"This book is a comprehensive collection of research on the emergence of information technology and its effect on society, focusing on the advancements made throughout social changes and the application of information systems"--Provided by publisher.

"This book highlights the successes of community wireless networks but also boldly addresses the potential risk factors and broader socioeconomic concerns, exploring previous successes and failures, various designs, and potential challenges with CWNs"--Provided by publisher.

1. How the Crowd Can Teach -- 2. Social Networking and Schools: Early Responses and Implications for Practice -- 3. Cyber-Identities and Social Life in Cyberspace -- 4. Weblogs in Higher Education -- 5. Social Navigation and Local Folksonomies: Technical and Design Considerations for a Mobile...

An interdisciplinary field, technology and culture, or social informatics, is part of a larger body of socio-economic, socio-psychological, and cultural research that examines the ways in which technology and groups within society are shaped by social forces within organizations, politics,...

"This book is a definitive reference source for timely scholarly research evaluating the impact of social networking platforms on a variety of relationships by featuring expansive coverage on a range of topics relating to social media applications and uses across industries"--Provided by publisher.

1. Analyzing user behavior in digital games / Anders Drachen and Alessandro Canossa -- 2. Comparing two playability heuristic sets with expert review method: a case study of mobile game evaluation / Janne Paavilainen, Hannu Korhonen and Hannamari Saarenpää -- 3. Lovely place to buy!: enhancing...

"This book addresses the development of new mass media and communication tools and its influence on social and political change, analyzing democratic transitions and cultures with a theoretical perspective"--Provided by publisher.

This book follows an interdisciplinary approach to emerging markets, information and communication technologies. It creates awareness of changes in cultures of lifestyle consumption, which is both theoretically and empirically explored across multiple nations. This yields insight into the...

Terroredia: exchanging terrorism oxygen for media airwaves / Mahmoud Eid -- Understanding terrorism / Mahmoud Eid -- Understanding media during times of terrorism / Robert Hackett -- Terrorism manifestations / Jonathan R. White -- Media representations of terrorism / John Downing -- Types of...

"This reference provides a review of the academic and popular literature on the relationship between communications and media studies, cinema, advertising, public relations, religion, food tourism, art, sports, technology, culture, marketing, and entertainment practices"--Provided by publisher.