Technology Studies

'Powerful, profound and completely engrossing, this is a multitudinous meditation on not only technology but also history, culture, ideas, ethics, psychology and, above all, what it means to be human.' - Michael Bhaskar, co-author of The Coming WaveWise...

Algorithms are a fundamental building block of artificial intelligence - and, increasingly, society - but our legal institutions have largely failed to recognize or respond to this reality. The Cambridge Handbook of the Law of Algorithms, which features...

A sweeping critique of how digital capitalism is reformatting our world.We now live in an “ordinal society.” Nearly every aspect of our lives is measured, ranked, and processed into discrete, standardized units of digital information. Marion Fourcade and...

An urgently needed exploration of global technology worship, and a measured case for skepticism and agnosticism as a way of life, from the New York Times bestselling author of Good without God. Today s technology has overtaken religion as the chief...

"The term "Metaverse" is thirty years old, yet only recently entered mainstream conversation, attracting both fascinating and skepticism. While some have promised its imminent arrival, in fact it will take a series of technological and societal leaps to...

Wary, on the one hand, of the disempowering habit of viewing technology as a satanic mill of domination, and weary, on the other, of postmodernist celebrations of the technologically sublime, Constance Penley and Andrew Ross have compiled a group of...

Machine learning algorithms are widely presumed to herald a world in which the crippling burdens of anxiety can be left behind. The digital revolution promises a brave new world where individuals, communities and organizations can at last take control of...

Maverick Scientist is the memoir of Forrest Mims, who forged a distinguished scientific career despite having no academic training in science. Named one of the "50 Best Brains in Science" by Discover magazine, Forrest shares what sparked his childhood...

How AI will challenge our ideas about personhood. Chatbots like ChatGPT have challenged human exceptionalism: we are no longer the only beings capable of generating language and ideas fluently. But is ChatGPT conscious? Or is it merely engaging in...

In our digital world, data is power. Information hoarding businesses reign supreme, using intimidation, aggression, and force to maintain influence and control. Sarah Lamdan brings us into the unregulated underworld of these "data cartels", demonstrating...

One of the foremost intellectuals of his generation, French philosopher of science Michel Serres (1930-2019) broke free from disciplinary dogmas. His reflections on science, culture, technology, art, and religion have proved foundational to scholars...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062020444Author John BrockmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winner, 2017 PROSE Awards, Biomedicine and Neuroscience category 2017.Book InformationISBN 9780262534437Author Adam GazzaleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint...

Addiction, anxiety, depression, loneliness, low self-esteem, empathy development, troubled relationships, fake news, propaganda and even threats to democracy are just some of the challenges new technology presents. Antitrust law has failed to prevent the...

In Blockchain Chicken Farm, the technologist and writer Xiaowei Wang explores the political and social entanglements of technology in rural China. Their discoveries force them to challenge the standard idea that rural culture and people are backward,...

In To Explain the World, pre-eminent theoretical physicist Steven Weinberg offers a rich and irreverent history of science from a unique perspective - that of a scientist. Moving from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad to Oxford, and from the Museum of...

In the future, we'll all be having sex with robots... won't we? Roboticists say they're a distracting science fiction, yet endless books, films and articles are written on the subject. Campaigns are even mounted against them. So why are sex robots...

How do we get to know air? Aeropolis: Queering Air in Toxicpolluted Worlds offers a speculative and interdisciplinary framework to reorient common understandings of air and air pollution as matter "out there." Aeropolis contests regimes of managing air...

The Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its fateful beginnings to our digital present - and draws out lessons for the age to come. The age of print is a grand exception in history. For five centuries it fostered what some call print...

From the author of The Tech-Wise Family'A fascinating and eye-opening book' - Tom Holland, author of Dominion: The Making of the Western MindOur greatest need is to be recognised - to be seen, loved, and embedded in rich relationships with the people...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250798725Author George DysonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 147mm * 27mm

Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam Greenfield forces us to reconsider our relationship with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545365Author Meryl AlperFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

One of the most persistent concerns about the future is whether it will be dominated by the predictive algorithms of AI - and, if so, what this will mean for our behaviour, for our institutions and for what it means to be human. AI changes our experience...

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year"It is a radiantly original contribution to a conversation gravely in need of new thinking."-Ben Tarnoff, The New YorkerA visionary reexamination of the value of privacy in today's hypermediated world-not just as a...

From Amazon to Tinder, from Google to Deliveroo, there is no facet of human life which the digital revolution has not streamlined and dematerialised. Its objective was to reduce the cost of physical interactions by forgoing face-to-face interactions, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953943101Author Peter FiekowskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Rivertowns BooksPublisher Rivertowns BooksWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Building on the influential book The Social Construction of Technological Systems, this volume carries forward the project of creating a theory of technological development and implementation that is strongly grounded in both sociology and history...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874778564Author James BurkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Tarcher/Putnam,USPublisher Tarcher/Putnam,USWeight(grams) 1g

Born since the mid-1990s, Generation Z is the first generation never to know the world without the internet, and it is the most diverse generation yet. As Gen Z starts to emerge into adulthood and enter the workforce, what do we really know about them?...

Explores the wealth of evidence for the reality of the biofield. Examining the wealth of evidence supporting the reality of the human biofield, Eric Leskowitz, M.D., explores the role of life energy in healing therapies and outlines its many...

Silicon Valley wants us to believe that technology will revolutionize our cities and the ways we move around. Autonomous vehicles will make us safer, greener, and more efficient. On-demand services like Uber and Lyft will eliminate car ownership...

Selected as one of LitHub's 38 Favorite Books of 2022Finalist for the 2022 Big Other Book Award for NonfictionIn this uncompromising essay, Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality: our 'digital age' is synonymous with the disastrous...

In Subprime Attention Crisis, Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financialises attention. In the process, he shows us how digital advertising - the beating heart of the internet - is at risk of collapsing, and that its potential demise bears an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262515962Author Michel CallonFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640320925Author Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheFormat HardbackPage Count 84Imprint Value Classic ReprintsPublisher Value Classic ReprintsWeight(grams) 308g

From the highly acclaimed author of WAYS OF BEING. We live in times of increasing inscrutability. Our news feeds are filled with unverified, unverifiable speculation, much of it automatically generated by anonymous software. As a result, we no longer...

'Communication strategies that should be taught to everyone with a story to tell.' - Marc Randolph, co-founder and first CEO of NetflixJeff Bezos is a dreamer who turned a bold idea into the world's most influential company. He learned to elevate the way...

Have you ever considered how mobile media change what we see, hear and pay attention to, or how they alter our movement through the city? Over the last decade, mobile media and communication technologies have become deeply integral to our perception and...

From the bestselling author of Talk Like TED, renowned communications coach Carmine Gallo reveals the leadership secrets of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos - and gives you the tools to master them yourself.Jeff Bezos built Amazon. A dreamer who turned a bold...