Networked life : 20 questions and answers / Mung Chiang.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.Description: xxvi, 478 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: - 9781107024946
- Networked life: twenty questions and answers
- Internet users
- Internet and families
- Right to Internet access
- Communication -- Network analysis
- Information technology -- Mathematical models
- Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing -- Mathematical models
- Internet -- Mathematical models
- Computer networks -- Mathematical models
- Wireless communication systems -- Mathematical models
- Computer engineering -- Textbooks
- 302.302 Ch Ne
- TK5105.5 .C48226 2012
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| 302 My So Social psychology / | 302.231 Su Ou Outnumbered : from Facebook and Google to fake news and filter-bubbles - the algorithms that control our lives / | 302.30113 Si Simulating Social Complexity: A Handbook / | 302.302 Ch Ne Networked life : 20 questions and answers / | 302.35 Ma De Designing organization design : a human-centred approach | 302.35 Sc Or Organizations and organizing : rational, natural, and open system perspectives / | 302.4 Cs Th A theory of organising / |
Includes bibliographical references and index
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