Technology Studies

Daily life in digital culture is exhausting. This timely and urgent edited collection takes the theme of ‘digital exhaustion’ as a starting point for critical inquiry into the ever-expanding presence of digital technologies in our personal and...

From the author of The Shallows, a bracing exploration of how social media has warped our sense of self and society

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262052214Author Mark CoeckelberghFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

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The Spectacle of Online Life explores digital paradoxes—connection and isolation, empowerment and control—through topics like influencer culture, AI moderation, and online conspiracies.

A network analysis that ignores social harm is merely a technical exercise. A social critique that ignores the network is incomplete. Navigating the Web of Disinformation closes this critical gap. Mariann Hardey and Wasim Ahmed offer a vital...

Written from an equitable data perspective, Questioning Technology: Addressing Divisive Data in Research and Practice translates the pressing challenges within data collection, data categorization and data commercialisation to enable researchers, SMEs,...

This open access collection is the first to investigate the poetry of Instagram. Alongside academic essays from a variety of theoretical perspectives, it also includes accounts from people actually involved in the creation and circulation of Instapoems...

Will genome-based precision medicine fix the problem of race/ethnicity-based medicine? To answer this question, Sun and Ong propose the concept of racialization of precision medicine, defined as the social processes by which racial/ethnic categories are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262553919Author Benjamin H. BrattonFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

How data and artificial intelligence create a new, abstract digital subjectIdeal Subjects examines how samples of our lives and daily behaviors have come to reside in the world of data and artificial intelligence-and what this means for who we are and...

A look at how the rise of influencer culture has changed creative work A sculptor works while wearing a GoPro camera to capture Instagram content. A painter decides whether to make pieces that she won't be able to share on Instagram, after her account...

Science and technology profoundly shape the world today. Over the last two centuries, they have become powerful engines of change, accounting for some of the most important forms of human activity, inseparable from social, political and economic life...

A cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain.There are turbines on the horizon. The blades whirl with metronomic rhythm. With each rotation, wind is transformed into electricity. An energy revolution is underway. Electric wind rewinds to the beginning...

How to build a flourishing society by using what we know about human nature to design our technology rather than let technology shape our society. In Shared Wisdom, Alex Pentland delves into the history of innovation, emphasizing the importance of...

An urgent reality check for America's blinkered fixation on STEM education. We live in an era of STEM obsession. Not only do tech companies dominate American enterprise and economic growth while complaining of STEM shortages, but we also need scientific...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262552172Author Clay SpinuzziFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 369g

How does Google Maps reorient our city travels? How do matching algorithms affect how we seek love? And how does artificial "intelligence" prompt how we think? Engaging these and similar questions, this open access book critiques Big Tech's colonization...

In today's digital world, platforms are everywhere, shaping our social and cultural landscapes. This groundbreaking book shows how platforms are not just technical systems, but complex networks involving diverse people, practices and values. It explores...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529237399Author Adrian MackenzieFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Bristol University PressPublisher Bristol University Press

Literary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking readers on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past Hollywood fiction factories and missile defence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262049351Author Daniel OberhausFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Longlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2024 Artificial intelligence is being used, on a massive scale, to decide who gets hired, fired and promoted. Through whistleblower exclusives, leaked internal documents and...

While humanity faces unprecedented ecological and social challenges, advances in technology and our understanding of the mind are creating the conditions for a global renaissance. Weaving together personal transformation through transhumanism with a call...

How do cables and data centers think? This book investigates how information infrastructures enact particular forms of knowledge. It juxtaposes the pervasive logics of speed, efficiency, and resilience with more communal and ecological ways of thinking...

Uncovering how a diverse digital underground has been liberated by "open secrecy"-and how police crackdowns are making it stronger. Advances in information technology have made it easier for shadowy groups to organize collective action. Using...

How users experience and influence technological change-at a time when so much of that change feels out of our hands Every day, we casually employ one of the most complex tools ever created, using it to read the news, plan our day, and connect with...

Advances in computer science, artificial intelligence and data management have made engineering a dynamic and rapidly expanding industry. But have these advances enabled the manifestation of wrongdoing? If so, what can we do to counter this? The Ethics...

Big Tech is driving us, our kids, and society mad. In the nick of time, Restoring Our Sanity Online presents the bold, revolutionary framework for an epic reboot. What would social media look like if it nourished our critical thinking, mental health,...

As the university transformed itself into a center of innovation, and biotechnology became a billion-dollar industry, commercialization of university inventions became both lucrative and urgent. In the United States, this shift decisively converted the...

The first book to draw a direct line between the datafication and prediction techniques of past eugenicists and today's often violent and extractive "big data" regimes. Predatory Data illuminates the throughline between the nineteenth century's...

An exclusive behind-the-scenes look at one of America’s most controversial experiments in police surveillance.  In 2020, the Baltimore Police Department had an aerial surveillance plane that could supposedly photograph and track every person in public...

Jon Ronson's captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame.A great renaissance of public shaming is sweeping our land. Through social media, justice has been democratized and the silent majority are...

A bold defense of the internet, arguing that attempts to fix and regulate it are often misguidedThe internet stands accused of dividing us, spying on us, making us stupid, and addicting our children. In response, the press and panicked politicians seek...

Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book delves into the complex and controversial realm of fertility care. It analyses the clash between evidence-based medicine and market dynamics in fertility treatments, with a unique focus...