Annual Editions: Technologies, Social Media, and Society 13/14

Herausgeber: Mittleman, Daniel

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The Annual Editions series is designed to provide convenient, inexpensive access to a wide range of current articles from some of the most respected magazines, newspapers, and journals published today. Annual Editions are updated on a regular basis through a continuous monitoring of over 300 periodical sources. The articles selected are authored by prominent scholars, researchers, and commentators writing for a general audience. Annual Editions volumes have a number of organizational features designed to make them especially valuable for classroom use: a general introduction; an annotated table of contents; a topic guide; an annotated listing of supporting World Wide Web sites; Learning Outcomes and a brief overview at the beginning of each unit; and a Critical Thinking section at the end of each article. Each volume also offers an online Instructor's Resource Guide with testing materials. Using Annual Editions in the Classroom is a general guide that provides a number of interesting and functional ideas for using Annual Editions readers in the classroom. Visit www.mhhe.com/annualeditions for more details.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dushkin Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 272mm x 208mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780073528779
• ISBN-10: 0073528773
• Artikelnr.: 36966742

Autorenporträt

Daniel Mittleman is an Associate Professor in the College of Computing and Digital Media at DePaul University. He teaches coursework in Virtual Collaboration, Social Media, and Social Impact of Technology. Dr. Mittleman is the author of over 55 academic publications, and several dozen more conference and invited presentations. His research focuses on the design of virtual and physical spaces for work collaboration, as well as the design of collaborative work process. He has spoken on these topics at NASA, The World Bank, the Federal Reserve, NCSA, the Department of Defense, and multiple Fortune 500 corporations.

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Annual Edition: Mittleman Technologies, Social Media, and Society, 13/14
Preface
Series
Correlation Guide
Topic Guide
Internet References
UNIT 1: Introduction
Unit Overview
1. Five Things We Need to Know about Technological Change, Neil
Postman, New Tech `98 Conference, March 27, 1998
Postman suggests that computer technology is too important to be left
entirely to the technologists. "Embedded in every technology," he says,
"is a powerful idea. . . ."
2. The Social Century: 100 Years of Talking, Watching, Reading and
Writing in America, Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, July 26, 2012
(online)
In 1912, communicating was simple; you talked, you wrote a letter, that
was likely it. But by 2012, we have experienced a revolution in how we
communicate. And this impacts how we do everything else.
3. It's a Flat World, After All, Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times
Magazine, April 3, 2005
"Globalization has collapsed time and distance and raised the notion
that someone anywhere on earth can do your job, more cheaply. Can
Americans rise to the challenge of this leveled playing field?"
UNIT 2: The Economy
Unit Overview
4. How Google Dominates Us, James Gleick, The New York Review of Books,
August 18, 2011
"In barely a decade Google has made itself a global brand bigger than
Coca-Cola or GE: it has created more wealth faster than any company in
history." How has its corporate motto, "Don't be evil," fared in a
company now awash in money?
5. What Facebook Knows, Tom Simonite, Technology Review, July/August
2012
"The company's social scientists are hunting for insights about human
behavior. What they find could give Facebook new ways to cash in on our
data-and remake our view of society."
6. The Decision Lens, Helen Knight, New Scientist, April 14, 2012
"Your phone and web browser are making choices for you, whether you
want them to or not."
7. Beyond Credit Cards: Q&A with Dan Schulman of American Express,
Jessica Leber, Technology Review, March 7, 2012 (online)
American Express built its brand around a plastic card. But what will
the personal and business credit industry look like in a post-plastic
economy?
UNIT 3: Work and the Workplace
Unit Overview
8. My Life as a Telecommuting Robot, Rachel Emma Silverman, The Wall
Street Journal, August 8, 2012
"What would it be like to work from home, whilst also being in the
office? Only one way to find out: Reporter joins forces with a
"telepresence robot" to test limits of remote working. Yes there are
problems, but it's not a washout."
9. Automation on the Job, Brian Hayes, American Scientist,
January/February 2009
Not all that long ago, "nearly everyone agreed that people would be
working less once computers and other kinds of automatic machinery
became widespread." Instead those of us who are working are working
more. Why?
10. The Lost Steve Jobs Tapes, Brent Schlender, Fast Company, May 2012
"A treasure trove of unearthed interviews, conducted by the writer who
knew him best, reveals how Jobs's ultimate success at Apple can be
traced directly to his so-called wilderness years."
11. Women, Mathematics, and Computing, Paul De Palma, Encyclopedia of
Gender and Information Technology, 2006
Women remain underrepresented in the computer industry despite
countless articles and proposals.
UNIT 4: Social Media and Participation
Unit Overview
12. Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted, Malcolm
Gladwell, The New Yorker, October 4, 2010
"The Facebook page of the Save Darfur Coalition has 1,282,339 members,
who have donated an average of nine cents apiece." Real change requires
more than socialmedia, argues this well-known New Yorker writer.
13. Relationships, Community, and Identity in the New Virtual Society,
Arnold Brown, The Futurist, March/April, 2011
"Facilitating and managing relationships online is projected to become
close to a billion-dollar industry in the United States in 2011."
Providing services to commercialized communities "will be a great
growth industry."
14. R U Friends 4 Real?, Amy Novotney, Monitor on Psychology, February
2012
"Psychologists are learning more about how teen friendships are changed
by social networking and text messaging."
15. The YouTube Cure, Katie Moisse, Scientific American, February 2011
"Popular demand for an unproved surgical treatment for multiple
sclerosis shows the growing power of social media to shape medical
practice-for good and ill."
16. Everyone's a Player, Adam L. Penenberg, FastCompany, December
2010/January 2011
"Games are sneaking into every part of our lives-at home, school, and
work. Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, and even the Army depend on games. And
pretty soon, you'll be a part of one. We guarantee it."
UNIT 5: Privacy and Security
Unit Overview
17. Hacking the Lights Out, David M. Nicol, Scientific American, July
2011
The recent Stuxnet virus, perhaps sabotage directed at Iran's machinery
to enrich uranium, shows that industrial machines are vulnerable to
attack. "Unfortunately," says the author, "the electrical power grid is
easier to break into than any nuclear enrichment facility."
18. Bride of Stuxnet, Jonathan V. Last, The Weekly Standard, June 11,
2012
"Whoever engineered Flame didn't just build the most spectacular
computer worm ever made. They created the perfect spy."
19. Me and My Data: How Much Do the Internet Giants Really Know?, James
Ball, The Guardian, April 22, 2012
"James Ball discovered that the information Google and Facebook hold on
him is disturbing but also comforting."
20. The Web's New Gold Mine: Your Secrets, Julia Angwin, The Wall
Street Journal, July 31/August 1, 2010
"One of the fastest-growing businesses on the Internet, a Wall Street
Journal investigation has found, is the business of spying on Internet
users."
21. The Conundrum of Visibility: Youth Safety and the Internet, Danah
Boyd and Alice Marwick, Journal of Children & Media, 2009
The authors contend that despite dangers associated with unrestricted
access to the Internet, the real problem is that "the Internet uncovers
many things that were previously hidden."
UNIT 6: Public Policy and Law
Unit Overview
22. Know Your Rights!, Hanni Fakhoury, Electronic Frontier Foundation,
June 27, 2011 (online) www.eff.org/wp/know-your-rights
"Your computer, your phone, and your other digital devices hold vast
amounts of personal information about you and your family. This is
sensitive data that's worth protecting from prying eyes-including those
of the government." These are your rights.
23. The Yin and Yang of Copyright and Technology, Randal C. Picker,
Communications of the ACM, vol. 55 no. 1
"Examining the recurring conflicts between copyright and technology
from piano rolls to domain-name filtering."
24. The Online Copyright War: The Day the Internet Hit Back at Big
Media, Dominic Rushe, The Guardian, April 18, 2012 (online)
"As the demise of the SOPA anti-piracy act showed, established
arguments for protecting the rights of content creators are almost
impossible to apply to a digital world"
25. Can Online Piracy Be Stopped by Laws?, Pamela Samuelson,
Communications of the ACM, vol. 55 no. 7, July 2012
"[Hollywood] glamorizes [pirates] who attack ships by depicting them as
romantic heroes who have great adventures and engage in swashbuckling
fun. Yet, it demonizes fans who download music and movies as pernicious
evildoers who are, in its view, destroying this vital part of the U.S.
economy." Hollywood pushed SOPA to criminalize digital piracy. Will it
work? Who is the hero of this story?
26. Aaron Swartz Hacks the Attention Economy, Antonio Regalado,
Technology Review, February 10, 2012 (online)
"A digital guerrilla fighter explains what's wrong with anti-piracy
laws, why the Internet and copyright law don't get along, and how he
got into politics."
UNIT 7: International Issues and Perspectives
Unit Overview
27. Internet Censorship Listed: How Does Each Country Compare?, Andrew
Rininsl, The Guardian, April 16, 2012 (online)
"Censorship of Internet content can take many forms and ranges from
governments blocking the dissemination of political opinion to blackli
sting pornographic and pirate websites . . . Where is the internet the
most open? Where is it the most restricted?"
28. Watch Your Language! (In China, They Really Do), Mark McDonald, New
York Times, March 13, 2012
In China "Internet traffic is examined with a thoroughness and
ruthlessness that is almost admirable in its scope. The term "Great
Firewall" is appropriate and descriptive-and also banned by the
censors."
29. Global Trends to Watch: The Erosion of Privacy and Anonymity and
the Need of Transparency of Government Access Requests, Katitza
Rodriguez and Katarzyna Szymielewicz, Electronic Frontier Foundation,
November 11, 2011 (online)
"The erosion of privacy and anonymity and the need of transparency of
government access requests." A report from workshop 160.
UNIT 8: Projecting the Future
Unit Overview
30. How to Spot the Future, Thomas Goetz, Wired Magazine, April 24,
2012
"Seven rules . . . that underlie many of our contemporary innovations."
31. Weighing Watson's Impact, Kirk L. Kroeker, Communications of the
ACM, July 2011
IBM's Watson recently defeated Jeopardy!'s two most successful
contestants. Was this just (!) engineering or did Watson's triumph
represent a leap forward in language understanding and machine
learning?
32. Augmented Reality Is Finally Getting Real, Kiji McCafferty,
Technology Review, August 2, 2012 (online)
"As smartphones explode in popularity, augmented reality is starting to
move from novelty to utility."
33. You Will Want Google Goggles, Farhad Manjoo, Technology Review,
July/August 2012
"I thought that glasses with `augmented reality' would be hopelessly
dorky and could never go mainstream-until I saw the technology in
action."
34. Gene Machine, Matthew Herper, Forbes, January 2011
"Jonathan Rothberg's desktop decoder could kick off a revolution in
medicine, food, energy, even consumer products-and ignite the next $100
billion technology market."
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