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vi, 342 p. : ill. ; 25 cmLibro ElectrónicoOn January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone to an eager audience crammed into San Francisco’s Moscone Center.1 A beautiful and brilliantly engineered device, the iPhone blended three products into one: an iPod, with the highest-quality screen Apple had ever produced; a phone, with cleverly integrated functionality, such as voicemail that came wrapped as separately accessible messages; and a device to access the Internet, with a smart and elegant browser, and with built-in map, weather, stock, and e-mail capabilities. It was a technical and design triumph for Jobs, bringing the company into a market with an extraordinary potential for growth, and pushing the industry to a new level of competition in ways to connect us to each other and to the Web.Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-328) and index Acceso restringido a miembros del Consorcio de Bibliotecas Universitarias de Andalucía Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009 Modo de acceso : World Wide Webpt. 1. The rise and stall of the generative Net -- Battle of the boxes -- Battle of the networks -- Cybersecurity and the generative dilemma -- pt. 2. After the stall -- The generative pattern -- Tethered appliances, software as service, and perfect enforcement -- The lessons of Wikipedia -- pt. 3. Solutions -- Stopping the future of the Internet : stability on a generative Net -- Strategies for a generative future -- Meeting the risks of generativity : Privacy 2.0. Index32

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The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It

This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity—and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation—and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control. IPods, iPhones, Xboxes, and TiVos represent the first wave of Internet-centered products that can’t be easily modified by anyone except their vendors or selected partners. These “tethered appliances” have already been used in remarkable but little-known ways: car GPS systems have been reconfigured at the demand of law enforcement to eavesdrop on the occupants at all times, and digital video recorders have been ordered to self-destruct thanks to a lawsuit against the manufacturer thousands of miles away. New Web 2.0 platforms like Google mash-ups and Facebook are rightly touted—but their applications can be similarly monitored and eliminated from a central source. As tethered appliances and applications eclipse the PC, the very nature of the Internet—its “generativity,” or innovative character—is at risk. The Internet’s current trajectory is one of lost opportunity. Its salvation, Zittrain argues, lies in the hands of its millions of users. Drawing on generative technologies like Wikipedia that have so far survived their own successes, this book shows how to develop new technologies and social structures that allow users to work creatively and collaboratively, participate in solutions, and become true “netizens.” The author has made an online version of this work available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. It can be accessed through the author’s Web site at http://www.jz.org

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My dissertation is an ethnographically inspired theoretical exploration of the crises of reading and writing in contemporary Japan. Each of the five chapters examines concrete instances of reading and writing practices that have been problematized in recent decades. By calling attention to underlying moral assumptions, established sociocultural protocols, and socio-technological conditions of the everyday, I theorize the concept of embodied reading and writing thresholds. The scope of analysis is partly informed by popular discourse decrying a perceived decline in reading and writing proficiency among Japanese youth. This alleged failing literacy figures as a national crisis under the assumption that the futurity of children's national language proficiency metonymically correlates with the future well being of its national cultural body. In light of heightened interests in the past, present, and future of books, and a series of recent state interventions on the prospect of "national" text culture, it is my argument that ongoing tensions surrounding the changing media landscape and symbolic relations to the world do not merely reflect changes in styles of language, structures of spatiotemporal awareness, or forms of knowledge production. Rather, they indicate profound transformations and apprehensions among the lives mediated and embodied by the very system of signification that has come under scrutiny in the post-Lost Decade Japan (03/1991-01/2002). My dissertation offers an unique point of critical intervention into 1) various forms of tension arising from the overlapping media technologies and polarized population, 2) formations of reading and writing body (embodiment) at an intersection of heterogeneous elements and everyday disciplining, 3) culturally specific conditions and articulations of the effects of "universal" technologies, 4) prospects of "proper" national reading and writing culture, and 5) questions of cultural transformation and transmission. I hope that the diverse set of events explored in respective chapters provide, as a whole, a broader perspective of the institutional and technological background as well as an intimate understanding of culturally specific circumstances in Japan. Insofar as this is an attempt to conduct a nuanced inquiry into the culturally specific configurations and articulations of a global phenomenon, each ethnographic moment is carefully contextualized to reflect Japan specific conditions while avoiding the pitfall of culturalist assumptions. Understanding how an existing system of representation, technological imperatives and sociohistorical predicaments have coalesced to form a unique constellation is the first step in identifying how the practice of reading and writing becomes a site of heated national debate in Japan. Against theories that problematize the de-corporealizing effects of digital technology within reading and writing, I emphasize the material specificity of contemporary reading and writing practices

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El CIEE 2017 comparte posibilidades tecnológicas en un marco de inclusión social, educativa, cultural, laboral; el abordaje desde el servicio y por las personas que más requieren está marcado no por la energía potencial que la ciencia proyecta a través de sus artefactos tecnológicos, sino por la energía cinética que se obtiene cuando movilizamos a grandes masas de personas buscando un fin común llamado equidad. El CIEE espera una cobertura amplia en cuanto número de científicos, profesores universitarios, estudiantes; pero también de personas con discapacidad y otras con necesidades específicas de apoyo educativo. La ciencia de la inclusión con tecnologías se construye en común; es congruente la esencia inclusiva, expresada en la participación de todos, con la forma llamada tecnología. En esta línea, el presente libro recoge más de 50 contribuciones de diversos autores de Argentina, Ecuador, Chile, Colombia y Perú. Estos se organizan en tres partes: artículos científicos, pósters y resúmenes de charlas magistrales. Los artículos científicos se organizan en seis mesas temáticas que agrupan el trabajo de los autores considerando su contenido y objetivos: accesibilidad y uso, desarrollo de software educativo y entornos virtuales de aprendizaje; estimulación multisensorial; inclusión de las TIC en la educación especial; los nuevos modelos de intermediación con TIC y metodología de aprendizaje apoyado con las TIC