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  • Critical Data Studies

    An A to Z Guide to Concepts and Methods

    by Rob Kitchin ...
    Critical Data Studies has come of age as a vibrant, interdisciplinary field of study. Taking data as its primary analytical focus, the field theorises the nature of data; examines how data are produced, managed, governed and shared; investigates how they are used to make sense of the world and to perform practical action; and explores whose agenda data-driven systems serve.This book is the first ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • The Data Revolution

    A Critical Analysis of Big Data, Open Data and Data Infrastructures

    by Rob Kitchin ...
    Our world is becoming ever more data-driven, transforming how business is conducted, governance enacted, and knowledge produced. Yet, the nature of data and the scope and implications of the changes taking place are not always clear. The Data Revolution is a must read for anyone interested in why data have become so important in the contemporary era.Thoroughly updated, including ten new chapters, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Key Thinkers on Space and Place

    Edited by Mary Gilmartin, Phil Hubbard, Rob Kitchin, Susan M. Roberts ...
    Space and place are at the heart of how geographers and sociologists think. This updated edition of the essential undergraduate text will introduce you to the most influential thinkers in the tradition of social theory, with a new focus on the past fifty years. This book is designed to engage with theoretical debates in human geography through the individuals who have made the most significant ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • Researching Digital Life

    Orientations, Methods and Practice

    by James Ash, Rob Kitchin, Agnieszka Leszczynski ...
    We now live in a world where all aspects of everyday life are thoroughly mediated by digital technologies. Making sense of digital life is accordingly an essential undertaking for social science and humanities scholars.This multidisciplinary book provides an essential guide to researching digital life:Orienting readers with respect to methodologies, research design, and research ethics.Detailing ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Digital Timescapes

    Technology, Temporality and Society

    by Rob Kitchin ...
    Digital technologies are having a profound effect on the temporalities of individuals, households and organisations. We now expect to be able to instantly source a vast array of information at any time and from anywhere, as well as buy goods with the click of a button and have them delivered within hours, while time management apps and locative media have altered how everyday scheduling and ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Data Lives

    How Data Are Made and Shape Our World

    by Rob Kitchin ...
    The word ‘data’ has entered everyday conversation, but do we really understand what it means? How can we begin to grasp the scope and scale of our new data-rich world, and can we truly comprehend what is at stake?In Data Lives, renowned social scientist Rob Kitchin explores the intricacies of data creation and charts how data-driven technologies have become essential to how society, government and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • A Dictionary of Human Geography

    by Alisdair Rogers, Noel Castree, Rob Kitchin ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference
    A Dictionary of Human Geography is a brand new addition to Oxford's Paperback Reference Series, offering over 2,000 clear and concise entries on human geography terms. From basic terms and concepts to biographical entries, acronyms, organisations, and major periods and schools in the history of human geography, it provides up-to-date, accurate, and accessible information. It also includes entry ... Read more

    $4.08 USD

  • Slow Computing

    Why We Need Balanced Digital Lives

    by Rob Kitchin, Alistair Fraser ...
    Digital technologies should be making life easier. And to a large degree they are, transforming everyday tasks of work, consumption, communication, travel and play. But they are also accelerating and fragmenting our lives affecting our well-being and exposing us to extensive data extraction and profiling that helps determine our life chances.Initially, the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown seemed to ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Key Texts in Human Geography

    Edited by Rob Kitchin, Gill Valentine, Phil Hubbard ...
    A book that will delight students… Key Texts in Human Geography is a primer of 26 interpretive essays designed to open up the subject′s landmark monographs of the past 50 years to critical interpretation... The essays are uniformly excellent and the enthusiasm of the authors for the project shines through… It will find itself at the top of a thousand module handouts.- THE Textbook Guide"Will ... Read more

    $94.49 USD

  • International Encyclopedia of Human Geography

    by Rob Kitchin, Nigel Thrift ...
    The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography provides an authoritative and comprehensive source of information on the discipline of human geography and its constituent, and related, subject areas. The encyclopedia includes over 1,000 detailed entries on philosophy and theory, key concepts, methods and practices, biographies of notable geographers, and geographical thought and praxis in ... Read more

    $4,864.99 USD

  • Planning and Knowledge

    How New Forms of Technocracy Are Shaping Contemporary Cities

    by Samuel Moessner, Leighton Evans, Rob Kitchin, Sue Brownill, Matthew Wargent, Emma Street, Gavin Parker, Rachel Weber, Stan Majoor, Michael Hebbert ...
    This book uses an international perspective and draws on a wide range of new conceptual and empirical material to examine the sources of conflict and cooperation within the different landscapes of knowledge that are driving contemporary urban change. Based on the premise that historically established systems of regulation and control are being subject to unprecedented pressures, scholars ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Code and the City

    Edited by Rob Kitchin, Sung-Yueh Perng ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    Software has become essential to the functioning of cities. It is deeply embedded into the systems and infrastructure of the built environment and is entrenched in the management and governance of urban societies. Software-enabled technologies and services enhance the ways in which we understand and plan cities. It even has an effect on how we manage urban services and utilities.Code and the City ... Read more

    $79.99 USD