Computers, phones, and the Internet [[electronic resource] ] : domesticating information technology / / edited by Robert Kraut, Malcolm Brynin, Sara Kiesler

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465197703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006
• ISBN: 0-19-517963-3; 1-4294-2018-9; 9786610845361; 0-19-534627-0; 1-280-84536-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (341 p.)
• Collana: Oxford series in human-technology interaction ; ; 2
• Altri autori (Persone): KrautRobert E; BryninMalcolm; KieslerSara <1940->
• Disciplina: 303.48/33
• Soggetti: Information society; Information technology - Social aspects; Technological innovations - Social aspects; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Social studies of domestic information and communication technologies / Malcom Brynin and Robert Kraut -- Portraits of American internet use : findings from the Pew Internet and American Life Project / John B. Horrigan -- Passing by and passing through / Ben Anderson -- Older people and new technologies / Yoel Raban and Malcom Brynin -- Information technology and family time displacement / John P. Robinson and Jos De Haan -- Examining the impact of internet use on TV viewing : details make a difference / Robert Kraut ... [et al.] -- The neutered computer / Malcom Brynin -- The consumption junction revisited : networks and contexts / Maria Bakardjieva -- Designing the family portal for home networking / Alladi Venkatesh, Steven Chen, and Victor M. Gonzalez -- Children's privacy online : ; experimenting with boundaries within and beyond the family / Sonia Livingstone -- Children's home internet use : antecedents and psychological, social, and academic consequences / Linda A. Jackson ... [et al.] -- Social and civic participation in a community network / John M. Carroll ... [et al.] -- Teens on the internet : interpersonal connection, identity, and information / Patricia M. Greenfield ... [et al.] -- Teenage communication in the instant messaging era / Bonka Boneva ... [et al.] -- Control, emancipation, and status : the mobile telephone in teens' parental and peer relationships / Rich Ling and Brigitte Yttri -- Intimate connections : contextualizing Japanese youth and mobile messaging / Mizuko Ito and Daisuke Okabe -- The Internet and social interaction : a meta-analysis and critique of studies, 1995-2003 / Irina Shklovski, Sara Kiesler, and Robert Kraut -- Communication technology and friendship during the transition from high school to college / Jonathon N. Cummings, John B. Lee, and Robert Kraut -- Considering the interactions : the effects of the internet on self and society / Katelyn Y.A. McKenna and Gwendolyn Seidman -- Rhythms and ties : toward a pragmatics of technologically mediated sociability / Christian Licoppe and Zbigniew Smoreda.
• Sommario/riassunto: 1. Social Studies of Domestic Information and Communication Technologies, Malcom Brynin and Robert KrautInformation Technology and Social Change2. Protraits of American Internet Use: Frindings from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, John B. Horrigan3. Passing By and Passing Through, Ben Anderson4. Older People and New Technologies, Yoel Raban and Malcom Brynin5. Information Technology and Family Time Displacement, John P. Robinson and Jos De Haan6. Examining the Impact of Internet Use on TV Viewing: Details Make a Difference, Robert Kraut, Sara Kiesler, Bonka Boneva, and Irina Shlovski7

Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute : the memoirs of George A. Cowan / / George A. Cowan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910956630203321
• Autore: Cowan G. A (George A.), <1920-2012.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, c2010
• ISBN: 9781283636735; 1283636735; 9780826348722; 0826348726
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (185 p.)
• Disciplina: 540.92; B
• Soggetti: Chemists - United States; Businessmen - New Mexico - Los Alamos; Philanthropists - United States; Los Alamos (N.M.) Biography
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: My early environment -- The world outside our yard -- Movies and vaudeville -- Finding a role -- The deepening Depression -- My high school years -- Undergraduate years at Worcester Polytechnic Institute -- Entering a new world -- Prologue to the Manhattan Project -- I go to the "Met Lab" -- My visit to Oak Ridge -- Nuclear physics research at Columbia University -- Photo gallery -- I go to Los Alamos -- The Pittsburgh years -- I return to Los Alamos -- The hydrogen bomb -- New heavy elements -- Thermonuclear testing, 1954-1955 -- Life at Los Alamos in the 1950s -- The nuclear intelligence community -- The Oppenheimer hearings -- Los Alamos becomes privately owned -- Banking at Los Alamos -- Poker and theoretical physics -- Project Gnome : the add-on wheel experiment -- Duplicating Mike neutron exposure -- U.S.-U.K. Joint Working Group for Radiochemistry -- International symposium, heavy ion physics, Dubna, Russia -- Photo gallery II -- A trip to the North Pole -- Down the Aleutian Islands to Amchitka -- The Oklo natural reactor -- Disposal of high-level ; radioactive wastes -- The solar neutrino program -- Atmospheric dynamics around Antarctica -- The White House Science Council -- Simplicity and complexity -- Photo gallery III -- The Santa Fe Institute : its intellectual origins -- SFI becomes operational -- Behavioral science -- My interest in early mental development -- What have I learned? -- What lies ahead? -- Power and complexity.
• Sommario/riassunto: Cowan relates the details of his unique scientific career.