Technology Studies

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798337345178Author Viana Imad HassanFormat PaperbackPage Count 552Imprint Information Science ReferencePublisher IGI Global

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Today, privacy is more than a personal choice-it's a terrain shaped by power, politics and everyday life. This book shifts the lens from established western narratives to India, WhatsApp's...

How can digital technologies help address ecological crises instead of making them worse? This book offers a bold vision for a fairer, greener digital future. Drawing on degrowth and postgrowth ideas, it challenges capitalism's model of endless growth...

Smart as a City provides a rich ethnographic investigation into how smartness is received and negotiated in a midsize US city. Burcu Baykurt follows the work of civic entrepreneurs, local residents, and city officials in Kansas City, Missouri, where...

How can digital technologies help address ecological crises instead of making them worse? This book offers a bold vision for a fairer, greener digital future. Drawing on degrowth and postgrowth ideas, it challenges capitalism's model of endless growth...

Smart as a City provides a rich ethnographic investigation into how smartness is received and negotiated in a midsize US city. Burcu Baykurt follows the work of civic entrepreneurs, local residents, and city officials in Kansas City, Missouri, where...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Digital media can support democracy, freedom, and social cohesion, but it can also erode them. This book explores that tension through the stories of grassroots volunteer networks in Russia,...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. What does it mean to live in a world where our most essential systems are digital-and vulnerable? This book takes readers beyond the technical aspects of cybersecurity to explore how the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798892223560Author Amitabha RoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint White Falcon PublishingPublisher White Falcon PublishingWeight(grams)...

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...