Title:
Computers in society 10/11
Edition:
16th ed.
Publication Information:
New York : McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 2011
ISBN:
9780073528588
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Table of Contents
| Preface |
| Correlation Guide |
| Topic Guide |
| Internet References |
| Unit 1 Introduction |
| Unit Overview |
| 1 Five Things We Need to Know about Technological ChangeNeil Postman, New Tech '98 Conference, March 27, 1998 |
| 2 Moore's Law and Technological Determinism: Reflections on the History of TechnologyPaul E. Ceruzzi, Technology and Culture, July 2005 |
| Unit 2 The Economy |
| Unit Overview |
| 3 Click Fraud: The Dark Side of Online AdvertisingBrian Grow and Ben Elgin, BusinessWeek, October 2, 2006 |
| 4 Online Salvation?Paul Farhi, American Journalism Review, December 2007/January 2008 |
| 5 Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network's Plan to Dominate the Internet-and Keep Google OutFred Vogelstein, Wired, July 2009 |
| 6 Beyond BlogsStephen Baker and Heather Green, BusinessWeek, June 2, 2008 |
| 7 Personally Controlled Online Health Data-The Next Big Thing in Medical Care?Robert Steinbrook, MD, The New England Journal of Medicine, April 17, 2008 |
| Unit 3 Work and the Workplace |
| Unit Overview |
| 8 National ID: Biometrics Pinned to Social Security CardsRyan Singel, Wired, May 15, 2007 |
| 9 Dilberts of the World, Unite!David Sirota, The Nation, June 23, 2008 |
| 10 Computer Software Engineers, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2006/07 Edition |
| 11 How Deep Can You Probe?Rita Zeidner, HR Magazine, October 2007 |
| 12 Privacy, Legislation, and Surveillance SoftwareG. Daryl Nord and Tipton F. McCubbins and Jeretta Horn Nord, Communications of the ACM, August 2006 |
| Unit 4 Computers, People, and Social Participation |
| Unit Overview |
| 13 Is Google Making Us Stupid?Nicholas Carr, The Atlantic, July 2008 |
| 14 The End of SolitudeWilliam Deresiewicz, The Chronicle Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 30, 2009 |
| 15 Girl PowerChuck Salter, Fast Company, September 2007 |
| 16 Bloggers against TortureNegar Azimi, The Nation, February 19, 2007 |
| 17 It's Not Easy to Stand up to Cyberbullies, but We MustRobert M. O'Neil, The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 11, 2008 |
| 18 The Nike Experiment: How the Shoe Giant Unleashed the Power of Personal MetricsMark McClusky, Wired, July 2009 |
| 19 Center StageCarl Sessions Stepp, American Journalism Review, April/May 2006 |
| 20 E-Mail Is for Old PeopleDan Carnevale, The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 6, 2006 |
| Unit 5 Societal Institutions: Law, Politics, Education, and the Military |
| Unit Overview |
| 21 The Coming Robot ArmySteve Featherstone, Harper's Magazine, February 2007 |
| 22 Google & the Future of BooksRobert Darnton, The New York Review of Books, February 12, 2009 |
| 23 Archiving Writers' Work in the Age of E-MailSteve Kolowich, The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 10, 2009 |
| 24 Wikipedia in the NewsroomDonna Shaw, American Journalism Review, February/March 2008 |
| 25 E-Mail in Academia: Expectations, Use, and Instructional ImpactMeredith Weiss and Dana Hanson-Baldauf, Educause Quarterly, Number 1 2008 |
| Unit 6 Risk and Avoiding Risk |
| Unit Overview |
| 26 A Growing Watch ListKaren DeYoung, The Washington Post National Weekly Edition, April 2-8, 2007 |
| 27 The Evolution of Cyber WarfareGreg Bruno, Backgrounder: Council on Foreign Relations, February 27, 2008 |
| 28 Geeks and Hackers, Uncle Sam's Cyber Force Wants You!William J. Astore, The Nation, June 5, 2008 |
| 29 Privacy Requires Security, Not Abstinence: Protecting an Inalienable Right in the Age of FacebookSimson Garfinkel, Technology Review, July/August 2009 |
| 30 The Software Wars: Why You Can't Understand Your ComputerPaul De Palma, American Scholar, Winter 2005 |
| 31 False Reporting on the Internet and the Spread of Rumors: Three Case StudiesPaul Hitlin, gnovis, April 26, 2004 |
| Unit 7 International Perspectives and Issues |
| Unit Overview |
| 32 China's Tech Generation Finds a New Chairman to VenerateKevin Holden, Wired, May 24, 2007 |
| 33 New Tech, Old HabitsMoon Ihlwan and Kenji Hall, BusinessWeek, March 26, 2007 |
| 34 Iran's Twitter Revolution? Maybe Not YetJoel Schectman, BusinessWeek, June 17, 2009 |
| 35 The List: Look Who's Censoring the Internet NowJoshua Keating, Foreign Policy, March 2009 |
| 36 Dissent Made Safer: How Anonymity Technology Could Save Free Speech on the InternetDavid Talbot, Technology Review, August 15, 2009 |
| Unit 8 The Frontier of Computing |
| Unit Overview |
| 37 A Nascent Robotics Culture: New Complicities for CompanionshipSherry Turkle, AAAI Technical Report, July 2006 |
| 38 Toward Nature-Inspired ComputingJiming Liu and K. C. Tsui, Communications of the ACM, October 2006 |
| 39 Google and the Wisdom of CloudsStephen Baker, BusinessWeek, December 24, 2007 |
| 40 Cloud ComputingBrian Hayes, Communications of the ACM, July 2008 |
| 41 The Coming SuperbrainJohn Markoff, The New York Times, May 24, 2009 |
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| Article Rating Form |
