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Statistics about identity theft from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) are staggering. The FTC now says that as many as one in every eight adults and one in every four households has been victimized by identity thieves in the past five years. To make matters even worse, if you end up a victim of identity theft, it can take years to clean up the mess. The FTC defines identity theft as stealing personal information such as your name, credit card number,...
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What is Wikileaks and how does it work? Wikileaks aims to expose secrets and make available important, and often classified, information to the public. The organization's commitment to encouraging and protecting whistleblowers and journalists is seen by many to be a heroic fight for free speech and government transparency. But at what point does the First Amendment matter more than security and diplomacy? Is the organization's agenda really as pure...
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The development of social media platforms has allowed a new wave of populism to accelerate rapidly. Tweets, Facebook shares, and viral memes get information to ordinary citizens quickly and directly, without the influence of authorities, and often without the benefit of research and facts. Is this democracy in its purest form or mindless transmission of fake news and irresponsible reporting? What is the result of digital populism, and what can be...
5) Cyberwarfare
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There is warfare, and there is cyberwarfare. In today's technologically-driven world, governments, and even terrorist groups and hacktivists, engage in cyberwarfare to attack or disrupt the operations of other nations and organizations. Recent revelations about cyberattacks that threatened individual and national security have caused ripples of concern and outrage, but tend to die down quickly. How safe are we, and do we take security for granted?...
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The experience is probably still too fresh for deep analysis, but will History tell the story that Donald Trump's success in his road to the White House was stimulated by his frequent use of Twitter? Is Twitter transforming not just our social landscape, but political landscape too? How has the use of a communication tool, limited to140 characters or less, become a globally recognized dispenser of news, facts, alternative facts, and a moral compass...
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The relative anonymity the Internet provides allows us to assert our knowledge like a professor, show off our seemingly perfect lives, and judge like we're presiding over a court of law. The problem with this relatively new phenomenon is that we often make snap judgments about other people's actions or statements without knowing all of the facts, and without giving others the benefit of the doubt. This volume dives deep into the realities of the Internet...
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Are tech giants the new robber barons of the digital age? Many governments and ordinary people are increasingly uncomfortable with the monopolistic might a small number of tech companies are amassing, the taxes they are avoiding, the data they are collecting, the privacy they are undermining, and the way they are functioning as "extraterritorial" powers beholden to no state and to no citizen or consumer. All sides of this super-charged debate are...
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Univers virtuels, mondes en 3D, métavers, avatar, voilà autant de termes qui, tout en étant bien intégrés dans notre environnement moderne, ne sont pas sans interroger l'utilisateur moyen d'Internet. Les relations et interactions au sein d'environnements virtuels, grâce à des personnages qui nous représentent (ou pas) sous forme d'avatar interrogent également le juriste et le philosophe: Dans quelle mesure l'individu se projette-t-il dans...
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Can we uninstall 2020 and install it again? This version has a virus.
The Internet has been working overtime with humorous memes, tweets, Facebook postings, Pinterest collections, you name it during the pandemic crisis. This outpouring of gallows humor suggests that we're coping with our profound grief and overcoming our fears, and we're going to eventually make it out of this, with our sense of humor, and self, intact. This book collects the best...
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La participation des jeunes à l'heure du numérique est aujourd'hui un sujet de grand intérêt dans la sphère publique. Les auteurs de cette publication livrent de nouvelles perspectives et des visions diversifiées permettant de mieux comprendre comment les jeunes interagissent avec les opportunités qu'offre l'espace numérique et comment ils peuvent utiliser cet espace non seulement pour leurs propres besoins mais aussi pour démocratiser la...
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Youth participation in the digitalised world is nowadays a topic of high interest in the public sphere. The authors of this publication aim to bring new perspectives and varied visions to the key questions of understanding how young people interact with all the opportunities the digital space has to offer, and how they can use this space for causes relevant not only for themselves, but also for the democratisation of the societies in which they live.
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The NETmundial Roadmap explores key implications of the Global Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance held on April 23–24, 2014 in São Paulo, Brazil. At the meeting, government, business, civil society, Internet technical community and academic participants from around the world agreed to a "NETmundial Multistakeholder Statement" that included a "Roadmap for the Future Evolution of Internet Governance." This volume brings together leading...
15) Kids Write Jokes
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Based on the hit @kidswritejokes twitter and tumbler feeds, Kids Write Jokes is a collection of the weirdest, wackiest, and downright hilarious gags from kids from all over the world…
Curated by the (anonymous) moderator of a kids jokes website, the jokes are all genuine submissions: "A lot of joke submissions can't be published because they don't make any sense, the child got a genuine joke completely wrong, or they're a bit too rude for kids"...
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We live in a time of deep distrust-of each other, the media, and institutions of all kinds. In this volume of essays, innovative journalists from newspapers, public radio, civic media groups, and new media collectives examine how we've reached this point. The loss of newspapers and fracturing of the information ecosystem have weakened our sense of a shared identity, but many people have long felt excluded, misrepresented, and unable to see themselves...
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Tweetable-length quotes that are clever, cool, smart, touching, wise, funny, and more from the author of The Unofficial Harry Potter Vocabulary Builder.
Brevity may be the soul of wit, but 280 characters is the absolute limit on Twitter! Luckily, Tweet This Book allows you to spice up their microblog with the greatest quotes of all time. Each one is not only brief-it is officially tweetable. The quick, punchy quotes in this wonderfully diverse collection...
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This book is addressed to a mixed audience that includes academics, public policymakers, and civil society actors. It could be used in courses related to Public Policy, Government Information, Open Data, and Law and Technology. This forward-looking text examines future directions for open government data This book grounds its discussion of the future of open data in the evolution of the phenomenon. Open data is problematized based upon the changing...
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From efficient instructions on how to kill civilians to horrifying videos of beheadings, no terrorist organization has more comprehensively weaponized social media than ISIS. Its strategic, multiplatformed campaign is so effective that it has ensured global news coverage and inspired hundreds of young people around the world to abandon their lives and their countries to join a foreign war. The Media World of ISIS explores the characteristics, mission,...
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Who controls the media today? There are many media systems across the globe that claim to be free yet whose independence has been eroded. As demagogues rise, independent voices have been squeezed out. Corporate-owned media companies that act in the service of power increasingly exercise soft censorship. Tech giants such as Facebook and Google have dramatically changed how people access information, with consequences that are only beginning to be felt.
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