Develop and implement essential computer technology—with confidence Do you want to develop an understanding of technology to enhance your education, career, or personal life, but feel inhibited by your digital literacy? Fear not! Written in plain English and absent of undecipherable high-tech jargon, Digital Literacy For Dummies makes it easy to get a grip on computer basics, the Internet, the Cloud, browsing the web, productivity programs and applications for school and the workplace, computer security and privacy, the latest in digital lifestyle topics, and so much more.
From the moment you're born, you enter the data stream-from birth certificates to medical records to what you bought on Amazon last week. As your dossier grows, so do the threats, from identity thieves to government snoops to companies who want to sell you something. Computer Privacy Annoyances shows you how to regain control of your life. You'll learn how to keep private information private, stop nosy bosses, get off that incredibly annoying mailing list, and more.
John Carstairs is a secret agent. He has an opportunity to save the world. There is a small island in the Aegean Sea where something very strange is happening . The Americans have bought it and built the biggest computer ever. They call it D.O.T.( Data Overseas Transmission) and it sends information to other computers all over the world. All the computers in the world need a special program but this one builds its own program. It works by itself. Its plan is to control all computers all over the world. Will computers control the world? Could computers do this? Will Carstairs be able to stop the computer's plans?
Computer Games as Educational and Management Tools: Uses and Approaches
Though once considered purely for their entertainment value, computer and online games have applications as learning tools in learning in a variety of different environments.
Writing Technology: Studies on the Materiality of Literacy
Academic and practitioner journals in fields from electronics to business to language studies, as well as the popular press, have for over a decade been proclaiming the arrival of the "computer revolution" and making far-reaching claims about the impact of computers on modern western culture. Implicit in many arguments about the revolutionary power of computers is the assumption that communication, language, and words are intimately tied to culture -- that the computer's transformation of communication means a transformation, a revolutionizing, of culture.
