Probabilistic Approaches for Social Media Analysis: Data, Community and Influence (East China Normal University Scientific Reports)

This unique compendium focuses on the acquisition and analysis of social media data. The approaches concern both the data-intensive characteristics and graphical structures of social media. The book addresses the critical problems in social media analysis, which representatively cover its lifecycle.The must-have volume is an excellent reference text for professionals, researchers, academics and graduate students in AI and databases.

Computers & Technology

Kun Yue

JIN LI

Hao Wu

Internet & Social Media

World Scientific Publishing Company

Limited edition hardcover edition of Steve Jobs: A Biography. Release date: 10/24/2011. Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two yearsas well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues. Traditional Chinese edition. HC In Traditional Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Steve Jobs: A Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

ISAACSON, WALTER

Professionals & Academics

Tian Xia Wen Hua

Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple

Business & Money

Byrne, John A.

Sculley, John

Industries

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

Microsoft Secrets : How the world"s Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets and Manages People

Cusumano, Michael

Biography & History

London: HarperCollins, 1996

Direct From Dell: Strategies That Revolutionized an Industry

Strategies That Revolutionized an Industry

Direct from Dell: Strategies That Revolutionized an Industry

Catherine Fredm Dell, Michael & Fredman

Management & Leadership

HarperBusiness

Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace

Douglas Rushkoff

Reference

Flamingo

Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking)

Dataclysm, an unprecedented deluge of digital information reshaping our view of the world. Christian Rudder maps and charts this data from out online wanderings resulting in a new way of looking at human behavior.

Dataclysm: Who We are (When We Think No One's Looking)

Christian Rudder

Fourth Estate Ltd.

‘Joan Didion at a startup’ Rebecca Solnit\n‘Impossibly pleasurable’ Jia Tolentino\n‘This is essential reading’ Stylist\nAt twenty-five years old, Anna Wiener was beginning to tire of her assistant job in New York publishing. There was no room to grow, and the voyeuristic thrill of answering someone else’s phone had worn thin. 
Within a year she had moved to Silicon Valley to take up a job at a data analytics startup in San Francisco. Leaving her business casual skirts and shirts in the wardrobe, she began working in company-branded T-shirts. She had a healthy income for the first time in her life. She felt like part of the future. 
But a tide was beginning to turn. People were speaking of tech startups as surveillance companies. Out of sixty employees, only eight of her colleagues were women. Casual sexism was rife. Sexual harassment cases were proliferating. And soon, like everyone else, she was addicted to the internet, refreshing the news, refreshing social media, scrolling and scrolling and scrolling. Slowly, she began to realise that her blind faith in ambitious, arrogant young men from America’s soft suburbs wasn’t just her own personal pathology. It had become a global affliction. 
Uncanny Valley is a coming of age story set against the backdrop of our generation’s very own gold rush. It’s a story about the tension between old and new, between art and tech, between the quest for money and the quest for meaning – about how our world is changing forever.

Uncanny Valley: Seduction and Disillusionment in San Francisco’s Startup Scene

Wiener, Anna

Fourth Estate

A David and Goliath story about Ireland's role as prime real estate for the world's largest tech multinationals, and the considerable impact it has had on us as individuals. At the start of the millennium, the Tech giants landed on Ireland's shores. Dublin, once one of Europe's poorest cities, became a beacon of Silicon Valley's promise of progress and power. As the face of the capital was remade in the image of Big Tech, Irish society embraced technology like no other. Romantic Ireland was dead and gone: social media was here to stay. In this provocative account, Aoife Barry explores the human cost of Ireland's Faustian pact with Big Tech, from the local communities uprooted by Google to the traumatised moderators squirrelled in the capital's pockets, keeping the internet safe at a terrible price. Unsettling, insightful, and wryly funny, she paints a portrait of a country addicted to the internet, refreshing the news, refreshing Twitter, scrolling and scrolling towards a feverish future. She turns an equally honest eye on her own life online, from her humble beginnings using dial-up in her parent's kitchen to working for Ireland's first digital-only newsroom, and asks what we bargain in exchange for life in the metaverse. Social Capital is the coming of age story of Ireland 3.0: set against the backdrop of the tech revolution, it chronicles how we collapse the boundary between physical and virtual reality, and where we might go from here.

Social Capital: Life online in the shadow of Ireland’s tech boom

Barry, Aoife

Economics

Harpercollins

Today, Microsoft commands the high ground of the infomation superhighway by owning the operating systems and basic applications programs that run on the world's 170 million computers. Beyond the unquestioned genius and vision of Bill Gates, what accounts for Microsoft's astounding success? For the first time, drawing on almost two years of on-site observation at Microsoft headquarters, eminent scientists Michael A. Cusumano and Richard W. Selby reveal many of Microsoft's innermost secrets. From this inside report based on forty in-depth interviews by authors who had access to confidential documents and project data, Cusumano and Selby identify seven complementary strategies that characterize exactly how Microsoft competes and operates. Bill Gates' "Brain Trust" of talented employees and exceptional management, "bang for the buck" competitive strategies, and clear oranizational goals produce an orientation toward self-critiquing, learning, and improving; a flexible, incremental approach to product development; and a relentless pursuit of future markets. To demonstrate how Microsoft puts these strategies into action, the authors define a further set of principles to reveal a style of leadership, organization, competition and product development which is both consistent with the company's loosely structured "programmer" culture and remarkably effective for mass-market production of software. Focusing specifically on the unique "synch-and-stabilize" approach to product development, they show how this vital capability enables Microsoft not only to build an increasing variety of complex features and end-products for fast-paced markets with short life cycles, but also to shape evolving mass markets and foster organizational learning. They examine how the flexibility of this process allows the company to "scale up" for larger and more complex projects -- a key asset that Microsoft must continue to cultivate in order to maintain its position as industry leader. Cusumano and Selby's masterful analysis successfully uncovers the distinctive way in which Microsoft has combined all of the elements necessary to get to the top of an enormously important industry and stay there. Managers in many different industries, especially those concerned with rapidly evolving complex product features and high technical standards, will discover hundreds of invaluable lessons in this superbly readable book.

MICROSOFT SECRETS: How the World's Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People

Cusumano, Michael A.

Free Press

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