Technology Studies
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The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care
$22.50 Add to cartA short, thought-provoking book about what happens to our online identities after we die.
These days, so much of our lives takes place online–but what about our afterlives? Thanks to the digital tra- Author: Öhman, Carl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0226828220
- Language: English
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The Web We Weave: Why We Must Reclaim the Internet from Moguls, Misanthropes, and Moral Panic
$29.00 Add to cartA bold defense of the internet, arguing attempts to fix and regulate it are often misguided —“essential reading for anyone who cares about the future of the internet” (Taylor Lorenz, author of Extrem… [more below]
- Author: Jarvis, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1541604121
- Language: English
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The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
$19.95 Add to cartA USA TODAY BESTSELLER
Winner of the 2024 Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity “An essential read for anyone that wants to understand how we lost control of our di- Author: Doctorow, Cory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1804292141
- Language: English
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Generative Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
$18.95 Add to cart“AI expert Jerry Kaplan explains how generative AI will revolutionize virtually every human activity. Highly recommended.” – Francis Fukuyama, Political scientist and author of The End of History and … [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
- Author: Kaplan, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0197773540
- Language: English
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Size: How It Explains the World
$19.99 Add to cart- Author: Smil, Vaclav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0063324105
- Language: English
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The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley
$27.95 Add to cartAn insider offers a “forceful critique…of Big Tech’s steady erosion of democracy” (The New Yorker) and describes what must be done to stop it
Over the past decades, under the cover of “innovation,”- Author: Schaake, Marietje
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0691241171
- Language: English
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Our Next Reality: How the AI-Powered Metaverse Will Reshape the World
$29.95 Add to cartForeword by Neal Stephenson, bestselling author of Snow Crash
Over the last 100 years, technology has changed our world. Over the next decade it will transform our reality. The planet is headed for a- Author: Graylin, Alvin Wang
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1399812246
- Language: English
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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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What Is Cybersecurity For?
$13.95 Add to cartHow will protecting our digital infrastructure shape our future? Cybersecurity is one of the key practical and political challenges of our time. It is at the heart of how modern societies survive and … [more below]
- Series: What Is It For?
- Author: Stevens, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1529226953
- Language: English
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The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century
$28.95 Read moreFrom one of the leading intellectuals of the digital age, The Digital Republic is the definitive guide to the great political question of our time: how can freedom and democracy survive in a world of … [more below]
- Author: Susskind, Jamie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1643139010
- Language: English
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Your Face Belongs to Us: A Tale of AI, a Secretive Startup, and the End of Privacy
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The story of a small AI company that gave facial recognition to law enforcement, billionaires, and businesses, threatening to end privacy as we know it
“The dystopian future portr… [more below]- Author: Hill, Kashmir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 059344857X
- Language: English
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Close to the Machine (25th Anniversary Edition): Technophilia and Its Discontents
$18.00 Add to cartWhen Ellen Ullman’s memoir of her life as a software engineer was published in 1997, it was greeted as a revelatory meditation on the dawn of the digital era. Now, twenty-five years later, Close to th
- Author: Ullman, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1250884128
- Language: English
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Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias
$17.95 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2022 WRITERS’ TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICY
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 DONNER BOOK PRIZE
WINNER OF THE PATTIS FAMILY FOUNDATION GLOBAL CITIES BOOK AWARD
Is the ‘smart city’ the utop… [more below]
- Author: Lorinc, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1552454282
- Language: English
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Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World
$24.95 Read moreA TOOLBOX FOR COMPREHENDING — AND CHANGING — THE WORLD
Systems Ultra explores how we experience complex systems: the mesh of things, people, and ideas interacting to produce their own patterns and b- Author: Voss, Georgina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 30, 2024
- ISBN10: 1839760559
- Language: English
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Analog Christian: Cultivating Contentment, Resilience, and Wisdom in the Digital Age
$19.99 Add to cartThe Gospel Coaltion Award of Distinction–Christian Living
Outreach Resource of the Year
The digital age is in the business of commodifying our attention. The technologies of our day are determined to k
- Author: Kim, Jay Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1514003163
- Language: English
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Wasted Education: How We Fail Our Graduates in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
$30.00 Read moreAn 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 compl
- Author: Skrentny, John D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 17 2023
- ISBN10: 226825795
- Language: English
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Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life
$21.99 Add to cartThis “utterly spectacular” book weighs the impact modern medical technology has had on the author’s life against the social and environmental costs inevitably incurred by the mining that makes such in
- Author: Standefer, Katherine E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 03, 2022
- ISBN10: 0316450340
- Language: English
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El Valor de la Atención: Por Qué Nos La Robaron Y Cómo Recuperarla
$24.95 Add to cartLa atención ha entrado en una profunda crisis. Cuáles son los motivos?, quién nos la está robando?, y, más importante aún, cómo podemos recuperar nuestra capacidad de concentración? Un demo
- Author: Hari, Johann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 6073900007
- Language: Spanish
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Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing
$20.95 Add to cartA revealing look at how user behavior is powering deep social divisions online-and how we might yet defeat political tribalism on social media
In an era of increasing social isolation, platforms like- Author: Bail, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0691241406
- Language: English
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After the Internet: Digital Networks Between Capital and the Common
$16.95 Add to cartOn the internet’s transformation from communication tool to computational infrastructure.
The internet is no more. If it still exists, it does so only as a residual technology, still effective in the- Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention
- Author: Terranova, Tiziana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1635901685
- Language: English
