Technology Studies
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Log Off: Why Posting and Politics (Almost) Never Mix
$19.95 Read moreSocial media was supposed to pull us together for noble causes, but doomscrolling might not have been what most of us had in mind. Elon Musk might have ruined Twitter, but “he’s merely Twitter’s all-t
- Author: Cross, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1736716867
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Algorithms: A Tiktok Manifesto
$22.00 Read moreFrom an artist and TikTok creator, a critical look at the controversial app and its effect on cultural heritage, artificial intelligence, community organizing, and digital censorship.
In Revolutionar- Author: Akers, Torey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1538773732
- Language: English
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Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit
$30.00 Add to cartAs Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes more dynamic and ubiquitous, it is dramatically empowering people in all walks of life while also giving rise to urgent questions about the future of humanity–
- Author: Kissinger, Henry a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0316581291
- Language: English
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Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media for Equity and Justice
$34.95 Read moreHow to co-create–and why: the emergence of media co-creation as a concept and as a practice grounded in equity and justice.
Co-creation is everywhere: It’s how the internet was built; it generated ma- Author: Cizek, Katerina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 026254377X
- Language: English
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When Science Meets Power
$29.95 Read moreScience and politics have collaborated throughout human history, and science is repeatedly invoked today in political debates, from pandemic management to climate change. But the relationship between
- Author: Mulgan, Geoff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 261
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1509553061
- Language: English
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Future Philanthropy: The Tech, Trends & Talent Defining New Civic Leadership
$29.99 Read moreCHALLENGE THE SYSTEMS QUO
Philanthropy is stuck. As societal issues constantly evolve, philanthropic systems have been slow to match, leaving our communities’ needs sorely unmet. But what would happen
- Author: Ginard, Ryan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1634894782
- Language: English
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Hydraulic Societies: Water, Power, and Control in East and Central Asian History
$39.95 Read moreHydraulic Societies explores the linked themes of water, power, state-building, and hydraulic control. Bringing together a range of ecological, geographical, chronological, and methodological perspect
- Author: Breyfogle, Nicholas B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0870712373
- Language: English
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The Digital Closet: How the Internet Became Straight
$21.95 Read moreAn exploration of how heteronormative bias is deeply embedded in the internet, hidden in algorithms, keywords, content moderation, and more.
In The Digital Closet, Alexander Monea argues provocatively- Series: Strong Ideas
- Author: Monea, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0262545950
- Language: English
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Machines Like Us: Toward AI with Common Sense
$24.95 Read moreHow we can create artificial intelligence with broad, robust common sense rather than narrow, specialized expertise.
It’s sometime in the not-so-distant future, and you send your fully autonomous self- Author: Brachman, Ronald J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0262547325
- Language: English
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You’ve Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All
$30.00 Read moreHow games are being harnessed as instruments of exploitation–and what we can do about it
Warehouse workers pack boxes while a virtual dragon races across their screen. If they beat their colleagues,- Author: Hon, Adrian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1541600177
- Language: English
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Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
$16.95 Read moreRefusing the digital world of late capitalism
In this uncompromising essay, Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality: our “digital age” is synonymous with the disastrous terminal sta- Author: Crary, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1784784443
- Language: English
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Own This!: How Platform Cooperatives Help Workers Build a Democratic Internet
$26.95 Read moreWhat if taxi drivers in New York City or rickshaw operators in Bangalore could start a worker-owned and-operated alternative to Uber with stable hourly wages?
Winner of the First Prize in the Joyce Ro- Author: Scholz, R. Trebor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1839764554
- Language: English
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Technology’s Child: Digital Media’s Role in the Ages and Stages of Growing Up
$29.95 Read moreHow children engage with technology at each stage of development, from toddler to twentysomething, and how they can best be supported.
What happens to the little ones, the tweens, and the teenagers, w
- Author: Davis, Katie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0262046962
- Language: English
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Barcode
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Barcodes are about as ordinary as an object can be. Billions of them are scanned each day and- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Frith, Jordan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1501399918
- Language: English
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Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World’s Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation
$29.95 Add to cartAn urgently needed exploration of global technology worship, and a measured case for skepticism and agnosticism as a way of life, from the New York Times-bestselling author of Good without God.
Today’- Author: Epstein, Greg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0262049201
- Language: English
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The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans
$18.99 Add to cart“This book unravels the mysteries behind humanity’s greatest masterpieces.” — Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again
Discover the secret method used to build the world…
For m
- Author: Hammack, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1728280451
- Language: English
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Technocapitalism: The Rise of the New Robber Barons and the Fight for the Common Good
$21.95 Read moreA fascinating look at how the Space Barons and Techtitans–heads of companies like Uber, Amazon, Tesla–have hijacked technology, preventing it from being used on behalf of the common good and profiti… [more below]
- Author: Napoleoni, Loretta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 164421329X
- Language: English
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The Unplugged Hours: Cultivating a Life of Presence in a Digitally Connected World
$19.99 Add to cartNo matter what you do for a living, how much time your apps save you, or how much entertainment your phone brings, it is possible to unplug–and find an even better life on the other side.
In the sprin
- Author: Brencher, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0310367700
- Language: English
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Everything to Play for: An Insider’s Guide to How Videogames Are Changing Our World
$24.95 Add to cartAn insider’s account of the videogame industry telling how gaming can become a force for good
Everything To Play For asks if videogames can achieve egalitarian goals instead of fuelling hyper-material- Author: Did, Marijam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1804293245
- Language: English
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Fear: An Alternative History of the World
$35.00 Read moreIt’s been said that, after 9/11, the 2008 financial crash and the Covid-19 pandemic, we’re a more fearful society than ever before. Yet fear, and the panic it produces, have long been driving forces -… [more below]
- Author: Peckham, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1788167236
- Language: English
