Libros a Descargar Gratis

El futuro es ahora

Autor: Jaron Lanier

Número de Páginas: 590

El padre de la realidad virtual nos explica sus infinitas posibilidades a través de su experiencia con la tecnología. A través del fascinante recorrido de una vida dedicada a la tecnología, Jaron Lanier expone la capacidad de la realidad virtual para iluminar y amplificar la comprensión que tenemos de nuestra especie y ofrece a los lectores una nueva perspectiva sobre cómo el cerebro y el cuerpo humano se conectan al mundo. Al entender la realidad virtual como una aventura tanto científica como cultural, Lanier demuestra el componente humanístico que esta aporta a la tecnología. Si bien sus libros anteriores ofrecían una visión más crítica de las redes sociales y de otras manifestaciones de la tecnología, en El futuro es ahora el autor argumenta que la realidad virtual puede hacer que nuestra vida sea más rica y más completa. Una obra que no solo nos muestra qué significa ser humano en esta era de posibilidades tecnológicas sin precedentes, sino que también une la dimensión tecnológica con nuestra experiencia corporal. Reseñas: «Una historia maravillosa, profundamente humana y sumamente personal.» Dave Eggers «Es el padre de la realidad virtual y un genio...

CIO

Número de Páginas: 116

Mediaphilism

Autor: Ryan Somma

Número de Páginas: 478

Collected here are the best of 10 years' worth of essays from ideonexus.com reviewing films, books, games, and culture from the perspective of a nerd in love with science and wonder.

Les Rebelles numériques

Autor: Daniel Ichbiah , Jean-martial Lefranc

Número de Páginas: 217

Il sont rêveurs, voleurs, mutants et activistes : voici 20 portraits de rebelles numériques qui vont changer notre siècle. Enquête aux marges du Web. Il sont rêveurs, voleurs, mutants et activistes : voici 20 portraits de rebelles numériques qui vont changer notre siècle. Enquête aux marges du Web. Omidyar, Snowden, Kurzweill, Parviz, Musk, Thiel, Rifkin, Niel, Lanier, etc. : ils ont en commun de construire activement le monde de demain. En allant un à un à leur rencontre, cet étonnant document dessine les grandes lignes d'une civilisation qui ne ressemblera aucunement à celle du 20ème siècle, avec ses risques, mais aussi des opportunités qui défient l'imagination. Portrait de ceux qui élaborent dès aujourd'hui le monde futur : Ray Kurzweill, le maître à penser de l'Intelligence artificielle chez Google ; Seth Goldstein qui travaille au Carnegie Mellon sur des objets qui changent de forme ; Babak Parviz qui veut mettre la réalité augmentée dans des lentilles oculaires ; Elon Musk à l'initiative de Tesla, la voiture électrique ; Renaud Laplanche, promoteur du peer to peer financing ; Xavier Niel, fondateur de Free qui voit dans le numérique un vivier...

La vallée du risque

Autor: Jacques Gauchey

Número de Páginas: 288

L’invention du circuit intégré dans la Silicon Valley au début des années soixante-dix a déclenché la révolution micro-informatique et marqué la fin de l’élitisme technologique, avec l’avènement de l’ordinateur personnel. Aujourd’hui, c’est dans la supertechnopole californienne que sont conçus les outils informatiques de demain, des ordinateurs multimédias aux moyens avancés de communication individuelle. Dans les mois et les années à venir, ils transformeront encore davantage notre vie quotidienne. La Silicon Valley, c’est non seulement le génie de l’innovation, mais aussi l’art de la commercialisation, grâce à l’association d’ingénieurs visionnaires et d’entrepreneurs inspirés, capables de convaincre les investisseurs en capital-risque de financer leurs start-up. Ce lieu emblématique de la libre entreprise à l’américaine, avec ses réussites fulgurantes et ses échecs retentissants, est devenu une terre d’accueil internationale où les génies méconnus peuvent s’exprimer dans des conditions impensables dans leur pays d’origine, à l’image des Français Martine Kempf, Philippe Kahn, Yves Faroudja, Pierre Lamond et bien...

A Critical Mind

Autor: Christine Godt , Matthias Lamping

Número de Páginas: 790

This book traces the academic footprint of Hanns Ullrich. Thirty contributions revolve around five central topics of his oeuvre: the European legal order, competition law, intellectual property, the regulation of new technologies, and the global market order. Acknowledging him as a trailblazer, the book aims to capture how deeply Hanns Ullrich has influenced contemporaries and subsequent generations of scholars. The contributors re-iterate the path-breaking patterns of his teachings, such as his contemplation of intellectual property as embedded in competition, the necessity of balancing private and public interests in intellectual property law, the policies of market integration, and the peculiar relationship of technological advancement and protectionism.

Tout l'anglais aux concours

Autor: Eddy Chevalier , Mathias Degoute

Número de Páginas: 383

Cet ouvrage s’adresse aux candidats aux concours d’entrée des grandes écoles (écoles de commerce et de management, écoles d’ingénieurs et IEP). Sous forme de fiches claires et synthétiques, cet ouvrage propose l’ensemble des notions de langue, de vocabulaire et de connaissance sur le monde anglo-saxon nécessaire à la réussite des concours : • 20 fiches de grammaire complétées d’exercices de révision pour réviser et approfondir sa maîtrise de la langue ; • 20 fiches de vocabulaire pour améliorer son expression écrite et orale ; • 30 fiches Civilisation sur les États-Unis, le Royaume-Uni et les pays du Commonwealth. Pour vous entraîner, vous trouverez également : • Des fiches méthodes pour chacune des épreuves (version, synthèse, essay, contraction, oral) ; • 17 sujets d’annales corrigés. Pour vous préparer efficacement aux épreuves orales, des sujets écrits et audio et leur corrigé seront disponibles en compléments en ligne.

Comic Abstraction

Autor: Roxana Marcoci

Número de Páginas: 168

Foreword by Glenn D. Lowry. Text by Roxana Marcoci.

A to Z of Computer Scientists

Autor: Harry Henderson

Número de Páginas: 321

Profiles more than 100 scientists from around the world who made important contributions to the study of computer science, including Howard Aiken, Steve Case, Steve Jobs, and Ted Nelson.

SPIN

Número de Páginas: 114

From the concert stage to the dressing room, from the recording studio to the digital realm, SPIN surveys the modern musical landscape and the culture around it with authoritative reporting, provocative interviews, and a discerning critical ear. With dynamic photography, bold graphic design, and informed irreverence, the pages of SPIN pulsate with the energy of today's most innovative sounds. Whether covering what's new or what's next, SPIN is your monthly VIP pass to all that rocks.

Open Source Technology: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

Autor: Management Association, Information Resources

Número de Páginas: 2050

The pervasiveness of and universal access to modern Information and Communication Technologies has enabled a popular new paradigm in the dissemination of information, art, and ideas. Now, instead of relying on a finite number of content providers to control the flow of information, users can generate and disseminate their own content for a wider audience. Open Source Technology: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications investigates examples and methodologies in user-generated and freely-accessible content available through electronic and online media. With applications in education, government, entertainment, and more, the technologies explored in these volumes will provide a comprehensive reference for web designers, software developers, and practitioners in a wide variety of fields and disciplines.

Cyber Behavior: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

Autor: Management Association, Information Resources

Número de Páginas: 2168

Following the migration of workflows, data, and communication to the Cloud and other Internet-based frameworks, interaction over the Web has become ever more commonplace. As with any social situation, there are rules and consequences to actions within a virtual environment. Cyber Behavior: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications explores the role of cyberspace in modern communication and interaction, including considerations of ethics, crime, security, and education. With chapters on a variety of topics and concerns inherent to a contemporary networked society, this multi-volume work will be of particular interest to students and academicians, as well as software developers, computer scientists, and specialists in the field of Information Technologies.

Social Software and the Evolution of User Expertise: Future Trends in Knowledge Creation and Dissemination

Autor: Takševa, Tatjana

Número de Páginas: 427

The new generation of internet technologies and web applications is seeing a growth in social software and networking, as well as other communications tools. This infrastructure of social interaction and collaboration has provided an increase in more dynamic user participation and expertise in knowledge of contents and facts traditionally only held by experts. Social Software and the Evolution of User Expertise: Future Trends in Knowledge Creation and Dissemination examines the vital role that social software applications play in regards to the cultural definitions of experts and challenges the reader to consider how recent changes in this area influence how we create and distribute knowledge. This collection brings together scholars and practitioners from various disciplines and professions to project a new kind of thinking about the understanding of the major changes in many professions.

Power and Progress

Autor: Daron Acemoglu , Simon Johnson

Número de Páginas: 593

Awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics, Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson overturn conventional wisdom about how economies work--revealing the untold story of who wins and who loses the rewards of prosperity--in a work that fundamentally transforms how we look at and understand the world. Throughout history, technological change — whether it takes the form of agricultural improvements in the Middle Ages, the Industrial Revolution, or today’s artificial intelligence — has been viewed as a main driver of prosperity, working in the public interest. The reality, though, is that technology is shaped by what powerful people want and believe, generating riches, social respect, cultural prominence, and further political voice for those already powerful. For most of the rest of us, there is the illusion of progress. Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson debunk modern techno-optimism through a dazzling, original account of how technological choices have changed the course of history. From vivid stories of how the economic surplus of the Middle Ages was appropriated by an ecclesiastical elite to build cathedrals while the peasants starved, to the making of vast fortunes from digital...

Get Real

Autor: Philip Zhai

Número de Páginas: 254

A fascinating look at the brave new world of virtual reality.

Live Visuals

Autor: Steve Gibson , Stefan Arisona , Donna Leishman , Atau Tanaka

Número de Páginas: 453

This volume surveys the key histories, theories and practice of artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, architects and technologists that have worked and continue to work with visual material in real time. Covering a wide historical period from Pythagoras’s mathematics of music and colour in ancient Greece, to Castel’s ocular harpsichord in the 18th century, to the visual music of the mid-20th century, to the liquid light shows of the 1960s and finally to the virtual reality and projection mapping of the present moment, Live Visuals is both an overarching history of real-time visuals and audio-visual art and a crucial source for understanding the various theories about audio-visual synchronization. With the inclusion of an overview of various forms of contemporary practice in Live Visuals culture – from VJing to immersive environments, architecture to design – Live Visuals also presents the key ideas of practitioners who work with the visual in a live context. This book will appeal to a wide range of scholars, students, artists, designers and enthusiasts. It will particularly interest VJs, DJs, electronic musicians, filmmakers, interaction designers and technologists.

Beyond the Valley

Autor: Ramesh Srinivasan

Número de Páginas: 419

How to repair the disconnect between designers and users, producers and consumers, and tech elites and the rest of us: toward a more democratic internet. In this provocative book, Ramesh Srinivasan describes the internet as both an enabler of frictionless efficiency and a dirty tangle of politics, economics, and other inefficient, inharmonious human activities. We may love the immediacy of Google search results, the convenience of buying from Amazon, and the elegance and power of our Apple devices, but it's a one-way, top-down process. We're not asked for our input, or our opinions—only for our data. The internet is brought to us by wealthy technologists in Silicon Valley and China. It's time, Srinivasan argues, that we think in terms beyond the Valley. Srinivasan focuses on the disconnection he sees between designers and users, producers and consumers, and tech elites and the rest of us. The recent Cambridge Analytica and Russian misinformation scandals exemplify the imbalance of a digital world that puts profits before inclusivity and democracy. In search of a more democratic internet, Srinivasan takes us to the mountains of Oaxaca, East and West Africa, China, Scandinavia,...

Automatic Society, Volume 1

Autor: Bernard Stiegler

Número de Páginas: 291

In July 2014 the Belgian newspaper Le Soir claimed that France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland and the United States may lose between 43 and 50 per cent of their jobs within ten to fifteen years. Across the world, integrated automation, one key result of the so-called ‘data economy’, is leading to a drastic reduction in employment in all areas - from the legal profession to truck driving, from medicine to stevedoring. In this first volume of a new series, the leading cultural theorist Bernard Stiegler advocates a radical solution to the crisis posed by automation and consumer capitalism more generally. He calls for a decoupling of the concept of ‘labour’ (meaningful, intellectual participation) from ‘employment’ (dehumanizing, banal work), with the ultimate aim of eradicating ‘employment’ altogether. By doing so, new and alternative economic models will arise, where individuals are no longer simply mined for labour, but also actively produce what they consume. Building substantially on his existing theories and engaging with a wide range of figures - from Deleuze and Foucault to Bill Gates and Alan Greenspan - Automatic Society will appeal to students...

Human Flourishing in a Technological World

Autor: Jens Zimmermann

Número de Páginas: 453

Human Flourishing in a Technological World addresses the question of human identity and flourishing in the light of recent technological advances. The chapters in Part I provide a philosophical-theological evaluation of changing major anthropological assumptions that have guided human self-understanding from antiquity to modernity: How did we move from a religious and mostly embodied anthropology of the person to the idea that we can upload human consciousness to computing platforms? How did we come to imagine that machines can actually be intelligent, or even learn in human fashion? Moreover, what metaphysical changes explain our mostly uncritical embrace of a technological determination of being and thus of how reality "works"? In Part II, the focus turns to the practical implications of our changing understanding of what it means to be human. Covering some of the most pressing current concerns about human flourishing, these chapters deal with the impact of technology on education, healthcare, disability, leisure and the nature of work, communication, aging, death, and the nature of wisdom for human flourishing in light of evolutionary biology. The volume includes the text of a...

Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History

Autor: Thomas Rid

Número de Páginas: 566

"Dazzling.” —Financial Times As lives offline and online merge even more, it is easy to forget how we got here. Rise of the Machines reclaims the spectacular story of cybernetics, one of the twentieth century’s pivotal ideas. Springing from the mind of mathematician Norbert Wiener amid the devastation of World War II, the cybernetic vision underpinned a host of seductive myths about the future of machines. Cybernetics triggered blissful cults and military gizmos, the Whole Earth Catalog and the air force’s foray into virtual space, as well as crypto-anarchists fighting for internet freedom. In Rise of the Machines, Thomas Rid draws on unpublished sources—including interviews with hippies, anarchists, sleuths, and spies—to offer an unparalleled perspective into our anxious embrace of technology.

WIPO Magazine, Issue 2/2016 (April)

Autor: World Intellectual Property Organization

Número de Páginas: 44

The WIPO Magazine explores intellectual property, creativity and innovation in action across the world.

Les prothèses cognitives du corps humain

Autor: Maxime Derian

Número de Páginas: 361

Les machines informatisées se retrouvent, sous diverses formes, autour de nous, dans nos poches et parfois dans notre organisme. Elles sont aujourd'hui des éléments incontournables du quotidien pour la plupart d'entre nous. Qu'il s'agisse des smartphones, d'objets connectés ou de dispositifs numériques médicaux et d’e-santé, ces outils numériques prolifèrent littéralement dans notre environnement. Ils font office de prothèses qui « augmentent » nos capacités cognitives mais également d'orthèses qui influencent bon nombre de nos comportements. La généralisation de ces machines semble même en mesure de transformer nos modes d'organisation sociale de manière conséquente. Les outils numériques qui emmaillotent sans cesse davantage le corps et l’esprit sont-ils en mesure de bouleverser notre ordre social ? Pourraient-ils littéralement entraîner demain la disparition de la société telle que nous la connaissons aujourd'hui ? Les prothèses cognitives du corps humain explore cette réflexion qui est au centre des usages des outils numériques.

Virtual Reality

Autor: Howard Rheingold

Número de Páginas: 416

Breaking the reality barrier ; the reality-industrial complex ; virtual reality and the future.

Latin American Identity in Online Cultural Production

Autor: Claire Taylor , Thea Pitman

Número de Páginas: 280

This volume provides an innovative and timely approach to a fast growing, yet still under-studied field in Latin American cultural production: digital online culture. It focuses on the transformations or continuations that cultural products and practices such as hypermedia fictions, net.art and online performance art, as well as blogs, films, databases and other genre-defying web-based projects, perform with respect to Latin American(ist) discourses, as well as their often contestatory positioning with respect to Western hegemonic discourses as they circulate online. The intellectual rationale for the volume is located at the crossroads of two, equally important, theoretical strands: theories of digital culture, in their majority the product of the anglophone academy; and contemporary debates on Latin American identity and culture.

Encyclopedia of New Media

Autor: Steve Jones

Número de Páginas: 545

"Scholars and students finally have a reference work documenting the foundations of the digital revolution. Were it not the only reference book to cover this emergent field, Jones′s encyclopedia would still likely be the best." --CHOICE "The articles are interesting, entertaining, well written, and reasonably long. . . . Highly recommended as a worthwhile and valuable addition to both science and technology and social science reference collections." --REFERENCE & USER SERVICES QUARTERLY, AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION From Amazon.com to virtual communities, this single-volume encyclopedia presents more than 250 entries that explain communication technology, multimedia, entertainment, and e-commerce within their social context. Edited by Steve Jones, one of the leading scholars and founders of this emerging field, and with contributions from an international group of scholars as well as science and technology writers and editors, the Encyclopedia of New Media widens the boundaries of today′s information society through interdisciplinary, historical, and international coverage. With such topics as broadband, content filtering, cyberculture, cyberethics, digital divide, freenet,...

Les Conquérants du cybermonde

Autor: Dominique Nora

Número de Páginas: 326

Vous que les mots « CD-ROM », « télévision numérique » et « réalité virtuelle » intimident ; qui êtes sceptique sur les « autoroutes de l'information » mais curieux de l'avenir et soucieux de ne pas perdre tout langage commun avec vos enfants, ce grand document est pour vous. Vous qui vous demandez comment votre métier va évoluer ou vous interrogez sur les conséquences de la formidable convergence entre télécommunications, informatique et électronique à l'échelle planétaire, cette enquête de terrain est pour vous. Vous qui croyez n'être pas concerné par ces bouleversements, détrompez-vous : un jour, sous une forme ou sous une autre, ils vous rattraperont, car la révolution de l'information promet d'être au XXIe siècle ce que la révolution industrielle fut au XIXe. A travers des aventures, des anecdotes, des personnages hauts en couleur, cette épopée du multimédia vous propulse au coeur d'un gigantesque western techno-économique qui est en train de changer aussi concrètement notre vie et nos valeurs que le firent en leur temps l'imprimerie, l'électricité ou le téléphone. Journaliste au service économique de Libération (1984-1988),...

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology

Autor: Shannon Vallor

Número de Páginas: 697

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology gives readers a view into this increasingly vital and urgently needed domain of philosophical understanding, offering an in-depth collection of leading and emerging voices in the philosophy of technology. The thirty-two contributions in this volume cut across and connect diverse philosophical traditions, methodologies, and subfields, providing the reader with provocative and original insights on the history, concepts, problems, and challenges that mark humanity's attempts to attain deeper and more lasting wisdom about our complex and evolving relationship to technology.

Understanding Virtual Reality

Autor: Sarah Jones , Steve Dawkins , Julian Mcdougall

Número de Páginas: 138

This book provides critical commentary on key issues around virtual reality, using media technology as a tool to challenge perspectives for learning and understanding cultural diversities. With a focus on empathy, embodiment and ethics, the book interrogates the use of immersive technologies for formal and informal educational contexts. Taking a critical approach to discourses around emerging technology and learning, the book presents the idea that a new literacy is emerging and an emphasis on media and technology is needed in the context of education to explore and experience cultural diversities. Employing a personal reflexive narrative, the chapters highlight key issues through research and interviews with leading practitioners in the field. Understanding Virtual Reality will be of great interest to academics and students interested in the effects of immersive realities on the education experience, and to anyone keen on exploring the paradigm shift from entertainment to education.

Revista Telos 109

Autor: Fundación Telefónica

Número de Páginas: 142

Este número 109 es el segundo de la nueva época de la veterana revista TELOS, una etapa en la que ha modernizado su diseño, se ha desplegado en el entorno digital con una página web viva y participativa, con contenidos nativos que complementan al papel, y ha abierto su contenido a nuevos temas dirigidos a un espectro más amplio de lectores. La imagen de la portada de TELOS 109 es Jaron Lanier, reconocido entre los trescientos inventores más relevantes de la historia por la Enciclopedia Británica. En la entrevista que contiene el número expone su visión sobre la capacidad de la realidad virtual para iluminar y ampliar nuestra comprensión del momento y urge a revisar el universo digital que estamos construyendo. El cuaderno central de este número está dedicado a las cuestiones éticas que plantea el progreso; a las motivaciones y a los objetivos por los que el humano busca constantemente el mejoramiento de sí mismo y de su entorno. ¿Cuáles son las razones por las que nos esforzamos en idear, investigar, desarrollar e innovar si no la búsqueda de la felicidad y el bienestar; el logro de la equidad y el bien común? Desde diferentes perspectivas, los autores –Antonio ...

Personnage virtuel et corps performatif

Autor: Renée Bourassa , Louise Poissant

Número de Páginas: 410

Les personnages virtuels se multiplient depuis quelques années dans les arts médiatiques et les arts de la scène en empruntant plusieurs apparences. Ils se situent dans la lignée des êtres artificiels ayant peuplé l’histoire humaine au sein de représentations fantasmagoriques, que ce soit sous forme d’ombres, de doubles ou de spectres ayant le pouvoir de s’animer. En effet, les figures du simulacre jouant sur l’illusion perceptive ou sur les leurres sont aussi anciennes que la faculté de symboliser. Au sein des représentations contemporaines, elles partagent la scène avec l’acteur ou le danseur en chair et en os, par le truchement de projections d’images ou en s’incarnant dans des automates issus de la robotique. Dans les mondes fictionnels du cinéma numérique, ces figures anthropomorphiques relèvent de l’animation de synthèse. Elles agissent à titre de personnages : parfois elles dialoguent avec les acteurs réels, d’autres fois elles les remplacent. Qu’est-ce qui rend présent, performatif et parfois inquiétant un personnage virtuel ? Quel rôle est-il appelé à jouer dans les pratiques artistiques contemporaines des arts de la scène ? Dans...

Dans la tête de Mark Zuckerberg

Autor: Julien Le Bot

Número de Páginas: 214

À l’origine de Facebook, une utopie regroupant des libertaires californiens sous acide, inventeurs du web, convivial et gratuit, et un petit “génie”, Mark Zuckerberg, qui en a fait le moteur d’un nouveau capitalisme, une économie de la surveillance et de la captation de l’attention avec plus de 2 milliards d’adeptes dans le monde.

La synthèse de documents en anglais

Autor: Mathias Degoute

Número de Páginas: 130

L’épreuve de synthèse de documents en anglais est une épreuve demandant maîtrise de la langue, esprit d’analyse et capacités critiques. L’objectif de cet ouvrage est de proposer aux candidats aux concours des écoles d’ingénieurs (Centrale-Supelec, E3A, X, ENS) une préparation claire, complète et adaptée aux exigences spécifiques de l’épreuve : Identifier les éléments importants d'un document (texte ou image) La méthode de la synthèse détaillée pas-à-pas en 7 étapes clefs La rédaction de la synthèse : : l’introduction et la conclusion, restituer et articuler les idées fortes, la grammaire et l’orthographe Chaque point de cours est accompagné de nombreux exercices d’application pour appréhender la méthode et réviser les notions. Pour préparer l’épreuve en conditions de concours, 6 dossiers de synthèse tirés des derniers concours sont proposés avec leur corrigé complet. Des fiches de vocabulaire et de grammaire, une check-list du devoir et une grille d’auto-évaluation complètent l’ouvrage pour offrir tous les atouts pour réussir le jour J.

Comment le web change le monde

Autor: Francis Pisani , Dominique Piotet

Número de Páginas: 336

Plus de deux milliards d'internautes, plus de cinq milliards de téléphones mobiles. Nous serons bientôt tous connectés. Et pourtant, ces chiffres ne jettent qu'une pâle lumière sur les évolutions en cours. En 2011 l'internet n'est plus un simple outil de communication ou d'achat en ligne. Il sert aux insurgés d'Égypte ou de Tunisie à s'organiser pour descendre dans la rue. Le mobile est en train de dépasser l'ordinateur comme moyen de connexion à l'internet. Et les réseaux sociaux ont aujourd'hui nettement devancé la pornographie parmi les nombreux usages d'internet, devenant ainsi la première activité en ligne. Non contents de chercher de l'information, nous en produisons et alimentons massivement nos réseaux, que ce soit sur Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare ou LinkedIn. Nous nous impliquons. D'internautes, nous nous transformons en « webacteurs ». Pour comprendre ce web participatif, jadis appelé « web 2.0 », Francis Pisani et Dominique Piotet ont interrogé les meilleurs experts de la Silicon Valley. Émaillant leur réflexion de nombreux exemples, ils montrent comment tous les secteurs sont peu à peu gagnés par ce mouvement irréversible qu'ils qualifient...

Cyberspace and Politics

Autor: Brent Craige, Bs Political Science

Número de Páginas: 86

Cyberspace and Politics is a collection of essays written in 2012 centered around the rise of electronic cultural policy. Dr. Darryl Roberts (1953-2016), the professor who created Cyberspace and Politics, masterfully crafted his course for the purpose of preparing future generations for the opportunities and threats of the digital age. Cyberspace is still in its infancy stages, and it has already managed to consume our lives on a global scale. If we do not get a better understanding of the opportunities and threats of cyberspace soon, it may be too late. This book serves as an entry-level tool for understanding cyberspace politics and how society is adjusting to them.

Playful Materialities

Autor: Benjamin Beil , Gundolf S. Freyermuth , Hanns Christian Schmidt , Raven Rusch

Número de Páginas: 405

Game culture and material culture have always been closely linked. Analog forms of rule-based play (ludus) would hardly be conceivable without dice, cards, and game boards. In the act of free play (paidia), children as well as adults transform simple objects into multifaceted toys in an almost magical way. Even digital play is suffused with material culture: Games are not only mediated by technical interfaces, which we access via hardware and tangible peripherals. They are also subject to material hybridization, paratextual framing, and processes of de-, and re-materialization.

Brand Vandals

Autor: Steve Earl , Stephen Waddington

Número de Páginas: 289

Thanks to the rise of social media, what audiences think and say about organisations has never been more critical. Steve Earl and Stephen Waddington's Brand Anarchy examined the impact of media change and the new reputation landscape brought about by disaffected shareholders, customers and staff voicing their opinions to a global Internet audience. The authors continue the story here with the brand vandals going one step further; mobilising themselves, and the Internet, to wage war on organisations and willfully cause lasting reputational damage. For the organization, engagement isn't an option – it's a necessity. Brand vandals are forcing a level of dialogue that organisations, public and private, have never had to contemplate before. Smart organisations are helping to define the future of modern brand communication by retooling their public relations and communications teams to truly get to grips with the challenge of engaging audiences in a 24/7 conversation that not only answers criticism, but positively rebuilds corporate reputation. Is your organisation ready for the brand vandals?

Cybercriminologie

Autor: Xavier Raufer

Número de Páginas: 240

" L'univers cybernétique est désormais l'un des principaux domaines de la fraude et du crime ", a déclaré un expert anglais à la suite du piratage de 233 millions de fiches clients d'un géant du e-commerce. Aujourd'hui, les victimes de la cyber-criminalité se comptent par dizaines de millions, des stars d'Hollywood aux habitués des réseaux sociaux ou du commerce en ligne. Comment, à partir de quels ordinateurs et de quelles techniques les nouveaux gangs du net opèrent-ils ? C'est ce que révèle le nouveau livre de Xavier Raufer. Fondé sur des informations seulement connues des spécialistes, Cyber-criminologie dévoile la gravité d'un phénomène qui menace le citoyen ordinaire, les grandes entreprises, les États, les banques, etc. Piratage et vente clandestine de données personnelles, maliciels pénétrant les ordinateurs publics et privés, fraudes identitaires ou à la carte bancaire, sites marchands illicites cachés dans le dark web : le monde du cyber-crime est aussi florissant qu'insaisissable. Xavier Raufer explique ici comment notre société hyper-connectée a donné naissance à un cyber-monde où prolifèrent hackers, mafias du net russes, chinoises ou...

Hello Avatar

Autor: B. Coleman

Número de Páginas: 214

An examination of our many modes of online identity and how we live on the continuum between the virtual and the real. Hello Avatar! Or, {llSay(0, "Hello, Avatar!"); is a tiny piece of user-friendly code that allows us to program our virtual selves. In Hello Avatar, B. Coleman examines a crucial aspect of our cultural shift from analog to digital: the continuum between online and off-, what she calls the “x-reality” that crosses between the virtual and the real. She looks at the emergence of a world that is neither virtual nor real but encompasses a multiplicity of network combinations. And she argues that it is the role of the avatar to help us express our new agency—our new power to customize our networked life. By avatar, Coleman means not just the animated figures that populate our screens but the gestalt of images, text, and multimedia that make up our online identities—in virtual worlds like Second Life and in the form of email, video chat, and other digital artifacts. Exploring such network activities as embodiment, extreme (virtual) violence, and the work in virtual reality labs, and offering sidebar interviews with designers and practitioners, she argues that what ...