Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Resisting the Virtual Life Resisting the Virtual Life James Brook This text aims to provide a platform for writers, scholars and activists to discuss the political, economic and cultural aspects of corporate and government visions of "the information superhighway".… OL15163740W
From counterculture to cyberculture From counterculture to cyberculture Fred Turner In the early 1960s, computers haunted the American popular imagination. Bleak tools of the cold war, they embodied the rigid organization and mechanical conformity that made the military-industrial c… OL3272110W
Reputation in artificial societies Reputation in artificial societies Mario Paolucci,Rosaria Conte "Reputation in artificial societies discusses the role of reputation in the achievement of social order. The book proposes that reputation is an agent property that results from transmission of belie… OL3526984W
The wealth of networks The wealth of networks Yochai Benkler With the radical changes in information production that the Internet has introduced, we stand at an important moment of transition, says Yochai Benkler in this thought-provoking book. The phenomenon … OL5836132W