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  • The Cultural Life of Machine Learning

    An Incursion into Critical AI Studies

    Edited by Jonathan Roberge, Michael Castelle ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book brings together the work of historians and sociologists with perspectives from media studies, communication studies, cultural studies, and information studies to address the origins, practices, and possible futures of contemporary machine learning. From its foundations in 1950s and 1960s pattern recognition and neural network research to the modern-day social and technological dramas of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Algorithmic Cultures

    Essays on Meaning, Performance and New Technologies

    Edited by Robert Seyfert, Jonathan Roberge ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    This book provides in-depth and wide-ranging analyses of the emergence, and subsequent ubiquity, of algorithms in diverse realms of social life. The plurality of Algorithmic Cultures emphasizes: 1) algorithms’ increasing importance in the formation of new epistemic and organizational paradigms; and 2) the multifaceted analyses of algorithms across an increasing number of research fields. The ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Machine Habitus

    Toward a Sociology of Algorithms

    by Massimo Airoldi ...
    We commonly think of society as made of and by humans, but with the proliferation of machine learning and AI technologies, this is clearly no longer the case. Billions of automated systems tacitly contribute to the social construction of reality by drawing algorithmic distinctions between the visible and the invisible, the relevant and the irrelevant, the likely and the unlikely – on and beyond ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • The Ethos of Digital Environments

    Technology, Literary Theory and Philosophy

    Edited by Susanna Lindberg, Hanna-Riikka Roine ...
    Series series Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture
    While self-driving cars and autonomous weapon systems have received a great deal of attention in media and research, the general requirements of ethical life in today’s digitalizing reality have not been made sufficiently visible and evaluable. This collection of articles from both distinguished and emerging authors working at the intersections of philosophy, literary theory, media, and technology ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Digital Society

    Edited by William Housley, Adam Edwards, Roser Beneito-Montagut, Richard Fitzgerald ...
    This SAGE Handbook brings together cutting edge social scientific research and theoretical insight into the emerging contours of digital society. Chapters explore the relationship between digitisation, social organisation and social transformation at both the macro and micro level, making this a valuable resource for postgraduate students and academics conducting research across the social ... Read more

    $118.79 USD

  • Understanding Digital Humanities

    Edited by D. Berry ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Confronting the digital revolution in academia, this book examines the application of new computational techniques and visualisation technologies in the Arts & Humanities. Uniting differing perspectives, leading and emerging scholars discuss the theoretical and practical challenges that computation raises for these disciplines. ... Read more

    $98.09 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

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  • We Are Data

    Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves

    by John Cheney-Lippold ...
    Do algorithms get to decide who we are? "Essential reading for anyone who cares about the internet's extraordinary impact on each of us and on our society." ― Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Derived from our every search, like, click, and purchase, algorithms determine the news we get, the ads we see, the information accessible to us, and even who our friends are. These complex configurations not ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Moral Machines

    Teaching Robots Right from Wrong

    by Wendell Wallach, Colin Allen ...
    Computers are already approving financial transactions, controlling electrical supplies, and driving trains. Soon, service robots will be taking care of the elderly in their homes, and military robots will have their own targeting and firing protocols. Colin Allen and Wendell Wallach argue that as robots take on more and more responsibility, they must be programmed with moral decision-making ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Internet of Things

    by Mercedes Bunz, Graham Meikle ...
    Series series Digital Media and Society
    More objects and devices are connected to digital networks than ever before. Things - from your phone to your car, from the heating to the lights in your house - have gathered the ability to sense their environments and create information about what is happening. Things have become media, able to both generate and communicate information. This has become known as 'the internet of things'.In this ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Acting with Technology

    Activity Theory and Interaction Design

    by Victor Kaptelinin, Bonnie A. Nardi ...
    Series series Acting with Technology
    A systematic presentation of activity theory, its application to interaction design, and an argument for the development of activity theory as a basis for understanding how people interact with technology.Activity theory holds that the human mind is the product of our interaction with people and artifacts in the context of everyday activity. Acting with Technology makes the case for activity ... Read more

    $18.99 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