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Automated Media by Mark Andrejevic
RRP: €46.40Booksplease Price: €42.60In this era of pervasive automation, Mark Andrejevic provides an original framework for tracing the logical trajectory of automated media and their social, political, and cultural consequences. This... -
Facial Recognition Mark Andrejevic 9781509547333
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €16.66Facial recognition is set to fundamentally change our experience and understanding of monitoring, surveillance, and privacy. Backed by powerful industry interests, this technology is being integrated... -
Facial Recognition by Mark Andrejevic 9781509547326
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €48.25Facial recognition is set to fundamentally change our experience and understanding of monitoring, surveillance, and privacy. Backed by powerful industry interests, this technology is being integrated... -
Reality TV: The Work of Being Watched by Mark Andrejevic 9780742527485
Booksplease Price: €55.62Drawing on cultural theory and interviews with fans, cast members and producers, this book places the reality TV trend within a broader social context, tracing its relationship to the development of... -
ISpy: Surveillance and Power in the Interactive Era by Mark Andrejevic 9780700616862
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94'This book will change the way you think about today's new media technologies' - Daniel J. Solove, author of ""The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age"". Whether you're... -
Infoglut: How Too Much Information Is Changing the Way We Think and Know by Mark Andrejevic
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €52.80Today, more mediated information is available to more people than at any other time in human history. New and revitalized sense-making strategies multiply in response to the challenges of "cutting... -
Big Data, Crime and Social Control Ales Zavrsnik (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) 9780367227562
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €52.80From predictive policing to self-surveillance to private security, the potential uses to of big data in crime control pose serious legal and ethical challenges relating to privacy, discrimination,... -
Better Living through Reality TV: Television and Post-Welfare Citizenship Laurie Ouellette (University of Minnesota) 9781405134415
RRP: €39.21Booksplease Price: €38.10Combining cutting-edge theories of culture and government with programming examples-including Todd TV, Survivor, and American Idol-Better Living through Reality TV moves beyond the established... -
Media Backends: Digital Infrastructures and Sociotechnical Relations by Lisa Parks 9780252087462
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €21.71Exploring how we make, distribute, and consume today’s media systems Media backends--the electronics, labor, and operations behind our screens--significantly influence our understanding of the... -
Feminist Surveillance Studies by Rachel E. Dubrofsky 9780822359203
RRP: €133.28Booksplease Price: €106.98Questions of gender, race, class, and sexuality have largely been left unexamined in surveillance studies. The contributors to this field-defining collection take up these questions, and in so doing... -
Affective Politics of Digital Media: Propaganda by Other Means by Megan Boler
RRP: €48.78Booksplease Price: €45.01This interdisciplinary, international collection examines how sophisticated digital practices and technologies exploit and capitalize on emotions, with particular focus on how social media are used... -
The Globalization of Surveillance by Armand Mattelart
Booksplease Price: €23.45Video surveillance, public records, fingerprints, hidden microphones, RFID chips: in contemporary societies the intrusive techniques of surveillance used in daily life have increased dramatically... -
The Globalization of Surveillance by Armand Mattelart 9780745645100
RRP: €65.45Booksplease Price: €58.37Video surveillance, public records, fingerprints, hidden microphones, RFID chips: in contemporary societies the intrusive techniques of surveillance used in daily life have increased dramatically... -
Media Studies: A Reader -- 3rd Edition by Sue Thornham 9780814796269
RRP: €44.03Booksplease Price: €38.21Essays on new theories, methods, and research for the field of media studies Media Studies: A Reader introduces a full range of theoretical perspectives through which the media may be explored,... -
Privacy and Philosophy: New Media and Affective Protocol by Andrew McStay 9781433118999
RRP: €146.91Booksplease Price: €131.10What can philosophy tell us about privacy? Quite a lot as it turns out. With Privacy and Philosophy: New Media and Affective Protocol Andrew McStay draws on an array of philosophers to offer a... -
Automating Vision: The Social Impact of the New Camera Consciousness by Anthony McCosker
RRP: €48.78Booksplease Price: €44.65Automating Vision explores the rise of seeing machines through four case studies: facial recognition, drone vision, mobile and locative media and driverless cars. Proposing a conceptual lens of... -
Digital Data Collection and Information Privacy Law by Mark Burdon
RRP: €123.76Booksplease Price: €117.62In Digital Data Collection and Information Privacy Law, Mark Burdon argues for the reformulation of information privacy law to regulate new power consequences of ubiquitous data collection. Examining... -
Digital Data Collection and Information Privacy Law by Mark Burdon 9781108406017
Booksplease Price: €29.80In Digital Data Collection and Information Privacy Law, Mark Burdon argues for the reformulation of information privacy law to regulate new power consequences of ubiquitous data collection. Examining... -
Media Studies: A Reader by Sue Thornham
RRP: €40.45Booksplease Price: €36.93Media Studies: A Reader introduces a full range of theoretical perspectives through which the media may be explored, analysed, critiqued, and understood. The Reader reaches back to essential... -
Disentangling: The Geographies of Digital Disconnection by Andre Jansson 9780197571873
RRP: €124.95Booksplease Price: €113.82Digital networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter have revolutionized everyday human interaction by facilitating the search for, and access to, information, entertainment, and social connection... -
Critical Perspectives on Social Media and Protest: Between Control and Emancipation by Lina Dencik 9781783483365
Booksplease Price: €48.54Commercial social media platforms have become integral to contemporary forms of protests. They are intensely used by advocacy groups, non-governmental organisations, social movements and other... -
Media Backends: Digital Infrastructures and Sociotechnical Relations by Lisa Parks 9780252045349
RRP: €119.00Booksplease Price: €95.82Exploring how we make, distribute, and consume today's media systems Media backends--the electronics, labor, and operations behind our screens--significantly influence our understanding of the... -
The Routledge Companion to Labor and Media Richard Maxwell 9781138731776
RRP: €74.96Booksplease Price: €66.81Labor resides at the center of all media and communication production, from the workers who create the information technologies that form the dynamic core of the global capitalist system and the... -
Data Power: Radical Geographies of Control and Resistance by Jim E. Thatcher
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €19.92In 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... -
The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age by Darin Barney 9780816697717
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €21.43Just what is the "participatory condition"? It is the situation in which taking part in something with others has become both environmental and normative. The fact that we have always participated... -
The Makeover: Reality Television and Reflexive Audiences by Katherine Sender 9780814740699
RRP: €80.92Booksplease Price: €66.07The first book to consider the rapid rise of makeover shows from the perspectives of their viewers Watch this show, buy this product, you can be a whole new you! Makeover television shows repeatedly... -
Democracy of Expression: Positive Free Speech and Law by Andrew T. Kenyon
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €36.24Free speech has positive dimensions of enablement and negative dimensions of non-restraint, both of which require protection for democracy to have substantial communicative legitimacy. In Democracy... -
The Culture of Surveillance: Watching as a Way of Life by David Lyon 9780745671727
RRP: €65.45Booksplease Price: €58.37From 9/11 to the Snowden leaks, stories about surveillance increasingly dominate the headlines. But surveillance is not only 'done to us' - it is something we do in everyday life. We submit to... -
Internet-Ontologies-Things: Smart Objects, Hidden Problems, and Their Symmetries Sungyong Ahn 9781501399282
Booksplease Price: €36.34Internet-ontologies-Things explores how power mobilizes algorithmic and ontological objects, for example smartwatches and smart buildings, to uncover hidden problems within the physical domains of... -
Screening Big Data: Films that Shape Our Algorithmic Literacy Gerald Sim 9780367772635
RRP: €45.21Booksplease Price: €41.59This book examines the influence of key films on public understanding of big data and the algorithmic systems that structure our digitally mediated lives.From star-powered blockbusters to... -
Lex Populi: The Jurisprudence of Popular Culture by William P. MacNeil
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €17.55This is a book about jurisprudence-or legal philosophy. The legal philosophical texts under consideration are-to say the least-unorthodox. Tolkien, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Harry Potter, Legally... -
Lex Populi: The Jurisprudence of Popular Culture by William P. MacNeil 9780804753678
RRP: €104.72Booksplease Price: €84.66This is a book about jurisprudence-or legal philosophy. The legal philosophical texts under consideration are-to say the least-unorthodox. Tolkien, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Harry Potter, Legally... -
Digital Labor: The Internet as Playground and Factory by Trebor Scholz
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €47.59Digital Labor calls on the reader to examine the shifting sites of labor markets to the Internet through the lens of their political, technological, and historical making. Internet users currently... -
Feminist Surveillance Studies by Rachel E. Dubrofsky
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94Questions of gender, race, class, and sexuality have largely been left unexamined in surveillance studies. The contributors to this field-defining collection take up these questions, and in so doing... -
Food Democracy: Critical Lessons in Food, Communication, Design and Art by Oliver Vodeb
Booksplease Price: €40.27In a world where privatisation and capitalism dominate the global economy, the essays in this book ask how to make socially responsive communication, design and art that counters the role of the food... -
Citizen Spies: The Long Rise of America's Surveillance Society by Joshua Reeves 9781479803927
RRP: €94.01Booksplease Price: €76.30The history of recruiting citizens to spy on each other in the United States. Ever since the revelations of whistleblower Edward Snowden, we think about surveillance as the data-tracking digital... -
Citizen Spies: The Long Rise of America's Surveillance Society by Joshua Reeves 9781479878116
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €26.08The history of recruiting citizens to spy on each other in the United States. Ever since the revelations of whistleblower Edward Snowden, we think about surveillance as the data-tracking digital... -
Surveillance and Film by J. Macgregor Wise 9781628924848
Booksplease Price: €123.06Winner of the Surveillance Studies Network Book Award: 2017Surveillance is a common feature of everyday life. But how are we to make sense of or understand what surveillance is, how we should feel... -
Surveillance and Film by J. Macgregor Wise 9781628924855
Booksplease Price: €33.19Winner of the Surveillance Studies Network Book Award: 2017Surveillance is a common feature of everyday life. But how are we to make sense of or understand what surveillance is, how we should feel... -
The Medieval Internet: Power, politics and participation in the digital age by Jakob Linaa Jensen 9781839094132
Booksplease Price: €30.39This book sheds light on the world of the Internet and social media through a historical prism drawn from the Medieval Age. Memes and metaphors originating in medieval society have often been used to...