Subjects:  1. Computer Industry    2. Economic Conditions    3. Endowments    4. General    5. Government - U.S. Government    6. Information technology    7. Politics / Current Events    8. Research grants    9. Science/Mathematics    10. Social aspects    11. Technology    12. United States    13. Communications engineering / telecommunications    14. Computer Communications & Networking    15. Impact of computing & IT on society    16. Internet    17. USA   

Subjects:  1. China    2. Computers - General Information    3. Foreign relations    4. India    5. Information Technology    6. International Relations - General    7. Mass Media - General    8. Media Studies    9. Political Science    10. Politics/International Relations    11. Central government policies    12. General Theory of Computing    13. Information technology industries    14. International relations    15. Performing Arts / Mass Media    16. Mass Communications   

Subjects:  1. Computer network resources    2. Government - U.S. Government    3. Internet - General    4. Internet in political campaigns    5. Political Process - Elections    6. Political Science    7. Political campaigns    8. Politics / Current Events    9. Politics/International Relations    10. United States    11. Political Science / Elections    12. Political campaigning & advertising    13. World Wide Web (WWW)   

Subjects:  1. Communications    2. Computer Books: Internet General    3. Computer networks    4. Computers    5. Electronic commerce    6. Freedom of speech    7. Intellectual Property - General    8. Internet    9. Internet - General    10. Law and legislation    11. Legal Reference / Law Profession    12. Public Policy    13. Public Policy - General    14. Communications law    15. POLITICS & GOVERNMENT    16. Reference / General   

Subjects:  1. Computer Books: General    2. Computer Science    3. Computers    4. Elections    5. Government - U.S. Government    6. Information Technology    7. Internet voting    8. Political Process - Elections    9. Politics / Current Events    10. United States    11. Elections & referenda    12. Internet   

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Computer Industry    5. Computer Industry (Economic Aspects)    6. Government policy    7. History    8. Industries - General    9. SEMATECH (Organization)    10. Semiconductor industry    11. United States    12. Computer Hardware & Operating Systems    13. History of specific subjects    14. Service industries    15. USA   

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interesting read
this book was very beneficial in a report i wrote. there are not many books written on cyber democracy. if you need non internet sources, this one is a good one. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Community development, Urban    2. Computer network resources    3. Democracy    4. Internet - General    5. Local area networks (Computer    6. Local area networks (Computer networks)    7. Political Ideologies - Democracy    8. Political Science    9. Political participation    10. Politics / Current Events    11. Politics/International Relations    12. Social Aspects - General    13. Sociology - General    14. Computer Communications & Networking    15. Cultural studies    16. Impact of computing & IT on society    17. Political Science / General    18. Political structures: democracy   

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An excellent, easy-reference resource
Compiled and edited by Peggy Garvin, and featuring an informative introduction by Greg R. Noteness, this newly updated sixth edition of Government Information On The Internet is a superbly organized and presented guidebook to informationally enriched sites on the World Wide Web which offer complete and accurate data on law enforcement, health and science matters, white house information, state-specific information, information specific to nations other than America and much, much more. Government Information On The Internet is recommended for political science students, government employees, lobbyists and activists, and the non-specialist general public as an excellent, easy-reference resource that describes each offered website in detail is perfect for skimming through options at a faster speed than search engines can cough up or web browsers can download.

Recommended as a resource for college & community libraries
Now in a newly updated and expanded fifth edition, Government Information On The Internet is a solid, thorough, accessibly organized reference book of World Wide Web sites corresponding to countless institutions of the American Government, as well as state and local government information, and a special section of government information for numerous nations around the world from Albania to Zimbabwe. Solid, detailed descriptions of what each governmental web site has to offer as well as an index for quick and easy reference make Government Information On The Internet a first-class reference for anyone who has to look up specific facts relatively quickly. Government Information On The Internet is specially recommended as a resource for college and community libraries that offer public Internet access. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Computers    2. Directories    3. Electronic government information    4. Government - U.S. Government    5. Internet - Browsers    6. Internet - General    7. Internet - Web Site Directories    8. Politics / Current Events    9. Reference    10. United States    11. Central government    12. Internet directories    13. Reference works    14. USA   

Subjects:  1. Computer network resources    2. General    3. History & Theory - General    4. Information society    5. Information technology    6. Political Science    7. Political aspects    8. Political participation    9. Politics / Current Events    10. Politics/International Relations    11. Political Science / General    12. Political science & theory   

Subjects:  1. Education    2. Education / Teaching    3. Educational technology    4. General    5. Government policy    6. Internet - General    7. Methodology    8. Research    9. Teaching Methods & Materials - General    10. Web-based instruction    11. Computer-aided learning (CAL)   

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The fifth estate's effect on politics.
I give credit to Dick Morris for trying to gauge the future effects of the Internet on politics.I believe many of the things he proposes will come true, except that it may take extra time for the Internet to have the effect.Many people are still not hooked up to the Internet, and so what he says may happen could take 20 years.Still, the Internet will have a dramatic effect on politics.One thing I disagree on is that political parties will die on the vine.Somehow, parties will cling to power and influence the public as they have for hundreds of years.
Taking Triangulation to the Net
Vote.com is ostentatiously a book about how the emergence of the Internet will change the political process. It seems that in referring to "Internet voting" Morris has conflated two ideas: informing and campaigning, and actual polling and voting. As to the former, it is undeniable that the Internet potentially has a major role to play in breaking the elite media stranglehold. Finally having uncensored access to right-wing viewpoints is, if you will, a breath of 'fresh air'. ....
the vote.com website is laughable, the opinions expressed there are the result of numerous right-wing extremist sites providing direct links to the voting polls- heavily skewing the results.This guy proposes that the world will be revolutionized by the internet.I don't doubt it.He claims that it has the potential to make america a democracy- (whereas before only very tiny countries could be true democracies) there I agree as well- if the path is followed very carefully.The book, however, is an adverisement for his website, and his website is totally worthless.Read more

Subjects:  1. Audio - Nonfiction    2. Audio Adult: Books On Tape    3. Internet (Computer network)    4. Mass media and public opinion    5. Political aspects    6. Public opinion    7. U.S. Government    8. United States   

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Conflict management    5. Corporate culture    6. Entrepreneurship    7. Executive Management    8. Management - General    9. Motivational    10. Office politics    11. Organizational behavior    12. Computers / General    13. Organizational theory & behaviour   

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a good overview of the age of cybertechnology
This is a book that will help students of the mass communication to have a good aprehension of the theories concerning information space and the rising era of new media technologies such as the Internet. What is good about the writer is that he is providing us with a professor's clear view on virtuality and its different forms. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Computers - General Information    2. Computers and civilization    3. Information Technology    4. Information society    5. Popular culture    6. Social aspects    7. Sociology    8. Cultural studies    9. POLITICS & GOVERNMENT    10. Sociology, Social Studies   

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Interesting
Actually a paper or thesis, it gives some good insight into the truths around hackers, crackers, and the "scene" around them. The survey they undertook at H2K and DEFCON 8 gave great insight and disproved the common myths and perceptions of thehacker/cracker culture.Read more

Subjects:  1. Computer crimes    2. Computer hackers    3. Government & Business    4. Other Miscellaneous Crimes    5. Security - General    6. Social Science    7. Sociology    8. Sociology - General    9. True Crime / Espionage    10. United States    11. Business & Economics / Government & Business    12. Computer fraud & hacking    13. Crime & criminology    14. USA   

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Insightful!
Sara Miles unfolds a political saga as if it were a gripping novel. The story begins with political activist Wade Randlett, who forged a coalition of Silicon Valley’s leading tech CEOs and venture capitalists to support the New Democrats. Miles starts with Randlett’s arrival in the Valley. She shows how, in 1996, Randlett lined up Bill Clinton’s opposition to Proposition 211 (allowing uncapped suits against high-tech companies), helping to swing many apolitical or Republican tech leaders to the New Democrats. Miles traces the Valley’s growing relationship with Clinton, Gore and other New Dems, which held up until the rise of George W. Bush. Miles’ fascinating story may seem like ancient history (though it’s only 1996 to 2000) now that the dot-com storms have diluted the New Economy’s power. Otherwise, we at ... strongly recommend this intriguing look at a particular patch of political history, when the New Economy was strong, and everybody wanted to be a friend of the Valley.

quixotic task
Sara Miles is a San Francisco based journalist who has covered the nexus of politics and technology for the NY Times and Wired magazine. When her work in Silicon Valley brought her into contact with Wade Randlett, a manic Democratic fund raiser and self described passionate centrist, who had decided to make it his mission to bring together the New Democrats with the entrepreneurs of the New Economy, she recognized the makings of a good story. When worlds collide
It's the late 90s, and Silicon Valley is overflowing with cash. A minor Democratic Party operative, Wade Randlett, realizes that the centrist Clinton-Gore New Democrat ideology is a perfect fit for the libertarian-leaning just-get-it-done millionaires of California's high tech industry -- and better yet, they're political virgins. If he can play the matchmaker between cash-rich techies and cash-hungry politicos, Randlett could leapfrog into Democratic Party power.
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Subjects:  1. Business and politics    2. California    3. Computer industry    4. Government - U.S. Government    5. Political Process - Political Parties    6. Political Science    7. Political activity    8. Politics / Current Events    9. Politics and government    10. Politics/International Relations    11. Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clar    12. Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County)    13. Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.)    14. Social Aspects   

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Bruce Sterling's classic work highlights the 1990 assault on hackers, when law-enforcement officials successfully arrested scores of suspected illicit hackers and other computer-based law-breakers. These raids became symbolic of the debate between fighting serious computer crime and protecting civil liberties. However, Read more

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Essential reading on computers, freedom and privacy.
Bruce Sterling of Cyberpunk fame takes a journalistic approach to researching law and disorder on the electronic frontier by examining two specific events in depth : the 1990 Operation Sundevil, a concerted nationwide effortby district attorneys, the Secret Service, the FBI, local authorities and various Telco security to bust and publicize a hacker crackdown; and the resulting trials and creation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and rise of the civil libertarians.
Very worthwile...
A very lively, interesting, and well-written (by Bruce Sterling no less) summer read for those interested in the history of phone phreaking and computer exploration and mischief.Highly recommended.

EXCELENT BOOK UNTIL THE ''UNDERGROUND'' PART
this is an excellent book until the ''underground'' part. But it forgot to talk about the cybergang ''Master Of Deception'' the opponent of Legion Of Doom. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Computer Books: General    2. Computer Data Security    3. Computer crimes    4. Computer programming    5. Corrupt practices    6. General    7. Politics - Current Events    8. Telephone    9. Telephone Engineering    10. United States    11. Non-Classifiable   

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Freedom's not dead in cyberspace. That's the premise of philosopher Peter Ludlow and most of the contributors to his Read more

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Well edited anthology
Need to know where the Internet society came from?Where it thinks it is?When it can be regulated? What the future plans of political bodies and their legal policies may be? New Activism, No Boredom
As a media activist, I'm constantly confronted by people who don't understand that the real revolution in media is not the commercial internet, but the "undernet" of hidden economies and private interchanges. Ludlow's book gets it right, avoiding the common misconceptions about the Internet to show why it's not just the battleground for big companies, but the playground for a real revolutionary force. What I really like in this book is the way he collects some of the classic (but under-read) articles on the possibilities of the new media and adds in some intense new stuff. It's like a one-stop shop for the coming age of controlled digital chaos. You NEED to read this book if you want to understand what the future of activism is going to be.

totally kewl
With all the B.S. about cyberspace showing up in the newspapers and dopey newsmagazines its about "Time" somebody got it right. This is what makes the whole internet/underground culture thing interesting. Lots of great essays on how the new way is actually changing the way people live and interact. If your take on electronic culture comes from reading the kiddie-porn articles and "death of the internet" stuff in the mainstream media, you're missing the big picture. thank you, peter ludlow!!!!! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Computer Books: General    2. Computer Science    3. Computers    4. Cybernetics    5. History & Theory - General    6. Internet - World Wide Web    7. Politics / Current Events    8. Popular Culture - General    9. Computers / Information Theory    10. Internet    11. Media studies    12. POLITICS & GOVERNMENT   

Subjects:  1. 1951-    2. Computer Graphics - General    3. Computer Literacy    4. Computers - Integrated Software    5. Connecticut    6. Government - State & Provincial    7. Local government    8. Political Science    9. Politics and government    10. Politics/International Relations    11. Presentation Software    12. Political Science / State & Local Government    13. Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects   

Subjects:  1. Art & Art Instruction    2. Art & Politics    3. Computers And Society    4. Criticism    5. Essays    6. General    7. Science    8. Science/Mathematics    9. Anarchism    10. Cultural studies    11. Other prose: from c 1900 -    12. Political activism   

Editorial Review

The drive to create artificial intelligence has been contentious since its beginnings, and the arguments have sharpened our understanding of fields as diverse as mathematics, neuroscience, and philosophy. Science writer Sam Williams's brief history of the controversies, Read more

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An elementary but interesting introduction to A.I.
Is research and thinking on artificial intelligence stuck in a local minimum? Those in the field have attested to major advances in the last decade, but are these advances merely a renaming of approaches that were taken decades ago? Excellent Overview of AI Debate
Innovation in the field of artificial intelligence has had its ups and downs over the last half century.While many scientists in the fifties thought we would most definitely have solid AI applications in common use by the end of the twentieth century, reality has proved otherwise limiting AI success to only modest applications.It's not that there haven't been innovations in the field, but that the goal of computer replicated human intelligence is just much more complicated than originally thought. Somewhat shallow
In this book's favor, it does not purport to dig deep.It is a light read, easy in a sitting between meals, perhaps a step up from a full-length Wired piece.Read more

Subjects:  1. Artificial Intelligence - General    2. Computer Books: General    3. Computers    4. Politics / Current Events    5. Public Policy - Economic Policy    6. Computers / Artificial Intelligence