Platforms Everywhere

Platforms Everywhere

Author: Nenad Rava

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2021-10-07

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 1801177961

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Platforms Everywhere: Transforming Organizations by Integrating Ecosystems in Business Design presents a new comprehensive paradigm for platform businesses and a practical methodology for platforming organizations across sectors and industries.


Living with Algorithms

Living with Algorithms

Author: Ignacio Siles

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2023-04-25

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 026254542X

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A nuanced account from a user perspective of what it’s like to live in a datafied world. We live in a media-saturated society that increasingly transforms our experiences, relations, and identities into data others can analyze and monetize. Algorithms are key to this process, surveilling our most mundane practices, and to many, their control over our lives seems absolute. In Living with Algorithms, Ignacio Siles critically challenges this view by surveying user dynamics in the global south across three algorithmic platforms—Netflix, Spotify, and TikTok—and finds, surprisingly, a more balanced relationship. Drawing on a wealth of empirical evidence that privileges the user over the corporate, Siles examines the personal relationships that have formed between users and algorithms as Latin Americans have integrated these systems into the structures of everyday life, enacted them ritually, participated in public with and through them, and thwarted them. Sometimes users follow algorithms, Siles finds, and sometimes users resist them. At times, users do both. Agency lies in the navigation of the spaces in-between. By analyzing what we do with algorithms rather than what algorithms do to us, Living with Algorithms clarifies the debate over the future of datafication and whether we have a say in its development. Concentrating on an understudied region of the global south, the book provides a new perspective on the commonalities and differences among users within a global ecology of technologies.


Plug-and-Play Education

Plug-and-Play Education

Author: Carlo Perrotta

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-06-03

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 1040031269

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Plug-and-Play Education: Knowledge and Learning in the Age of Platforms and Artificial Intelligence documents and critiques how the education sector is changing with the advancement of ubiquitous edtech platforms and automation. As programmability and computation reengineer institutions towards efficiency and prediction, the perpetual collection of and access to digital data is creating complex opportunities and concerns. Drawing from research into secondary and higher education settings, this book examines the influence of digital “infrastructuring”, the automation of teaching and learning, and the very purpose of education in a context of growing platformisation and artificial intelligence integration. These theoretical, practical, and policy-oriented insights will offer educational technologists, designers, researchers, and policymakers a more inclusive, diverse, and open-ended perspective on the design and implementation of learning technologies.


Excavation, Analysis and Interpretation of Early Bronze Age Barrows at Guiting Power, Gloucestershire

Excavation, Analysis and Interpretation of Early Bronze Age Barrows at Guiting Power, Gloucestershire

Author: Alistair Marshall

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2020-04-30

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1789693608

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This volume covers the full excavation, analysis and interpretation of two early Bronze Age round barrows at Guiting Power in the Cotswolds, a region where investigation and protection of such sites have been extremely poor, with many barrows unnecessarily lost to erosion, and with most existing excavation partial, and of low quality.


Ireland's First Settlers

Ireland's First Settlers

Author: Peter Woodman

Publisher: Oxbow Books

Published: 2015-12-31

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 1782977813

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Ireland’s First Settlers tells the story of the archaeology and history of the first continuous phase of Ireland’s human settlement. It combines centuries of search and speculation about human antiquity in Ireland with a review of what is known today about the Irish Mesolithic. This is, in part, provided in the context of the author’s 50 years of personal experience searching to make sense of what initially appeared to be little more than a collection of beach rolled and battered flint tools. The story is embedded in how the island of Ireland, its position, distinct landscape and ecology impacted on when and how Ireland was colonized. It also explores how these first settlers evolved their technologies and lifeways to suit the narrow range of abundant resources that were available. The volume concludes with discussions on how the landscape should be searched for the often ephemeral traces of these early settlers and how sites should be excavated. It asks what we really know about the thoughts and life of the people themselves and what happened to them as farming began to be introduced.


Dynamic Future-Proofing

Dynamic Future-Proofing

Author: Alexander Manu

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2021-02-18

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1800435266

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Recognising that companies which respond to disruptions in the early stages of amplification can convert potentially existential threats into transformative opportunities, this book shows us how good leadership, intelligent informed opinion, and rapid action in a time of change can help organizations not only to predict the future, but create it.


Cruel Cuckery

Cruel Cuckery

Author: Conrad Riker

Publisher: Conrad Riker

Published: 101-01-01

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13:

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This book provides a comprehensive, no-nonsense guide to understanding and utilizing female attraction cues. It caters to the needs of rational men seeking to enhance their relationships and navigate the modern dating landscape efficiently. By applying redpilled principles, the book aims to educate and empower men to make well-informed decisions, leading to more fulfilling connections with women. The tone is masculine, unapologetic, and free from cultural Marxist influences.


Social Media Influencing in The City of Likes

Social Media Influencing in The City of Likes

Author: Zoe Hurley

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2023-01-27

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 180262757X

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Providing a much-needed de-Westernising perspectives of Dubai’s social media influencing industry within the broader context of global platform capitalism, Zoe Hurley offers an important contribution to the field of social media through illustrating visible economies in a city circuited by social media influencing.