Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“clinton castro”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “clinton castro”
Skip side bar filters

  • Algorithms and Autonomy

    The Ethics of Automated Decision Systems

    by Alan Rubel, Clinton Castro, Adam Pham ...
    Algorithms influence every facet of modern life: criminal justice, education, housing, entertainment, elections, social media, news feeds, work… the list goes on. Delegating important decisions to machines, however, gives rise to deep moral concerns about responsibility, transparency, freedom, fairness, and democracy. Algorithms and Autonomy connects these concerns to the core human value of ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Kantian Ethics and the Attention Economy

    Duty and Distraction

    by Timothy Aylsworth, Clinton Castro ...
    In this open access book, Timothy Aylsworth and Clinton Castro draw on the deep well of Kantian ethics to argue that we have moral duties, both to ourselves and to others, to protect our autonomy from the threat posed by the problematic use of technology. The problematic use of technologies like smartphones threatens our autonomy in a variety of ways, and critics have only begun to appreciate the ... Read more

    Free

People who read these also enjoyed

  • The Digital Difference

    Media Technology and the Theory of Communication Effects

    by W. Russell Neuman ...
    The Digital Difference examines how the transition from the industrial-era media of one-way publishing and broadcasting to the two-way digital era of online search and social media has affected the dynamics of public life.In the digital age, fundamental beliefs about privacy and identity are subject to change, as is the formal legal basis of freedom of expression. Will it be possible to maintain a ... Read more

    $25.49 USD

  • Qualitative Inquiry in Neoliberal Times

    Edited by Norman K. Denzin, Michael D. Giardina ...
    Series series International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Series
    Qualitative Inquiry in Neoliberal Times is written from the perspective that the scholarly lives of academics are changing, constantly in flux, and increasingly bound to the demands of the market – a context in which the university has increasingly morphed into a business enterprise, one that treats students as consumers to be marketed to, education as something to be purchased, and research as ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • 21st Century Communication: A Reference Handbook

    Edited by William F. Eadie ...
    The discipline of communication has grown in popularity from the time professors of journalism and speech decided, in the mid-1960s, that the term "communication" was an excellent general descriptor for the theory and research that each group aspired to create. Over time, the two groups grew closer and recognized significant overlap in their theoretical and research interests, but there were also ... Read more

    $323.99 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

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • When the State Meets the Street

    Public Service and Moral Agency

    by Bernardo Zacka ...
    When the State Meets the Street probes the complex moral lives of street-level bureaucrats: the frontline social and welfare workers, police officers, and educators who represent government’s human face to ordinary citizens. Too often dismissed as soulless operators, these workers wield a significant margin of discretion and make decisions that profoundly affect people’s lives. Combining insights ... Read more

    $32.79 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

  • Educational Leadership for the 21St Century

    Building a Capacity for Change

    by Peter J. Zsebik ...
    Public education, once considered a dogmatic institution in the 20th century, now finds itself challenged at almost every level in todays sociopolitical environment. New realities, as evidenced by the political complexities of the global village, widespread technological advances that undermine established educational practices, and ever mounting pressures on the curriculum to appease corporate ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Understanding Social Networks

    Theories, Concepts, and Findings

    by Charles Kadushin ...
    Despite the swift spread of social network concepts and their applications and the rising use of network analysis in social science, there is no book that provides a thorough general introduction for the serious reader. Understanding Social Networks fills that gap by explaining the big ideas that underlie the social network phenomenon. Written for those interested in this fast moving area but who ... Read more

    $29.69 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

  • Understanding Communication Theory

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Stephen M. Croucher ...
    This book offers students a comprehensive, theoretical, and practical guide to communication theory. Croucher defines the various perspectives on communication theory—the social scientific, interpretive, and critical approaches—and then takes on the theories themselves, with topics including interpersonal communication, organizational communication, intercultural communication, persuasion, ... Read more

    $101.99 USD