Author: Bill Lessard
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
A funny, horrifying, compulsively readable expose of the cyber-sweatshop culture--a riveting read for anyone who is fascinated by the new Web society.
Netslaves
Author: Bill Lessard
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
A funny, horrifying, compulsively readable expose of the cyber-sweatshop culture--a riveting read for anyone who is fascinated by the new Web society.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
A funny, horrifying, compulsively readable expose of the cyber-sweatshop culture--a riveting read for anyone who is fascinated by the new Web society.
Net Slaves 2.0
Author: Steve Baldwin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1621531104
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Technology professionals, former employees of failed Internet start-ups, downsized corporate workers, and entrepreneurs eager to avoid mistakes of the recent past will be captivated by this humorous and poignant account of the human cost of the dot.com rise and fall. In the sequel to their acclaimed and successful NetSlaves: Tales of Working the Web, the authors profile the people affected by the rise and fall of Internet companies and where they are today. The coverage in this collection of post-dot.com experiences includes the "survivalists", who made it through the storm intact and continue to work in the industry; the "neo-luddites", who have shunned the Internet forever; the "vigilantes", who are screaming for justice for their mistreatment; and many others. By revealing the most absurd moments of "the bubble" and what really happened to the people displaced by the death of the New Economy, this volume is essential reading for anyone who wants to know what these events mean for the future of the Internet industry.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1621531104
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Technology professionals, former employees of failed Internet start-ups, downsized corporate workers, and entrepreneurs eager to avoid mistakes of the recent past will be captivated by this humorous and poignant account of the human cost of the dot.com rise and fall. In the sequel to their acclaimed and successful NetSlaves: Tales of Working the Web, the authors profile the people affected by the rise and fall of Internet companies and where they are today. The coverage in this collection of post-dot.com experiences includes the "survivalists", who made it through the storm intact and continue to work in the industry; the "neo-luddites", who have shunned the Internet forever; the "vigilantes", who are screaming for justice for their mistreatment; and many others. By revealing the most absurd moments of "the bubble" and what really happened to the people displaced by the death of the New Economy, this volume is essential reading for anyone who wants to know what these events mean for the future of the Internet industry.
Net Work
Author: H. Kennedy
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230356109
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
A detailed study of the work of web designers, drawing on empirical research carried out from the birth of web design as an area of work in the 1990s to its professionalisation in the twenty-first century.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230356109
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
A detailed study of the work of web designers, drawing on empirical research carried out from the birth of web design as an area of work in the 1990s to its professionalisation in the twenty-first century.
The Bookseller
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1474
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1474
Book Description
Color Monitors
Author: Martin Kevorkian
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501727389
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
"Color Monitors looks at a particular subset of imagined computer use, focusing on scenarios that demand from the person at the keyboard an intimate technical knowledge. My research has uncovered a peculiar pattern: race comes into sharp relief when computer use is depicted as difficult labor requiring special expertise. Time and again, in such scenarios, the helpful person of color is there to take the call—to provide technical support, to deal with the machines. In interpreting such images, Color Monitors analyzes the computer-fearing strain in American whiteness, an aspect of white identity that defines itself against information technology and the racial other imagined to love it and excel at it."—Martin KevorkianFollowing up on Ralph Ellison's intimation that blacks serve as "the machines inside the machine," Color Monitors examines the designation of black bodies as natural machines for the information age. Martin Kevorkian shows how African Americans are consistently depicted as highly skilled, intelligent, and technologically savvy as they work to solve complex computer problems in popular movies, corporate advertising, and contemporary fiction. But is this progress? Or do such seemingly positive depictions have more disturbing implications? Kevorkian provocatively asserts that whites' historical "fear of a black planet" has in the age of microprocessing converged with a new fear of computers and the possibility that digital imperatives will engulf human creativity.Analyzing escapist fantasies from Mission: Impossible to Minority Report, Kevorkian argues that the placement of a black man in front of a computer screen doubly reassures audiences: he is nonthreatening, safely occupied—even imprisoned—by the very machine he attempts to control, an occupation that simultaneously frees the action heroes from any electronic headaches. The study concludes with some alternatives to this scheme, looking to a network of recent authors, with shared affinities for Ellison and Pynchon, willing to think inside the black box of technology.Connecting race, technology, and American empire, Color Monitors will attract attention from scholars working in emerging areas of race theory, African American studies, film studies, cultural studies, and technology and communication studies.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501727389
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
"Color Monitors looks at a particular subset of imagined computer use, focusing on scenarios that demand from the person at the keyboard an intimate technical knowledge. My research has uncovered a peculiar pattern: race comes into sharp relief when computer use is depicted as difficult labor requiring special expertise. Time and again, in such scenarios, the helpful person of color is there to take the call—to provide technical support, to deal with the machines. In interpreting such images, Color Monitors analyzes the computer-fearing strain in American whiteness, an aspect of white identity that defines itself against information technology and the racial other imagined to love it and excel at it."—Martin KevorkianFollowing up on Ralph Ellison's intimation that blacks serve as "the machines inside the machine," Color Monitors examines the designation of black bodies as natural machines for the information age. Martin Kevorkian shows how African Americans are consistently depicted as highly skilled, intelligent, and technologically savvy as they work to solve complex computer problems in popular movies, corporate advertising, and contemporary fiction. But is this progress? Or do such seemingly positive depictions have more disturbing implications? Kevorkian provocatively asserts that whites' historical "fear of a black planet" has in the age of microprocessing converged with a new fear of computers and the possibility that digital imperatives will engulf human creativity.Analyzing escapist fantasies from Mission: Impossible to Minority Report, Kevorkian argues that the placement of a black man in front of a computer screen doubly reassures audiences: he is nonthreatening, safely occupied—even imprisoned—by the very machine he attempts to control, an occupation that simultaneously frees the action heroes from any electronic headaches. The study concludes with some alternatives to this scheme, looking to a network of recent authors, with shared affinities for Ellison and Pynchon, willing to think inside the black box of technology.Connecting race, technology, and American empire, Color Monitors will attract attention from scholars working in emerging areas of race theory, African American studies, film studies, cultural studies, and technology and communication studies.
The English Catalogue of Books [annual]
Author: Sampson Low
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
The English Catalogue of Books ...: 1801-1836. Ed. and comp. by R.A. Peddie and Q. Waddington. 1914
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The English Catalogue of Books [annual].
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Vols. 1898- include a directory of publishers.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Vols. 1898- include a directory of publishers.
Bookseller
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1212
Book Description
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1212
Book Description
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.