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  • Inventing ELIZA

    How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI

    Series series Software Studies
    How the original ELIZA chatbot transformed ideas about AI and society’s response to them.As we reach the 60th anniversary of ELIZA’s public debut, Inventing ELIZA offers the first comprehensive critical analysis of Joseph Weizenbaum’s groundbreaking chatbot system through the lens of critical code studies. Drawing on extensive archival research at MIT, Stanford, and UCLA, this book presents the ... Read more

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  • Critical Theory and the Digital

    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

  • Digital Humanities

    Knowledge and Critique in a Digital Age

    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

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  • A New Companion to Digital Humanities

    Series series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    This highly-anticipated volume has been extensively revised to reflect changes in technology, digital humanities methods and practices, and institutional culture surrounding the valuation and publication of digital scholarship.A fully revised edition of a celebrated reference work, offering the most comprehensive and up-to-date collection of research currently available in this rapidly evolving ... Read more

    $47.00 USD

  • A Companion to Digital Literary Studies

    Edited by Ray Siemens, Susan Schreibman ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    This Companion offers an extensive examination of how new technologies are changing the nature of literary studies, from scholarly editing and literary criticism, to interactive fiction and immersive environments.A complete overview exploring the application of computing in literary studiesIncludes the seminal writings from the fieldFocuses on methods and perspectives, new genres, formatting ... Read more

    $45.00 USD

  • An Aesthesia of Networks

    Conjunctive Experience in Art and Technology

    by Anna Munster ...
    Series series Technologies of Lived Abstraction
    The experience of networks as the immediate sensing of relations between humans and nonhuman technical elements in assemblages such as viral media and databases.Today almost every aspect of life for which data exists can be rendered as a network. Financial data, social networks, biological ecologies: all are visualized in links and nodes, lines connecting dots. A network visualization of a ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • 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

  • The Mediated Construction of Reality

    Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media platforms driven by data processes. Fifty years after Berger and Luckmann published their classic text The Social Construction of Reality, two leading sociologists of media, Nick Couldry and Andreas Hepp, revisit the question of how social theory can understand the processes through which an everyday world ... Read more

    $21.00 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

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  • 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

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  • How To Be a Geek

    Essays on the Culture of Software

    Computer software and its structures, devices and processes are woven into our everyday life. Their significance is not just technical: the algorithms, programming languages, abstractions and metadata that millions of people rely on every day have far-reaching implications for the way we understand the underlying dynamics of contemporary societies.In this innovative new book, software studies ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Digital Sociology

    The Reinvention of Social Research

    This provocative new introduction to the field of digital sociology offers a critical overview of interdisciplinary debates about new ways of knowing society that are emerging today at the interface of computing, media, social research and social life.Digital Sociology introduces key concepts, methods and understandings that currently inform the development of specifically digital forms of social ... Read more

    $21.00 USD