Technology Studies

The word 'data' has entered everyday conversation, but do we really understand what it means? How can we begin to grasp the scope and scale of our new data-rich world, and can we truly comprehend what is at stake? In Data Lives, renowned social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578598410Author Nick RedfernFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Visible Ink PressPublisher Visible Ink Press

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. A cylinder of baked graphite and clay in a wood case, the pencil creates as it is being destroyed. To love a pencil is to use it, to sharpen it,...

Chapters 5, 12, and 18 of this work are available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International open access licence. These parts of the work are free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected...

A compelling survey of the ideas, discoveries, individuals, and cultural expressions that comprise the intellectual history of the twentieth century covers the gamut, from Freud's psychotherapy to the War in Kosovo. Reprint.Book InformationISBN...

A brilliant examination into how the internet is profoundly changing the way we think. In this groundbreaking book, `Wired' writer Clive Thompson argues that the internet is boosting our brainpower, encouraging new ways of thinking, and making us more...

The explosion of services such as Netflix, Spotify, Disney+, Apple Music, Amazon Prime and YouTube, which allow us to access content at the click of a button, has turned the norms surrounding cultural consumption upside down. How has this shift to an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604597400Author Rene DescartesFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint SMK BooksPublisher SMK BooksWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 4mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578598014Author Nick RedfernFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Visible Ink PressPublisher Visible Ink Press

Why does the problem of data privacy remain so intractable? Deep Dark Data explores how this contemporary problem begins with the ways we define and use personal data. Instead of debating how best to protect personal data, Alison Cool argues that we...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. From parenting and pilgrimage to activism and mourning, this thought-provoking book explores how digital connection-and disconnection-shapes the emotional texture of our lives. Using the...

The Spectacle of Online Life offers a groundbreaking exploration of the digital age's most pressing paradoxes: connection and isolation, democratization and control, authenticity and performance. Edited by Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo, Christopher T...

Once the internet was hailed for its liberating capabilities, but it is now blamed for a host of societal ills. This volume pushes the boundaries of digital disconnection studies by exploring the significance of the analogue in our increasingly digital...

Available open access digitally under CC BY-NC-ND licence. Do our tools for knowing about the world actually obscure important knowledge? This book uncovers how knowledge infrastructures-including satellite tracking, climate models, machine learning...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554816712Author Nathan KowalskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Broadview Press LtdPublisher Broadview Press LtdWeight(grams) 500gDimensions(mm)...

In 1945, W. Averell Harriman, US Ambassador to the Soviet Union, was presented with a carved wooden plaque of the Great Seal of the United States as a 'gesture of friendship' by a delegation from the Soviet's Young Pioneer Organization. Unbeknownst to...

In 1945, W. Averell Harriman, US Ambassador to the Soviet Union, was presented with a carved wooden plaque of the Great Seal of the United States as a 'gesture of friendship' by a delegation from the Soviet's Young Pioneer Organization. Unbeknownst to...

What happens to human reading when AI bots can do it for us? Explosive developments in artificial intelligence have awed everyday users with the technology's ability to draw, do computer coding, and especially to write. Those AI-generated essays and...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Mobile apps have transformed how we live, work and connect - but at what cost? This book examines the immense power Apple and Google wield over society, arising from their control of app stores...

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...

Ghana has been a crucial site of encounters between the West and Africa and a historic center for twentieth-century Pan-African independence movements. Today, it has also emerged as an important node of technology-driven development in the Global South...

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...

The first holistic analysis of the space, mindset, and inner workings of Silicon Valley in a generation. Sometimes only an outsider can show how an industry works-and how that industry works upon the world. In Tech, sociologist Olivier Alexandre takes...

Ghana has been a crucial site of encounters between the West and Africa and a historic center for twentieth-century Pan-African independence movements. Today, it has also emerged as an important node of technology-driven development in the Global South...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How can we make the digital world safer, more responsible and accountable? This innovative book offers an original framework for understanding digital responsibility, blending insights from...

In the age of AI, where personal data fuels corporate profits and state surveillance, what are the implications for democracy? This incisive book explores the unspoken agreement we have with tech companies. In exchange for reducing the anxiety of an...

The green digital transition is underway. But what does this transition look like when dictated by the energy and resource demands of monopoly tech? How has this situation come to be? And where is it being resisted? This provocative book uncovers the...

In an era of exponential digital growth, the physical impact of data flows is reshaping our cities and energy infrastructures. This book uncovers the hidden world of data centres, from vast complexes in Virginia to digital suburbs in Paris and...

In recent years, UN agencies, global tech corporations, states and humanitarian NGOs have invested in advanced technologies from smart borders to digital identities to manage migratory movements. These are surveillance technologies that have intensified...

How is memory in China curated in the digital era? This pioneering volume investigates the transformation of collective memory in China amid rapid technological change. Introducing the concept of the "curating state," it reveals how digitalisation...

In the age of AI, where personal data fuels corporate profits and state surveillance, what are the implications for democracy? This incisive book explores the unspoken agreement we have with tech companies. In exchange for reducing the anxiety of an...

The green digital transition is underway. But what does this transition look like when dictated by the energy and resource demands of monopoly tech? How has this situation come to be? And where is it being resisted? This provocative book uncovers the...

UberTherapy is the essential guide to the rise of digital therapy for anyone working in, researching or using mental health services. This timely book explores the emerging uberization of therapy through algorithmic control, datafication of despair and...

UberTherapy is the essential guide to the rise of digital therapy for anyone working in, researching or using mental health services. This timely book explores the emerging uberization of therapy through algorithmic control, datafication of despair and...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Concerns regarding brain injury in sport have escalated into what is often termed a...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Concerns regarding brain injury in sport have escalated into what is often termed a...

The first critical examination of death and remembrance in the digital age-and an invitation to imagine Black digital sovereignty in life and death. In Resurrecting the Black Body, Tonia Sutherland considers the consequences of digitally raising the...

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...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The realities of autonomous weapons are a complex blend of both existing military technologies and visions of their future capabilities. The expected ramifications are profound and always point...

Artificial intelligence has moved from the lab into everyday life, and is now seemingly everywhere. Arguably, there are as many foci of concern about AI as there are implementations of it. AI and Assembly invites readers to explore a fundamental, and...