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  • Boundary Images

    by Giselle Beiguelman, Melody Devries, Winnie Soon, Magdalena Tyzlik-Carver ...
    Series series In Search of Media
    How are images made, and how should we understand their limits, capacities, and forces in digital media?While functioning as representations or mediations of the political, images also act through the technologies and social processes that they claim only to represent. In both capacities, images can be innovative, but they can also reproduce harmful phenomena such as racism, misogyny, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Rise of the Far Right

    Technologies of Recruitment and Mobilization

    Edited by Melody Devries, Rob Watts, Judith Bessant ...
    After decades on the social and political margins, far-right groups and movements are enjoying increasing success, and even claiming a place in mainstream electoral politics in many Western political systems.Research shows that new media like Twitter, YouTube, and community sites likes 4chan and Reddit are increasingly involved with the mobilization of popular support for far-right electoral ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

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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

  • 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

  • Protocol

    How Control Exists after Decentralization

    by Alexander R. Galloway ...
    Series series Leonardo
    How Control Exists after DecentralizationIs the Internet a vast arena of unrestricted communication and freely exchanged information or a regulated, highly structured virtual bureaucracy? In Protocol, Alexander Galloway argues that the founding principle of the Net is control, not freedom, and that the controlling power lies in the technical protocols that make network connections (and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Adversarial Design

    by Carl Disalvo ...
    Series series Design Thinking, Design Theory
    An exploration of the political qualities of technology design, as seen in projects that span art, computer science, and consumer products.In Adversarial Design, Carl DiSalvo examines the ways that technology design can provoke and engage the political. He describes a practice, which he terms “adversarial design,” that uses the means and forms of design to challenge beliefs, values, and what is ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Experimenting with Ethnography

    A Companion to Analysis

    Edited by Andrea Ballestero, Brit Ross Winthereik ...
    Series series Experimental Futures
    Experimenting with Ethnography collects twenty-one essays that open new paths for doing ethnographic analysis. The contributors—who come from a variety of intellectual and methodological traditions—enliven analysis by refusing to take it as an abstract, disembodied exercise. Rather, they frame it as a concrete mode of action and a creative practice. Encompassing topics ranging from language and ... Read more

    $20.89 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

  • Informatics of Domination

    by Donna J. Haraway ...
    Informatics of Domination is an experimental collection addressing formations of power that manifest through technical systems and white capitalist patriarchy in the twenty-first century. The volume takes its name from a chart in Donna J. Haraway’s canonical 1985 essay “A Manifesto for Cyborgs.” Haraway theorizes the informatics of domination as a feminist, diagrammatic concept for situating power ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Media Life

    by Mark Deuze ...
    Research consistently shows how through the years more of our time gets spent using media, how multitasking our media has become a regular feature of everyday life, and that consuming media for most people increasingly takes place alongside producing media.Media Life is a primer on how we may think of our lives as lived in rather than with media. The book uses the way media function today as a ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • The Toronto School of Communication Theory

    Interpretations, Extensions, Applications

    Edited by Rita Watson, Menahem Blondheim ...
    While never formally recognized as a school of thought in its time, the work of a number of University of Toronto scholars over several decades – most notably Harold Adams Innis and Marshall McLuhan – formulated a number of original attempts to conceptualize communication as a phenomenon, and launched radical and innovative conjectures about its consequences. This landmark collection of essays re ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Digital Humanities

    Knowledge and Critique in a Digital Age

    by David M. Berry, Anders Fagerjord ...
    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

    $20.00 USD