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  • Beyond the Blogosphere

    Information and Its Children

    by Aaron Barlow, Robert Leston Ph.D. ...
    This book looks at questions and answers pertaining to the organization, usage, and ownership of information in the Internet age—and the impact of shifting attitudes towards information ownership on creative endeavors.In the competing traditions of Marshall McLuhan and Langdon Winner, authors Aaron Barlow and Robert Leston take readers on a revealing tour of the Internet after the explosion of the ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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  • Superbloom

    How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart

    by Nicholas Carr ...
    **A Financial Times Best Summer Book of 2025 in Technology“Where so many technology books seem like sealed capsules, accessible only to those who know the lingo, Carr’s vivid, jargon-free prose hits right in the solar plexus.” —Elizabeth Svoboda, UndarkFrom the author of The Shallows, a bracing exploration of how social media has warped our sense of self and society.**From the telegraph and ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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  • 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

    $10.99 USD

  • Framers

    Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil

    by Kenneth Cukier, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Francis de Véricourt ...
    “Cukier and his co-authors have a more ambitious project than Kahneman and Harari. They don’t want to just point out how powerfully we are influenced by our perspectives and prejudices—our frames. They want to show us that these frames are tools, and that we can optimise their use.”—ForbesFrom pandemics to populism, AI to ISIS, wealth inequity to climate change, humanity faces unprecedented ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Internet of Us

    Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data

    by Michael P. Lynch ...
    "An intelligent book that struggles honestly with important questions: Is the net turning us into passive knowers? Is it degrading our ability to reason? What can we do about this?" —David Weinberger, Los Angeles Review of BooksWe used to say "seeing is believing"; now, googling is believing. With 24/7 access to nearly all of the world’s information at our fingertips, we no longer trek to the ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • Too Big to Know

    Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room

    by David Weinberger ...
    "If anyone knows anything about the web, where it's been and where it's going, it's David Weinberger. . . . Too Big To Know is an optimistic, if not somewhat cautionary tale, of the information explosion." -- Steven Rosenbaum, ForbesWith the advent of the Internet and the limitless information it contains, we're less sure about what we know, who knows what, or even what it means to know at all. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Re-Engineering Humanity

    by Brett Frischmann, Evan Selinger ...
    Every day, new warnings emerge about artificial intelligence rebelling against us. All the while, a more immediate dilemma flies under the radar. Have forces been unleashed that are thrusting humanity down an ill-advised path, one that's increasingly making us behave like simple machines? In this wide-reaching, interdisciplinary book, Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger examine what's happening to ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • Everything and Less

    The Novel in the Age of Amazon

    by Mark McGurl ...
    **National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistBest Book of Fall (Esquire) and a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 (Lit Hub)What Has Happened to Fiction in the Age of Platform Capitalism?**Since it was first launched in 1994, Amazon has changed the world of literature. The “Everything Store” has not just transformed how we buy books; it has affected what we buy, and even what we read. In Everything and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Looking Closer 4

    Critical Writings on Graphic Design

    Edited by Michael Bierut, William Drenttel, Steven Heller ...
    The most stimulating installment yet in the acclaimed Looking Closer series! This enthralling collection of essays assembles some of the most intriguing critical commentary published in professional and general interest design magazines from 1997 to 2000. Over thirty contributors, including Rick Poynor, Kathy McCoy, Lorraine Wild, Veronique Vienne, Jessica Helfand, and others discuss such ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Education of a Graphic Designer

    by Steven Heller ...
    Revised and updated, this compelling collection of essays, interviews, and course syllabi is the ideal tool to help teachers and students keep up in the rapidly changing field of graphic design. Top designers and educators talk theory, offer proposals, discuss a wide range of educational concerns-such as theory versus practice, art versus commerce, and classicism versus postmodernism-and consider ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The New Designer

    Rejecting Myths, Embracing Change

    by Manuel Lima ...
    How to develop an ethical design practice and build a better world.The choices made by designers have a significant effect on the world. Yet so much of the discourse on design focuses on aesthetics rather than ethics. In The New Designer, acclaimed author Manuel Lima aims to change this by challenging common myths and preconceptions about what comprises good design. He argues that designers must ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Amazing Ourselves to Death

    Neil Postman’s Brave New World Revisited

    by Lance Strate ...
    Series Book 10 - A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory
    Neil Postman’s most popular work, Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985), provided an insightful critique of the effects of television on public discourse in America, arguing that television’s bias towards entertaining content trivializes serious issues and undermines the basis of democratic culture. Lance Strate, who earned his doctorate under Neil Postman and is one of the leading media ecology ... Read more

    $42.09 USD