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  • Engines of Order

    A Mechanology of Algorithmic Techniques

    by Bernhard Rieder ...
    Series series Recursions
    Software has become a key component of contemporary life and algorithms that rank, classify, or recommend are everywhere. Building on the philosophy of Gilbert Simondon and the cultural techniques tradition, this book examines the constructive and cumulative character of software and retraces the historical trajectories of a series of algorithmic techniques that have become the building blocks for ... Read more

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  • The Discipline of Organizing

    Edited by Robert J. Glushko ...
    A framework for the theory and practice of organizing that integrates the concepts and methods of information organization and information retrieval.Organizing is such a common activity that we often do it without thinking much about it. In our daily lives we organize physical things—books on shelves, cutlery in kitchen drawers—and digital things—Web pages, MP3 files, scientific datasets. Millions ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Automating Open Source Intelligence

    Algorithms for OSINT

    by Robert Layton, Paul A Watters ...
    Algorithms for Automating Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) presents information on the gathering of information and extraction of actionable intelligence from openly available sources, including news broadcasts, public repositories, and more recently, social media. As OSINT has applications in crime fighting, state-based intelligence, and social research, this book provides recent advances in text ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Where the Action Is

    The Foundations of Embodied Interaction

    by Paul Dourish ...
    Computer science as an engineering discipline has been spectacularly successful. Yet it is also a philosophical enterprise in the way it represents the world and creates and manipulates models of reality, people, and action. In this book, Paul Dourish addresses the philosophical bases of human-computer interaction. He looks at how what he calls "embodied interaction"—an approach to interacting ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • If...Then

    Algorithmic Power and Politics

    by Taina Bucher ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
    We live in a world in which Google's search algorithms determine how we access information, Facebook's News Feed algorithms shape how we socialize, and Netflix collaborative filtering algorithms choose the media products we consume. As such, we live algorithmic lives. Life, however, is not blindly controlled or determined by algorithms. Nor are we simply victims of an ever-expanding artificial ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Cultural Logic of Computation

    by David Golumbia ...
    Advocates of computers make sweeping claims for their inherently transformative power: new and different from previous technologies, they are sure to resolve many of our existing social problems, and perhaps even to cause a positive political revolution.In The Cultural Logic of Computation, David Golumbia, who worked as a software designer for more than ten years, confronts this orthodoxy, arguing ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Information and Society

    by Michael Buckland ...
    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    A short, informal account of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data.We live in an information society, or so we are often told. But what does that mean? This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a concise, informal account of the ways in which information and society are related and of our ever-increasing dependence ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Information Management

    An Informing Approach

    by Fons Wijnhoven ...
    Information and its management is central to modern society. Organizations – private and public, national and international – have recognized that information is a key resource and that its management is critical for success.Existing books on information management focus on the abilities of computers to process data, the development of information systems, and the management of IT resources. They ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Blockchain Technology - Ontologies

    by Nicolae Sfetcu ...
    About the necessity and usefulness of developing a philosophy specific to the blockchain technology, emphasizing on the ontological aspects. After an Introduction that highlights the main philosophical directions for this emerging technology, in Blockchain Technology I explain the way the blockchain works, discussing ontological development directions of this technology in Designing and Modeling. ... Read more

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  • Digital Humanities

    Knowledge and Critique in a Digital Age

    by David M. Berry, Anders Fagerjord ...
    As the twenty-first century unfolds, computers challenge the way in which we think about culture, society and what it is to be human: areas traditionally explored by the humanities.In a world of automation, Big Data, algorithms, Google searches, digital archives, real-time streams and social networks, our use of culture has been changing dramatically. The digital humanities give us powerful ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Critical Theory and the Digital

    by Dr. David M. Berry ...
    Series series Critical Theory and Contemporary Society
    This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume offers an original analysis of the role of the digital in today's society. It rearticulates critical theory by engaging it with the challenges of the digital revolution to show how the digital is changing the ways in which we lead our politics, societies, economies, media, and even private lives. In particular, the work examines how the ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Ideal Subjects

    The Abstract People of AI

    by Olga Goriunova ...
    Series series Posthumanities
    How data and artificial intelligence create a new, abstract digital subjectIdeal Subjects examines how samples of our lives and daily behaviors have come to reside in the world of data and artificial intelligence—and what this means for who we are and what we may become. Detailing how AI-facilitated algorithmic prediction and data modeling make “ideal subjects” of us, Olga Goriunova explores the ... Read more

    $19.49 USD