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Hard times
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Tom Clark |
"2008 was a watershed year for global finance. The banking system was eventually pulled back from the brink, but the world was saddled with the worst slump since the 1930s Depression, and millions we… |
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Interactivity
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Alec Charles |
From the Arab Spring to British summer riots, from the War on Terror to The X Factor, from social networking sites to online electioneering, the significance of new media technologies seems clear. Th… |
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Getting the picture
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Vanessa R. Schwartz,Jason Hill |
"Powerful and often controversial, news pictures promise to make the world at once immediate and knowable. Yet while many great writers and thinkers have evaluated photographs of atrocity and crisis,… |
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Distracted
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Maggie Jackson |
We have vast oceans of information at our disposal, yet increasingly we seek knowledge with brief glimpses at online headlines while juggling other tasks. We are networked as never before, but we com… |
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Disposable women and other myths of global capitalism
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Melissa W. Wright |
Everyday, around the world, women who work in the third world factories of global firms face the idea that they are disposable. Melissa W. Wright explains how this notion proliferates, both within an… |
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The Future of the Internet-And How to Stop It
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Jonathan L. Zittrain |
This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity—and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting … |
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