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Author : James Newman
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 28,88 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Video games
ISBN : 9780415281911

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Newman's lucid and engaging introduction guides the reader through the world of videogaming. It traces the history of the videogame, from its origins in the computer lab, to its contemporary status as a global entertainment industry, where characters such as Lara Croft and Sonic the Hedgehog are familiar even to those who've never been near a games console.Topics covered include:* What is a videogame?* Why study videogames?* a brief history of videogames, from Pac-Man to Pokémon* the videogame industry* who plays videogames?* are videogames bad for you?* the narrative structure of videogames* the future of videogames.

Author : Mary Chayko
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,30 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791488306

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How do we become connected to people we have never met in person? From celebrities to faraway relatives, from favorite writers to thinkers to people we meet on-line, we form a host of subtle, invisible, but very real social connections with distant others. In Connecting, Mary Chayko investigates how physically separated people manage to create a sense of connectedness—a "meeting of the minds"—and feel undeniably, if unexpectedly, bonded. Through dozens of personal accounts, the book considers the social "fallout" of connecting with absent others—the benefits and hazards—on our societies, communities, relationships, and individual selves. The result is a comprehensive yet intimate look at social bonding as it is rarely recorded: an examination of the bonds and communities we form across great distances, and even across time, in the age of the Internet.

Author : Jacques J. Berleur
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 31,86 MB
Release : 1996-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780412726200

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This major reference work represents the first attempt to confront, on a world-wide basis, the way computer associations face up to their own responsibilities in an age increasingly dominated by information and communication technology. The book deals with the codes of ethics and conduct, and related issues. It is the first book to deal with homogenous codes namely codes of national computer societies. Some thirty codes are compared and analysed in depth. To put these into perspective, there are discussion papers covering the methodological, philosophical and organisational issues.

Author : David Porter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 27,66 MB
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 1135209049

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The internet has recently grown from a fringe cultural phenomenon to a significant site of cultural production and transformation. Internet Culture maps this new domain of language, politics and identity, locating it within the histories of communication and the public sphere. Internet Culture offers a critical interrogation of the sustaining myths of the virtual world and of the implications of the current mass migration onto the electronic frontier. Among the topics discussed in Internet Culture are the virtual spaces and places created by the citizens of the Net and their claims to the hotly contested notion of "virtual community"; the virtual bodies that occupy such spaces; and the desires that animate these bodies. The contributors also examine the communication medium behind theworlds of the Net, analyzing the rhetorical conventions governing online discussion, literary antecedents,and potential pedagogical applications.

Author : Jim Davis
Publisher : Verso
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 34,49 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781859841853

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The rapid expansion of laborless production systems creates enormous instability. Money previously paid in wages is spent on technology. Workers lose jobs to robotic intelligence and, therefore, have no money to buy the goods produced by the technology. CUTTING EDGE provides an up-to-the-minute analysis of the complex relations between technology and work and how jobs and living standards can be protected.

Author : M. D. SINGH
Publisher : PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 50,24 MB
Release : 2006-10-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9788120329867

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Mechatronics is today fast developing as an interdisciplinary branch of engineering. This book offers a comprehensive coverage of the design and application of mechatronic systems. It discusses in detail the construction, operation, features and applications of various components of mechatronic systems. The text, profusely illustrated with diagrams, emphasizes the readers’ multidisciplinary skills and ability to design and maintain different mechatronic systems. Key Features : • Motivational assignments given at the end of each chapter and the Case Studies provided at the end of the book direct the readers to applications of mechatronics concepts in the real-world problems encountered in engineering practice. • Separate chapters are devoted to the advanced topics of Robotics and Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS). • The text is supported by a fair number of photographs of mechatronic systems and their components. This student-friendly text is primarily intended for the students of undergraduate and diploma courses in mechanical, electronics, industrial, and mechatronics engineering. It will also be of immense use to practising engineers.

Author : Sanchez-Segura, Maria-Isabel
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 16,40 MB
Release : 2004-11-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1591404134

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Interactive systems are growing in the last decade because of the amount of fields in which this kind of application can be used as a test bed to experiment in medicine, training, education, and so on. Developing Future Interactive Systems is a compilation of knowledge collected from several researchers in the field of interactive systems, offering an overview of the different parts of the environment that must be taken into account to develop a quality interactive system from the software engineering discipline. The book is oriented to developers of interactive systems, as well as researchers in the field of virtual environments.

Author : Ronald M. Baecker
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 29,79 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781558602410

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This comprehensive introduction to the field represents the best of the published literature on groupware and computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW). The papers were chosen for their breadth of coverage of the field, their clarity of expression and presentation, their excellence in terms of technical innovation or behavioral insight, their historical significance, and their utility as sources for further reading. sourcebook to the field. development or purchase of groupware technology as well as for researchers and managers. groupware, and human-computer interaction.