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  • The Digital Divide

    by Jan van Dijk ...
    Contrary to optimistic visions of a free internet for all, the problem of the ‘digital divide’ – the disparity between those with access to internet technology and those without – has persisted for close to twenty-five years.In this textbook, Jan van Dijk considers the state of digital inequality and what we can do to tackle it. Through an accessible framework based on empirical research, he ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Power and Technology

    A Theory of Social, Technical and Natural Power

    by Jan van Dijk ...
    The definition of power varies across disciplines. Social scientists tend to deal with social power, philosophers of technology with the relation between technology and society, and ecologists with the relation between natural and social power. Concepts of power and technology are freely used but this relationship is complex and multifaceted.In this analytic and ambitious textbook, Jan van Dijk ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • The New Faces of Victimhood

    Globalization, Transnational Crimes and Victim Rights

    Edited by Rianne Letschert, Jan van Dijk ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Besides generating wealth, globalization makes victims, including victims of new forms of crime. In this edited book of scholarly essays, international lawyers and criminologists reflect on the legal challenges posed by these dark sides of globalization. Examples include transnational organised crime, human trafficking and corruption, cyber crimes, international terrorism, global corporate crime ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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    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

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  • The Stack, 10th anniversary edition with new preface by the author

    On Software and Sovereignty

    by Benjamin H. Bratton ...
    Series series Software Studies
    **Why The Stack—an accidental megastructure—is both a technological apparatus and the geopolitical model of our times.A tenth anniversary edition of the comprehensive political philosophy of planetary-scale computation, with a new preface from the author.**What has planetary-scale computation done to our geopolitical realities? It takes different forms at different scales—from energy and mineral ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Why We Fear AI

    On the Interpretation of Nightmares

    by Hagen Blix, Ingeborg Glimmer ...
    Fears about AI tell us more about capitalism today than technology in the future.Will AI come and take all our jobs? Will it dominate humanity, hack the foundations of our civilization, or even wipe humans of the face of the planet? All kinds of people seem to think so. From academics to billionaires, artists to fraudsters, journalists to the pope, AI nightmares have gripped the popular ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Digital Media and Society

    by Simon Lindgren ...
    *What does it mean to live in a digital society?Does social media empower political activism?How do we form and express our identity in a digital age?Do algorithms and search engine results have a social role?How have software and hardware transformed how we interact with each other?*In the early 21st century, digital media and the social have become irreversibly intertwined. In this cutting-edge ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • Against Platforms

    Surviving Digital Utopia

    by Mike Pepi ...
    Series series Activist Citizens Library
    A bold and imaginative critique of the hidden costs of digital life – and a manifesto for a better future . . .At the turn of the millennium, digital technologies seemed to have immense promise for transforming our society. With these powerful new tools, the thinking went, we would be free to live our best lives, connected to our communities in ways full of infinite potential.A quarter of a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Ordinal Society

    by Marion Fourcade, Kieran Healy ...
    A sweeping critique of how digital capitalism is reformatting our world.We now live in an “ordinal society.” Nearly every aspect of our lives is measured, ranked, and processed into discrete, standardized units of digital information. Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy argue that technologies of information management, fueled by the abundance of personal data and the infrastructure of the internet, ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Digital Media and Society

    An Introduction

    by Adrian Athique ...
    The rise of digital media has been widely regarded as transforming the nature of our social experience in the twenty-first century. The speed with which new forms of connectivity and communication are being incorporated into our everyday lives often gives us little time to stop and consider the social implications of those practices. Nonetheless, it is critically important that we do so, and this ... Read more

    $32.00 USD

  • The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Defence

    by Mariarosaria Taddeo ...
    With the rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence across all sectors, each day we are faced with urgent questions around how this technology can be used safely and effectively-and nowhere are these questions more complex than in the defence sector. Mariarosaria Taddeo provides a conceptual yet applicable and systematic analysis of the issues that arise with the use of AI in defence, broadening ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • The Information Society

    Cyber Dreams and Digital Nightmares

    by Robert Hassan ...
    Series series Digital Media and Society
    What are we to make of the information society? Many prominent theorists have argued it to be the most profound and comprehensive transformation of economy, culture and politics since the rise of the industrial way of life in the 18th century. Some saw its arrival in a positive light, where the dreams of democracy, of ‘connectivity’ and ‘efficiency’ constituted a break with the old ways. But other ... Read more

    $23.00 USD