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A few lawsuits have changed the entire shape of the computer industry. Graham shows how this happened and what this legacy means today for industry insiders and people outside looking in.

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The second half of the book contains constructive studies, reporting experiences in trying to build systems in new ways, with a fully developed consciousness of what people need and the interactions between computer systems and social systems.

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The second half of the book contains constructive studies, reporting experiences in trying to build systems in new ways, with a fully developed consciousness of what people need and the interactions between computer systems and social systems.

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Since the previous edition, there have been many important developments in the perception and practice of IT, not least with the addition of the all-important "C" of Communication to the acronym. This fully updated edition assesses this change.

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The first collection dedicated to analysing the casual, social, and mobile gaming movements that are changing games the world over.

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Softwars: The Legal Battles for Control of the Global Software Industry explains why the future of the computer industry depends on the nature and extent of intellectual property protection for the software that controls computer hardware.

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Tells the inside story of the battle for control over the future of music and how technology is ripping up the traditional rules of business.

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Brings together the research and critical thinking of various world's top macro and micro economists to provide a multifaceted perspective. This volume provides the analysis into the causes of technological innovation and its relationship to economic performance.

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Furthermore, this process is fueled by enormous economic forces, which intensifies dependence on automation and spawns other sociological consequences. Other consequences include pervasive invasion of privacy, and overdependence on technology at the expense of developing critical reasoning, judgement, and a personal sense of responsibility.

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Covers both theoretical and practical aspects of the use of computers to improve the delivery of social services. The authors adopt a holistic approach to avoid dehumanization of clients and focus on the philosophical justification of computerization and its conceptual or symbolic nature.

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Dissidents around the world use the Internet to evade censorship and get their message out.

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This work examines the political choices that surround the new technologies of telecommunications and broadcasting, and focuses on the essential issues of who determines how they are implemented and why, as well as who benefits from them.

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The work analyzes the legal and political economy implications of investment in the software programming industry and the near-futility of monitoring protection of intellectual property in industry.

The book begins by exploring the current state of copyright laws for computer software.

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Interactive cable television, satellite broadcasting, facsimile, viewdata, and teletext have all been in use or on trial for several years and give a basis for understanding how the integrated electronic media of the future will develop.

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Reviews the consequences of the information revolution. It discusses the revolution's implications in five areas of human activity: business and financial capital; the workplace and human capital; academia and publishing; politics, internationalism and citizenship; and the "information society".

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Reviews the consequences of the information revolution. It discusses the revolution's implications in five areas of human activity: business and financial capital; the workplace and human capital; academia and publishing; politics, internationalism and citizenship; and the "information society".

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An examination of the social impact of the Internet, this volume explores political, social, technical, legal, and economic controversies in a manner accessible to the general reader.

Today more than one billion people worldwide use the Internet for communication, shopping, business, and research.

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The spread of new information and communications technologies during the past two decades has helped reshape civic associations, political communities, and global relations. In the midst of the information revolution, we find that the speed of this technology-driven change has...

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Takes a look at how these familiar and pervasive productions of computerization - voice mail, e-mail, bar codes, desktops, laptops, networks, and the Web - have become embedded in all our lives, forcing us to narrow the scope of our choices, our modes of control, and our experiences with the real world.

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We already know how much of our data is collected and used to profile and target us. The real question is why, knowing all this, do we keep going back for more