Annual Editions: Computers in Society 10/11
ISBN: 9780073528588 | 0073528587
Edition: 16thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
Pub. Date: 2/12/2010
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| Preface | |
| Correlation Guide | |
| Topic Guide | |
| Internet References | |
| Introduction | |
| Unit Overview | |
| Five Things We Need to Know about Technological Change | |
| Moore’s Law and Technological Determinism: Reflections on the History of Technology | |
| The Economy | |
| Unit Overview | |
| Click Fraud: The Da... MORE | |
| Online Salvation? | |
| Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network’s Plan to Dominate the Internet-and Keep Google Out | |
| Beyond Blogs | |
| Personally Controlled Online Health Data-The Next Big Thing in Medical Care? | |
| Work and the Workplace | |
| Unit Overview | |
| National ID: Biometrics Pinned to Social Security Cards | |
| Dilberts of the World, Unite! | |
| Computer Software Engineers, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2006/07 Edition | |
| How Deep Can You Probe? | |
| Privacy, Legislation, and Surveillance Software | |
| Computers, People, and Social Participation | |
| Unit Overview | |
| Is Google Making Us Stupid? | |
| The End of Solitude | |
| Girl Power | |
| Bloggers against Torture | |
| It’s Not Easy to Stand up to Cyberbullies, but We Must | |
| The Nike Experiment: How the Shoe Giant Unleashed the Power of Personal Metrics | |
| Center Stage | |
| E-Mail Is for Old People | |
| Societal Institutions: Law, Politics, Education, and the Military | |
| Unit Overview | |
| The Coming Robot Army | |
| Google & the Future of Books | |
| Archiving Writers’ Work in the Age of E-Mail | |
| Wikipedia in the Newsroom | |
| E-Mail in Academia: Expectations, Use, and Instructional Impact | |
| Risk and Avoiding Risk | |
| Unit Overview | |
| A Growing Watch List | |
| The Evolution of Cyber Warfare | |
| Geeks and Hackers, Uncle Sam’s Cyber Force Wants You! | |
| Privacy Requires Security, Not Abstinence: Protecting an Inalienable Right in the Age of Facebook | |
| The Software Wars: Why You Can’t Understand Your Computer | |
| False Reporting on the Internet and the Spread of Rumors: Three Case Studies | |
| International Perspectives and Issues | |
| Unit Overview | |
| China’s Tech Generation Finds a New Chairman to Venerate | |
| New Tech, Old Habits | |
| Iran’s Twitter Revolution? Maybe Not Yet | |
| The List: Look Who’s Censoring the Internet Now | |
| Dissent Made Safer: How Anonymity Technology Could Save Free Speech on the Internet | |
| The Frontier of Computing | |
| Unit Overview | |
| A Nascent Robotics Culture: New Complicities for Companionship | |
| Toward Nature-Inspired Computing | |
| Google and the Wisdom of Clouds | |
| Cloud Computing | |
| The Coming Superbrain | |
| Test-Your-Knowledge Form | |
| Article Rating Form | |
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