The Silicon Jungle : : A Novel of Deception, Power, and Internet Intrigue / / Shumeet Baluja.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Baluja, Shumeet,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)

What happens when a naive intern is granted unfettered access to people's most private thoughts and actions? Stephen Thorpe lands a coveted internship at Ubatoo, an Internet empire that provides its users with popular online services, from a search engine and e-mail, to social networking. When...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Endings
• Anklets
• Anthropologists in the Midst
• Mollycoddle
• Touchpoints
• Checking In
• Working 9 to 4
• Predicting the Future and 38 Needles
• Contact
• Two Geeks in a Pod
• An Understatement
• Euphoria and Diet Pills
• To Better Days
• Marathon
• The Life and Soul of an Intern
• Candid Cameras
• Episodes
• Liberal Food and Even More Liberal Activism
• Subjects
• Newsworthy
• Patience
• Hypergrowth
• Little Pink Houses
• Truth, Lies, and Algorithms
• Negotiations and Herding Cats
• The Jenny Discovery
• I Dream of Jenny July
• A Five-Step Program
• Over-Deliver
• A Life Changed in Four Phone Calls
• Giving Thanks
• A Drive through the Country
• Control
• A Tale of Two Tenures
• Prelude to Pie
• The Yuri Effect
• Apple Pie
• Thoughts Like Butterflies
• Core-Relations
• Collide
• Control, Revisited
• Fables of the Deconstruction
• Control, Foregone
• Foundations
• One Way
• Sebastin's Friends
• A Tinker by Any Other Name
• When It Rains
• I Am a Heartbeat
• What I Did This Summer
• A Permanent Position
• For Adam
• Faith
• Counting by Two
• Disconnect
• Sahim
• Epilogue: Beginnings
• Acknowledgments
• Know More
• The Privacy Policy of a few organizations, in their own words
• References