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Rewire : digital cosmopolitans in the age of connection / Ethan Zuckerman.

By: Publication details: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, c2013.Edition: First editionDescription: vi, 312 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780393082838
  • 0393082830
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HM742 .Z83 2013
Contents:
Disconnet. Connection, infection, inspiration -- Imaginary cosmopolitanism -- When what we know is whom we know -- Rewire. Global voices -- Found in translation -- Taken in context -- Serendipity and the city -- The wider world. The connected shall inherit.
Summary: Zuckerman draws on his own work as well as the latest research in psychology and sociology to consider technology's role in disconnecting ourselves from the rest of the world. For those who seek a wider picture--a picture now critical for survival in an age of global economic crises and pandemics--Zuckerman highlights the challenges, and the headway already made, in truly connecting people across cultures.
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks HM742 .Z83 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001483451

Disconnet. Connection, infection, inspiration -- Imaginary cosmopolitanism -- When what we know is whom we know -- Rewire. Global voices -- Found in translation -- Taken in context -- Serendipity and the city -- The wider world. The connected shall inherit.

Zuckerman draws on his own work as well as the latest research in psychology and sociology to consider technology's role in disconnecting ourselves from the rest of the world. For those who seek a wider picture--a picture now critical for survival in an age of global economic crises and pandemics--Zuckerman highlights the challenges, and the headway already made, in truly connecting people across cultures.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-300) and index.

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