Books: 'Users and Gratification Theory'

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Wilson, Tony. Understanding media users: From theory to practice. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2009.

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Sivia, D. S. Elementary scattering theory: For X-ray and neutron users. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

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IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (1992 Orlando, Fla.). GLOBECOM '92: Communication for global users : conference record. [New York, N.Y.]: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1992.

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Stern, N. Computing concepts for end-users. Chichester: Wiley, 1992.

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Regoczei, Stephen. On 'Extracting knowledge from text': Modelling the architecture of language users. Toronto: Computer Systems Research Institute, University of Toronto, 1989.

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Moitra, Anutosh. HOMAR: A computer code for generating homotopic grids using algebraic relations : users' manual. Hampton, Va: Langley Research Center, 1989.

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Belegundu, Ashok D. An optimization program based on the method of feasible directions: Theory and users guide. Cleveland, Ohio: Lewis Research Center, 1994.

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Pogue, David. Macintosh methodologies in theory and practice: A technical guide for experienced users ; formerly Macs for dummies. 8th ed. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Pub., 2004.

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G, Jiao Qun, and Bostick Sharon L. 1953-, eds. Library anxiety: Theory, research, and applications. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 2004.

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L, White William, and SpringerLink (Online service), eds. Addiction Recovery Management: Theory, Research and Practice. Totowa, NJ: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2011.

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Setola, Nicoletta, ed. Research tools for design. Spatial layout and patterns of users' behaviour. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6655-027-3.

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The publication proposes a critical reading of the results emerging from the Seminar organised in January 2010 by the Department of Architectural and Design Technology on research tools for the architectural project. The spatial layout of buildings and urban spaces influences behaviour and the relations of the users, and in this displays the social nature of the architectural function in comparison to other spheres of design. Space Syntax (theory, methodology and techniques for the analysis of complex systems) takes this theory as the basis for its research. The seminar, attended by leading academic and professional figures, offered the opportunity for exchange between its own research and the experiences carried forward by the Space Syntax research and consultancy group.

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Holbert, R. Lance. Uses and Gratifications. Edited by Kate Kenski and Kathleen Hall Jamieson. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199793471.013.53.

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This chapter summarizes uses and gratifications, a media research framework that asks why people consume certain media forms. The author explains the general framework of this approach to media, outlines the explanatory principles undergirding work of this kind, and identifies what is needed to move this research agenda toward more formal theory development. The issue of how best to measure gratifications sought, gratifications obtained, and media use is discussed. The chapter identifies three areas for potential developments (i.e., dynamic modeling, complementarity, expansion of communication inputs) within the uses and gratifications framework that may benefit political communication scholars. This issue of what media should be defined as “political” is also addressed, with an argument made for the inclusion of entertainment outlets.

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Kumar, P. S. G. Library and Users ; Theory and Practice. B.R. Publishing Corporation, 2003.

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undifferentiated, Tony Wilson. Understanding Media Users: From Theory to Practice. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2010.

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undifferentiated, Tony Wilson. Understanding Media Users: From Theory to Practice. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2009.

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undifferentiated, Tony Wilson. Understanding Media Users: From Theory to Practice. Wiley & Sons, Limited, John, 2009.

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Coyne, Sarah M., Laura M. Padilla-Walker, and Emily Howard. Media Uses in Emerging Adulthood. Edited by Jeffrey Jensen Arnett. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199795574.013.003.

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This chapter reviews recent literature on uses, effects, and gratifications of media during emerging adulthood. The authors examine traditional media forms, including television, films, video games, music, and books, and also newer media, such as cell phones, social networking sites, and other Internet use, finding that emerging adults spend more time using media than they spend doing any other activity, with most time being spent on the Internet and listening to music. They also find that exposure to certain types of media content can influence both positive and negative outcomes in emerging adulthood, including aggressive and prosocial behavior, body image, sexual behavior, friendship quality, and academic achievement. The authors show that emerging adults use media to gratify certain needs, key among them entertainment, autonomy, identity, and intimacy needs. The authors discuss areas for future research involving media and emerging adulthood.

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Barak, Azy. Psychological Aspects of Cyberspace: Theory, Research, Applications. Cambridge University Press, 2008.

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Psychological Aspects of Cyberspace: Theory, Research, Applications. Cambridge University Press, 2008.

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(EDT), Alfred Publishing. Essentials of Music Theory: Upgrade 2.0 Network Version: Complete Volume (for 30 Users) (Essentials of Music Theory). Alfred Publishing Company, 2001.

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(EDT), Alfred Publishing. Essentials of Music Theory: Upgrade 2.0 Network Version: Complete Volume (for 5 Users) (Essentials of Music Theory). Alfred Publishing Company, 2001.

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(EDT), Alfred Publishing. Essentials of Music Theory: Upgrade 2.0 Network Version: Complete Volume (for 10 Users) (Essentials of Music Theory). Alfred Publishing Company, 2001.

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Laszlo, Berke, Patnaik Surya N, and United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Program., eds. An optimization plan based on the method of feasible directions: Theory and users guide. [Washington, DC]: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Management, Scientific and Technical Information Program, 1994.

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Khaled, Nassim, and Bibin Pattel. Practical Design and Application of Model Predictive Control: MPC for MATLAB and Simulink Users. Butterworth-Heinemann Limited, 2018.

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Stern, Robert, and Nancy B. Stern. Computing for End-Users and Getting Started With Structured Basic. John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1990.

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M, Manderscheid Jane, Gyekenyesi John P. 1938-, and Lewis Research Center, eds. Ceramics Analysis and Reliability Evaluation of Structures (CARES): Users and programmers manual. Washington, D.C: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Management, Scientific and Technical Information Division, 1990.

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United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Division, ed. HOMAR:a computer code for generating homotopic grids using algebraic relations: Users' manual. [Washington, DC]: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Division, 1989.

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HOMAR:a computer code for generating homotopic grids using algebraic relations: Users' manual. [Washington, DC]: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Division, 1989.

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Harris, Phil. Concerned Other: New Theory and the Evidence Base for Changing Problematic Drug and Alcohol Users Through Their Family Members. Russell House Publishing Limited, 2011.

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Horstmann, Henry C., and Victor H. Tousley. Modern Illumination, Theory And Practice: A Handbook Of Practical Information For The Users Of Electric Light, Architects, Contractors And Electricians. Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007.

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Horstmann, Henry C., and Victor H. Tousley. Modern Illumination, Theory And Practice: A Handbook Of Practical Information For The Users Of Electric Light, Architects, Contractors And Electricians. Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007.

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Kelly, John F., and William L. White. Addiction Recovery Management: Theory, Research and Practice. Springer, 2011.

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Pearce, Kenneth L. Berkeley’s Theory of Language in Alciphron 7. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198790334.003.0004.

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Berkeley’s most detailed discussion of the philosophy of language appears in Alciphron. Although Berkeley’s discussion is motivated by problems about religious language raised by John Toland, his response is not to develop a theory of religious language as a special case but rather to defend a general theory of language and show that the meaningfulness of these religious utterances is a consequence of that theory. The theory Berkeley adopts holds that words get to be meaningful when they are used according to conventional rules as part of a public social practice aiming at practical ends. Berkeley does not endorse a sharp distinction between emotive and cognitive language, but rather holds that one and the same word is typically associated with a wide variety of rules, which may instruct users not only to have ideas but also to feel emotions or perform a variety of linguistic or non-linguistic actions.

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Chapdelaine, Pascale. User Rights to Commercial Copies of Copyright Works. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198754794.003.0002.

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The chapter begins the investigation of the rights users have to copyright works by looking at the scope of the personal property rights users may have in copies of copyright works. These rights have been largely overlooked in copyright law and theory. Applying the ownership spectrum developed by James W. Harris in Property and Justice (1996) this chapter shows how copyright users’ personal property rights are distinct from other forms of personal property and heavily dictated by the exclusive property rights of copyright holders in the copyright work. The personal property rights of copyright users fare poorly on the ownership spectrum and this trend is intensified by commercial practices of copyright holders endorsed by courts, and the struggles of legislatures and courts to deal with the dematerialization of copies of copyright works. This account of the personal property rights of copyright users reveals a weak strain of copyright user rights.

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Chapdelaine, Pascale. Why User Rights? Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198754794.003.0008.

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This chapter proposes a theory to justify the existence and scope of copyright user rights. The variety of identities and interests of copyright users, as well as the different means by which users experience copyright works call for a pluralistic theoretical approach to justify the existence and scope of user rights. Starting with the prima facie normative status of all ownership freedoms developed by James W. Harris (Property and Justice) the chapter refers to the instrumental justification of economic efficiency as a base for the existence and scope of user personal property rights in copies of copyright works. The influential instrumentalist justification of copyright to incent the creation and dissemination of works provides a theoretical basis to further define the existence and contours of user rights beyond the instances where users have property rights in copies of copyright works.

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Azzopardi, Leif, and Guido Zuccon. Economic Models of Interaction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198799603.003.0012.

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This chapter provides a tutorial on how economics can be used to model the interaction between users and systems. Economic theory provides an intuitive and natural way to model Human-Computer Interaction which enables the prediction and explanation of user behaviour. A central tenet of the approach is the utility maximisation paradigm where it is assumed that users seek to maximise their profit/benefit subject to budget and other constraints when interacting with a system. By using such models it is possible to reason about user behaviour and make predictions about how changes to the interface or the users interactions will affect performance and behaviour. In this chapter, we describe and develop several economic models relating to how users search for information. While the examples are specific to Information Seeking and Retrieval, the techniques employed can be applied more generally to other human-computer interaction scenarios. Therefore, the goal of this chapter is to provide an introduction and overview of how to build economic models of human-computer interaction that generate testable hypotheses regarding user behaviour which can be used to guide design and inform experimentation.

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Trobia, Alberto, and Fabio M. Lo Verde. Italian Amateur Pop-Rock Musicians on Facebook. Edited by Roger Mantie and Gareth Dylan Smith. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190244705.013.8.

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This chapter investigates how and why amateur musicians use social networking sites, employing a mixed-methods approach. Attention is focused on four big Italian Facebook communities of pop-rock musicians: drums, bass, guitar, and keyboard players (overall, 2,101 active users), analyzing the relational and textual data extracted from the web. The chapter analyzes the network structures emerging from the interactions among the users. It also identifies and maps the main areas of discussion (sound shaping, studio recording, marketplace, musical references, computer production, and relations) and the latent semantic dimension characterizing Facebook users’ activities, through social network analysis and lexical correspondence analysis. Meanings, values, aesthetics, and representations of amateur music making, emerging from the data, are framed within two orthogonal dimensions: theory versus praxis, and competence versus music production. The Italian singularity is then explained with respect to this space. Some theoretical conclusions are finally drawn.

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Chapdelaine, Pascale. Copyright User Rights. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198754794.001.0001.

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This book explores the scope of copyright user rights through the lens of property, copyright, and contract law. It proposes a taxonomy and hierarchy of copyright user rights that makes a distinction between user property, user rights, and user privileges. The book looks at user rights from an international law and multijurisdictional perspective (including the European Union, United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, and Australia) with a particular focus on Canada, given the significant amount of jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of Canada on copyright user rights. Unlike other works that look at copyright user rights through concepts of public law and policy, this book explores user rights through concepts of private law (personal property, goods, services, sales, licences) and copyright law (exceptions to copyright infringement such as fair dealing and fair use, the first sale or exhaustion doctrine, and the impact of technological protection measures on how users experience copyright works). The book develops a pluralistic theory of copyright user rights that recognizes their diversity and myriad ways users experience copyright works, while emphasizing the importance and role of copyright users within copyright law. The book calls for the re-evaluation of the dichotomy between tangibility and intangibility and for greater cohesion between copyright law and traditional concepts of private law.

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Clarke, Victoria, and Andrew Walsh, eds. Fundamentals of Mental Health Nursing. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199547746.001.0001.

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In order to provide sound, person-centred care, mental health nursing students need a thorough understanding of theory alongside the ability to translate this knowledge into practice. It can be difficult to apply ideas from the classroom and books when learning how to work with mental health service users for the first time. That is why the theoretical aspects of this book are presented alongside realistic accounts of nursing practice. Fundamentals of Mental Health Nursing is a case-based and service user centred textbook for mental health nursing students. Designed to support students throughout their pre-registration studies, the text covers the essential knowledge required to provide high quality nursing care. Contributions from real service users and cases of fictional clients are explored in detail to provide excellent transferable skills for practice. Dedicated chapters explore fundamental nursing skills and mental health law before providing a case-based exploration of the areas and subjects that will be encountered by students in university and placement. Practice-based chapters introduce students to the needs of a diverse range of fictional clients and explain how the skills of communication, assessment, care planning and monitoring can be applied. Each chapter provides a sample care plan explaining why and how clinical decisions are made, so that students can develop their own skills and practice. The text opens with clear advice to help students succeed in their studies and concludes with a wealth of practical and thoughtful advice on becoming a professional and getting that first job. Online Resource Centre * Twenty one video clips of fictional service users demonstrate the application of theory and prepare students for real nursing practice * Quizzes, scenarios and a range of activities help students to apply their learning * Interactive glossary explains terminology and jargon * Sample CV's and self awareness exercises aid professional development

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Di Maio, Paolad. Knowledge Representation for Debiasing. MTS Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.52844/slkrns1.

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Bias in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning is a top concern for developers and users of intelligent technology. Intelligent systems can, in theory, be designed to identify and resolve algorithmic bias, but for this to be possible it is necessary to have an adequate knowledge representation of bias itself, which has never been fully achieved. Here a KR of bias is presented as a matrix and a relational set constituting the logical and functional foundation of an intelligent system capable of autonomously identifying, measuring and minimise algorithmic bias.

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Swift, Ellen. Roman Artefacts and Society. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198785262.001.0001.

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In this book, Ellen Swift uses design theory, previously neglected in Roman archaeology, to investigate Roman artifacts in a new way, making a significant contribution to both Roman social history and our understanding of the relationships that exist between artefacts and people. Based on extensive data collection and the close study of artefacts from museum collections and archives, the book examines the relationship between artefacts, everyday behavior, and experience. The concept of "affordances"--features of an artefact that make possible, and incline users towards, particular uses for functional artifacts--is an important one for the approach taken. This concept is carefully evaluated by considering affordances in relation to other sources of evidence, such as use--wear, archaeological context, the end--products resulting from artifact use, and experimental reconstruction. Artifact types explored in the case studies include locks and keys, pens, shears, glass vessels, dice, boxes, and finger-rings, using material mainly drawn from the north-western Roman provinces, with some material also from Roman Egypt. The book then considers how we can use artefacts to understand particular aspects of Roman behavior and experience, including discrepant experiences according to factors such as age, social position, and left- or right-handedness, which are fostered through artifact design. The relationship between production and users of artifacts is also explored, investigating what particular production methods make possible in terms of user experience, and also examining production constraints that have unintended consequences for users. The book examines topics such as the perceived agency of objects, differences in social practice across the provinces, cultural change and development in daily practice, and the persistence of tradition and social convention. It shows that design intentions, everyday habits of use, and the constraints of production processes each contribute to the reproduction and transformation of material culture.

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Frosio, Giancarlo, ed. Oxford Handbook of Online Intermediary Liability. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198837138.001.0001.

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The theoretical—and market—background against which the intermediary liability debate developed has changed considerably since the first appearance of online intermediaries almost two decades ago. These changes have been reflected—or will soon most likely be reflected—in changing policy approaches. The role of Online Service Providers (OSPs) is unprecedented for their capacity to influence the informational environment and users’ interactions within it. The ethical implications of OSPs’ role in contemporary information societies are raising unprecedented social challenges. The decisions made by these platforms increasingly shape contemporary life. Therefore, whether and when access providers and communications platforms such as Google, Twitter, and Facebook are liable for their users’ online activities is a key factor that affects innovation and fundamental rights. There are emerging legal, policy, and ethical issues facing online intermediaries that have so far received various inconsistent answers even within the same jurisdiction. To better understand the heterogeneity of the international online intermediary liability regime, The Oxford Handbook of Online Intermediary Liability is designed to provide a comprehensive, authoritative, and ‘state-of-the-art’ discussion of this topic. This book will review fundamental legal issues in online intermediary liability, while also describing advances in intermediary liability theory and identifying recent policy trends.

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Stern, Marc J. Systems theories. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198793182.003.0008.

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This chapter covers systems theories relevant to understanding and working to enhance the resilience of social-ecological systems. Social-ecological systems contain natural resources, users of those resources, and the interactions between each. The theories in the chapter share lessons about how to build effective governance structures for common pool resources, how to facilitate the spread of worthwhile ideas across social networks, and how to promote collaboration for greater collective impacts than any one organization alone could achieve. Each theory is summarized succinctly and followed by guidance on how to apply it to real world problem solving.

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Anheier, Helmut K. Governance Indicators. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198817062.003.0001.

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This chapter provides an introduction to the volume and an overview of the emergence of the field of governance indicators over more than two decades. It takes stock of the field’s advancement in terms of the breadth and depth of indicators and indices covering a range of governance-related topics from democracy to corruption to basic rights, as well as and in terms of data availability and quality, methods, and analytical tools. The outcome has been the establishment of a veritable indicators industry. At the same time, the chapter highlights some of the key challenges facing the field as it develops further, particularly with regard to the connections between indicators and theory and between producers and users.

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Rice, Ronald E., and Ryan Fuller. Theoretical Perspectives in the Study of Communication and the Internet. Edited by William H. Dutton. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199589074.013.0017.

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This chapter exposes the prominence of different theoretical perspectives on the Internet. A broad scope of primary and secondary theories has been increasingly used to understand the social and communicative aspects of the Internet and the increasingly specialized areas being developed by Internet researchers, such as around social media. The chapters published in the first half of the period (2000–04) are compared to those in the second period of the sample (2005–09). It is observed that the media attributes, the public sphere, and community have been the most popular theory themes. There are also opportunities for further theoretical development in the areas of credibility/trust, participatory media/users, relational management, and cultural differences.

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Sun, Huatong. Global Social Media Design. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190845582.001.0001.

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Social media users fracture into tribes, but social media ecosystems are globally interconnected technically, socially, culturally, and economically. At the crossroads, Huatong Sun, author of Cross-Cultural Technology Design, presents theory, method, and case studies to uncover the global interconnectedness of social media design and reorient universal design standards. Centering on the dynamics between structure and agency, Sun draws on practices theories and transnational fieldwork and articulates a critical design approach. The culturally localized user engagement and empowerment (CLUE², or CLUE-squared) framework extends from situated activity to social practice and connects macro institutions with micro interactions to redress asymmetrical relations in everyday life. Why were Japanese users not crazed about Facebook? Would Twitter have been more successful than its copycat Weibo in China if not banned? How did mobilities and value propositions play out in the competition of WhatsApp, WeChat, LINE, and KakaoTalk for global growth? Illustrating the cultural entanglement with a relational view of design, Sun provides three provocative accounts of cross-cultural social media design and use. Concepts such as affordance, genre, and uptake are demonstrated as design tools to bind the material with the discursive and leap from the critical to the generative for culturally sustaining design. Sun calls to reshape the crossroads into a design square where differences are nourished as design resources, where diverse discourses interact for innovation, and where alternative design epistemes thrive from the local. This timely book will appeal to researchers, students, and practitioners who design across disciplines, paradigms, and boundaries to bridge differences in this increasingly globalized world.

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Doctorow, Cory. I’ve Created a Monster! (And So Can You). The MIT Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262533287.003.0007.

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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein resonated in 19th century England, and still speaks to us today, because it captures people’s anxieties about the effects of runaway technological change. But technological change is not a force of nature. The way technology changes – and the way it changes us – is the result of choices that we make as makers and users of tools, individually and collectively. Today digital technologies are making mass surveillance a part of everyday life, demonstrating how technologies can be marshalled by people in power to control others. The theory of the “adjacent possible,” which helps explain why certain imaginative technological visions emerge into reality at specific moments, in specific contexts, helps us understand how to understand technological change, prepare for its transformative effects, and decide to build and use technologies in ways that enrich human life, rather than exploit it.

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Chapdelaine, Pascale. First Sale or Exhaustion Doctrine. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198754794.003.0006.

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This chapter describes how courts and lawmakers struggle with concepts of tangibility and intangibility as they apply the first sale or exhaustion doctrine to new technological environments. The difficulty of applying the exhaustion or first sale doctrine to digital works relates in great part to the difficulties of adapting traditional concepts of personal property, goods, services, sales, and licences to copies of copyright works and other information products, in an ever-changing technological environment (identified in Chapter 4). After looking at the main theoretical justifications of the first sale or exhaustion doctrine, and concluding that the property theory is the most plausible explanation of the first sale doctrine, the chapter questions the extent to which the doctrine of exhaustion or first sale will remain relevant as users increasingly experience copyright works through services and decreasingly through individualized copies.

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Cardozo, Gustavo, Guo Liang, and Tiago Lapa. Cross-National Comparative Perspectives from the World Internet Project. Edited by William H. Dutton. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199589074.013.0011.

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This chapter reviews the diffusion, uses, and impacts of the Internet worldwide and over time. The World Internet Project has been intended to become the vehicle for tracking what happens as households and nations adopt and use the Internet. The study of the connection between the Internet and society presents a window onto contemporary societies. The Internet mediates social changes and social relations. The age of users, the institutional context, and media culture determine the Internet use in a given country. The Internet has been more of a complement to the traditional media than a competitor, and displacement effects are hard to find and are not general or universal across countries. It is important to keep a vital perspective in comparative approaches, being mindful of the theory that differences verified between countries or continenta can lose much of their analytical relevance.

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Anders, Torsten. Compositions Created with Constraint Programming. Edited by Roger T. Dean and Alex McLean. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190226992.013.5.

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This chapter surveys music constraint programming systems, and how composers have used them. The chapter motivates why and explains how users of such systems describe intended musical results with constraints. This approach to algorithmic composition is similar to the way declarative and modular compositional rules have successfully been used in music theory for centuries as a device to describe composition techniques. This systematic overview highlights the respective strengths of different approaches and systems from a composer’s point of view, complementing other more technical surveys of this field. This text describes the music constraint systems PMC, Score-PMC, PWMC (and its successor Cluster Engine), Strasheela, and Orchidée—most are libraries of the composition systems PWGL or OpenMusic. These systems are shown in action by discussions of the composition processes of specific works by Jacopo Baboni Schilingi, Magnus Lindberg, Örjan Sandred, Torsten Anders, Johannes Kretz, and Jonathan Harvey.

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