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Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The author of In the Mind Fields now gives us a comprehensive journalistic exploration of our culture's flagging ability to pay attention, infused with the personal struggles and insights of a woman coming to terms with the demands and distractions of the information age. The average American checks their phone 150 times a day, but we touch our phones about 2,617 times in those same hours. Casey Schwartz wants to understand this change in our lives...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Tiffany Shlain explores how turning off screens one day a week can work wonders on your brain, body, and soul." -- from book jacket flap.
Shlain explores how turning off screens one day a week can work wonders on your brain, body, and soul. Turning off all screens for twenty-four hours each week-- which she's done for nearly a decade with her husband and kids is giving them more time, productivity, connection, and presence. Drawing on the ancient...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Combining a journalist's investigative eye with her unborn second child as an experimental guinea pig, Baby, Unplugged draws on Sophie Brickman's own experiences as a journalist and parent to try to discover what aspects of technology are actually helpful, which are making us crazy, and most importantly, how we might learn to trust ourselves and our instincts again when it comes to raising children"--
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
There's no doubt that technology has made it easier to communicate. It's also easier to shut someone out when we are confronted with online discourse. Why bother to understand strangers--or even acquaintances--when you can troll them, block them, or just click "Unfriend" and never look back? However briefly satisfying that might be, it's also potentially eroding one of our most human traits: empathy. So what does the future look like when something...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A pair of technology experts describe how humans will have to keep pace with machines in order to become prosperous in the future and identify strategies and policies for business and individuals to use to combine digital processing power with human ingenuity.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
You are under surveillance right now... your cell phone provider tracks your location, your online and in-store purchasing patterns are recorded, Facebook can determine your sexual orientation without you ever mentioning it. Corporations use surveillance to manipulate the prices we're offered; governments use surveillance to discriminate, censor, and put people in danger worldwide. Schneier shows what we can do to reform our government surveillance...
Series
Publisher
ALA Editions
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This book surveys approaches to knowledge management (KM) that address hierarchical power structures and internal competition to get measurable results. With insights from case studies at academic and special libraries, this book covers demystifying KM by reframing it to reflect organizational needs; six elements of an actionable knowledge audit; harvesting staff insights; effective communities of practice; platforms and library tools; fostering knowledge...
49) Dragnet nation: a quest for privacy, security, and freedom in a world of relentless surveillance
Author
Publisher
Times Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Currency
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A penetrating indictment of how today's largest tech companies are hijacking our data, our livelihoods, our social fabric, and our minds-from an acclaimed Financial Times columnist and CNN analyst. Rana Foroohar tells the story of how Big Tech lost its soul-and ate our lunch. Through her skilled reporting and unparalleled access-won through nearly thirty years covering business and technology-she shows the true extent to which behemoths like Google,...
Series
Publisher
ALA Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Futurists predict that soon the profession of "lawyer" will splinter into job titles like "legal process analyst" or "legal knowledge engineer", and many law schools have developed innovation centers to explore artificial intelligence (AI) and the law. This collection explains the innovations, tools, benefits, and risks of AI in law librarianship; surveys current practices and future trends; and examines evolving roles for law librarians and how AI...
Author
Series
Publisher
ALA Editions, an imprint of the American Library Association
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This guide offers dozens of design thinking exercises, such as rapid prototyping, empathy mapping, and logic models, as part of a start-to-finish model for developing a new program concept. It also provides information about ways to connect with the community, and how to move technology beyond the walls of the library.
55) G Suite
Author
Series
Publisher
For Dummies, a Wiley brand
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
G Suite For Dummies is the fun guide to the productivity suite that's quickly winning over professional and personal users. This book shares the steps on how to collaborate in the cloud, create documents and spreadsheets, build presentations, and connect with chat or video. Written in the easy-to-follow For Dummies style, G Suite For Dummies covers the essential components of Google's popular software, including: Google Docs for word processing, Gmail...
56) The Circle
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Mae is hired to work for the world's largest and most powerful tech and social media company, she sees it as an opportunity. As she rises through the ranks, she is encouraged by the company's founder, Eamon Bailey, to engage in a groundbreaking experiment that pushes the boundaries of privacy, ethics and ultimately her personal freedom. Her participation in the experiment, and every decision she makes begin to affect the lives and future of her...
Series
Publisher
ALA Neal-Schuman
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This information literacy framework, including effective metaliteracy teaching and learning practices, ensures learners can successfully navigate the proliferation of fake news, questionable content, and outright denialism of facts in today's information morass. It examines the most recent Metaliteracy Goals and Learning Objectives, four domains of metaliterate learning, and metaliteracy's relationship to the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller from Steve Case—the co-founder of AOL—presents "a compelling roadmap for the future...that can help us make sense of the technological changes reshaping our economy and the world. A fascinating read" (Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO and founder of LeanIn.org).
Steve Case—a pioneer who made the Internet part of everyday life—was on the leading edge...
Steve Case—a pioneer who made the Internet part of everyday life—was on the leading edge...
Author
Publisher
RP Kids
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A quirky, radio-drama inspired middle grade novel [inspired by] WHYY children's podcast Eleanor Amplified, following a tenacious investigative reporter on her latest adventure to get the whole story and save Union City from evil"--Provided by publisher.
60) Anonymity
Author
Series
Publisher
ALA Neal-Schuman
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
This book explores the roles and ramifications of anonymity. In the virtual realm, anonymity means that such bedrock values of librarianship as privacy, free speech, and intellectual freedom coexist uneasily with the proliferation of fake news, sexist and racist sentiments, and repugnant ideologies. The book covers apps and forums that promote anonymity as a central feature, and how anonymous content has become valuable fodder for news organizations...
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