Social Aspects

We live in an age of unprecedented human mastery -- over birth and death, body and mind, nature and human nature. In every realm of life, science and technology have brought remarkable advances and improvements: we are healthier, wealthier, and more...

With the development of new direct interfaces between the human brain and computer systems, the time has come for an in-depth ethical examination of the way these neuronal interfaces may support an interaction between the mind and cyberspace. In so...

Society 5.0 is a human-centered community where integrated systems operate throughout society to secure comfort in all aspects of life, from energy and medical care, to education, work, and leisure. Blockchain technologies enable the streamlining of...

The Digital Factory reveals the surprising and 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593765149Author Ben HammersleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull PressWeight(grams) 539gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570273384Author Geert LovinkFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint AutonomediaPublisher Autonomedia

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780774864237Author Daniel MacfarlaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint University of British Columbia PressPublisher University of British Columbia...

An in-depth look at life in the "smart" city Technology has fundamentally transformed urban life. But today's "smart" cities look little like what experts had predicted. Aaron Shapiro shows us the true face of the revolution in urban technology, taking...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262038744Author Nicholas AgarFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm

Offers an original contribution to the field by focusing on epistemic tensions in socio-technical systems.About the AuthorDavid Beer is Professor of Sociology at the University of York.Book InformationISBN 9781529212891Author David BeerFormat...

Since the late nineteenth century, Niagara Falls has been heavily engineered to generate energy behind a flowing facade designed to appeal to tourists. Fixing Niagara Falls reveals the technological feats and cross-border politics that facilitated the...

Some maps help us find our way; others restrict where we go and what we do. These maps control behavior, regulating activities from flying to fishing, prohibiting students from one part of town from being schooled on the other, and banishing certain...

An engaging, accessible survey of the ethical issues faced by engineers, designed for students The first engineering ethics textbook to use debates as the framework for presenting engineering ethics topics, this engaging, accessible survey explores the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629638300Author Robert OstertagFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262045506Author Braxton SodermanFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

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

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

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...

"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...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262553179Author John MaedaFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd