Net Works

Net Works
Author: Xtine Burrough
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2012
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0415882214

Offers an inside look into the process of successfully developing thoughtful, innovative digital media. Using websites as case studies, each chapter introduces a different style of web project--from formalist play to social activisim to data visualization--and then includes the artists or entrepreneurs' reflections on the particular challenges and outcomes of developing that web project. Combining practical skills for web authoring with critical perspectives on the web, this book is ideal for courses in new media design, art, communication, critical studies, media and technology, or popular digital/internet culture.

FOA Reference Guide to Fiber Optics

FOA Reference Guide to Fiber Optics
Author: Jim Hayes
Publisher: Booksurge Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-09-04
Genre: Fiber optics
ISBN: 9781439253878

Updated January 2019.This book is a complete guide to the design, installation, testing and operation of fiber optic networks. It was written with the assistance of many experienced Fiber Optic Association (FOA) instructors in fiber optics as a reference book for classes aimed at FOA CFOT certification as well as a basic reference for anyone working in the field of fiber optics. This book offers expansive coverage on the components and processes of fiber optics as used in all applications and installation practices. A complete curriculum for teaching fiber optics using this book as a text is available from FOA.

City of Light

City of Light
Author: Jeff Hecht
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2004
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780195162554

This text presents the history of the development of fibre optic technology, explaining the scientific challenges that needed to be overcome, the range of applications and future potential for this fundamental communications technology.

Who Owns the World's Media?

Who Owns the World's Media?
Author: Eli M. Noam
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 1435
Release: 2016
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199987238

Who Owns the World's Media? moves beyond the rhetoric of free media and free markets to provide a dispassionate and data-driven analysis of global media ownership trends and their drivers. Based on an extensive data collection effort from scholars around the world, the book covers 13 media industries, including television, newspapers, book publishing, film, search engines, ISPs, wireless telecommunication and others, across a 10-25 year period in 30 countries.