information technology

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iDisorder

understanding our obsession with technology and overcoming its hold on us
2012
Psychology of technology expert Dr. Larry Rosen explains Internet addiction and the compulsive need to check in with technology and offers strategies to help overcome the obsession while still making use of technology.

How are online activities affecting society?

2014
With the proliferation of laptop computers, smartphones, and similar devices most people in the developed world perform myriad activities online every day, unable to escape this aspect of modern culture. Examine the effects of online activities on society.

Everything is miscellaneous

the power of the new digital disorder
2007
Explores how the digital revolution has influenced how humans view and understand their lives, describing the many aspects of life that are being redefined by computers, GPS, the Internet, MP3s, and other digital data forms.

The information age

2003
Contains over thirty essays in which the authors discuss issues related to the information age, discussing its effects on society and the economy, the government's role in regulation, and possible future uses of information technology.

The information revolution

opposing viewpoints
2004
Contains twenty-four essays which provide opposing opinions on the benefits and drawbacks of the information revolution, discussing its effects on society, education, and the rights to privacy, property, and free speech.

The master switch

the rise and fall of information empires
2010
An examination of the history of telecommunications that explains how new mediums become the object of industrial consolidation and theorizes how the Internet will be affected by corporate control.

Are privacy rights being violated?

2010
Focuses on, are privacy rights being violated?, offering a variety of perspectives, eyewitness accounts, governmental views, scientific analysis, newspaper and magazine accounts, and many more to illuminate this issue.

Electronic America

2005
Contains facts, tables, charts, and statistics on various aspects of the Internet and other electronics in the U.S., covering the rise of the Internet and cell phones and such topics as business, education, government, health resources, entertainment media, crime, daily life, and public opinion.

Information technology for learning

no school left behind
2003
Presents a rationale and a plan for forming Information and Technology Teams to lead in the implementation of technology in schools for the purpose of achieving the goal of contemporary literacy.

The Indispensable Librarian

Surviving (and Thriving) in School Media Centers in the Information Age
1997

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