Technology Studies

This book provides a long-overdue account of online technology and its impact on the work and lifestyles of professional employees. It moves between the offices and homes of workers in the knew "knowledge" economy to provide intimate insight into the...

From a world-renowned expert on creative play and the impact of commercial marketing on children, a timely investigation into how big tech is hijacking childhood-and what we can do about it"Engrossing and insightful . . . rich with details that paint a...

How did we end up here, masters of scientific insight, purveyors of ever more powerful technologies, astride the burning planet that created us, and now responsible for cleaning up the mess and determining the future direction of all of life? And what do...

Conventional wisdom has it that the sciences, properly pursued, constitute a pure, value-free method of obtaining knowledge about the natural world. In light of the social and normative dimensions of many scientific debates, Helen Longino finds that...

Praise for the previous edition 'A relaxed, well-written and information-packed expedition discovering the history of eclipses' - The Sky at Night A complete guide to the most stunning of celestial sights, a total eclipse of the Sun Totality: The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250829276Author Alec MacgillisFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm * 20mm

Understanding Esports: An Introduction to the Global Phenomenon places professional Esports, a rapidly growing industry, in both the cultural and athletic landscape. This book explores how the rise of professional gaming has shaped-and been shaped...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635901689Author Tiziana TerranovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593138519Author Johann HariFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250798794Author William DeresiewiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams)...

Until Karl Jansky's 1933 discovery of radio noise from the Milky Way, astronomy was limited to observation by visible light. Radio astronomy opened a new window on the Universe, leading to the discovery of quasars, pulsars, the cosmic microwave...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262547055Author Coleen CarriganFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Why efforts to create a scientific basis of morality are neither scientific nor moral In this illuminating book, James Davison Hunter and Paul Nedelisky trace the origins and development of the centuries-long, passionate, but ultimately failed quest to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046961Author Katie DavisFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262547321Author Ronald J. BrachmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 414gDimensions(mm) 222mm * 143mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632994820Author Rosa WangFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint River Grove BooksPublisher River Grove BooksWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

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...

A trailblazing inquiry into human love and relationships in the age of super-smart technology Technology is our new life partner. No longer confined to the sidelines, new interactive technologies like AI therapists, avatar friends, and robot...

An urgent reality check for America's blinkered fixation on STEM education. We live in an era of STEM obsession. Not only do tech companies dominate American enterprise and economic growth while complaining of STEM shortages, but we also need scientific...

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 9780262047470Author Mark ShepardFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Parents often worry about raising kids in a tech-saturated world - the threats of cyberbullying, video game violence, pornography, and sexting may seem inescapable. And while these dangers exist, there is a much more common and subtle way that technology...

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 9781911653295Author Harry CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Ubiquity Press (Cardiff University Press)Publisher Ubiquity Press (Cardiff University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047722Author Miguel SicartFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

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...

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...