Profiling machines

mapping the personal information economy

In this book Greg Elmer brings the perspectives of cultural and media studies to the subject of consumer profiling and feedback technology in the digital economy. He examines the multiplicity of processes that monitor consumers and automatically collect, store, and cross-reference personal information. When we ...

Technology, television and competition

The Politics of Digital TV.

In the late 19805s and 1990s, the advanced industrial countries considered replacing the existing analog television infrastructure with a new digital one. A key common feature to the debates ayer digital TV (DTV) in the United States, Western Europe and japan was the eventual victory ...

Wireless data services

technologies business models and global markets

There are over 1.3 billion mobile subscribers around the world. It is interesting to note that wireless technologies have been adopted differently in key geographies such as Asia, Europe, and North America. Technologies such as i-mode in Japan, SMS in Europe, PDAs and Blackberry ...

Scheduled-based dynamic transit modeling

theory and applications

Schedule-Based Dynamic Transit Modeling: Theory and Applications outlines the new schedule-based dynamic approach to mass transit modeling. In the last ten years the schedule-based dynamic approach has been developed and applied especially for operational planning. It allows time evolution of on- board loads and travel ...

The laws of cool

knowledge work and the culture of information

Knowledge work is now the reigning business paradigm and affects even the world of higher education. But what perspective can the knowledge of the humanities and arts contribute to a world of knowledge work whose primary mission is business? And what is the role of ...

Understanding changing telecommunications

building a succesful telecom business

This volume will be an invaluable tool for all those needing a broad and complete view of the telecommunications industry, ranging from managers and planning staff with operators, service providers, network and terminal vendors, business analysts and investors to engineers and students. ÍNDICE:1 Introduction ...

A tale of two global cities

comparing the territorialities of telecommunications developments in Paris and London

Since the mid-1980s, telecommunications and information technologies (IT) have become more intensely bound up than ever before in the social, economic, political and cultural processes and transformations which are increasingly concentrated in and between key strategic urban places across the globe. By analysing telecommunications developments ...

Mobile disruption

the technologies and applications driving the mobile internet

* A disruptive technology is a technology or innovation that results in worse product performance different from the expected or predicted performance; an example is that the Internet accessible mobile phone was thought to be a portable substitute for the PC-the actual applications of mobile phones ...

AS media studies

the essential introduction

In full colour throughout and featuring new case studies, this fully revised and updated edition of the bestselling AS Media Studies: The Essential Introduction covers all aspects of Media Studies for students of the AS and A-level media syllabus. The authors, who are experienced teachers ...

Shaping the network society

the new role of civil society in cyberspace

Information and computer technologies are used every day by real people with real needs. The authors contributing to Shaping the Network Society describe how technology can be used effectively by communities, activists, and citizens to meet society's challenges. In their vision, computer professionals are ...

Telecommunications strategy

cases, theories and applications

The telecommunications industry is one of the most influential and significant global industries. As well as being fundamentally important to the health of the modern economy, it is going through a period of unprecedented change, facing a range of strategic challenges from globalization and cross-border ...

Turning the corner?

a reader in contemporary transport policy

This Reader provides a critical review of British transport policy since the Labour Government came into office in 1997 and looks at possible solutions to Britain#s ongoing transport problems. An authoritative reader providing a critical review of recent British transport policies. Looks at possible ...

Continentalizing Canadian telecommunications

the politics of regulatory reform

In Continentalizing Canadian Telecommunications Vanda Rideout examines active political resistance to the radical, neo-liberal transformation of Canadian telecommunications that has been orchestrated by the federal government, big business, and their powerful lobbyists over the last two decades. Rideout focuses on the protection of the public ...

Manual para la planificación, financiación e implantación de sistemas de transporte urbano

Con el propósito de servirde guía metodológica y de buenas prácticas a los gestores de la ciudad y a los estudios universitarios en materia de transporte, urbanismo e ingeniería municipal, el presente manual incide de forma detallada en todos los aspectos relacionados con la planificación ...

Mobile and wireless communications

key technologies and future applications

Two of the fastest growing sectors of communications today are mobile and Internet, both of which have had a profound effect on people's lives. The convergence between these two sectors not only presents great opportunities for the future of 'unplugged' telecommunications, but also great ...

Making public transport work

People have always traveled, but over the last century there has been an unprecedented increase in mobility. Hundreds of millions commute daily between home and work, relying more and more on cars and less on urban and intercity public transport. Faced with environmental concerns and ...

Más allá de Internet: la Red Universal Digital

x-economía y nuevo entorno tecnosocial

Hay una obra en construcción, casi invisible, que en parte ya inconscientemente habitamos, cuyos efectos revolucionan nuestras vidas y todas las formas sociales que el ser humano conoce. Es un enorme tejido de redes de tecnología digital, de las que si acaso solemos hablar por ...

Digital nation

toward an inclusive information society

As our social institutions migrate into cyberspace, the digitally disenfranchised face increasing hardships. What happens when -- in search of quick and cheap fixes -- a government office shuts down and is replaced by a public Web site? What happens when a company accepts only online job ...

The global Internet economy

By 2002, all but a handful of countries were connected to the Internet. The intertwining of the Internet and the globalization of finance, corporate governance, and trade raises questions about national models of technology development and property rights. The sudden ability of hundreds of millions ...

Multitudes inteligentes

la próxima revolución social

La multitud inteligente emerge cuando las tecnologías de la comunicación amplían los talentos humanos de cooperación. Pero los impactos de la tecnología que define la multitud inteligente ya han mostrado que pueden ser al mismo tiempo beneficiosos y destructivos. Algunos la emplean para apoyar la ...