This book highlights how online networking offers potential for new forms of activist mobilizing, repertoires, participatory democracy, direct action, fundraising, and civic engagement. It calls for a re-conceptualization of some of the main tenets of contentious and electoral politics, which were originally constructed to describe and analyze face-to-face forms of mobilization, in order to more accurately analyze contemporary forms of protest, electoral processes, and civil society organizing…. More >>

Wired and Mobilizing: Social Movements, New Technology, and Electoral Politics

Emerging technology in the field of telecommunications – the Internet, the World Wide Web and related applications – has begun to impact the way we receive and transmit information of all kinds. How will these new technologies affect museums’ missions, operations, and even definitions, both now and in the near future? With chapters on online networks, digitization of collections, cultural intellectual property, public access, finance, management, and more, experts in the fields of museums and communications offer their analyses of the emerging information technology and the opportunities and challenges these changes present for museums…. More >>

The Wired Museum: Emerging Technology and Changing Paradigms

Chronologically, this volume ranges from 1790, when the first US census reported 5% of the population living in urban areas, to 1990, when 75% of the American population lived in urban areas. Geographically, its focus is the continental USA. However, the context for the study of modern electroniccommunications in relation to cities transcends national boundaries just as the technologies themselves do; consequently the contents of the last two chapters in the volume range more widely around the globe. Among the issues discussed are the rise of the skyscraper, the coming of the automobile age, relations between private and public transport, the development of infrastructural technologies and systems, the implications of electronic communications and the emergence of city planning…. More >>

American Cities and Technology : Wilderness to Wired City

Strategy, innovation, outcome oriented decisions and personal development are at the heart of effective leadership. Wired 4 Leadership is a learning laboratory full of real-world insights into the dynamics of groups, decision-making, strategy, management execution, and leadership results. Illuminating those insights and leveraging first-hand experience into teachable moments of meaning and purpose for other leaders is the true work of this blog.Kindle blogs are fully downloaded onto your Kindle so you can read them even when you’re not wirelessly connected. And unlike RSS readers which often only provide headlines, blogs on Kindle give you full text content and images, and are updated wirelessly throughout the day…. More >>

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