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Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful Internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users' personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass...
4) Attachments
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Beth and Jennifer know their company monitors their office email. But the women still spend all day sending each other messages, gossiping about their coworkers at the newspaper and baring their personal lives like an open book. When Lincoln applied to be an Internet security officer, he never imagined he'd be sifting through other people's inboxes like a peeping Tom. But he can't quite bear to crack down on Beth and Jennifer.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The internet is an extremely noisy place. Why does some content break through and reach millions of people--while so much else doesn't? The odds of landing your video on YouTube's front page are a staggering one in two million. But Tim Staples has beaten those odds thirty-five times and has built a thriving business in the process. As the CEO of Shareability, Staples launched a multimillion-dollar headphone brand by filming soccer star Cristiano...
7) Dark corners
Author
Series
Rachel Krall investigations volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Rachel Krall, the true crime podcaster star of Megan Goldin's acclaimed Night Swim returns to search for a popular social media influencer who disappeared after visiting a suspected serial killer. Terence Bailey is about to be released from prison for breaking and entering, though investigators have long suspected him in the murders of six women. As his freedom approaches, Bailey gets a surprise visit from Maddison Logan, a hot, young influencer...
Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Using the AASL Standards Framework for Learners, the Create and Share: Thinking Digitally series provides younger readers with the necessary tools to successfully and safely navigate the digital world. In Evaluating Online Sources, readers learn how to evaluate sources found online. Activities throughout the book prompt students to think more deeply, be creative, share information and resources, and grow their knowledge. Book includes a table of...
Author
Language
English
Description
Foreword by Steven Pinker
Blending the informed analysis of The Signal and the Noise with the instructive iconoclasm of Think Like a Freak, a fascinating, illuminating, and witty look at what the vast amounts of information now instantly available to us reveals about ourselves and our world—provided we ask the right questions.
By the end of an average day in the early twenty-first century,
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Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"Today's babies often make their debut on social media with the very first sonogram. They begin interacting with screens at around four months old. But is this good news or bad news? A wonderful opportunity to connect around the world? Or the first step in creating a generation of addled screen zombies? Many have been quick to declare this the dawn of a neurological and emotional crisis, but solid science on the subject is surprisingly hard to come...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The definitive, deeply reported account of YouTube, the company that upended media, culture, industry, and democracy-by a leading tech journalist Across the world, people watch over a billion hours of video on YouTube every day. The sheer amount of video produced there is beyond comprehension. Every minute, over five hundred hours of footage are uploaded to the site, the equivalent of eighty-two years of video added a day. That anyone can easily...
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Using real-world examples set within the context of a child who is using the internet for the first time and watching an older sibling interact with social media, Dr. Roberts takes readers through several common scenarios around parental supervision, online bullying and anonymity. She also includes examples of people who use the internet to make the world a better place. On the Internet addresses common safety concerns in a child-centered way and...
Author
Language
English
Description
The comedian and Internet star shares her experiences with family, sexuality, mental health, friendship & love in this New York Times–bestselling memoir.
The wildly popular YouTube personality, star of Food Network's I Hart Food, and author of the New York Times–bestseller My Drunk Kitchen is back! This time, she's stirring up memories and tales from her past.
By combing through the journals that Hannah...
The wildly popular YouTube personality, star of Food Network's I Hart Food, and author of the New York Times–bestseller My Drunk Kitchen is back! This time, she's stirring up memories and tales from her past.
By combing through the journals that Hannah...
Author
Publisher
Glen Cove Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Young children have unprecedented access to the internet. They deserve to be armed early against its dangers! Good Pictures Bad Pictures Jr.: A Simple Plan to Protect Young Minds makes it easy for proactive parents to protect young children ages 3-6.Written by Kristen A. Jenson, best-selling author of Good Pictures Bad Pictures: Porn-Proofing Today's Young Kids, this book teaches young kids what bad pictures are and what to do if they see them.Using...
Author
Publisher
Columbia Global Reports
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The internet was designed to be a kind of free-speech paradise, but a lot of the material on it turned out to incite violence, spread untruth, and promote hate. Over the years, three American behemoths--Facebook, YouTube and Twitter--became the way most of the world experiences the internet, and therefore the conveyors of much of its disturbing material. What should be done about this enormous problem? Should the giant social media platforms police...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"This is a call to arms about how to bring the big online platforms to their knees. It concerns the question of interoperability: the way that Facebook, Twitter etc make it very difficult for you to move and own your data. Doctorow shows that this is not a problem of technology but of law, business and apathy in face of growing monopolies. He covers ground such as anti-trust, and how the platforms deal with take down orders. Through this he shows...
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