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  • Reassembling Rubbish

    Worlding Electronic Waste

    by Josh Lepawsky ...
    An examination of the global trade and traffic in discarded electronics that reframes the question of the “right” thing to do with e-waste.The prevailing storyline about the problem of electronic waste frames e-waste as generated by consumers in developed countries and dumped on people and places in developing countries. In Reassembling Rubbish, Josh Lepawsky offers a different view. In an ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Imperial Technoscience

    Transnational Histories of MRI in the United States, Britain, and India

    by Amit Prasad ...
    Series series Inside Technology
    A study of science and technology practices that shows how even emergent aspects of research and development remain entangled with established hierarchies.In the last four decades, during which magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has emerged as a cutting-edge medical technology and a cultural icon, technoscientific imaginaries and practices have undergone a profound change across the globe. Shifting ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • How to Be Human in the Digital Economy

    by Nicholas Agar ...
    An argument in favor of finding a place for humans (and humanness) in the future digital economy.In the digital economy, accountants, baristas, and cashiers can be automated out of employment; so can surgeons, airline pilots, and cab drivers. Machines will be able to do these jobs more efficiently, accurately, and inexpensively. But, Nicholas Agar warns in this provocative book, these developments ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Digital Technology and Justice

    Justice Apps

    Justice apps – mobile and web-based programmes that can assist individuals with legal tasks – are being produced, improved, and accessed at an unprecedented rate. These technologies have the potential to reshape the justice system, improve access to justice, and demystify legal institutions. Using artificial intelligence techniques, apps can even facilitate the resolution of common legal disputes ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • WHEN AN AI THINKS ABOUT AI AND HUMANS

    It should put you on Alert

    Series Book 1 - WHEN AN AI THINKS ABOUT
    Will humanity be on its last legs? What does an AI think about AI, robotics, humanity, and the future? Who knows, maybe one day we'll be working side by side with a robot co-worker, swapping jokes and brewing coffee for the android overlords. But in all seriousness, we need to address the ethical concerns around AI and robotics and work together to create a world that's better for all of us. We've ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • International Perspectives on Publishing Platforms

    Image, Object, Text

    Edited by Meghan Forbes ...
    With large-scale scholarly projects dedicated to digitizing print-based magazines and a concurrent turn towards digital mapping and data visualization, periodicals that were once accessible only in the archive now have the capacity to reach a wider audience, and make visible previously overlooked networks and connections enacted within and across the magazines. International Perspectives on ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Ultimate Guide to Unstoppable Self-Improvement: Unlocking Your Potential and Achieving Your Dreams

    by A.k ...
    Als je positieve veranderingen in je leven wilt aanbrengen en je volledige potentieel wilt bereiken, dan is dit boek echt iets voor jou. Door middel van eenvoudige maar krachtige strategieën leer je hoe je jezelf kunt verbeteren op gebieden als carrière, gezondheid, relaties en meer. Binnenin vind je geteste technieken om zelfbewustzijn, het bereiken van doelen, welzijn en nog veel meer te ... Read more

    $5.25 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Videogames

    by James Newman ...
    In the few decades since they first blipped their way onto television screens, videogames have become one of the most culturally, socially and economically significant media forms. Newman’s volume considers how we might approach videogames as media texts to be read, experiences to be played and played with, systems and simulations to be decoded and interrogated, and performances to be captured, ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Ignorance and Surprise

    Science, Society, and Ecological Design

    Series series Inside Technology
    The relationship between ignorance and surprise and a conceptual framework for dealing with the unexpected, as seen in ecological design projects.Ignorance and surprise belong together: surprises can make people aware of their own ignorance. And yet, perhaps paradoxically, a surprising event in scientific research—one that defies prediction or risk assessment—is often a window to new and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Doing AI

    Artificial intelligence (AI) has captured our imaginations—and become a distraction. Too many leaders embrace the oversized narratives of artificial minds outpacing human intelligence and lose sight of the original problems they were meant to solve.When businesses try to “do AI,” they place an abstract solution before problems and customers without fully considering whether it is wise, whether the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Automation Is a Myth

    by Luke Munn ...
    For some, automation will usher in a labor-free utopia; for others, it signals a disastrous age-to-come. Yet whether seen as dream or nightmare, automation, argues Munn, is ultimately a fable that rests on a set of triple fictions. There is the myth of full autonomy, claiming that machines will take over production and supplant humans. But far from being self-acting, technical solutions are ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Social Media and Social Movements

    The Transformation of Communication Patterns

    This book examines the increased utilization of social media in daily life and its impact on social movements. The contributors analyze “social media revolutions” such as the Arab Spring, the 15-M movement in Spain, the Occupy Nigeria movement, and the Occupy Gezi movement in Turkey. The contributors to this collection—academics, researchers, and activists—implement diverse methodological ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Antisocial Media

    Anxious Labor in the Digital Economy

    by Greg Goldberg ...
    Series Book 21 - Postmillennial Pop
    The debate surrounding the transformation of work at the hands of digital technology and the anxieties brought forth by automation, the sharing economy, and the exploitation of leisureWe have been told that digital technology is now threatening the workplace as we know it, that advances in computing and robotics will soon make human labor obsolete, that the sharing economy, exemplified by Uber and ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Konflikte meistern

    Handbuch für Scrum Master in agilen Teams

    by Paul Anker ...
    Erfolgreich als Scrum Master in der Konfliktlösung! In diesem Buch finden Sie alles, was Sie benötigen, um die Konfliktfähigkeit Ihres agilen Teams zu stärken. Entdecken Sie wertvolle Tipps zur effektiven Kommunikation, Konfliktanalyse und interkulturellen Sensibilität. Mit Übungs- und Rollenspiel-Vorlagen sowie einer Fülle an Ressourcen für weiterführende Literatur und Schulungen sind Sie bestens ... Read more

    $26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Afterlives of Data

    Life and Debt under Capitalist Surveillance

    What our health data tell American capitalism about our value—and how that controls our lives.Afterlives of Data follows the curious and multiple lives that our data live once they escape our control. Mary F. E. Ebeling's ethnographic investigation shows how information about our health and the debt that we carry becomes biopolitical assets owned by healthcare providers, insurers, commercial data ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Off-Track and Online

    The Networked Spaces of Horse Racing

    by Holly Kruse ...
    How horse racing's pioneering use of communication and information networks helped shape the modern media, information, and leisure environment.The horse racing industry has been a pioneer in interactive media, information networks, and their deployment. The race track and the off-track betting parlor offer interactive media environments that reconfigure the relationships among private and public ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Sustaining Urban Networks

    The Social Diffusion of Large Technical Systems

    Series series Networked Cities Series
    Considering sustainability in its economic, environmental and social contexts, the contributors take stock of previous research on large technical systems and discuss their sustainability from three main perspectives: uses, cities, and rules and institutions. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Village Improvements and Farm Villages

    Series Book 28 - Living With the Land
    North, south, east, and west, there are plenty of hideous conglomerations of poor-looking houses, with an absence of every element of beauty; but there are thousands of other villages scattered all over the land, which are full of the evidences of good taste in their regulation and in their management.As a rule, these more attractive features are very much modified by the presence of badly-kept ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Epic Win for Anonymous

    How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web

    by Cole Stryker ...
    A “sharp, witty, and well-researched” history of 4chan and its cultural impact (The Rumpus).Created by a fifteen-year-old wunderkind in 2003, it is the creative force behind “the Web's most infectious memes and catchphrases” (Wired). Today it has millions of monthly users, and enormous social influence. Epic Win for Anonymous is the first book to tell 4chan’s story. Longtime blogger and 4chan ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Acceleration

    How the World is Getting Faster, Faster

    The Great Acceleration is an energizing account from a brilliant new writer of how our society is speeding up--and why we should embrace it.In this revelatory study of modern living, Robert Colvile inspects the various ways in which the pace of life in our society is increasing and examines the evolutionary science behind our rapidly accelerating need for change, as well as why it's unlikely we'll ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Power of the Internet in China

    Citizen Activism Online

    by Guobin Yang ...
    Series series Contemporary Asia in the World
    Since the mid-1990s, the Internet has revolutionized popular expression in China, enabling users to organize, protest, and influence public opinion in unprecedented ways. Guobin Yang's pioneering study maps an innovative range of contentious forms and practices linked to Chinese cyberspace, delineating a nuanced and dynamic image of the Chinese Internet as an arena for creativity, community, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Dark Cloud

    how the digital world is costing the earth

    Translated by Bianca Jacobsohn ...
    A gripping new investigation into the underbelly of digital technology, which reveals not only how costly the virtual world is, but how damaging it is to the environment.A simple ‘like’ sent from our smartphones mobilises what will soon constitute the largest infrastructure built by man. This small notification, crossing the seven operating layers of the Internet, travels around the world, using ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Talk To Me

    How Voice Computing Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Think

    by James Vlahos ...
    ****To chat with the author, ask your Alexa device to "open the voice computing book."**The next great technological disruption is coming**The titans of Silicon Valley are racing to build the last, best computer that the world will ever need. They know that whoever successfully creates it will revolutionize our relationship with technology—and make billions of dollars in the process. They call it ... Read more

    $18.49 USD

  • Living with Algorithms

    Agency and User Culture in Costa Rica

    by Ignacio Siles ...
    A nuanced account from a user perspective of what it’s like to live in a datafied world.We live in a media-saturated society that increasingly transforms our experiences, relations, and identities into data others can analyze and monetize. Algorithms are key to this process, surveilling our most mundane practices, and to many, their control over our lives seems absolute. In Living with Algorithms, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD