a deeply-reasoned examination of the threat of unprecedented power free from democratic oversight.As it explores this new capitalism's impact on society, politics, business, and technology, it exposes the struggles that will decide both the next chapter of capitalism and the meaning of information civilization. Most critically, it shows how we can protect ourselves and our communities and ensure we are the masters of the digital rather than its slaves.

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Age of Earthquakes Penguin Books

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Welcome to The Age of Earthquakes - a unique artistic and literary collaboration between Douglas Coupland, Shumon Basar and Hans Ulrich Obrist Human experience - love, money, belief, progress, politics, time - doesn't look or feel the way it used to. Wonder why? Because you are the last generation that will die. Combining quick hits of images and ideas, stark statistics and scary slogans, The Age of Earthquakes tours the world that's left behind as the world we knew melts away. A book of perceptions set in our 'extreme present', it's a new history of the world, a portrait of our digital era in a relentlessly paper form. Because we haven't just changed our brains these past few years. We've changed the structure of the planet. Since 1991, Douglas Coupland has written thirteen novels published in most languages. He has written and performed for England's Royal Shakespeare Company and is a regular columnist with the Financial Times. He began a visual art practice in 2000, and his first museum retrospective opens in summer 2014 at the Vancouver Art Gallery and travels to Munich's Villa Stuck for the summer of 2015. Shumon Basar is a writer.He's the author of Do You Often Confuse Love with Success and with Fame? and some of his (co)edited books include Translated By, Cities from Zero and Hans Ulrich Obrist Interviews Volume 2. He's Editor-at-Large at Tank magazine, Contributing Editor at Bidoun magazine, director of Format at the AA School, London and Commissioner of the Global Art Forum in Dubai, where his novel World!World!World! is set. Hans Ulrich Obrist is a curator and writer. Since 2006 he has been co-director of the Serpentine Gallery, London. His previous books include Ai Wei Wei Speaks, written with Ai Wei Wei, and Ways of Curating, published by Allen Lane. He is widely considered one of the most influential contemporary curators in the world.

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Books Basic Books

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Reports of the death of reading are greatly exaggeratedDo you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you're not alone. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the virtues in w

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New Dark Age Verso Books

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We live in times of increasing inscrutability. Our news feeds are filled with unverified, unverifiable speculation, much of it automatically generated by anonymous software. As a result, we no longer understand what is happening around us. Underlying all of these trends is a single idea: the belief that quantitative data can provide a coherent model of the world, and the efficacy of computable information to provide us with ways of acting within it. Yet the sheer volume of information available to us today reveals less than we hope. Rather, it heralds a new Dark Age: a world of ever-increasing incomprehension. In his brilliant new work, leading artist and writer James Bridle offers us a warning against the future in which the contemporary promise of a new technologically assisted Enlightenment may just deliver its opposite: an age of complex uncertainty, predictive algorithms, surveillance, and the hollowing out of empathy. Surveying the history of art, technology and information systems he reveals the dark clouds that gather over discussions of the digital sublime.

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Digital Radio Systems on a Chip Springer

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This book focuses on a specific engineering problem that is and will continue to be important in the forth-coming information age: namely, the need for highly integrated radio systems that can be embedded in wireless devices for various applications, including portable mobile multimedia wireless communications, wireless appliances, digital cellular, and digital cordless. Traditionally, the design of radio IC s involves a team of engineers trained in a wide range of fields that include networking, communication systems, radio propagation, digital/analog circuits, RF circuits, and process technology. However as radio IC s become more integrated, the need for a diverse skill set and knowledge becomes essential for professionals as well as students to broaden beyond their trained area of expertise and to become proficient in related areas. The key to designing an optimized, economical solution for radio systems on a chip hinges on the designer s thorough understanding of the complex trade-offs from communication systems down to circuits. To acquire the insight and understanding of the complex system and circuit trade-offs, a designer must digest volumes of books covering diverse topics, such as communications theory, radio propagation, and digital/analog/RF circuits. While books are available today that cover the individual areas, they tend to be narrowly focused and do not provide the necessary insight in the specific problem of integrating a complete radio system on a chip.

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TEAM TOGETHER6 TEACHER'S BOOK DIGITAL RESOURCES WYDAWCA

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Team Together 6. Teacher's Book + Digital Resources  Team Together, Learn Together, Succeed Together - 7-level course - Focused on developing 21st century skills - CLIL and Culture - Communicative language competence - Preparation for exams Team Together develops language skills alongside 21st Century skills to help students thrive in today's world. Pupils are challenged to communicate creatively in authentic contexts, think critically and work together to get results. The series provides language learning through stories and activities alongside Assessment for Learning while GSE learning objectives provide a backbone for the syllabus. How Team Together helps your pupils progress Focus on developing 21st Century Skills Fun and exciting teaching material prepares pupils to succeed both in the classroom and today's world. Carefully designed activities challenge pupils to communicate in authentic contexts, to be creative, to think critically and to collaborate with their classmates. English Benchmark Alignment to English Benchmark provides an independent measure of learner proficiency and formative information to support planning and next steps. As students learn with Team Together, teachers can use the English Benchmark tests to measure their progress. After students have taken their test, teachers are given recommendations of which lessons to teach next to focus on the areas that need improvement. CLIL and Culture lessons Engaging content with links to Science and other school subjects empower students to produce language in wider contexts and handle relevant topics with growing confidence. The Culture lessons and Culture videos provide pupils with real-world knowledge and understanding. Grammar and vocabulary programme Grammar is presented in context with guided practice and revision through the units. Vocabulary sets are recycled both within and between units and are supported with eye-catching visuals and fun activities. Vocabulary Booster books offer further practice in a fun and motivating way. Reading and writing skills Learners are given ample opportunity to develop and practise their reading and writing skills. Age-appropriate stories and a variety of text genres motivate pupils to read. Writing sections in every unit are carefully scaffolded and introduce pupils to a variety of different text types. Communicative language competence Pupils are encouraged to use natural English and practise their learning in authentic contexts through the English in Action section. This provides opportunities to explore and personalise new language.

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Anything, Anywhere: The Future of Retail and How to Build a Digital-First Roadmap to Growth Gallery Books

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We're living in a new era in retail. Anything can be purchased anywhere, at any time. We have entered an age when advanced communication technology, once the exclusive privilege of large, wealthy companies, is available to anyone. Ecommerce has rewritten t

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Mastering Digital Transformation Books on Demand

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Steffen Damborg, the name needs no introduction in the area of digital transformation. For over 20 years, Steffen has worked as a C-level executive with a compressive understanding of how well-established companies function. His passion is to help legacy companies transform via the development and execution of sustainable digital strategies that are based on digital leadership.The book Mastering Digital Transformation extracts from numerous cases of successful digital corporations such as Apple, Google, Facebook, and Tesla and what it takes to transform legacy companies into the digital age. To go from doing digital to being truly digital companies, the author advocates:- Organisational commitment towards digital strategy adoption and implementation- Promotion of experimentation based on concrete and tangible data- Adoption of a cross-functional and agile approach to disruptive innovation- Keeping the organisational strategies fresh by constant adaptation to digital innovations, embracing and preparing for changes in competition, and making necessary changes on the organisation-wide scale for the shifts in market trendsThis book is an acumen of his knowledge, professional expertise, and experiences and serves to promote a new narrative of digital transformation. It empowers professionals, strategists, managers, board members, directors, C-level executives, and legacy companies to overcome the challenges they face in their journey to digital transformation.Mr. Damborg holds an MBA degree from Aarhus School of Business and a MSc degree in political science from Heidelberg University/Aarhus University. In 2016 Steffen Damborg was appointed Media & Entertainment Group Discussion Leader at Harvard Business School.

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Digital Gold Penguin Books

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Charts the dramatic rise of Bitcoin and the personalities who are striving to create a new global money for the Internet age through the eyes of the movement's central characters, including an Argentinian millionaire, a Chinese entrepreneur, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, and Bitcoin's elusive creator, Satoshi Nakamot.

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Book of Numbers Random House Publishing

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"More impressive than all but a few novels published so far this decade . . . a wheeling meditation on the wired life, on privacy, on what being human in the age of binary code might mean . . . [Joshua] Cohen, all of thirty-four, emerges as a major American writer."- The New York Times §§A monumental, uproarious, and exuberant novel about the search-for love, truth, and the meaning of Life With The Internet.§§The enigmatic billionaire founder of Tetration, the world's most powerful tech company, hires a failed novelist, Josh Cohen, to ghostwrite his memoirs. The mogul, known as Principal, brings Josh behind the digital veil, tracing the rise of Tetration, which started in the earliest days of the Internet by revolutionizing the search engine before venturing into smartphones, computers, and the surveillance of American citizens. Principal takes Josh on a mind-bending world tour from Palo Alto to Dubai and beyond, initiating him into the secret pretext of the autobiography project and the life-or-death stakes that surround its publication.§§Insider tech exposé, leaked memoir-in-progress, international thriller, family drama, sex comedy, and biblical allegory, Book of Numbers renders the full range of modern experience both online and off. Embodying the Internet in its language, it finds the humanity underlying the virtual.§§Featuring one of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary fiction, Book of Numbers is an epic of the digital age, a triumph of a new generation of writers, and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do.§§Please note that Book of Numbers uses a special pagination system inspired by binary notation: the part number precedes the page number, and is separated from it by a decimal point.§§Praise for Book of Numbers §§"The Great American Internet Novel is here. . . . Book of Numbers is a fascinating look at the dark heart of the Web . . . a page turner about life under the veil of digital surveillance . . . one of the best novels ever written about the Internet." - Rolling Stone §§"A hugely ambitious novel set in the high-tech world of now. It is a verbal high-wire act, daring in its tones and textures: clever, poetic, fast-moving, deeply playful, filled with jokes, savvy about machines, wise about people, dazzling and engrossing." -Colm Tóibín, The Guardian §§"Like Pynchon and Wallace, Cohen can write with tireless virtuosity about absolutely everything. . . . If John Henry is going to compete with the steam engine, he needs an almost superhuman energy and intelligence of his own-and if any writer has it, it is Joshua Cohen." - Tablet §§"A startlingly talented novelist . . . [His] deeply rewarding novel is about an online religion gone wrong-and its importance lies in the fact that nearly all of us in the modernized world are members of that faith, whether we know it or not." - The Wall Street Journal §§"A digital-age Ulysses ." - The New York Times Book Review §§"The next candidate for the Great American Novel . . . David Foster Wallace-level audacious." - Details § §"A brilliant book." - The Boston Globe §§"Frequently hilarious high satire of our digital world . . . a book after William Gaddis's heart that will be around well after most summer reads have been recycled (or deleted)." - New York §§From the Hardcover edition.

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How We Think The University of Chicago Press

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How do we think? N. Katherine Hayles poses this question at the beginning of this bracing exploration of the idea that we think through, with, and alongside media. As the age of print passes and new technologies appear every day, this proposition has become far more complicated, particularly for the traditionally print-based disciplines in the humanities and qualitative social sciences. With a rift growing between digital scholarship and its print-based counterpart, Hayles argues for contemporary technogenesis-the belief that humans and technics are coevolving-and advocates for what she calls comparative media studies, a new approach to locating digital work within print traditions and vice versa. mines the evolution of the field from the traditional humanities and how the digital humanities are changing academic scholarship, research, teaching, and publication. She goes on to depict the neurological consequences of working in digital media, where skimming and scanning, or "hyper reading," and analysis through machine algorithms are forms of reading as valid as close reading once was.Hayles contends that we must recognize all three types of reading and understand the limitations and possibilities of each. In addition to illustrating what a comparative media perspective entails, Hayles explores the technogenesis spiral in its full complexity. She considers the effects of early databases such as telegraph code books and confronts our changing perceptions of time and space in the digital age, illustrating this through three innovative digital productions - Steve Tomasula's electronic novel, "TOC"; Steven Hall's "The Raw Shark Texts"; and Mark Z. Danielewski's "Only Revolutions". Deepening our understanding of the extraordinary transformative powers digital technologies have placed in the hands of humanists, "How We Think" presents a cogent rationale for tackling the challenges facing the humanities today.

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Minecraft - Larsson Linus, Goldberg Daniel

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Opis - Just a few years ago, Markus Persson was a bored IT-developer in Stockholm. In the evenings, he toiled away on a labour of love: a game with a tiny but dedicated online following. It was called Minecraft and Markus released it to the world in early 2009. The game itself looks deceptively simple. It resembles a digital version of Lego " bricks stacked on top of each other, giving players a world where they build whatever structures their mind can conjure. A breath of fresh air compared to the industry giants" shooter games. In the space of a few years, Minecraft has become one of the most astonishing success stories of the internet age, attracting millions of players and proving how a single great idea can topple empires in the digital, post-industrial world. This is the story of the man behind the game. Here Markus opens up for the first time about his life. About his old Lego-filled desk at school, the first computer his father brought home one day and also about growing up in a family marked by drug abuse and conflict. But above all it is the story of the fine line between seeming misfit and creative madman, and the birth of a tech visionary. Nazwa - Minecraft Autor - Larsson Linus, Goldberg Daniel Oprawa - Miękka Wydawca - Virgin Books Kod ISBN - 9780753555767 Kod EAN - 9780753555767 Rok wydania - 2014 Język - angielski Format - 12.5x20.0cm Ilość stron - 256 Podatek VAT - 5%

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