Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society: Properties of Technology

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Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Properties of Technology....Pages 3-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Technology, Innovation, Power, and Social Consequence....Pages 13-25
The World Summit Awards Benchmarking Arabic Websites: A Case Study of Governance....Pages 26-28
Test Driving E-Participation: The Case of Gipuzkoa (Basque Country)....Pages 29-31
Visualizing Electricity and Magnetism: The Collaborative Development of a Multimedia Text....Pages 32-33
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Emergent Journalism and Mass Media Paradigms in the Digital Society....Pages 37-49
CitizenShift and Parole Citoyenne: The Democratization of Media....Pages 50-52
Presidential Rhetoric in 140 Characters or Less....Pages 53-55
Web 2.0 Technologies and the Museum....Pages 56-58
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Academic Publishing at the Crossroads....Pages 61-70
The Open Textbook: From Modules to Mash-Ups....Pages 71-74
Community and Communion: Books as Communal Artifacts in the Digital Age....Pages 75-77
Is the ‘E-Incunabula’ the One Solution for Scientific Communication?....Pages 78-79
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Digital Citizenship....Pages 83-96
Facebook in Egypt: April 6 and the Perception of a New Political Sphere....Pages 97-98
Grassroots Politics in Popular Online Spaces: Balancing Alliances....Pages 99-101
From Disability to Functional Diversity: ICT and Amartya Sen’s Approach....Pages 102-104
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Surveillance, Power and Everyday Life....Pages 107-120
Full Spectrum Surveillance: NYPD, Panopticism and the Public Disciplinary Complex....Pages 121-122
The Wired Body and Event Construction: Mobile Technologies and the Technological Gaze....Pages 123-125
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Configuring the Face as a Technology of Citizenship: Biometrics, Surveillance and the Facialization of Institutional Identity....Pages 126-128
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Whose Property? Mapping Intellectual Property Rights, Contextualizing Digital Technology and Framing Social Justice....Pages 131-144
Ethical Concerns about Digital Property: The Case of FLOSS Licenses....Pages 145-147
On/Off the Agenda: Intellectual Property Rights, the UN and the Global Politics of the Internet....Pages 148-150
Health Traditions in Kerala and Local Intellectual Property Rights....Pages 151-153
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Socrates Back on the Street: Wikipedia’s Citing of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy....Pages 157-171
The Challenges of Digitally Mapping Marginal Sub-Regions and Localities: A Case Study of South India....Pages 172-174
How Open Source Software and Wireless Networks are Transforming Two Cultures: An Investigation in Urban North America and Rural Africa....Pages 175-176
The Secrets of Biblioland: A Case Study....Pages 177-178
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Towards a Science 2.0 based on Technologies of Recommendation, Innovation, and Reuse....Pages 181-194
Democratizing the Science of Risk Management — An End-User-Driven Approach to Managing Risks to Drinking Water Systems in First Nations Communities....Pages 195-197
The Public Debate on Science and Technology: Transgenic Corn in Mexico....Pages 198-200
Evolving Publishing Practices in Mathematics: Wiles, Perelman, and arXiv....Pages 201-204
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Fabrication....Pages 207-218
Closing the Gap between Art and Life: Digital Art as Discursive Framework....Pages 219-220
Digital Art: Blowing Zen in the City....Pages 221-222
Digital Aesthetics in Everyday Technologies: A Case Study of the NY Art Beat iPhone Application....Pages 223-224
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Redrawing the Labor Line: Technology and Work in Digital Capitalism....Pages 227-244
Work and Skills in the Telecommunications Industry....Pages 245-246
US Policy Approaches to Digital Labor....Pages 247-249
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Employability and Sustainability in the Graduate Job Market: A Case Study of ICT Graduates in Malaysia....Pages 250-252
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The Empirical Case for Taking a Technosocial Approach to Computing....Pages 255-269
The Punjab Peasant and Digital Culture....Pages 270-271
Social Ecology of Museums in the Digital Domain....Pages 272-273
Information Technology and the Construction of Moral Reasoning, Empathy, and Affect: Crossing Time, Space, and Attitudes in Virtual Reality....Pages 274-276
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The Internet, Gender and Identity: Proletarianization as Selective Essentialism....Pages 279-292
Virtual Glass Houses: The Process and Politics of Bisexual Identity Discussions in Online Diary Communities....Pages 293-295
UsMob: Remapping Indigenous Futures in Cyberspace....Pages 296-297
Gender Structure, Gender Identity, Gender Symbolism and Information Technologies....Pages 298-302
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Digital Capitalism and Development: The Unbearable Lightness of ICT4D....Pages 305-323
Information and Communication Technologies for Least Developed Countries: A Case Study of the Republic of Malawi....Pages 324-326
Dot.Com Marriages in India: Examining the Changing Patterns of the Arranged Marriage Market in India....Pages 327-329
Bridging the Digital Divide in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Bangladesh and Kuwait....Pages 330-333
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Do E-Book Readers Understand Digital Documents?....Pages 337-351
In Praise of Paper: Cultural Prejudice and the Electronic Book Market in Spain....Pages 352-354
Why E-Readers Will Not Gain Widespread Popularity....Pages 355-358
Hyperactive: The Digi-Novel....Pages 359-361
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Mapping Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society....Pages 365-368
Back Matter....Pages 369-382