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  • The Dialectic of Digital Culture

    by David Arditi, Jennifer Miller, Brian Connor, Lisa Daily, Long Doan, Robert Gehl, Nancy Hanrahan, Ariella Horwitz, Douglas Kellner0, Timothy Morris1, Amy Speier2, Timothy Luke3, Michael Palm4 ...
    This edited collection analyzes the role of digital technology in contemporary society dialectically. While many authors, journalists, and commentators have argued that the internet and digital technologies will bring us democracy, equality, and freedom, digital culture often results in loss of privacy, misinformation, and exploitation. This collection challenges celebratory readings of digital ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Technologies of Consumer Labor

    A History of Self-Service

    by Michael Palm ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    This bookdocuments and examines the history of technology used by consumers to serve oneself. The telephone’s development as a self-service technology functions as the narrative spine, beginning with the advent of rotary dialing eliminating most operator services and transforming every local connection into an instance of self-service. Today, nearly a century later, consumers manipulate 0-9 ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The University Against Itself

    The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace

    Edited by Monika Krause, Mary Nolan, Michael Palm, Andrew Ross ...
    Series series Asian American History & Cultu
    During the last two decades, many U.S. universities have restructured themselves to operate more like corporations. Nowhere has this process been more dramatic than at New York University, which has often been touted as an exemplar of the "corporate university." Over the same period, an academic labor movement has arisen in response to this corporatization. Using the unprecedented 2005 strike by ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

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    How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

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    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A former Wall Street quant sounds the alarm on Big Data and the mathematical models that threaten to rip apart our social fabric—with a new afterword“A manual for the twenty-first-century citizen . . . relevant and urgent.”—Financial TimesNATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • The Boston Glo... ... Read more

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  • The Looting Machine

    Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth

    by Tom Burgis ...
    An “impressive” (Wall Street Journal) exposé of twenty-first century individuals and companies who have become obscenely rich from the resource trade in AfricaAfrica is the world’s poorest continent and, arguably, its richest. In The Looting Machine, Tom Burgis takes readers on a gripping journey into the world of the magnates and militiamen, the despots and jet-setting executives who gorge on ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Working

    People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do

    by Studs Terkel ...
    A Pulitzer Prize winner interviews workers, from policemen to piano tuners: "Magnificent . . . To read it is to hear America talking." — The Boston GlobeA National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestsellerStuds Terkel's classic oral history Working is a compelling look at jobs and the people who do them. Consisting of over one hundred interviews with everyone from a gravedigger to a ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • The Fissured Workplace

    by David Weil ...
    In the twentieth century, large companies employing many workers formed the bedrock of the U.S. economy. Today, on the list of big business's priorities, sustaining the employer-worker relationship ranks far below building a devoted customer base and delivering value to investors. As David Weil's groundbreaking analysis shows, large corporations have shed their role as direct employers of the ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Limits of Expertise

    Rethinking Pilot Error and the Causes of Airline Accidents

    by R. Key Dismukes, Benjamin A. Berman, Loukia Loukopoulos ...
    Series series Ashgate Studies in Human Factors for Flight Operations
    Why would highly skilled, well-trained pilots make errors that lead to accidents when they had safely completed many thousands of previous flights? The majority of all aviation accidents are attributed primarily to human error, but this is often misinterpreted as evidence of lack of skill, vigilance, or conscientiousness of the pilots. The Limits of Expertise is a fresh look at the causes of pilot ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Anatomy of Ethical Leadership

    To Lead Our Organizations in a Conscientious and Authentic Manner

    by Lyse Langlois ...
    Performance at all costs, productivity without regard to consequences, and a competitive work environment: these are the ethical factors discussed in The Anatomy of Ethical Leadership, which highlights issues in workplace culture while looking into a brighter future for labour ethics. Langlois maintains that an enhanced awareness of the process of ethical decision making in difficult situations ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • James Larkin: Lion of the Fold

    The Life and Works of the Irish Labour Leader

    by Donal Nevin ...
    This book is a detailed compilation of writings and lectures about the life of James Larkin. It reviews his influence in history and on various movements across the country and abroad. James Larkin: Lion of the Fold includes writing by James Larkin and is a timely reminder of the long road that the Irish people have travelled together. The book considers much of the history of the early Irish ... Read more

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  • Perspectives on Our Age: Jacques Ellul Speaks on his Life and Work

    by Willem Vanderburg, Jacques Ellul ...
    Originally broadcast on CBC Radio's Ideas as a series of interviews, Jacques Ellul's first-person approach here makes his ideas accessible to readers looking for new ways of understanding our society, and also gives unique new insight into Ellul's life, his work, and the origins and development of his beliefs and theories. Jacques Ellul, historian, theologian, and sociologist, was one of the ... Read more

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