Download or read book Buy Now written by Emily West and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Amazon combined branding and relationship marketing with massive distribution infrastructure to become the ultimate service brand in the digital economy. Amazon is ubiquitous in our daily lives—we stream movies and television on Amazon Prime Video, converse with Alexa, receive messages on our smartphone about the progress of our latest orders. In Buy Now, Emily West examines Amazon’s consumer-facing services to investigate how Amazon as a brand grew so quickly and inserted itself into so many aspects of our lives even as it faded into the background, becoming a sort of infrastructure that can be taken for granted. Amazon promotes the comfort and care of its customers (but not its workers) to become the ultimate service brand in the digital economy. West shows how Amazon has cultivated personalized, intimate relationships with consumers that normalize its outsized influence on our selves and our communities. She describes the brand’s focus on speedy and seamless ecommerce delivery, represented in the materiality of the branded brown box; the positioning of its book retailing, media streaming, and smart speakers as services rather than sales; and the brand’s image control strategies. West considers why pushback against Amazon’s ubiquity and market power has come mainly from among Amazon’s workers rather than its customers or competitors, arguing that Amazon’s brand logic fragments consumers as a political bloc. West’s innovative account, the first to examine Amazon from a critical media studies perspective, offers a cautionary cultural study of bigness in today’s economy.

Download or read book Amazon Echo For Beginners written by Danielle Kinley and published by Lizard Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-18 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Figure out how you can change your life with the best home assistant so far. Don't miss a chance to change your future now! In this book you will learn: What Amazon Echo is How to use the Amazon Echo effectively for your personal needs How to utilize all the skills built into the device How to create your own custom skills for the device How to fix a variety of common troubleshooting issues The advantages of a smart home system and how to get your own How to connect the Echo to your smart home system And much, much more!

Download or read book Amazon Echo Users Guide Manual To Amazon Echo Secret Tips And Tricks To Connect You To The World written by Os Swift and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-01-07 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2nd Edition - Includes NEW Amazon Echo Updates - UPDATED DEC. 2015! Unlock the Amazing Potential of Your Amazon Echo! Do you have an Amazon Echo? Would you like to know what it can really do? Do you want to take advantage of the many amazing functions of this revolutionary device in your home? Did you wish you had the missing manual? If so, then this book is for you! You'll learn about the design and setup of Alexa, the design and components, and the function of the remote control. This book explains how to set up your Amazon Echo, activate it by voice-command, and navigate its myriad of potential uses. Learn to: Set up a sound to know when the audio streaming turns on or off Change the "wake word" Get information from Alexa Use the Light Ring to read and control your Amazon Echo Use the buttons on the Echo device and their corresponding colors Use the Remote Control for optimum use of the Echo Connect other devices to your Amazon Echo Hands-On Uses Of Alexa

Download or read book Who s Raising the Kids written by Susan Linn and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a world-renowned expert on creative play and the impact of commercial marketing on children, a timely investigation into how big tech is hijacking childhood—and what we can do about it “Engrossing and insightful . . . rich with details that paint a full portrait of contemporary child-corporate relations.” —Zephyr Teachout, The New York Times Book Review Even before COVID-19, digital technologies had become deeply embedded in children’s lives, despite a growing body of research detailing the harms of excessive immersion in the unregulated, powerfully seductive world of the “kid-tech” industry. In the “must read” (Library Journal, starred review) Who’s Raising the Kids?, Susan Linn—one of the world’s leading experts on the impact of Big Tech and big business on children—weaves an “eye-opening and disturbing exploration of how marketing tech to children is creating a passive, dysfunctional generation” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). From birth, kids have become lucrative fodder for tech, media, and toy companies, from producers of exploitative games and social media platforms to “educational” technology and branded school curricula of dubious efficacy. Written with humor and compassion, Who’s Raising the Kids? is a unique and highly readable social critique and guide to protecting kids from exploitation by the tech, toy, and entertainment industries. Two hopeful chapters—“Resistance Parenting” and “Making a Difference for Everybody’s Kids”—chart a path to allowing kids to be the children they need to be.

Download or read book Amazon Alexa written by Vijay Kumar Yadav and published by Vijay Kumar Yadav . This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexa makes your life easier, more meaningful, and more fun by letting you voice control your world. Alexa can help you get more out of the things you already love and discover new possibilities you’ve never imagined. This is Alexa for everyone. Making Alexa part of your day is as simple as asking a question. Alexa can play your favorite song, read the latest headlines, dim the lights in your living room, and more. Basically, Alexa wants to make your life easier, more meaningful, and more fun by helping you voice control your world—both at home and on the go. Alexa-enabled devices are simple to set up and use. The Amazon Alexa app is a quick, easy way to try Alexa on your phone, as well as set up and manage compatible devices. Stay connected and maximize your enjoyment with Alexa. In this book, Amazon Alexa, you see – Alexa Profiles, Alexa Smart Home, Alexa News, Alexa Information, Shopping with Alexa, Alexa Skills, Alexa Productivity, Alexa Entertainment, Alexa Communication, Talking with Alexa, Alexa Settings, Alexa Accessibility, Amazon Photos with Alexa, and Alexa in Education. Amazon Alexa, this is very easy eBook. You can understand easily. This eBook is for everyone.

Download or read book The Everything War written by Dana Mattioli and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Anticipated by Foreign Policy • Globe and Mail • Publishers Weekly • Next Big Idea Club Must Read April Books “Will stand as a classic.” – Christopher Leonard "Riveting, shocking, and full of revelations." - Bryan Burrough From veteran Amazon reporter for The Wall Street Journal, The Everything War is the first untold, devastating exposé of Amazon's endless strategic greed, from destroying Main Street to remaking corporate power, in pursuit of total domination, by any means necessary. In 2017, Lina Khan published a paper that accused Amazon of being a monopoly, having grown so large, and embedded in so many industries, it was akin to a modern-day Standard Oil. Unlike Rockefeller’s empire, however, Bezos’s company had grown voraciously without much scrutiny. In fact, for over twenty years, Amazon had emerged as a Wall Street darling and its “customer obsession” approach made it indelibly attractive to consumers across the globe. But the company was not benevolent; it operated in ways that ensured it stayed on top. Lina Khan’s paper would light a fire in Washington, and in a matter of years, she would become the head of the FTC. In 2023, the FTC filed a monopoly lawsuit against Amazon in what may become one of the largest antitrust cases in the 21st century. With unparalleled access, and having interviewed hundreds of people – from Amazon executives to competitors to small businesses who rely on its marketplace to survive – Mattioli exposes how Amazon was driven by a competitive edge to dominate every industry it entered, bulldozed all who stood in its way, reshaped the retail landscape, transformed how Wall Street evaluates companies, and altered the very nature of the global economy. It has come to control most of online retail, and uses its own sellers’ data to compete with them through Amazon’s own private label brands. Millions of companies and governmental agencies use AWS, paying hefty fees for the service. And, the company has purposefully avoided collecting taxes for years, exploited partners, and even copied competitors—leveraging its power to extract whatever it can, at any cost. It has continued to gain market share in disparate areas, from media to logistics and beyond. Most companies dominate one or two industries; Amazon now leads in several. And all of this was by design. The Everything War is the definitive, inside story of how it grew into one of the most powerful and feared companies in the world – and why this lawsuit opens a window into the most consequential business story of our times.

Download or read book The Era of New Services written by Lefei Li and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Smart Wife written by Yolande Strengers and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and times of the Smart Wife--feminized digital assistants who are friendly and sometimes flirty, occasionally glitchy but perpetually available. Meet the Smart Wife--at your service, an eclectic collection of feminized AI, robotic, and smart devices. This digital assistant is friendly and sometimes flirty, docile and efficient, occasionally glitchy but perpetually available. She might go by Siri, or Alexa, or inhabit Google Home. She can keep us company, order groceries, vacuum the floor, turn out the lights. A Japanese digital voice assistant--a virtual anime hologram named Hikari Azuma--sends her "master" helpful messages during the day; an American sexbot named Roxxxy takes on other kinds of household chores. In The Smart Wife, Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy examine the emergence of digital devices that carry out "wifework"--domestic responsibilities that have traditionally fallen to (human) wives. They show that the principal prototype for these virtual helpers--designed in male-dominated industries--is the 1950s housewife: white, middle class, heteronormative, and nurturing, with a spick-and-span home. It's time, they say, to give the Smart Wife a reboot. What's wrong with preferring domestic assistants with feminine personalities? We like our assistants to conform to gender stereotypes--so what? For one thing, Strengers and Kennedy remind us, the design of gendered devices re-inscribes those outdated and unfounded stereotypes. Advanced technology is taking us backwards on gender equity. Strengers and Kennedy offer a Smart Wife "manifesta," proposing a rebooted Smart Wife that would promote a revaluing of femininity in society in all her glorious diversity.

Download or read book Amazon Echo Dot written by Danielle Kinley and published by Lizard Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a great guide for you to get started if you are a fan of getting the latest technologies at your house. The Echo Dot device looks like a dot, and there are a lot of benefits which it can bring to your life. You will see how it changes the lifestyle and help you out with keeping you updated with the external world and fixing your internal matters such as reminding you of important things. Echo Dot speaks to you when you set it up with different features which are present in this awesome device. If you have bought this device, then it is a must have to get this eBook. It will help you step by step to learn about the little device and the various features which are involved in it. You can make use of all the devices and enjoy your life without any worries or stress. If you are someone who does not know about Amazon Echo Dot then you should surely get this eBook because once you go through it, you won’t be able to resist getting the actual device. The more you learn about it, the more you would want to get it because of the ease it gives in your life. Especially if you are someone working and handling the house chores at the same time, then this can be best help for you to get done with the day without any obstacles or forgetting any important event. With this device, you will be remembering your events and won’t miss out of your loved ones.

Download or read book Amazon Echo Manual Guide Top 30 Hacks And Secrets To Master Amazon Echo Alexa For Beginners written by Scott Green and published by Publisher s21017. This book was released on 2015-10-28 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your Perfect Guide to Amazon Echo! This book is a complete and handy companion that will enable you to set up and use your Amazon Echo device quickly and efficiently for beginners. By reading this book you will understand and be able to receive all the benefits that this wonderful device has to offer, allowing you to keep up with your busy schedule. You will learn: Hacking The Remote Control Fake WEMO Devices Control Lights And Temperature Know The Best Commands And a whole lot more! Download NOW and Start Reading!

Download or read book Making Money with Alexa Skills A Developer s Guide written by Matthias Biehl and published by API-University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-06 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book for developers, who not only want to learn how to develop software for Alexa but also want to make money with Alexa. Want to start a side business or a SaaS startup? Just as in the early days of mobile, when fortunes were made with mobile apps on the app store, it is now the perfect time to catch the opportunities offered by voice apps. Amazon Alexa, the voice platform with the broadest adoption, helps developers like you and me, to develop, distribute, market and monetize their Alexa Skills on the Amazon Alexa Store. Want to develop and program Alexa Skills? In this book, you learn step-by-step how to create your first Alexa Skill with the Alexa Developer Console, AWS Lambda, the Alexa CLI, and node.js with the Alexa SDK. Want to scale and grow your Alexa Software Startup? You get a deep-dive into the various ways of making money with Alexa. You learn about the business models for Alexa Skills, marketing and monetizing your Alexa Skill on and off the Alexa Store, opportunities for offering in-skill purchases, and about programming the various purchase and payment flows. Want to build advanced Alexa Skills that users love? The book covers many advanced features of Alexa in plain English, such as account linking, audio streaming, session management and much more. You learn how to personalize your Skill with the user's data and linking the Skill to popular cloud apps, such as Spotify, Google and many more. This will help you create unique apps that stand out on the market and improve the lives of many Alexa users.

Download or read book Alexa For Dummies written by Paul McFedries and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-08-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make your every wish Alexa’s command with this in-depth guide to the wildly popular Amazon smart speaker You might be thinking, “All I have to do is plug in my Echo device and start using it!” And you’d be right. But if you really want to explore what that compact little device can do, then Alexa For Dummies is your go-to resource. This book shows you how to customize your device to respond to your requests and enhance your life. Alexa For Dummies takes you on a tour of all things Alexa: its capabilities, tools, settings, and skills. Go beyond the basics of playing music, calling friends, reading the news, and checking the weather. You’ll learn how to make Alexa private and secure, connect it to your smart home devices, and even make it sound like Samuel L. Jackson, if you feel like it. You can also extend its capabilities by adding new skills. Customize your device to respond to your voice Troubleshoot when a light is signaling something’s wrong Add skills to play music and audiobooks Create routines to turn on lights, adjust the thermostat, set your security alarm, and lock your doors Sync your smart devices throughout your home Use Alexa to connect to a Zoom meeting or phone call with your friends or family No matter which device you have—Echo, Echo Dot, Echo Show, Echo Studio, Echo Flex, Echo Loop, Echo Buds, or Echo Frames—Alexa For Dummies is the perfect companion. Ready to get started? Say “Hey, Alexa, order Alexa For Dummies!”

Download or read book Alexa for Seniors in easy steps written by Nick Vandome and published by In Easy Steps. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smart speakers are becoming more and more common in the home. These are devices that use a voice-controlled digital personal assistant to perform a range of everyday tasks. One of the most popular of these is Alexa, which operates on the Amazon Echo smart speaker. Alexa for Seniors in easy steps shows the Senior reader how to use Alexa to help with everyday tasks, and to give you peace of mind and keep you safe, including: Setting reminders and alerts for: taking medication upcoming appointments paying bills daily/weekly/monthly household tasks calling relatives and friends birthdays and anniversaries – get Alexa to remind you to send cards and presents in time ...and anything else you need reminding about Making hands-free phone calls if you can't reach the phone Setting and controlling smart home devices like smart heating and smart lighting Getting the weather forecast, latest news, and sports results Playing music and listening to the radio Playing games Doing shopping online And much, much more! Alexa for Seniors in easy steps guides you through setting up your Alexa-enabled device, so you don't have to ask the kids! Presented in larger font for easy reading – in the familiar In Easy Steps style.

Download or read book Amazon Echo and Alexa User Guide written by Joseph Joyner and published by Speedy Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Close your eyes and begin to imagine. Picture a device that could answer all your questions provided you knew how to phrase them correctly: A device that could do simple calculations for you including the number of tablespoons in one cup. A device that could tell you the weather today and calculate for you how many more miles you need to run when working out. Won't that be amazing? Well, stop imagining and go grab yourself an Amazon Echo and also this book as your user guide!

Download or read book Programming Voice Interfaces written by Walter Quesada and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get a step-by-step guide for developing voice interfaces for applications and devices connected to the Internet of Things. By allowing consumers to use natural human interactions, you can avoid awkward methods of input and interactivity to provide them with elevated user experiences. This practical book is ideal for software engineers who build applications for the Web, smartphones, as well as embedded systems that dominate the IoT space. Integrate voice interfaces with internet connected devices and sensors Learn how to integrate with existing voice interfaces Understand when to use a voice over other Natural User Interface technologies Build a prototype with tools such as Raspberry Pi, solderless breadboards, jumper cables, sensors, Arduino, Visual Studio, and other tools Use cloud services such as Azure and AWS to integrate voice with your existing or new web service end-points

Download or read book Mastering Amazon Alexa written by Adidas Wilson and published by Adidas Wilson . This book was released on with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Amazon Alexa all about? Well, in essence, this is a small tool developed by Amazon, which can act as a personal assistant through voice interaction and music playback. You can also stream podcasts, make a to-do list, use its home automation function to control smart devices around the house as well as performing other duties. In most cases, you can always activate the device using a wake-word, or push a button to activate the device’s listening mode, and Amazon is always working on making Alexa better. The device is worth considering and can be handy as well, but first, check out what is in it for you. You can get a companion app for this device from Google Play, Apple Apps or Amazon App Store. You can then use control music view shopping lists or install skills on the devices that you have synchronized with your Amazon Alexa. And if you want to set up several compatible devices such as Amazon Dot, Amazon Echo, or such, a web interface comes will be beneficial. Besides, you can recognize text on your app screen, as well as send feedback to Amazon regarding the cognition. Amazon Alexa is capable of carrying out numerous functions around the house and beyond. One of the ways, you can use it is home automation, since it can be set to interact with several devices in the house to carry out several tasks. This feature was launched in 2015 and has been a game changer for many users of this device. Another thing you will love about this smart device is placing orders. If you want take-out food, then Alexa is one of the ways you can use to place the order. This is all thanks to support by Grubhub, Domino’s Pizza, Wingstop, Seamless, and other companies. You can also order meals with Amazon Prime using Alexa in as many as 20 major cities in the US. What’s more, an addition in November 2017 including Alexa Cloud Cam is proving effective in helping Amazon couriers unlock front doors to customer houses when delivering packages so that they can put them safely inside the house. Table of Contents Introduction Setting up Amazon Alexa Echo Alexa App Make Alexa Your Fun Time Google Home or Amazon Echo Alexa Skills How Amazon’s Echo can Help Control Your Home How You Can Control Your Privacy on Google Home and Amazon Echo Things to Do with Your Amazon Echo Amazon’s Echo Second Generation How to Set Up Your Alexa Calling on Amazon Echo Messages and Voice Calls on Your Amazon Echo How to Use Alexa to Control Your Amazon’s Fire TV Alexa Fire TV Setup Amazon Echo Anywhere in Your House IFTTT Alexa New Skills Amazon Alexa and Smartphones Stream Music and Read Books on Amazon Echo Control your Home Appliances using Amazon Echo Use Alexa Skills to AUTOMATE your errands And Much More The author has made every effort to ensure the accuracy of the information within this book was correct at time of publication. The author does not assume and hereby disclaims any liability to any party for any loss, damage, or disruption caused by errors or omissions, whether such errors or omissions result from accident, negligence, or any other cause.

Download or read book Logic of Feeling written by Luke Munn and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-12-04 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the virulence of fake news to the rise of psychographic profiling, emotion has become ascendant. The new frontier of capitalization is not outward, but inward—the inner life of affect and emotion, desire and disposition. This book lays that new reality out with a series of close case studies. A new set of technologies are emerging, from facial coding to affective computing, that attempt to render the emotional into the machine-readable. At the same time, social media and smart home devices are becoming empathic, attempting to draw out our affective participation and elicit our emotional expression. In these encounters with the medial and the technical, the emotional is remade. Combining a close analysis of contemporary technologies such as Affectiva, Facebook, and Alexa with critical media theory, Logic of Feeling: Technology’s Quest to Capitalize Emotion examines how the quest to operationalize this inner life begins to reconfigure feeling itself.