Technology Studies

The complex relationship between technology and social outcomes is well known and has recently seen significant attention due to the deepening of technology use in many domains. This includes issues such as the reproduction of inequality due to the...

One of the most important parts of British heavy industry today is our railway system. Its constant appearances in news bulletins, its enormous appeal to fans or "enthusiasts", its permanent role in the lives of most of us, and its economic significance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544689Author Michele WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

The exhaustion, disappointment, and listlessness experienced under digital capitalism, explored through works by contemporary artists, writers, and performers.Sometimes, interacting with digital platforms, we want to be passive-in those moments of...

'The Internet is broken and Paolo Bory knows how we got here. In a powerful book based on original research, Bory carefully documents the myths, imaginaries, and ideologies that shaped the material and cultural history of the Internet. As important as...

Bioethicist Mark Navin and policy scholar Katie Attwell explore the evolution of American childhood vaccination policy through the prism of political history, contemporary parenthood, and diverse governance strategies. America's New Vaccine Wars focuses...

This accessible book introduces students to perspectives from the field of science and technology studies. Putting forward the thesis that science and democracy share important characteristics, it shows how authority cannot be taken for granted and...

Every new tractor now contains built-in sensors that collect data and stream it to cloud-based infrastructure. Seed and chemical companies are using these data, and these agribusinesses are a form of big tech alongside firms like Google and Facebook.The...

This book explores the fundamental contradiction at the heart of the digital environment: technology offers all manner of promises, yet habitually fails to deliver. This failure often arises from numerous problems: the proficiency of the technology or...

Technology is key to the development of nations yet is not freely or easily accessible. This book aims to contribute to the debate about empowering Africa to play a more meaningful role in the global innovation system. It emphasizes the important role of...

Transgenerational Technology and Interactions for the 21st Century explores how we as humans navigate the 21st Century, interacting with technologies, including those that are intended to support and enhance our experiences across the lifespan. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912729067Author Susanne BauerFormat HardbackPage Count 628Imprint Mattering PressPublisher Mattering PressWeight(grams) 1002gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

The concept of transhumanism emerged in the middle of the 20th century, and has influenced discussions around AI, brain-computer interfaces, genetic technologies and life extension. Despite its enduring influence in the public imagination, a fully...

This collection offers the first up-to-date, book-length, academic study of Amazon. It is an indispensable tool for any researcher in the humanities and social sciences in the future looking to study not only Amazon, but also other capitalist platform...

Once considered niche, fringe, and the hobby of only outsiders or loners, video games have rapidly become one of the most popular and influential artistic forms of this century. Their imagery is near ubiquitous-children, adults, and even professional...

Characters are a vital aspect of today's transmedia practices. Combining theories on fictional persons from Japanese and Euro-American practices, this book discusses video game characters embedded in our popular media culture in which they are constantly...

Data Borders investigates entrenched and emerging borderland technology that ensnares all people in an intimate web of surveillance where data resides and defines citizenship. Detailing the new trend of biologically mapping undocumented people through...

"The digital now thoroughly saturates our everyday lives to the point where it seems we are drowning. But is it possible to swim on our terms? This book thoughtfully examines this question, critically teasing apart the structures of power that permeate...

The financial industry derives its legitimacy through the claim that it acts in the interest of shareholders. A vast international network of funds, banks, insurance companies, brokerages, rating agencies, and regulatory agencies defends its status by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943003747Author Michael RectenwaldFormat HardbackPage Count 388Imprint World Encounter Institute/New English Review PressPublisher World Encounter...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523524174Author Lawrence CappelloFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Workman PublishingPublisher Workman Publishing

We live in a world of rapidly growing gaps between rich and poor. In the rich parts of the world, new resource-consuming devices are launched every year. But at the same time, about a fourth of the world’s population does not have access to clean...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642597929Format PaperbackImprint Haymarket BooksPublisher Haymarket Books

This anthology contributes to creating awareness on how digital ageism operates in relation to the widely spread symbolic representations of old and young age around digital technologies, the (lack of) representation of diverse older individuals in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250868480Author Madhumita MurgiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959820659Author Logan CarderFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Logan CarderPublisher Logan CarderWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798869045959Author RodinFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint SunshinePublisher SunshineWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798330358748Author Marco de ProsperisFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint Marco de Prosperis - Published IndependentlyPublisher Marco de Prosperis -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685747114Author Elena VelásquezFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Ibukku, LLCPublisher Ibukku, LLCWeight(grams) 68g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789523691063Author Ilpo HelénFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Helsinki University PressPublisher Helsinki University PressWeight(grams) 417g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912729081Author James MaguireFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Mattering PressPublisher Mattering PressWeight(grams) 170g

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) 508g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788196837105Author Sam LorayFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Grace PublishersPublisher Grace PublishersWeight(grams) 191g

Transgenerational Technology and Interactions for the 21st Century explores how we as humans navigate the 21st Century, interacting with technologies, including those that are intended to support and enhance our experiences across the lifespan. This...

Digital Theology is a rapidly emerging field of academic research and gaining traction with scholars of Computer Science, Theology, Sociology of Religion and the wider Humanities. This book explores Digital Theology from a Computer Science...

Journalism and Austerity: Digitization and Crisis During the Greek Memoranda presents an overview of press coverage focused on the Greek crisis. The impacts of disaster and digitization in Greek journalism are analyzed with the help of expert testimonies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262548137Author Tomas PausFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

This book aims to thoroughly examine noise’s conceptual potencies and explore and amplify its epistemic consequences. The author explores the prospect of different “contextures” of a present made volatile by noise. In a moment when our species exhibits...

How we lost control of the internet-and how to win it back. The internet has become a battleground. Although it was unlikely to live up to the hype and hopes of the 1990s, only the most skeptical cynics could have predicted the World Wide Web as we know...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782359261158Author Olugbenga AdesidaFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Amalion PublishingPublisher Amalion PublishingWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm)...