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Social media, Cosmopolitanism, Soziales Netzwerk, Weltbürgertum, Social aspects, Sociala medier, Internet, Sociala aspekter, Soziale Software, Information society, Communication, social aspects, Internet--social aspects, Interpersonal communication--technological innovations--social aspects, Intercultural communication, Hm742 .z83 2013, 302.23/1

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Table of Contents

[Section 1]. DISCONNECT
Chapter 1. Connection, infection, inspiration
Cosmopolitanism / How we know the world / It was supposed to be so easy / Building for a wider future
Chapter 2. Imaginary cosmopolitanism
Reconsidering flatworld / How flat are atoms? / The lumpy world of migration / Bits: potentially mobile, practically static / Infrastructure and flow / Homophily
Chapter 3. When what we know is whom we know
Mapping media attention / Agenda setting / The gatekeepers / The power of the audience / Be your own gatekeeper: the arrival of 'The Daily Me' / The Social Newspaper
[Section 2]. REWIRE
Chapter 4. Global voices
Building Global Voices
Chapter 5. Found in translation
A lingua franca? / Language is a tool / The checkered history of machine translation / Roland Soong and the future of translation / Digital extinction? / Making translation transparent
Chapter 6. Taken in context
Bridge figures / The Taliban, McDonald's and Curried Goat / Weak ties or bridge ties? / Bridge figures and creativity / The foreign correspondent as bridge / Bridging in a digital age / Human libraries / Xenophiles
Chapter 7. Serendipity and the city
Cities and choice / How cities work / Serendipity / Designing for serendipity / Design for encounter / Desire lines / Local maxima / Structured wandering / Breaking the metaphor / Self-tracking and self-discovery / Serendipity and risk
[Section 3]. THE WIDER WORLD
Chapter 8. The connected shall inherit
The changing face of the CEO / Cognitive diversity / Diversity and dissent / Diversity and the connected world / The task ahead

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HM742 .Z83 2013, HM851

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