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Free Download Matthew L Smith, "Open Development: Networked Innovations in International Development"
English | ISBN: 0262525410 | 2014 | 369 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
The emergence of open networked models made possible by digital technology has the potential to transform international development. Open network structures allow people to come together to share information, organize, and collaborate. Open development harnesses this power, to create new organizational forms and improve people’s lives; it is not only an agenda for research and practice but also a statement about how to approach international development. In this volume, experts explore a variety of applications of openness, addressing challenges as well as opportunities.

Free Download Nathan R. Johnson, "Architects of Memory: Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age "
English | ISBN: 0817320601 | 2020 | 224 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Probes the development of information management after World War II and its consequences for public memory and human agency

Free Download Networked Bollywood: How Star Power Globalized Hindi Cinema
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009400614 | 334 Pages | PDF | 29 MB
Networked Bollywood provides interdisciplinary analysis of the role of the stars in the transformation of Hindi cinema into a global entertainment industry. The first Indian film was made in 1913. However, filmmaking was recognized as an industry almost a hundred years later. Yet, Indian films have been circulating globally since their inception. This book unearths this oft-elided history of Bollywood’s globalization through multilingual, transnational research and discursive cultural analysis. The author illustrates how over the decades, a handful of primarily male megastars, as the heads of the industry’s most prominent productions and corporations, combined overwhelming charismatic affect with unparalleled business influence. Through their "star switching power," theorized here as a deeply gendered phenomenon and manifesting broader social inequalities, India’s most prominent stars instigated new flows of cinema, industrial collaborations, structured distinctive business models, influenced state policy and diplomatic exchange, thereby defining the future of Bollywood’s globalization.

Free Download Large Area Networked Detectors for Particle Astrophysics (322 Pages)
by Pierre Sokolsky & Gus Sinnis
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1800612605 | 323 pages | True PDF EPUB | 137.78 MB

Free Download Digitizing Identities Doing Identity in a Networked World By Irma van der Ploeg, Jason Pridmore
2016 | 308 Pages | ISBN: 1138794635 | PDF | 2 MB
This book explores contemporary transformations of identities in a digitizing society across a range of domains of modern life. As digital technology and ICTs have come to pervade virtually all aspects of modern societies, the routine registration of personal data has increased exponentially, thus allowing a proliferation of new ways of establishing who we are. Rather than representing straightforward progress, however, these new practices generate important moral and socio-political concerns. While access to and control over personal data is at the heart of many contemporary strategic innovations domains as diverse as migration management, law enforcement, crime and health prevention, "e-governance," internal and external security, to new business models and marketing tools, we also see new forms of exclusion, exploitation, and disadvantage emerging.

Free Download Iceland’s Networked Society: Revealing How the Global Affairs of the Viking Age Created New Forms of Social Complexity
by Tara Carter
English | 2015 | ISBN: 9004289135 | 384 Pages | True PDF | 15 MB

Free Download Iceland’s Networked Society: Revealing How the Global Affairs of the Viking Age Created New Forms of Social Complexity
by Tara Carter
English | 2015 | ISBN: 9004289135 | 384 Pages | True PDF | 15 MB

Free Download Proxy Politics: Power and Subversion in a Networked Age By Research Center for Proxy Politics
2017 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 3943620719 | PDF | 11 MB
Goldin+Senneby, Brian Holmes, Nick Houde, Jonathan Jung, Laura Katzauer, Boaz Levin, Mikk Madisson, Doreen Mende, Sondra Perry, Oleksiy Radynski, Robert Rapoport, Hito Steyerl, thricedotted, Vera Tollmann, Miloš Trakilović. The proxy, a decoy or surrogate, is today often used to designate a computer server acting as an intermediary for requests from clients. Originating in the Latin procurator, an agent representing others in a court of law, proxies are now emblematic of a post-democratic political age, one increasingly populated by bot militias, puppet states, and communication relays. Thus, the proxy works as a dialectical figure that is woven into the fabric of networks, where action and stance seem to be masked, calculated and remote-controlled. This publication looks at proxy-politics on both a micro and a macro level, exploring proxies as objects, as well as networks as objects. What is the relation between the molecular and the planetary? How to fathom the computational regime? Yet, whilst being a manifestation of the networked age, thinking like a proxy offers loopholes and strategies for survival within it. The Research Center for Proxy Politics (RCPP) explores and reflects upon the nature of medial networks and their actors. Between September 2014 and August 2017, the center hosted workshops, lectures and events at the Universität der Künste, Berlin, under the auspices of Hito Steyerl’s Lensbased class. RCPP is run by Boaz Levin and Vera Tollmann.

Free Download Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science By Nielsen, Michael
2011 | 264 Pages | ISBN: 0691148902 | PDF | 2 MB
InReinventing Discovery, Michael Nielsen argues that we are living at the dawn of the most dramatic change in science in more than 300 years. This change is being driven by powerful new cognitive tools, enabled by the internet, which are greatly accelerating scientific discovery. There are many books about how the internet is changing business or the workplace or government. But this is the first book about something much more fundamental: how the internet is transforming the nature of our collective intelligence and how we understand the world.Reinventing Discoverytells the exciting story of an unprecedented new era of networked science. We learn, for example, how mathematicians in the Polymath Project are spontaneously coming together to collaborate online, tackling and rapidly demolishing previously unsolved problems. We learn how 250,000 amateur astronomers are working together in a project called Galaxy Zoo to understand the large-scale structure of the Universe, and how they are making astonishing discoveries, including an entirely new kind of galaxy. These efforts are just a small part of the larger story told in this book–the story of how scientists are using the internet to dramatically expand our problem-solving ability and increase our combined brainpower.This is a book for anyone who wants to understand how the online world is revolutionizing scientific discovery today–and why the revolution is just beginning.

Free Download Output Regulation and Cybersecurity of Networked Switched Systems
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031309715 | 351 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 35 MB
Networked switched system has emerged as an essential system model in the field of control due to its accurate reflection of the wide-area distribution and typical switching characteristics of increasingly sophisticated controlled objects in engineering practice. The openness of communication networks, the limitation of communication resources, and the complexity of switching behaviors make it a challenging task to ensure the steady-state and transient performance of the output regulation of networked switched systems.