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The Seedlings - Alien Harvest

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by James Katz ...

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Under the veil of a summer night, Eight Hundred and Twenty-One humans were abruptly whisked away from the Earth and transplanted onto an alien planet millions of miles distant. Their journey was a harrowing odyssey, marked by clandestine experimentation that left indelible imprints upon each traveler, some more profound than others. Bereft of all possessions, they stepped forth from the hull of ... Read more

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Under the veil of a summer night, Eight Hundred and Twenty-One humans were abruptly whisked away from the Earth and transplanted onto an alien planet millions of miles distant. Their journey was a harrowing odyssey, marked by clandestine experimentation that left indelible imprints upon each traveler, some more profound than others. Bereft of all possessions, they stepped forth from the hull of
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Strange Universe

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Having survived their abduction from Earth and an Intergalactic war, the colonists now confront something more insidious. How they handle this new terrifying revelation may change the past and future of their universe. ... Read more

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Having survived their abduction from Earth and an Intergalactic war, the colonists now confront something more insidious. How they handle this new terrifying revelation may change the past and future of their universe.
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Nudging Choices Through Media

Ethical and philosophical implications for humanity

Edited by James Katz, Katie Schiepers, Juliet Floyd ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
This book addresses the growing use of computerized systems to influence people’s decisions without their awareness, a significant but underappreciated sea-change in the way the world works. To assess these systems, this volume’s contributors explore the philosophical and ethical dimensions of algorithms that guide people’s behavior by nudging them toward choices preferred by systems architects. ... Read more

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This book addresses the growing use of computerized systems to influence people’s decisions without their awareness, a significant but underappreciated sea-change in the way the world works. To assess these systems, this volume’s contributors explore the philosophical and ethical dimensions of algorithms that guide people’s behavior by nudging them toward choices preferred by systems architects.
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Perceiving the Future through New Communication Technologies

Robots, AI and Everyday Life

Edited by James Katz, Juliet Floyd, Katie Schiepers ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
The volume offers multiple perspectives on the way in which people encounter and think about the future. Drawing on the perspectives of history, literature, philosophy and communication studies, an international ensemble of experts offer a kaleidoscope of topics to provoke and enlighten the reader. The authors seek to understand the daily lived experience of ordinary people as they encounter new ... Read more

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The volume offers multiple perspectives on the way in which people encounter and think about the future. Drawing on the perspectives of history, literature, philosophy and communication studies, an international ensemble of experts offer a kaleidoscope of topics to provoke and enlighten the reader. The authors seek to understand the daily lived experience of ordinary people as they encounter new
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Media Life

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Research consistently shows how through the years more of our time gets spent using media, how multitasking our media has become a regular feature of everyday life, and that consuming media for most people increasingly takes place alongside producing media.Media Life is a primer on how we may think of our lives as lived in rather than with media. The book uses the way media function today as a ... Read more

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Research consistently shows how through the years more of our time gets spent using media, how multitasking our media has become a regular feature of everyday life, and that consuming media for most people increasingly takes place alongside producing media.Media Life is a primer on how we may think of our lives as lived in rather than with media. The book uses the way media function today as a
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Against Reduction

Designing a Human Future with Machines

by Noelani Arista, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Vafa Ghazavi, Suzanne Kite ...

Provocative, hopeful essays imagine a future that is not reduced to algorithms.What is human flourishing in an age of machine intelligence, when many claim that the world’s most complex problems can be reduced to narrow technical questions? Does more computing make us more intelligent, or simply more computationally powerful? We need not always resist reduction; our ability to simplify helps us ... Read more

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Provocative, hopeful essays imagine a future that is not reduced to algorithms.What is human flourishing in an age of machine intelligence, when many claim that the world’s most complex problems can be reduced to narrow technical questions? Does more computing make us more intelligent, or simply more computationally powerful? We need not always resist reduction; our ability to simplify helps us
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Dependent, Distracted, Bored

Affective Formations in Networked Media

by Susanna Paasonen ...

A new approach to understanding the culture of ubiquitous connectivity, arguing that our dependence on networked infrastructure does not equal addiction.In this book, Susanna Paasonen takes on a dominant narrative repeated in journalistic and academic accounts for more than a decade: that we are addicted to devices, apps, and sites designed to distract us, that drive us to boredom, with ... Read more

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A new approach to understanding the culture of ubiquitous connectivity, arguing that our dependence on networked infrastructure does not equal addiction.In this book, Susanna Paasonen takes on a dominant narrative repeated in journalistic and academic accounts for more than a decade: that we are addicted to devices, apps, and sites designed to distract us, that drive us to boredom, with
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Postdigital Aesthetics

Art, Computation And Design

Edited by D. Berry, M. Dieter ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Postdigital Aesthetics is a contribution to questions raised by our newly computational everyday lives and the aesthetics which reflect both the postdigital nature of this age, but also critical perspectives of a post-internet world. ... Read more

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Postdigital Aesthetics is a contribution to questions raised by our newly computational everyday lives and the aesthetics which reflect both the postdigital nature of this age, but also critical perspectives of a post-internet world.
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Algorithmic Intimacy

The Digital Revolution in Personal Relationships

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Artificial intelligence not only powers our cars, hospitals and courtrooms: predictive algorithms are becoming deeply lodged inside us too. Machine intelligence is learning our private preferences and discreetly shaping our personal behaviour, telling us how to live, who to befriend and who to date.In Algorithmic Intimacy, Anthony Elliott examines the power of predictive algorithms in reshaping ... Read more

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Artificial intelligence not only powers our cars, hospitals and courtrooms: predictive algorithms are becoming deeply lodged inside us too. Machine intelligence is learning our private preferences and discreetly shaping our personal behaviour, telling us how to live, who to befriend and who to date.In Algorithmic Intimacy, Anthony Elliott examines the power of predictive algorithms in reshaping
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Postdigital Humans

Transitions, Transformations and Transcendence

Edited by Maggi Savin-Baden ...

Series series Education (R0)
This book explores approaches to developing and using postdigital humans and the impact they are having on a postdigital world. It presents current research and practices at a time when education is changing rapidly with digital, technological advances. In particular, it outlines the major challenges faced by today’s employers, developers, teachers, researchers, priests and philosophers. The book ... Read more

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This book explores approaches to developing and using postdigital humans and the impact they are having on a postdigital world. It presents current research and practices at a time when education is changing rapidly with digital, technological advances. In particular, it outlines the major challenges faced by today’s employers, developers, teachers, researchers, priests and philosophers. The book
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Virtual Communication

The Impact of the New Informational and Communicational Technologies in Contemporary Educational Space

by Ileana Rotaru ...

This book presents an empirical approach to virtual communication. Based on the socio-cultural arguments of the postmodern paradigm, it demonstrates the necessity of analyzing the media pedagogy concept, both epistemologically and praxiologically. The concept of media competency is made operational by creating a system of communicational and informational competencies specific to the teaching ... Read more

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This book presents an empirical approach to virtual communication. Based on the socio-cultural arguments of the postmodern paradigm, it demonstrates the necessity of analyzing the media pedagogy concept, both epistemologically and praxiologically. The concept of media competency is made operational by creating a system of communicational and informational competencies specific to the teaching
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The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities

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Series series Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions
Although media studies and digital humanities are established fields, their overlaps have not been examined in depth. This comprehensive collection fills that gap, giving readers a critical guide to understanding the array of methodologies and projects operating at the intersections of media, culture, and practice. Topics include: access, praxis, social justice, design, interaction, interfaces, ... Read more

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Although media studies and digital humanities are established fields, their overlaps have not been examined in depth. This comprehensive collection fills that gap, giving readers a critical guide to understanding the array of methodologies and projects operating at the intersections of media, culture, and practice. Topics include: access, praxis, social justice, design, interaction, interfaces,
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