Technology Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632280749Author Perttu PolonenFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Viva EditionsPublisher Viva Editions

Why do we feel excited, afraid, and frustrated by algorithms?The Feel of Algorithms brings relatable first-person accounts of what it means to experience algorithms emotionally alongside interdisciplinary social science research, to reveal how political...

From the famed Harvard psychologist and an expert on the impact of digital media technologies, a riveting exploration of the power of apps to shape our young people-for better or for worse No one has failed to notice that the current generation of youth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985439477Author Theodore DalrympleFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint World Encounter Institute/New English Review PressPublisher World Encounter...

One of Dazed's Best Non-Fiction Books of 2023 The first book to explore how our cities gentrify by becoming social media influencers-and why it works. Cities, like the people that live in them, are subject to the attention economy. In The City...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543774Author Katerina CizekFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262681155Author Howard RheingoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

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 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

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...

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...

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...

In a present marked by planetary crisis, a radical rethinking of aesthetics is necessary. This inspirational collection proposes a new way of thinking about aesthetics as fundamental to cultivating more liveable futures. Drawing on the philosophies of...

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...

We are often told that social media well-being is simply the result of individual users making healthy digital choices. All it takes is a little self-discipline. In this book, Niall Docherty looks closely at this belief and exposes the complex relations...

We are often told that social media well-being is simply the result of individual users making healthy digital choices. All it takes is a little self-discipline. In this book, Niall Docherty looks closely at this belief and exposes the complex relations...

Youth Digital Health and Online Platforms focuses on young people's use of the digital platform Reddit for health. Drawing upon dialogism theory, the book explores how young people produce a youth-led discourse of youth digital health, different from the...

Studies of surveillance have emphasised how technology is used to control space. This innovative collection examines how new monitoring technologies are also affecting the experience of time. Drawing on Henri Lefebvre's concept of rhythm, the book...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. In a world where artificial intelligence increasingly influences the fabric of our daily lives, this accessible book offers a critical examination of AI and its deep entanglement with power...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316581295Author Henry a KissingerFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams)...

Wearable technology, including smartwatches, biometric trackers, and body cameras, are often touted as helpful tools that record, produce, and analyze data about daily life to improve our individual habits and health or to solve serious public issues. In...

Discussions around digital technologies, new media, platforms and information have long centred on the protection of personal data and privacy. This timely volume extends the conversation to address fundamental societal and structural issues from three...

Wearable technology, including smartwatches, biometric trackers, and body cameras, are often touted as helpful tools that record, produce, and analyze data about daily life to improve our individual habits and health or to solve serious public issues. In...

This book is an update, extension and radicalization of Guattari's philosophy of the postmedia. It is the first of its kind to comprehensively apply Guattari's thought on postmedia to post-millennium technological developments. Given the considerable...

This volume brings together eminent scholars from various parts of the world, representing different fields of knowledge in order to explore the social, cultural, political, and economic effects of the development of new technologies.On the one hand, the...

Racially and economically segregated schools across the United States have hosted many interventions from commercial digital education technology (edtech) companies who promise their products will rectify the failures of public education. Edtech's...

Activists use digital technologies to communicate, coordinate, and organize for social change. But these big corporate digital platforms are also used to spread disinformation, racism, and abuse. Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge investigates the...

Racially and economically segregated schools across the United States have hosted many interventions from commercial digital education technology (edtech) companies who promise their products will rectify the failures of public education. Edtech's...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765105481Author James MackayFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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...