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Klappentext The Annual Editions series is designed to provide convenient, inexpensive access to a wide range of current articles from some of the most respected magazines, newspapers, and journals published today. Annual Editions are updated on a regular basis through a continuous monitoring of over 300 periodical sources. The articles selected are authored by prominent scholars, researchers, and commentators writing for a general audience. The Annual Editions volumes have a number of common organizational features designed to make them particularly useful in the classroom: a general introduction; an annotated table of contents; a topic guide; an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites; and a brief overview for each section. Each volume also offers an online Instructor's Resource Guide with testing materials. Using Annual Editions in the Classroom is a general guide that provides a number of interesting and functional ideas for using Annual Editions readers in the classroom. Visit www.mhhe.com/annualeditions for more details. Inhaltsverzeichnis Annual Editions: Technologies, Social Media, Society 11/12PrefaceCorrelation GuideTopic GuideInternet ReferencesUNIT 1: IntroductionUnit Overview1. Five Things We Need to Know about Technological Change, Neil Postman, New Tech '98 Conference, March 27, 1998Postman suggests that computer technology is too important to be left entirely to the technologists. "Embedded in every technology," he says, "is a powerful idea. . . ."2. Moore's Law and Technological Determinism: Reflections on the History of Technology, Paul Ceruzzi, Technology and Culture, July 2005"The steady and unstoppable march of semiconductor density" leads this writer to make the unfashionable claim that "in at least one instance, raw technological determinism is at work."3. A Passion for Objects, Sherry Turkle, The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 30, 2008Science, like every human endeavor these days, is suffused with computers. Turns out that computers with their now-an-object, now-not-an object shape shifting might not be what young minds drawn to science need.UNIT 2: The EconomyUnit Overview4. Online Salvation?, Paul Farhi, American Journalism Review, December 2007/January 2008In 2003, newspapers earned $1.2 billion through online services. By 2006, the figure had grown to $2.7 billion. Will the internet save the beleaguered newspaper business?5. Publish or Perish: Can the iPad Topple the Kindle, and Save the Book Business?, The New Yorker, April 26, 2010On July 19, The New York Times reported what might be the Rubicon of publishing: Amazon announced that sales of books for its Kindle outnumbered the sales of its hardcover inventory. But both Google and Apple are in the game now. Where does that leave traditional publishers?6. The Great Wall of Facebook, Fred Vogelstein, Wired, July 2009Facebook, a company that has yet to turn a profit, is challenging Google, the most powerful company on the Web.7. Personally Controlled Online Health Data, Robert Steinbrook, The New England Journal of Medicine, April 17, 2008At $2.1 trillion dollars, healthcare is a large piece of the U.S. economy. Electronic healthcare data that is "personally controlled" could "help . . . reduce the cost of care."UNIT 3: Work and the WorkplaceUnit Overview8. Computer Software Engineers, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2010-2011 Edition"Computer software engineers are one of the occupations projected to grow the fastest and add the most new jobs over the 2008-18 decade," this despite years of worry that high-tech jobs are being shipped abroad.9. Women, Mathematics, and Computing, Paul De Palma, Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology, 2006Women remain underrepresented in the computer industry despite countless articles and proposals.10. Out of Time: Reflections on the Programming Life, Ellen Ullman, Resisting the Virtual Life: the Culture and Politics of Informati...
