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New perspectives in critical data studies : the ambivalences of data power
This Open Access book examines the ambivalences of data power. Firstly, the ambivalences between global infrastructures and local invisibilities challenge the grand narrative of the ephemeral nature of a global data infrastructure. They make visible local working and living conditions, and the resources and arrangements required to operate and run them. Secondly, the book examines ambivalences …
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- 9783030961800
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- xxv + 473
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- 303.483 NEW n
Co-creating digital public services for an ageing society : evidence for user…
This open access book attends to the co-creation of digital public services for ageing societies. Increasingly public services are provided in digital form; their uptake however remains well below expectations. In particular, amongst older adults the need for public services is high, while at the same time the uptake of digital services is lower than the population average. One of the reasons i…
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- 9783030528737
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- xviii, 228p. : ill.
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- 352.3802854678 JAR c
The Datafication of education
"This paper considers the social value of anonymity in online university student communities, through the presentation of research which tracked the final year of life of the social media application Yik Yak. Yik Yak was an anonymous, geosocial mobile application launched in 2013 which, at its peak in 2014, was used by around two million students in the US and UK. The research we report here is…
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- 130 p.; 22 cm.
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- 370.21 JAR d
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