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  • The Digital Closet

    How the Internet Became Straight

    by Alexander Monea ...
    Series series Strong Ideas
    An exploration of how heteronormative bias is deeply embedded in the internet, hidden in algorithms, keywords, content moderation, and more.A Next Big Idea Club nominee.In The Digital Closet, Alexander Monea argues provocatively that the internet became straight by suppressing everything that is not, forcing LGBTQIA+ content into increasingly narrow channels—rendering it invisible through opaque ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Prison House of the Circuit

    Politics of Control from Analog to Digital

    by Jeremy Packer, Paula Nuñez de Villavicencio, Alexander Monea, Kathleen Oswald, Kate Maddalena, Joshua Reeves ...
    Has society ceded its self-governance to technogovernance?The Prison House of the Circuit presents a history of digital media using circuits and circuitry to understand how power operates in the contemporary era. Through the conceptual vocabulary of the circuit, it offers a provocative model for thinking about governance and media.The authors, writing as a collective, provide a model for ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Amazon

    At the Intersection of Culture and Capital

    Edited by Alexander Monea, Maillim Santiago, Paul Smith ...
    Amazon is everywhere. In our mailboxes, in delivery vans clogging our streets, in an increasing portion of our air traffic, in our grocery stores, on our televisions, in our smart home devices, and in the infrastructure powering many of the websites we visit. Amazon's tendrils touch the majority of online retail transactions in the United States and in many other countries.As Amazon changes the ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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  • The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age

    Edited by Darin Barney, Gabriella Coleman, Christine Ross, Jonathan Sterne, Tamar Tembeck ...
    Series series Electronic Mediations
    Just 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 does not mean we have always lived under the participatory condition. What is distinctive about the present is the extent to which the everyday social, economic, cultural, and political activities that ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Algorithms of Oppression

    How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

    by Safiya Umoja Noble ...
    A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithmsRun a Google search for “black girls”—what will you find? “Big Booty” and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top search terms. But, if you type in “white girls,” the results are radically different. The suggested porn sites and un-moderated discussions about “why ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • How Data Happened

    A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms

    by Chris Wiggins, Matthew L. Jones ...
    **“Fascinating.” —Jill Lepore, The New YorkerA sweeping history of data and its technical, political, and ethical impact on our world.**From facial recognition—capable of checking people into flights or identifying undocumented residents—to automated decision systems that inform who gets loans and who receives bail, each of us moves through a world determined by data-empowered algorithms. But ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • It's Complicated

    The Social Lives of Networked Teens

    by Danah Boyd ...
    A youth and technology expert offers original research on teens' use of social media, the myths frightening adults, and how young people form communities.What is new about how teenagers communicate through services like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media affect the quality of teens' lives? In this book, youth culture and technology expert Danah Boyd uncovers some of the major myths ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Filling the Void

    Social Media and The Continuation of Capitalism

    by Marcus Gilroy-Ware ...
    Filling The Void is a book about how the cultures and psychology of social media use fit within a broader landscape of life under capitalism. It argues that social media use is often a psychological response to the need for pleasure and comfort that results from the stresses of life under postmodern capitalism, rather than being a driver of new behaviours as newer technologies are often said to be ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Moral Machines

    Teaching Robots Right from Wrong

    by Wendell Wallach, Colin Allen ...
    Computers are already approving financial transactions, controlling electrical supplies, and driving trains. Soon, service robots will be taking care of the elderly in their homes, and military robots will have their own targeting and firing protocols. Colin Allen and Wendell Wallach argue that as robots take on more and more responsibility, they must be programmed with moral decision-making ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Privacy in Context

    Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life

    by Helen Nissenbaum ...
    Privacy is one of the most urgent issues associated with information technology and digital media. This book claims that what people really care about when they complain and protest that privacy has been violated is not the act of sharing information itself—most people understand that this is crucial to social life —but the inappropriate, improper sharing of information.Arguing that privacy ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Robot Ethics

    The Ethical and Social Implications of Robotics

    Edited by Patrick Lin, Keith Abney, George A. Bekey ...
    Series series Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents series
    Prominent experts from science and the humanities explore issues in robot ethics that range from sex to war.Robots today serve in many roles, from entertainer to educator to executioner. As robotics technology advances, ethical concerns become more pressing: Should robots be programmed to follow a code of ethics, if this is even possible? Are there risks in forming emotional bonds with robots? How ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Costs of Connection

    How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism

    by Nick Couldry, Ulises A. Mejias ...
    Series series Culture and Economic Life
    Just about any social need is now met with an opportunity to "connect" through digital means. But this convenience is not free—it is purchased with vast amounts of personal data transferred through shadowy backchannels to corporations using it to generate profit. The Costs of Connection uncovers this process, this "data colonialism," and its designs for controlling our lives—our ways of knowing; ... Read more

    $26.29 USD