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  • Governing the Digital Society

    Platforms, Artificial Intelligence, and Public Values

    Edited by José Dijck, Karin Es, Anne Helmond, Fernando Vlist ...
    Series series Digital Studies
    Digital technologies have rapidly become integral to communities and societies, bringing both significant benefits and serious concerns. Issues such as misinformation, disinformation, online polarization, discrimination, and widening inequalities have prompted a critical and urgent debate: Can digital societies still be effectively governed? This book brings together insights from various ... Read more

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  • Situating Data

    Inquiries in Algorithmic Culture

    Edited by Karin Es, Nanna Verhoeff ...
    Series series MediaMatters
    Taking up the challenges of the datafication of culture, as well as of the scholarship of cultural inquiry itself, this collection contributes to the critical debate about data and algorithms. How can we understand the quality and significance of current socio-technical transformations that result from datafication and algorithmization? How can we explore the changing conditions and contours for ... Read more

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  • The Datafied Society

    Studying Culture through Data

    Edited by Mirko Tobias Schäfer, Karin Es ...
    As machine-readable data comes to play an increasingly important role in everyday life, researchers find themselves with rich resources for studying society. The novel methods and tools needed to work with such data require not only new knowledge and skills, but also a new way of thinking about best research practices. This book critically reflects on the role and usefulness of big data, ... Read more

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  • Collaborative Research in the Datafied Society

    Methods and Practices for Investigation and Intervention

    Edited by Mirko Tobias Schäfer, Karin Es, Tracey Lauriault ...
    The influence of austerity measures and neoliberal ideologies has sparked discussions about the relevance and value of academic institutions, particularly in the humanities and social sciences. Universities are redirecting academic focus towards greater societal engagement. This book argues that academia has much to gain by moving beyond its institutional walls, in our case, by doing data work ... Read more

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  • Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy

    The Crisis of Information

    by Jutta Haider, Olof Sundin ...
    Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy contributes to ongoing conversations about control of knowledge and different ways of knowing. It does so by analysing why media and information literacy (MIL) is proposed as a solution for addressing the current information crisis.Questioning why MIL is commonly believed to wield such power, the book throws into sharp relief several paradoxes that are ... Read more

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  • Digital Sociology

    The Reinvention of Social Research

    by Noortje Marres ...
    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

  • After the Internet

    Digital Networks between Capital and the Common

    by Tiziana Terranova ...
    Series Book 33 - Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series
    On the internet's transformation from communication tool to computational infrastructure.The internet is no more. If it still exists, it does so only as a residual technology, still effective in the present but less intelligible as such. After nearly two decades and a couple of financial crises, it has become the almost imperceptible background of today’s Corporate Platform Complex (CPC)—a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Coding Literacy

    How Computer Programming Is Changing Writing

    by Annette Vee ...
    Series series Software Studies
    How the theoretical tools of literacy help us understand programming in its historical, social and conceptual contexts.The message from educators, the tech community, and even politicians is clear: everyone should learn to code. To emphasize the universality and importance of computer programming, promoters of coding for everyone often invoke the concept of “literacy,” drawing parallels between ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Updating to Remain the Same

    Habitual New Media

    by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun ...
    What it means when media moves from the new to the habitual—when our bodies become archives of supposedly obsolescent media, streaming, updating, sharing, saving.New media—we are told—exist at the bleeding edge of obsolescence. We thus forever try to catch up, updating to remain the same. Meanwhile, analytic, creative, and commercial efforts focus exclusively on the next big thing: figuring out ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Interfaces and Us

    User Experience Design and the Making of the Computable Subject

    by Zachary Kaiser ...
    We're all familiar with smart TVs making suggestions on our future watching, real-world exercise data being transferred into stats and infographics on our workout apps and turning up our home heating before we start our commute – but how does this world of technological interfaces affect our actions and perceptions of self?When society relies on computer models and their interfaces to explain and ... Read more

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  • Perspectives on Digital Humanism

    Edited by Hannes Werthner, Erich Prem, Edward A. Lee, Carlo Ghezzi ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This open access book aims to set an agenda for research and action in the field of Digital Humanism through short essays written by selected thinkers from a variety of disciplines, including computer science, philosophy, education, law, economics, history, anthropology, political science, and sociology. This initiative emerged from the Vienna Manifesto on Digital Humanism and the associated ... Read more

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  • Dialogues in Data Power

    Shifting Response-abilities in a Datafied World

    Edited by Juliane Jarke, Jo Bates ...
    Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.This book presents emerging themes and future directions in the interdisciplinary field of critical data studies, loosely themed around the notion of shifting response-abilities in a datafied world.In each chapter an interdisciplinary group of scholars discuss a specific theme, ranging from questions around data power and the configuring of ... Read more

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