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The Truth About Killer Robots
The truth about killer robots [Video file]. (2018). Retrieved February 11, 2019, from https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=102567&xtid=168271
Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age
Swiped-Hooking up in the digital age [Video file]. (2018). Retrieved February 11, 2019, from https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=102567&xtid=162940
Replaceable Me
Dawn of the Driverless Car
“Dawn of the Driverless Car.” Films Media Group, 2017
Rise of the Trolls
“Rise of the Trolls.” Films Media Group, 2016
The Outrage Machine
“The Outrage Machine.” Films Media Group, 2016.
The Most Dangerous Town on the Internet
The Most Dangerous Town on the Internet: Where Cybercrime Goes to Hide. Films Media Group, 2016.
Being Alone Together - Bill Moyers & Co.
Moyers & Company: Being Alone Together. Films Media Group, 2013,.
Deluged by Data: The Infobesity Epidemic
Deluged By Data: The Infobesity Epidemic. Films Media Group, 2015.
Don't Trust the Promise of Artificial Intelligence: A Debate
“Don't Trust the Promise of Artificial Intelligence: A Debate.” Films Media Group, 2016.
The International Encyclopedia of Digital Communication and Society by Call Number: Online BookISBN: 1118290747Publication Date: 2015-02-17
The Science of Everything by Call Number: Online ResourceISBN: 1426211686Publication Date: 2013-10-29
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media by Call Number: Online BookISBN: 1421412241Publication Date: 2014-03-20
DVD Videos
Frontline: Digital Nation: Call Number: 303.4834 F935D DVD (Truax)
Frontline: The United States of Secrets. Call Number: 352.379 F935U DVD (Truax)
​Code : debugging the gender gap. Call Number: 604.82 C669 DVD (Truax)
Soundbreaking : stories from the cutting edge of recorded music. Call Number: 338.4778 SO724 BLU-RAY
GMO OMG. Call Number: 664 G569 DVD
How we got to now. Call Number: 338.064 H847 DVD (Truax)
Full signal. Call Number: 621.3824 F965 DVD
Mobilize. Call Number: 363.1799 M687 DVD (Truax)
Ex Machina. Call Number: Ex, DVD Feature Films (Truax).
When strangers click: five stories from the Internet. Call Number: 306.730285 W567 DVD (Truax)
We Live in Public. Call Number: 303.4834 W361 DVD (Truax)
Her. Call Number: HER, Feature Film (Truax)
We are legion: the story of the hacktivists. Call Number: 364.168 W361 DVD
2001, a space odyssey. Call Number: 2001, Feature Films. (Truax)
Rise of the robots. Call Number: 629.892 R595 DVD (Truax)
Wall-E. Call Number: WALL-E, Feature Films. (Truax)
Notes on a Nervous Planet by Call Number: 616.89 H149 (Reedsburg)ISBN: 014313342XPublication Date: 2019-01-29
Algorithms of Oppression by Call Number: 025.04252 N752 (Truax)ISBN: 1479849944Publication Date: 2018-02-20
Automating Inequality by
The New York Times Book Review: "Riveting." Naomi Klein: "This book is downright scary." Ethan Zuckerman, MIT: "Should be required reading." Dorothy Roberts, author of Killing the Black Body: "A must-read." Astra Taylor, author of The People's Platform: "The single most important book about technology you will read this year." Cory Doctorow: "Indispensable." A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination--and how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equity The State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare, foodstamps and cash benefits in three years--because a new computer system interprets any mistake as "failure to cooperate." In Los Angeles, an algorithm calculates the comparative vulnerability of tens of thousands of homeless people in order to prioritize them for an inadequate pool of housing resources. In Pittsburgh, a child welfare agency uses a statistical model to try to predict which children might be future victims of abuse or neglect. Since the dawn of the digital age, decision-making in finance, employment, politics, health and human services has undergone revolutionary change. Today, automated systems--rather than humans--control which neighborhoods get policed, which families attain needed resources, and who is investigated for fraud. While we all live under this new regime of data, the most invasive and punitive systems are aimed at the poor. In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America. The book is full of heart-wrenching and eye-opening stories, from a woman in Indiana whose benefits are literally cut off as she lays dying to a family in Pennsylvania in daily fear of losing their daughter because they fit a certain statistical profile. The U.S. has always used its most cutting-edge science and technology to contain, investigate, discipline and punish the destitute. Like the county poorhouse and scientific charity before them, digital tracking and automated decision-making hide poverty from the middle-class public and give the nation the ethical distance it needs to make inhumane choices: which families get food and which starve, who has housing and who remains homeless, and which families are broken up by the state. In the process, they weaken democracy and betray our most cherished national values. This deeply researched and passionate book could not be more timely.
Call Number: 362.560285 E86 (Truax)ISBN: 1250074312Publication Date: 2018-01-23
IGen by
A highly readable and entertaining first look at how today's members of iGen--the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later--are vastly different from their Millennial predecessors, and from any other generation, from the renowned psychologist and author of Generation Me. With generational divides wider than ever, parents, educators, and employers have an urgent need to understand today's rising generation of teens and young adults. Born in the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s and later, iGen is the first generation to spend their entire adolescence in the age of the smartphone. With social media and texting replacing other activities, iGen spends less time with their friends in person--perhaps why they are experiencing unprecedented levels of anxiety, depression, and loneliness. But technology is not the only thing that makes iGen distinct from every generation before them; they are also different in how they spend their time, how they behave, and in their attitudes toward religion, sexuality, and politics. They socialize in completely new ways, reject once sacred social taboos, and want different things from their lives and careers. More than previous generations, they are obsessed with safety, focused on tolerance, and have no patience for inequality. iGen is also growing up more slowly than previous generations: eighteen-year-olds look and act like fifteen-year-olds used to. As this new group of young people grows into adulthood, we all need to understand them: Friends and family need to look out for them; businesses must figure out how to recruit them and sell to them; colleges and universities must know how to educate and guide them. And members of iGen also need to understand themselves as they communicate with their elders and explain their views to their older peers. Because where iGen goes, so goes our nation--and the world.
Call Number: 305.2350973 T971 (Truax)ISBN: 9781501151989Publication Date: 2017-08-22
The Art of Invisibility by Call Number: 005.8 M684IN (Truax)ISBN: 0316380504Publication Date: 2017-02-14
The Third Wave by
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER One of America’s most accomplished entrepreneurs—a pioneer who made the Internet part of everyday life and orchestrated the largest merger in the history of business—shares a roadmap for how anyone can succeed in a world of rapidly changing technology. Steve Case’s career began when he cofounded America Online (AOL) in 1985. At the time, only three percent of Americans were online. It took a decade for AOL to achieve mainstream success, and there were many near-death experiences and back-to-the-wall pivots. AOL became the top performing company of the 1990s, and at its peak more than half of all consumer Internet traffic in the United States ran through the service. After Case engineered AOL’s merger with Time Warner and he became Chairman of the combined business, Case oversaw the biggest media and communications empire in the world. In The Third Wave, which pays homage to the work of the futurist Alvin Toffler (from whom Case has borrowed the title, and whose work inspired him as a young man), Case takes us behind the scenes of some of the most consequential and riveting business decisions of our time while offering illuminating insights from decades of working as an entrepreneur, an investor, a philanthropist, and an advocate for sensible bipartisan policies. We are entering, as Case explains, a new paradigm called the “Third Wave” of the Internet. The first wave saw AOL and other companies lay the foundation for consumers to connect to the Internet. The second wave saw companies like Google and Facebook build on top of the Internet to create search and social networking capabilities, while apps like Snapchat and Instagram leverage the smartphone revolution. Now, Case argues, we’re entering the Third Wave: a period in which entrepreneurs will vastly transform major “real world” sectors like health, education, transportation, energy, and food—and in the process change the way we live our daily lives. But success in the Third Wave will require a different skill set, and Case outlines the path forward. The Third Wave is part memoir, part manifesto, and part playbook for the future. With passion and clarity, Case explains the ways in which newly emerging technology companies (a growing number of which, he argues, will not be based in Silicon Valley) will have to rethink their relationships with customers, with competitors, and with governments; and offers advice for how entrepreneurs can make winning business decisions and strategies—and how all of us can make sense of this changing digital age.
Call Number: 338.4700467 C337 (Downtown)ISBN: 9781501132582Publication Date: 2016-04-05
Cyberphobia by
Cybercrime is increasingly in the news. Stories about weaknesses in cybersecurity like the Heartbleed" leak, or malicious software on the cash registers at your local Target have become alarmingly common. Even more alarming is the sheer number of victims associated with these crimes - the identities and personal information of millions is stolen outright as criminals drain bank accounts and max out credit cards. The availability of stolen credit card information is now so common that it can be purchased on the black market for as little as four dollars with potentially thousands at stake for the victims. Possibly even more catastrophic are hackers at a national level that have begun stealing national security, or economic and trade secrets. The world economy and geopolitics hang in the balance.In Cyberphobia , Edward Lucas unpacks this shadowy, but metastasizing problem confronting our security - both for individuals and nations. The uncomfortable truth is that we do not take cybersecurity seriously enough. Strong regulations on automotive safety or guidelines for the airline industry are commonplace, but when it comes to the internet, it might as well be the Wild West. Standards of securing our computers and other internet-connected technology are diverse, but just like the rules of the road meant to protect both individual drivers and everyone else driving alongside them, weak cybersecurity on the computers and internet systems near us put everyone at risk. Lucas sounds a compelling and necessary alarm on behalf of cybersecurity and prescribes immediate and bold solutions to this grave threat."
Call Number: 364.168 L933ISBN: 9781632862259Publication Date: 2015-11-17
The Future of the Professions by
This book predicts the decline of today's professions and describes thepeople and systems that will replace them. In an Internet society,according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will neither neednor want doctors, teachers, accountants, architects, the clergy,consultants, lawyers, and many others, to work as they did in the 20thcentury. The Future of the Professions explains how 'increasingly capable systems' - from telepresence to artificial intelligence - will bring fundamental change inthe way that the 'practical expertise' of specialists is made available in society. The authors challenge the 'grand bargain' - the arrangement that grantsvarious monopolies to today's professionals. They argue that ourcurrent professions are antiquated, opaque and no longer affordable, andthat the expertise of the best is enjoyed only by a few. In theirplace, they propose six new models for producing and distributingexpertise in society. The book raises important practical andmoral questions. In an era when machines can out-perform human beings atmost tasks, what are the prospects for employment, who should own andcontrol onlineexpertise, and what tasks should be reserved exclusively for people?Based on the authors' in-depth research of more than ten professions,and illustrated by numerous examples from each, this is the first bookto assess and question the relevance of the professions in the 21stcentury.
Call Number: 303.4834 SU964ISBN: 9780198713395Publication Date: 2016-01-01
Privacy in the Age of Big Data by
Digital data collection and surveillance gets more pervasive and invasive by the day; but the best ways to protect yourself and your data are all steps you can take yourself.
Call Number: 323.448 P347ISBN: 1442225459Publication Date: 2014-01-16
Pressed for Time by
In Pressed for Time, Judy Wajcman explains why we immediately interpret our experiences with digital technology as inexorably accelerating everyday life. She argues that we are not mere hostages to communication devices, and the sense of always being rushed is the result of the priorities and parameters we ourselves set rather than the machines that help us set them.
Call Number: 304.237 W145 (Downtown)ISBN: 022619647XPublication Date: 2014-12-03
The End of Absence by
In this eloquent and thought-provoking book, Michael Harris argues that amid all the changes we're experiencing, the most interesting is the one that future generations will find hardest to grasp.
Call Number: 302.231 H315ISBN: 1591846935Publication Date: 2014-08-07
