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Digital Legacy: Take Control of Your Digital Afterlife by Rikard Steiber 9781736205945
RRP: $19.34$15.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736205945Author Rikard SteiberFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Stonesong DigitalPublisher Stonesong DigitalWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Driving Technical Change: Why People on Your Team Don't Act on Good Ideas, and How to Convince Them They Should by Terrance Ryan 9781934356609
RRP: $34.19$22.23Finding cool languages, tools, or development techniques is easy-new ones are popping up every day. Convincing co-workers to adopt them is the hard part. The problem is political, and in political fights, logic doesn't win for logic's sake. Hard evidence... -
The Media Equation: How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media like Real People and Places Byron Reeves (Stanford University, California) 9781575860534
RRP: $29.67$28.55According to popular wisdom, humans never relate to a computer or a television program in the same way they relate to another human being. Or do they? The psychological and sociological complexities of the relationship could be greater than you think. In... -
Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman and the Free by Sam Williams 9781449324643
RRP: $23.87$16.06Free as in Freedom interweaves biographical snapshots of GNU project founder Richard Stallman with the political, social and economic history of the free software movement. It examines Stallman's unique personality and how that personality has been at... -
Should You Believe Wikipedia?: Online Communities and the Construction of Knowledge by Amy S. Bruckman
RRP: $19.34$16.19As we interact online we are creating new kinds of knowledge and community. How are these communities formed? How do we know whether to trust them as sources of information? In other words, Should we believe Wikipedia? This book explores what community... -
The Happiness Effect: How Social Media is Driving a Generation to Appear Perfect at Any Cost by Donna Freitas
RRP: $32.24$23.81Sexting. Cyberbullying. Narcissism. People-and especially the media-are consumed by fears about the effect of social media on young people. We hear constantly about the dangers that lurk online, and about young people's seemingly pathological desire to... -
Healthy Technology Use: Your Questions Answered Bernadette H. Schell 9781440880605
$56.93In a world where people have 24/7 access to the Internet, social media, and other digital technologies, developing healthy habits around how we interact with our screens can have an enormous impact on our physical, mental, and social well-being. Part of... -
Human-Robot Interaction: An Introduction Christoph Bartneck 9781009424233
RRP: $70.94$60.22The role of robots in society keeps expanding and diversifying, bringing with it a host of issues surrounding the relationship between robots and humans. This introduction to human–robot interaction (HRI) by leading researchers in this developing field... -
The Fallacy of Net Neutrality by Thomas W Hazlett 9781594035920
RRP: $6.44$5.31"There is little dispute that the Internet should continue as an open platform," notes the Federal Communications Commission. Yet in a curious twist of logic, the FCC has moved to upend the rules yielding that outcome, imposing "network neutrality"... -
In Search of Jefferson's Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace by David G. Post 9780199858217
$38.18In 1787, Thomas Jefferson, then the American Minister to France, had the "complete skeleton, skin & horns" of an American moose shipped to him in Paris and mounted in the lobby of his residence as a symbol of the vast possibilities contained in the... -
Next-Generation Ethics: Engineering a Better Society by Ali E. Abbas 9781108727372
RRP: $45.14$39.33Many of the significant developments of our era have resulted from advances in technology, including the design of large-scale systems; advances in medicine, manufacturing, and artificial intelligence; the role of social media in influencing behaviour... -
Cracking the Digital Ceiling: Women in Computing Around the World by Carol Frieze 9781108497428
RRP: $92.87$84.46Is computing just for men? Are men and women suited to different careers? This collection of global perspectives challenges these commonly held western views, perpetuated as explanations for women's low participation in computing. By providing an insider... -
Twitter: A Digital Socioscope by Yelena Mejova 9781107500075
RRP: $39.98$34.53How can Twitter data be used to study individual-level human behavior and social interaction on a global scale? This book introduces readers to the methods, opportunities, and challenges of using Twitter data to analyze phenomena ranging from the number... -
Big Crisis Data: Social Media in Disasters and Time-Critical Situations by Carlos Castillo 9781107135765
RRP: $73.52$65.94Social media is an invaluable source of time-critical information during a crisis. However, emergency response and humanitarian relief organizations that would like to use this information struggle with an avalanche of social media messages that exceeds... -
Interactions with Search Systems by Ryen White 9781107034228
RRP: $59.33$54.77Information seeking is a fundamental human activity. In the modern world, it is frequently conducted through interactions with search systems. The retrieval and comprehension of information returned by these systems is a key part of decision making and... -
Social Media Intelligence by Professor Wendy W. Moe 9781107031203
RRP: $61.91$55.74In the world of Facebook, Twitter and Yelp, water-cooler conversations with co-workers and backyard small talk with neighbors have moved from the physical world to the digital arena. In this new landscape, organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies... -
Social Interactions in Virtual Worlds: An Interdisciplinary Perspective by Kiran Lakkaraju 9781107128828
RRP: $87.71$78.92Within the rapidly-growing arena of 'virtual worlds', such as Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOs), individuals behave in particular ways, influence one another, and develop complex relationships. This setting can be a useful tool for modeling... -
Multilayer Social Networks by Mark E. Dickison 9781107438750
RRP: $43.85$37.75Multilayer networks, in particular multilayer social networks, where users belong to and interact on different networks at the same time, are an active research area in social network analysis, computer science, and physics. These networks have... -
Trust, Computing, and Society by Richard H. R. Harper 9781107038479
RRP: $89.00$80.06The internet has altered how people engage with each other in myriad ways, including offering opportunities for people to act distrustfully. This fascinating set of essays explores the question of trust in computing from technical, socio-philosophical,... -
Experimental Human-Computer Interaction: A Practical Guide with Visual Examples by Helen C. Purchase 9781107010062
RRP: $110.93$99.94Experiments that require the use of human participants are time consuming and costly: it is important to get the process right the first time. Planning and preparation are key to success. This practical book takes the human-computer interaction... -
Next-Generation Ethics: Engineering a Better Society by Ali E. Abbas
RRP: $113.51$102.74Many of the significant developments of our era have resulted from advances in technology, including the design of large-scale systems; advances in medicine, manufacturing, and artificial intelligence; the role of social media in influencing behaviour... -
When Technocultures Collide: Innovation from Below and the Struggle for Autonomy by Gary Genosko
RRP: $29.61$21.19When Technocultures Collide provides rich and diverse studies of collision courses between technologically inspired subcultures and the corporate and governmental entities they seek to undermine. The adventures and exploits of computer hackers, phone... -
Tyranny of E-mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox by John Freeman 9781416576747
$15.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416576747Author John FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon Spotlight EntertainmentPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm)... -
Slow Computing: Why We Need Balanced Digital Lives Rob Kitchin (Maynooth University) 9781529211269
RRP: $19.34$15.65Digital technologies should be making life easier. And to a large degree they are, transforming everyday tasks of work, consumption, communication, travel and play. But they are also accelerating and fragmenting our lives affecting our well-being and... -
The Proteus Paradox: How Online Games and Virtual Worlds Change Us-And How They Don't Nick Yee 9780300190991
$36.26A surprising assessment of the ways that virtual worlds are entangled with human psychology Proteus, the mythical sea god who could alter his appearance at will, embodies one of the promises of online games: the ability to reinvent oneself. Yet... -
Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data by Nanna Bonde Thylstrup
RRP: $67.08$58.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539883Author Nanna Bonde ThylstrupFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Selected Papers on Computer Science Donald E. Knuth (Stanford University, California) 9781881526919
RRP: $29.03$27.97This anthology of essays from the inventor of literate programming is a survey of Donald Knuth's papers on computer science. Donald Knuth's influence in computer science ranges from the invention of literate programming to the development of the TeX... -
Digital Typography by Donald E. Knuth 9781575860107
$40.24Donald Knuth's influence in computer science ranges from the invention of literate programming to the development of the TeX programming language. One of the foremost figures in the field of mathematical sciences, Knuth has written papers which stand as... -
The Blockchain and the New Architecture of Trust by Kevin Werbach
RRP: $33.54$21.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262038935Author Kevin WerbachFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us about Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
RRP: $24.50$14.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062390868Author Seth Stephens-DavidowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Dey Street BooksPublisher Dey Street BooksWeight(grams) 277g -
Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry by Jeffrey R. Yost
RRP: $49.02$42.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262036726Author Jeffrey R. YostFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm -
Hacker Culture A to Z: A Fun Guide to the People, Ideas, and Gadgets That Made the Tech World Kim Crawley 9781098145675
RRP: $47.72$30.50Hacker culture can be esoteric, but this entertaining reference is here to help. Written by a longtime hacker, this fun reference introduces you to key people and companies, fundamental ideas, and milestone films, games, and magazines in the annals of... -
Feminism, Labour and Digital Media: The Digital Housewife Kylie Jarrett 9781138575660
RRP: $67.07$58.30There is a contradiction at the heart of digital media. We use commercial platforms to express our identity, to build community and to engage politically. At the same time, our status updates, tweets, videos, photographs and music files are free content... -
Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy by Siva Vaidhyanathan 9780190841164
RRP: $30.30$22.54If you wanted to build a machine that would distribute propaganda to millions of people, distract them from important issues, energize hatred and bigotry, erode social trust, undermine respectable journalism, foster doubts about science, and engage in... -
A Prehistory of the Cloud by Tung-Hui Hu
RRP: $23.21$15.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262529969Author Tung-Hui HuFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm -
Understanding Digital Humanities by D. Berry 9780230292659
RRP: $128.99$112.76Confronting the digital revolution in academia, this book examines the application of new computational techniques and visualisation technologies in the Arts & Humanities. Uniting differing perspectives, leading and emerging scholars discuss the... -
Making Information Matter: Understanding Surveillance and Making a Difference Mareile Kaufmann (University of Oslo) 9781529233575
RRP: $103.20$78.52Information matters to us. Whether recorded, recoded, or unregistered, information co-shapes our present and our becoming. This book advances new views on information and surveillance practices. Starting with a methodology for studying the liveliness of... -
Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities by Adeline Koh 9781953035578
RRP: $29.67$26.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953035578Author Adeline KohFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 503gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 26mm -
New Perspectives on the Social Aspects of Digital Gaming: Multiplayer 2 by Rachel Kowert
RRP: $50.30$45.90Expanding on the work in the volume Multiplayer, this new book explores several other areas related to social gaming in detail. The aim is to go beyond a typical "edited book" concept, and offer a very concise volume with several focal points that are... -
How To Be a Geek: Essays on the Culture of Software Matthew Fuller 9781509517169
RRP: $21.92$19.63Computer software and its structures, devices and processes are woven into our everyday life. Their significance is not just technical: the algorithms, programming languages, abstractions and metadata that millions of people rely on every day have...