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2012., Wiley ; John Wiley [distributor] Call No: NEW 004.678 L665i Edition: 13th ed. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: --For dummiesSummary Note: "Learn to: Pick the web browser that works best for you; Set up e-mail and find anything with a web search; Take advantage of Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites; Stream media on your PC or mobile device"--Cover.
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Ã2018., University of Toronto Press Call No: 302.23 M954i Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Ashesh Mukherjee uses the latest research in consumer psychology to highlight five hidden costs of living online: too many temptations, too much information, too much customization, too many comparisons, and too little privacy. The book provides actionable solutions to minimize these costs. This book provides a new perspective on the dark side of the internet, and gives readers the tools to become a smart user of the internet. Residence: Montreal, QC.
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-- Four nineteen.2012., Adult, Viking Call No: Fic Fer Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Step into the world's most insidious Internet scam that begins with a single email: "Dear Sir, I am the son of an exiled Nigerian diplomat, and I need your help...". When Laura's father gets caught up in one such swindle and pays with his life, she is forced to leave the comfort of North America to make a journey deep into the dangerous back streets and alleyways of the Lagos underworld to confront her father's killer. A story of love in a time of darkness, of one woman's search for redemption, and of a young boy who will triumph above it all.
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2013., Adult, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Call No: MYS Fic Hol Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Carnivia trilogy Volume: 1Summary Note: "When a woman's body is found wearing the sacred robes of a Catholic priest--a desecration known as the Abomination, Captain Kat Tapo of the Carabinieri unravels a dark conspiracy that tests her loyalties, in this thrilling novel that is set in two Venices--the physical world and its virtual counterpart."--NoveList.
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2019., Riverhead Books Call No: 302.231 M133b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language. Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are structured by the shape of our apps and platforms, from the grammar of status updates to the protocols of comments and @replies. Linguistically inventive online communities spread new slang and jargon with dizzying speed. What's more, social media is a vast laboratory of unedited, unfiltered words where we can watch language evolve in real time. Even the most absurd-looking slang has genuine patterns behind it. Internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch explores the deep forces that shape human language and influence the way we communicate with one another. She explains how your first social internet experience influences whether you prefer "LOL" or "lol," why ̃sparkly tildes̃ succeeded where centuries of proposals for irony punctuation had failed, what emoji have in common with physical gestures, and how the artfully disarrayed language of animal memes like lolcats and doggo made them more likely to spread. Because Internet is essential reading for anyone who's ever puzzled over how to punctuate a text message or wondered where memes come from. It's the perfect book for understanding how the internet is changing the English language, why that's a good thing, and what our online interactions reveal about who we are"--
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2019., MIT Press Call No: 174.9 S775b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: How to repair the disconnect between designers and users, producers and consumers, and tech elites and the rest of us: toward a more democratic internet. In this provocative book, Ramesh Srinivasan describes the internet as both an enabler of frictionless efficiency and a dirty tangle of politics, economics, and other inefficient, inharmonious human activities. We may love the immediacy of Google search results, the convenience of buying from Amazon, and the elegance and power of our Apple devices, but it's a one-way, top-down process. We're not asked for our input, or our opinions--only for our data. The internet is brought to us by wealthy technologists in Silicon Valley and China. It's time, Srinivasan argues, that we think in terms beyond the Valley. Srinivasan focuses on the disconnection he sees between designers and users, producers and consumers, and tech elites and the rest of us. The recent Cambridge Analytica and Russian misinformation scandals exemplify the imbalance of a digital world that puts profits before inclusivity and democracy. In search of a more democratic internet, Srinivasan takes us to the mountains of Oaxaca, East and West Africa, China, Scandinavia, North America, and elsewhere, visiting the "design labs" of rural, low-income, and indigenous people around the world. He talks to a range of high-profile public figures--including Elizabeth Warren, David Axelrod, Eric Holder, Noam Chomsky, Lawrence Lessig, and the founders of Reddit, as well as community organizers, labor leaders, and human rights activists. To make a better internet, Srinivasan says, we need a new ethic of diversity, openness, and inclusivity, empowering those now excluded from decisions about how technologies are designed, who profits from them, and who are surveilled and exploited by them.
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2013., General, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Call No: Fic Del Edition: 1st Canadian ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Game trilogy Volume: bk. 3Summary Note: HP is now living off the grid, convinced he is being hunted by both the police and the masterminds behind the Game. With no one to trust and the boundaries between reality and the virtual worlds dangerously blurred, he resolves to complete one final mission in order to expose the Game and uncover the truth behind it. Ousted from the police force, Rebecca is in crisis, self-medicating to cope with stress. When she finds a safe-deposit box that belonged to her father, she is shocked to find that it contains a gun and several passports.
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2013., General, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Call No: Fic Del Edition: 1st Canadian ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Game trilogy Volume: bk. 2Summary Note: The Game has brought HP Pettersson wealth and freedom, but his newly comfortable life is a little - unsatisfying. He misses the danger, and the adrenalin rush. When he meets the rich and beautiful Anna Argos in a luxurious Dubai hotel, life instantly gets more interesting. But there is something mysterious lurking beneath Anna's cool surface - and there's something unsettling about her cellphone. Rebecca Normen is now heading up an elite bodyguard team and thinks she's put her personal demons behind her, but everything changes when she learns of a web forum containing threatening posts that obviously refer to her.
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[2017]., Lionsgate Call No: DVD Fic Circle Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: 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 friends, family and that of humanity.
![The circle [DVD] (2017). Directed by James Ponsoldt.](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "The circle [DVD] (2017). Directed by James Ponsoldt.")
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c2004., Cisco Press Call No: Computer Networking Edition: 2nd ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Cisco career certification.
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-- World-wide struggle for Internet freedom.c2012., Basic Books Call No: 302.231 M158c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Google has a history of censoring at the behest of Communist China. Research in Motion happily opens up the BlackBerry to such stalwarts of liberty as Saudi Arabia. Yahoo has betrayed the email accounts of dissidents to the PRC. Facebook's obsession with personal transparency has revealed the identities of protestors to governments. For all the overheated rhetoric of liberty and cyber-utopia, it is clear that the corporations that rule cyberspace are making decisions that show little or no concern for their impact on political freedom. In Consent of the Networked, internet policy specialist Rebecca MacKinnon argues that it's time for us to demand that our rights and freedoms are respected and protected before they're sold, legislated, programmed, and engineered away. The challenge is that building accountability into the fabric of cyberspace demands radical thinking in a completely new dimension. The corporations that build and operate the technologies that create and shape our digital world are fundamentally different from the Chevrons, Nikes, and Nabiscos whose behavior and standards can be regulated quite effectively by laws, courts, and bureaucracies answerable to voters.The public revolt against the sovereigns of cyberspace will be useless if it focuses downstream at the point of law and regulation, long after the software code has already been written, shipped, and embedded itself into the lives of millions of people. The revolution must be focused upstream at the source of the problem. Political innovation - the negotiated relationship between people with power and people whose interests and rights are affected by that power - needs to center around the point of technological conception, experimentation, and early implementation. The purpose of technology - and of the corporations that make it - is to serve humanity, not the other way around. It's time to wake up and act before the reversal becomes permanent. -- From publisher description.
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By Keen, Andrewc2007., Doubleday/Currency Call No: 303.4833 K26c Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryTable of contents only Summary Note: Silicon Valley insider and pundit Andrew Keen claims that today's new participatory Web 2.0 threatens our values, economy, and ultimately the very innovation and creativity that forms the fabric of American achievement. In today's self-broadcasting culture, where amateurism is celebrated and anyone with an opinion, however ill-informed, can publish a blog, post a video on YouTube, or change an entry on Wikipedia, the distinction between trained expert and uninformed amateur becomes blurred. When bloggers and videographers, unconstrained by professional standards or editorial filters, can manipulate public opinion, truth becomes a commodity to be bought, sold, packaged, and reinvented. The anonymity that Web 2.0 offers calls into question the reliability of the information we receive and creates an environment in which sexual predators and identity thieves can roam free. Keen urges us to consider the consequences of supporting a culture that endorses plagiarism and piracy and weakens traditional media and creative institutions.--From publisher description.
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2011., Three Rivers Press Call No: 616.85 S571d Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch Summary Note: "From a leading technology reporter comes the first self-help book to address America's newest addiction. Anxiety about the red blinking light on your Blackberry? The impulse to google the answer to every question? The urge to text while driving? The need to tweet every observation? We all know someone who needs a digital diet. Technology has overwhelmed our daily lives to the point of constant distraction and many of us can no longer focus on a single task or face-to-face conversation without wanting to reach out--or retreat--to the virtual world every few minutes, or even every few seconds. Daniel Sieberg has devised a foolproof 28-day plan to regain control, focus, and true connection in life. This program will enable us to manage and use the technology in our lives to our advantage, without letting it control us"--
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c2011., Adult, House of Anansi Press Series Title: Ava Lee Volume: 2Summary Note: "Uncle and Ava are hired by Tommy Ordonez, the richest man in the Philippines, to recover $50 million in a land swindle that took place in Canada. Ava tracks the missing funds from Canada to San Francisco to accounts in Costa Rica owned by the Moneida, a First Nations band that owns and operates The River, an online poker web site. Ava uncovers an illegal online gambling ring, and follows the trail to Las Vegas. There, she confronts one of the greatest poker players in the world, David "The Disciple" Douglas. From the author of The Water Rat of Wanchal. "--Publisher.
![Disciple of Las Vegas [eBook] : an Ava Lee novel](/Library/images/~imageCT73801.JPG "Disciple of Las Vegas [eBook] : an Ava Lee novel")
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2013., Adult, McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: 809.911 S678e Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Can a case be made for reading literature in the digital age? Does literature still matter in this era of instant information? Is it even possible to advocate for serious, sustained reading with all manner of social media distracting us, fragmenting our concentration, and demanding short, rapid communication? In The Edge of the Precipice, Paul Socken brings together a thoughtful group of writers, editors, philosophers, librarians, archivists, and literary critics from Canada, the US, France, England, South Africa, and Australia to contemplate the state of literature in the twenty-first century."--Back cover.
