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  • Waiting for Robots

    The Hired Hands of Automation

    by Antonio A. Casilli ...
    Translated by Saskia Brown ...
    An essential investigation that pulls back the curtain on automation, like AI, to show human workers' hidden labor.Artificial Intelligence fuels both enthusiasm and panic. Technologists are inclined to give their creations leeway, pretend they're animated beings, and consider them efficient. As users, we may complain when these technologies don't obey, or worry about their influence on our choices ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Against the Hypothesis of the End of Privacy

    An Agent-Based Modelling Approach to Social Media

    by Paola Tubaro, Antonio A Casilli, Yasaman Sarabi ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Several prominent public voices have advanced the hypothesis that networked communications erode the value of privacy in favor of a transparent connected existence. Especially younger generations are often described as prone to live "open digital lives". This hypothesis has raised considerable controversy, polarizing the reaction of its critics as well as of its partisans. But how likely is the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

    The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

    by Shoshana Zuboff ...
    **An exposé of the unprecedented form of power called “surveillance capitalism,” and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior“Groundbreaking, magisterial, alarming.” – Financial Times**The heady optimism of the Internet’s early days has turned dark. Surveillance capitalism has deepened inequality, sown societal chaos, and undermined democracy.The fight for a human ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The AI Con

    How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want

    by Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna ...
    A smart, incisive work of technology criticism that examines the technologies sold as artificial intelligence, the drawbacks of systems sold under this banner, and why it’s crucial to recognize the many ways in which AI hype covers for a small set of power-hungry actors.Is artificial intelligence going to take over the world? Have big tech scientists created an artificial lifeform that can think ... Read more

    $21.49 USD

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  • Ghost Work

    How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass

    by Mary L. Gray, Siddharth Suri ...
    In the spirit of Nickel and Dimed, a necessary and revelatory expose of the invisible human workforce that powers the web—and that foreshadows the true future of work.Hidden beneath the surface of the web, lost in our wrong-headed debates about AI, a new menace is looming. Anthropologist Mary L. Gray and computer scientist Siddharth Suri team up to unveil how services delivered by companies like ... Read more

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  • The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media

    A Critical History of Social Media

    by Jose van Dijck ...
    Social media penetrate our lives: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and many other platforms define daily habits of communication and creative production. This book studies the rise of social media, providing both a historical and a critical analysis of the emergence of major platforms in the context of a rapidly changing ecosystem of connective media. Author Jose van Dijck offers an analytical prism ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • System Error

    Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot

    by Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami, Jeremy M. Weinstein ...
    " System Error is a triumph: an analysis of the critical challenges facing our digital society that is as accessible as it is sophisticated." — Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO of New AmericaA forward-thinking manifesto from three Stanford professors—experts who have worked at ground zero of the tech revolution for decades—which reveals how big tech's obsession with optimization and efficiency has ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • We, the Data

    Human Rights in the Digital Age

    by Wendy H. Wong ...
    A rallying call for extending human rights beyond our physical selves—and why we need to reboot rights in our data-intensive world.Winner of the 2024 Balsillie Prize for Public PolicyShortlisted, 2024 Lionel Gelber PrizeOur data-intensive world is here to stay, but does that come at the cost of our humanity in terms of autonomy, community, dignity, and equality? In We, the Data, Wendy H. Wong ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Networked

    The New Social Operating System

    by Lee Rainie, Barry Wellman ...
    How social networks, the personalized Internet, and always-on mobile connectivity are transforming—and expanding—social life.Daily life is connected life, its rhythms driven by endless email pings and responses, the chimes and beeps of continually arriving text messages, tweets and retweets, Facebook updates, pictures and videos to post and discuss. Our perpetual connectedness gives us endless ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Platform Society

    Public Values in a Connective World

    by José van Dijck, Thomas Poell, Martijn de Waal ...
    Individuals all over the world can use Airbnb to rent an apartment in a foreign city, check Coursera to find a course on statistics, join PatientsLikeMe to exchange information about one's disease, hail a cab using Uber, or read the news through Facebook's Instant Articles. The promise of connective platforms is that they offer personalized services and contribute to innovation and economic growth ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Your Computer Is on Fire

    Edited by Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks, Kavita Philip ...
    Techno-utopianism is dead: Now is the time to pay attention to the inequality, marginalization, and biases woven into our technological systems.This book sounds an alarm: after decades of being lulled into complacency by narratives of technological utopianism and neutrality, people are waking up to the large-scale consequences of Silicon Valley-led technophilia. This book trains a spotlight on the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Feeding the Machine

    The Hidden Human Labor Powering A.I.

    by Mark Graham, Callum Cant, James Muldoon ...
    For readers of Naomi Klein and Nicole Perlroth, a myth-dissolving exposé of how artificial intelligence exploits human labor, and a resounding argument for a more equitable digital future.Silicon Valley has sold us the illusion that artificial intelligence is a frictionless technology that will bring wealth and prosperity to humanity. But hidden beneath this smooth surface lies the grim reality of ... Read more

    $17.29 USD