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  • School Yearbook

    The Untold Story of a Cringey Tradition + Its Digital Afterlife

    by Kate Eichhorn ...
    Why school yearbooks—as frivolous and cringey as they are—are far more than just objects of nostalgia.We're all familiar with the embarrassment that washes over us when recalling our high school yearbooks. Questionable fashion choices, gravity-defying hair, a melodramatic quote—what were we thinking? Even as school yearbooks decline in popularity among contemporary teens, they continue to impact ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The End of Forgetting

    Growing Up with Social Media

    by Kate Eichhorn ...
    Thanks to Facebook and Instagram, our childhoods have been captured and preserved online, never to go away. But what happens when we can’t leave our most embarrassing moments behind?Until recently, the awkward moments of growing up could be forgotten. But today we may be on the verge of losing the ability to leave our pasts behind. In The End of Forgetting, Kate Eichhorn explores what happens when ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Content

    by Kate Eichhorn ...
    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    A concise introduction to content and the content industry, from the early internet to the Instagram egg.From the time we roll out of bed to check overnight updates to our last posts, likes, and views of the previous day, we're consuming and producing content. But what does the term “content” even mean? When did it become ubiquitous? And at what cost? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Adjusted Margin

    Xerography, Art, and Activism in the Late Twentieth Century

    by Kate Eichhorn ...
    How xerography became a creative medium and political tool, arming artists and activists on the margins with an accessible means of making their messages public.This is the story of how the xerographic copier, or “Xerox machine,” became a creative medium for artists and activists during the last few decades of the twentieth century. Paper jams, mangled pages, and even fires made early versions of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Archival Turn in Feminism

    Outrage in Order

    by Kate Eichhorn ...
    In the 1990s, a generation of women born during the rise of the second wave feminist movement plotted a revolution. These young activists funneled their outrage and energy into creating music, and zines using salvaged audio equipment and stolen time on copy machines. By 2000, the cultural artifacts of this movement had started to migrate from basements and storage units to community and university ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

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  • Algorithms of Oppression

    How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

    by Safiya Umoja Noble ...
    A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithmsRun a Google search for “black girls”—what will you find? “Big Booty” and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top search terms. But, if you type in “white girls,” the results are radically different. The suggested porn sites and un-moderated discussions about “why ... Read more

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  • Here Comes Everybody

    The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

    by Clay Shirky ...
    **“A fascinating survey of the digital age . . . An eye-opening paean to possibility.” —The Boston Globe“Mr. Shirky writes cleanly and convincingly about the intersection of technological innovation and social change.” —New York ObserverAn extraordinary exploration of how technology can empower social and political organizers**For the first time in history, the tools for cooperating on a global ... Read more

    Was $5.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

  • Spreadable Media

    Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture

    by Henry Jenkins, Sam Ford, Joshua Green ...
    Series Book 15 - Postmillennial Pop
    Spreadable Media maps fundamental changes taking place in our contemporary media environment, a space where corporations no longer tightly control media distribution and many of us are directly involved in the circulation of content. It contrasts “stickiness”—aggregating attention in centralized places—with “spreadability”—dispersing content widely through both formal and informal networks,some ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media

    A Critical History of Social Media

    by Jose van Dijck ...
    Social media penetrate our lives: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and many other platforms define daily habits of communication and creative production. This book studies the rise of social media, providing both a historical and a critical analysis of the emergence of major platforms in the context of a rapidly changing ecosystem of connective media. Author Jose van Dijck offers an analytical prism ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Lurking

    How a Person Became a User

    by Joanne McNeil ...
    One of Esquire 's Best Books to Elevate Your Reading List in 2020, , and a OneZero Best Tech Book of 2020. Named one of the 100 Notable books of 2020 by the End of the World Review.A concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from—for the first time—the point of view of the userIn a shockingly short amount of time, the internet has bound people around the world together and torn us ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Digital Divide

    Arguments for and Against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Networking

    by Mark Bauerlein ...
    This definitive work on the perils and promise of the social- media revolution collects writings by today's best thinkers and cultural commentators, with an all-new introduction by Bauerlein.Twitter, Facebook, e-publishing, blogs, distance-learning and other social media raise some of the most divisive cultural questions of our time. Some see the technological breakthroughs we live with as hopeful ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Net Smart

    How to Thrive Online

    by Howard Rheingold ...
    A media guru shows us how to use social media intelligently, humanely, and, above all, mindfully.Like it or not, knowing how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century. But how can we use digital media so that they make us empowered participants rather than passive receivers, grounded, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD