Social Aspects

The debate surrounding the transformation of work at the hands of digital technology and the anxieties brought forth by automation, the sharing economy, and the exploitation of leisure We have been told that digital technology is now threatening the...

In 1992, Neil Postman presciently coined the term 'technopoly' to refer to 'the surrender of culture to technology'. This book brings together a number of contributors from different disciplinary perspectives to analyse technopoly both as a concept and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262536653Author Jonathan AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452287662Author Katherine AlbrechtFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 141mm *...

The Digital Factory reveals the hidden human labor that supports today's digital capitalism. The workers of today's digital factory include those in Amazon warehouses, delivery drivers, Chinese gaming workers, Filipino content moderators, and rural...

The digital world profoundly shapes how we work and consume and also how we play, socialize, create identities, and engage in politics and civic life. Indeed, we are so enmeshed in digital networks-from social media to cell phones-that it is hard to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845407766Author Silja SamerskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262640381Author David E. NyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570273391Author Marc James LegerFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Minor CompositionsPublisher Autonomedia

In recent years, popular media have inundated audiences with sensationalised headlines recounting data breaches, new forms of surveillance and other dangers of our digital age. Despite their regularity, such accounts treat each case as unprecedented and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262581660Author Mikael HardFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 20mm

The role of science in policymaking has gained unprecedented stature in the United States, raising questions about the place of science and scientific expertise in the democratic process. Some scientists have been given considerable epistemic authority...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452296565Author Gordon BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

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"In the modern world," author James Jay Carafano asserts, "winning online could be the key to being free, safe, and prosperous-or being consumed." In his previous book, Wiki at War: Conflict in a Socially Networked World, Carafano explored how social...

A radical history of technology told through acts of resistance, not progressThe history of technology is often told as a history of progress, moving optimistically and inevitably from one emancipatory invention to the next. Techno-Negative turns this...

Unmasking the rituals and cultural norms that define communities of artificial intelligence (AI) workers, Humans of AI demonstrates that there would be no AI without human intervention. Not a day goes by without breathless commentary on the increasing...

Through the frame of Zoom, this collection of essays examines the rapid emergence of videoconferencing in everyday life under COVID-19, its preexisting performative logic, and the ongoing implication of these practices for millions of individuals and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262553537Author Robert DorschelFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685891978Author Vanessa ChangFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing

Diversity in STEM: Analyzing Inequities and Improving Opportunities in Education and the Workplace offers a survey of diversity in the broad field of STEM and provides potential solutions to improve outcomes in education, industry, and society. Offering...

Diversity in STEM: Analyzing Inequities and Improving Opportunities in Education and the Workplace offers a survey of diversity in the broad field of STEM and provides potential solutions to improve outcomes in education, industry, and society. Offering...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593716328Author Isabelle BoemekeFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint ThesisPublisher Random House USA Inc

Ethics for Engineers: Toward Ethical Behavior within Engineering Organizations offers a multilevel perspective on engineering ethics with considerable breadth and depth, making it a valuable resource for students, educators, and professionals alike.This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374159405Author Alexis MadrigalFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint MCDPublisher MCDWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 137mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262549981Author James MattinglyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262049559Author Hannah ZeavinFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Instrumental Lives is an account of instrument making at the cutting edge of contemporary science and technology in a modern Indian scientific laboratory. For a period of roughly two-and-half decades, starting the late 1980s, a research group headed by...

A surprising window into the online lives of people sixty and over-offering essential insights, no matter your age. Everyone has that one older relative who loves to post misinformation on social media. That older coworker who fell prey to a phishing...

Can behaviour on social media predict future purchase patterns? Can what we click on social media foresee which political party will we vote for? Can the information we share on our wall foretell the next series I might want to watch? Can the likes on...

'Powerful, profound and completely engrossing, this is a multitudinous meditation on not only technology but also history, culture, ideas, ethics, psychology and, above all, what it means to be human.' - Michael Bhaskar, co-author of The Coming WaveWise...

Martin Heidegger, Gilbert Simondon, and Bernard Stiegler each argued in their own way that, ever since its inception in ancient Greece, western philosophy is incapable of thinking technics, which reaches its clearest expression in the philosophy of...

How hackers facilitate community technology projects that counter the monoculture of "big tech" and point us to brighter, innovative horizons. A digital world in relentless movement-from artificial intelligence to ubiquitous computing-has been captured...