The digital age / [compiled by H.W. Wilson].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

H.W. Wilson Company.

Series:

Reference shelf ; v. 87, no. 4.

The reference shelf ; volume 87, number 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information society--United States--Sources.

Information society.

Privacy, Right of--United States--Sources.

Privacy, Right of.

Education--Data processing--Sources.

Education.

Economics--Data processing--Sources.

Economics.

Computer crimes--United States--Sources.

Computer crimes.

Internet and activism--United States--Sources.

Internet and activism.

Economics--Data processing.

Education--Data processing.

United States.

Genre:

Electronic reference sources.

Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 228 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Reference Shelf: The Digital Age

Place of Publication:

Amenia, New York : Grey House Publishing, 2015.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

"Digital technology has transformed our lives so completely that we hardly recognize it and so quickly that we have yet to grasp its implications. No industry has been left untouched; every aspect of how we communicate and how and where we get our information has been affected. We are connected as never before. Even the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court has said that a cellphone can contain the "sum of an individual's private life"--Surely a combination of the personal and the technological that is unique in history. Yet even as we gain greater and greater access to information, explore new avenues of creativity and new kinds of entertainment, and find new ways to express ourselves and integrate our social activities, we crave still more. Change is the only constant. How are we to make sense of this ever-shifting terrain--as we must, or be overwhelmed by it? The Digital Age challenges us to understand not only the great potential good offered by modern digital technology but its negative consequences: loss of privacy, erosion of face-to-face communication abilities, exposure to cybercrime, even such seemingly mundane consequences as the decline of handwriting among children. None of these issues is abstract; we need to know where digital technology is taking us."--Publisher's website.

Contents:

1. Individual rights. Toward a digital Bill of Rights

The Internet of things has arrived, and so have massive security issues / Andrew Rose

How your data are being deeply mined / Alice E. Marwick

Constitutional rights in the digital age / Nancy Leong

The right to be forgotten / Patricia J. Williams

How one stupid tweet blew up Justine Sacco's life / Jon Ronson

After the Silk Road conviction, Tor must be protected / Craig A. Newman

The NSA debate we should be having / Fred Kaplan

2. Culture, entertainment, and the media. The digital stage and its players

Generation Y, dating, and technology : digital natives struggle to connect offline / Lauren Lord

The selfie in the digital age : from social media to sexting / Holly Peek

Smartphones are killing us, and destroying public life / Henry Grabar

What's next for art in the digital age : a conversation to be continued / Lori Kozlowski

Her story : the computer game where True Detective meets Google / Keith Stuart

Beyond cute cats : how Buzzfeed is reinventing itself / Jennifer Saba

Content and its discontents / James Surowiecki

YouTube at 10 : how an online video site ate the pop culture machine / Caitlin Dewey

When you "literally can't even" understand your teenager / Amanda Hess

3. Education and the brain. The E-volution of education and thought

Can the iPad rescue a struggling American education system? / Christina Bonnington

Inside the flipped classroom / Katherine Mangan

Educational technology isn't leveling the playing field / Annie Murphy Paul

Will MOOCs be flukes? / Maria Konnikova

What's lost as handwriting fades? / Maria Konnikova

Why digital natives prefer reading in print. Yes, you read that right. / Michael S. Rosenwald

Think fast ; smartwatch slices thought into eight-second bursts / Kevin Maney

Digital natives, yet strangers to the Web / Alia Wong

4. Crime and justice. Digital delinquency and its repercussions. Online piracy grows, reflecting consumer trends / Tom Risen

When bullying goes high-tech / Elizabeth Landau

Digital harassment is the new means of domestic abuse / Keli Goff

The downfall of the most hated man on the Internet / Emily Greenhouse

Minnesota detectives crack the case with digital forensics / Shannon Prather

Hollywood-style surveillance technology inches closer to reality / GW Schultz

Hacker or spy? In today's cyberattacks, finding the culprit is a troubling puzzle / Bruce Schneier

The Dark Web remains / Russell Berman

Eyes wide open to problems experienced by black men / Dan Rodricks

5. Economy and the workforce. Surf and spend economics. Gross domestic freebie / James Surowiecki

What the sharing economy takes / Doug Henwood

Cryptocurrency exchanges emerge as regulators try to keep up / Larry Greenemeier

Silicon Valley gender gap is widening / Jessica Guynn

Net neutrality : how the government finally got it right / Tim Wu

How robots & algorithms are taking over / Sue Halpern

6. Politics and globalism. Virtual war and peace. Welcome to the age of digital imperialism / Bill Wasik

The mobile election : how smartphones will change the 2016 presidential race / Dylan Byers

Activism or slacktivism? How social media hurts and helps student activism / Kate Essig

Hashtag activism isn't a cop-out / Noah Berlatsky

Scholars re-examine Arab world's "Facebook revolutions" / Ursula Lindsey

How ISIS succeeds on social media where #StopKony fails / J.M. Berger

When blasphemy goes viral / Christopher S. Grenda and Chris Beneke

Is drone warfare fraying at the edges? / Pratap Chatterjee.

Notes:

Series previously published by H.W. Wilson, a division of EBSCO Information Services.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description from print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Digital age.

OCLC:

921891843

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