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Data Empire

The Power of Information to Organize, Control, and Dominate

by Roopika Risam ...

BARACK OBAMA’S 2026 SUMMER READING PICKAn NPR, New Scientist, Nautilus, and Next Big Idea Club Best Book of the Month“Here is the new history of mankind demanded by our times.” —Jaron Lanier, author of Who Owns the Future?“A must-read.”—NPR, “15 Books Our Critics Can’t Wait to Read This Summer”“Essential reading for understanding the opportunities and dangers of the technolo... ... Read more

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BARACK OBAMA’S 2026 SUMMER READING PICKAn NPR, New Scientist, Nautilus, and Next Big Idea Club Best Book of the Month“Here is the new history of mankind demanded by our times.” —Jaron Lanier, author of Who Owns the Future?“A must-read.”—NPR, “15 Books Our Critics Can’t Wait to Read This Summer”“Essential reading for understanding the opportunities and dangers of the technolo...
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Anti-Racist Community Engagement

Principles and Practices

Edited by Christina Santana, Roopika Risam, Aldo Garcia-Guevara, Joseph Krupczynski, Cynthia Lynch, John Reiff, Cindy Vincent, Elaine Ward ...

Anti-racist Community Engagement: Principles and Practices centers anti-racist community-engaged traditions that BIPOC academics and community members have created through more than a century of collaboration across university and community. It demonstrates both the progress and the work that still needs to be done.The book is organized around a set of Anti-racist Community Engagement Principles ... Read more

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Anti-racist Community Engagement: Principles and Practices centers anti-racist community-engaged traditions that BIPOC academics and community members have created through more than a century of collaboration across university and community. It demonstrates both the progress and the work that still needs to be done.The book is organized around a set of Anti-racist Community Engagement Principles
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Future Horizons

Canadian Digital Humanities

by Dean Irvine, Kiera Obbard, Sandra Djwa, Roopika Risam, Andrea Zeffiro, Deanna Fong, M Ryan Fitzpatrick, Gregory Betts, M Eric Schmaltz, Dani Spinosa, Klara du Plessis, M David Gaertner, M Mark V. Campbell, M Jon Saklofske, Julia Polyck-O’Neill, Kim Martin, Rashmeet Kaur, Pascale Dangoisse, Constance Crompton, Michelle Schwartz, Katherine McLeod, Graham H. Jensen, M Allan Cho, Sarah Zhang, Kendra Cowley, Susan Brown, Asen Ivanov ...

Series series Canadian Literature Collection
Au fil des vingt et quelques chapitres que compte cet ouvrage, les auteurs explorent le passé, le présent et l’avenir de la recherche, de l’enseignement et de l’expérimentation en sciences humaines numériques au Canada. Ce recueil, qui rassemble les travaux de chercheuses et de chercheurs établis et émergents, présente des initiatives contemporaines dans le domaine des sciences humaines numériques ... Read more

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Au fil des vingt et quelques chapitres que compte cet ouvrage, les auteurs explorent le passé, le présent et l’avenir de la recherche, de l’enseignement et de l’expérimentation en sciences humaines numériques au Canada. Ce recueil, qui rassemble les travaux de chercheuses et de chercheurs établis et émergents, présente des initiatives contemporaines dans le domaine des sciences humaines numériques
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The Digital Black Atlantic

Edited by Roopika Risam, Kelly Baker Josephs ...

Series series Debates in the Digital Humanities
Exploring the intersections of digital humanities and African diaspora studiesHow can scholars use digital tools to better understand the African diaspora across time, space, and disciplines? And how can African diaspora studies inform the practices of digital humanities? These questions are at the heart of this timely collection of essays about the relationship between digital humanities and ... Read more

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Exploring the intersections of digital humanities and African diaspora studiesHow can scholars use digital tools to better understand the African diaspora across time, space, and disciplines? And how can African diaspora studies inform the practices of digital humanities? These questions are at the heart of this timely collection of essays about the relationship between digital humanities and
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South Asian Digital Humanities

Postcolonial Mediations across Technology’s Cultural Canon

Edited by Roopika Risam, Rahul K. Gairola ...

The digital cultural record has a powerful role to play in both new and future strategies of creating new homes within the digital milieu. For example, the development and establishment of new digital archives around South Asian studies not only allows us to create new archives of the past but also to remember and commemorate the past differently. New maps transform how we understand space and ... Read more

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The digital cultural record has a powerful role to play in both new and future strategies of creating new homes within the digital milieu. For example, the development and establishment of new digital archives around South Asian studies not only allows us to create new archives of the past but also to remember and commemorate the past differently. New maps transform how we understand space and
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Another Life / Une autre vie

by Roopika Risam, Myriam Moïse, Sabine Lauret, Angeline O'Neill, Mélanie Joseph-Vilain, Mark Froud, Mathilde Rogez, Cyril Dabydeen, Savrina Chinien, Fred d'Aguiar, Tore Holst, Eric Doumerc, Yolaine Parisot, Priya Menon, S. J. Mark Destephano, Madeleine Laurencin, Judith Misrahi-Barak, Marie-Célie Agnant ...

Series series Horizons anglophones - Série PoCoPages
Many writers started their professional lives in very diverse fields before embracing writing, or on the contrary have turned away from writing. The present volume seeks to explore the complex relationship between that ‘other life’ and writing. The aim is to determine whether a writer’s ‘other life’ appears in, influences or even shapes his/her work, and to what extent. What is the part of ... Read more

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Many writers started their professional lives in very diverse fields before embracing writing, or on the contrary have turned away from writing. The present volume seeks to explore the complex relationship between that ‘other life’ and writing. The aim is to determine whether a writer’s ‘other life’ appears in, influences or even shapes his/her work, and to what extent. What is the part of
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Data Empire

The Power of Information to Organize, Control, and Dominate

by Roopika Risam ...

Narrated by Soneela Nankani ...

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AN NPR SUMMER READING PICK“A powerful and thought-provoking deep history of data and power, essential reading for understanding the opportunities and dangers of the technological revolution now transforming our world.” —Jonathan Kennedy, author of PathogenesisFrom clay tablets to the algorithmic state, a groundbreaking new lens on human history arguing that information has always been the seed of ... Read more

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AN NPR SUMMER READING PICK“A powerful and thought-provoking deep history of data and power, essential reading for understanding the opportunities and dangers of the technological revolution now transforming our world.” —Jonathan Kennedy, author of PathogenesisFrom clay tablets to the algorithmic state, a groundbreaking new lens on human history arguing that information has always been the seed of
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A Sudden Flicker of Light

A Revisionist History of Movies

by David Thomson ...

Narrated by Aden Hakimi ...

Unabridged

11 hours 57 min

From one of cinema’s wisest and most penetrating observers, an arresting new perspective on the sweep of film history.David Thomson has been called “the greatest living writer on the movies.” Here is a career capstone of sorts—a one-volume history of film and screens as illuminating and provocative as his classic Biographical Dictionary of Film. In tracing the progress, from the Lumiere Brothers ... Read more

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From one of cinema’s wisest and most penetrating observers, an arresting new perspective on the sweep of film history.David Thomson has been called “the greatest living writer on the movies.” Here is a career capstone of sorts—a one-volume history of film and screens as illuminating and provocative as his classic Biographical Dictionary of Film. In tracing the progress, from the Lumiere Brothers
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The Story of Your Life

How Social Media Shapes the Way We Experience Everything

by Kathryn Jezer-Morton ...

Narrated by Kathryn Jezer-Morton ...

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8 hours 21 min

**“A thought-provoking analysis on what exactly we’re doing with all our many hours of screen time.” —Harper’s BazaarAn eye-opening look at how social media shapes the stories we tell and the lives we lead**Over the past two decades, platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok have revolutionized how we document and share our lives. We once archived our experiences in photo albums, and now we ... Read more

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**“A thought-provoking analysis on what exactly we’re doing with all our many hours of screen time.” —Harper’s BazaarAn eye-opening look at how social media shapes the stories we tell and the lives we lead**Over the past two decades, platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok have revolutionized how we document and share our lives. We once archived our experiences in photo albums, and now we
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On the Equality of All Things

Lessons on Physics and Philosophy

by Carlo Rovelli ...

Narrated by Roy McMillan ...

Unabridged

5 hours 48 min

A radical new vision of reality from one of the great minds of our time, mapping a watershed moment in both physics and philosophy.“Carlo Rovelli is the best thinker out there articulating physics, philosophy, and literature. There simply are no scientists of his caliber who also are humanists of the first order. His prose has the enviable ability to expand the realm of the utterable and, with it, ... Read more

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A radical new vision of reality from one of the great minds of our time, mapping a watershed moment in both physics and philosophy.“Carlo Rovelli is the best thinker out there articulating physics, philosophy, and literature. There simply are no scientists of his caliber who also are humanists of the first order. His prose has the enviable ability to expand the realm of the utterable and, with it,
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The Story of Birds

A New History from Their Dinosaur Origins to the Present

by Steve Brusatte ...

Narrated by Patrick Lawlor ...

Unabridged

11 hours 48 min

From the renowned paleontologist and bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, a sweeping evolutionary history of birds, from their dinosaur origins to the 10,000+ extraordinary species alive today.Tens of billions of birds share the planet with us, an astonishingly diverse array of species that are present nearly everywhere humans call home—and many places we do not. With their ... Read more

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From the renowned paleontologist and bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, a sweeping evolutionary history of birds, from their dinosaur origins to the 10,000+ extraordinary species alive today.Tens of billions of birds share the planet with us, an astonishingly diverse array of species that are present nearly everywhere humans call home—and many places we do not. With their
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eFieldnotes

The Makings of Anthropology in the Digital World

Edited by Roger Sanjek, Susan W. Tratner ...

Series series Haney Foundation Series
In this volume, sixteen distinguished scholars address the impact of digital technologies on how anthropologists do fieldwork and on what they study. With nearly three billion Internet users and more than four and a half billion mobile phone owners today, and with an ever-growing array of electronic devices and information sources, ethnographers confront a vastly different world from just decades ... Read more

$67.99 USD

In this volume, sixteen distinguished scholars address the impact of digital technologies on how anthropologists do fieldwork and on what they study. With nearly three billion Internet users and more than four and a half billion mobile phone owners today, and with an ever-growing array of electronic devices and information sources, ethnographers confront a vastly different world from just decades
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