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  • A Ghost Takes You to Dinner

    From the Cosmos to GPS

    by Ulisses Capozzoli ...
    Series Book 1 - Coleção Ciência no Cotidiano
    In what way could using a GPS to circulate in city traffic be connected to cosmic stars lying a billion light-years away from planet Earth? The intriguing answer is that they are irrevocably bound by a relation that traverses centuries of scientific knowledge, quasars located billions of light-years away from the Milky Way and names like Galileo Galilei, Max Planck, Tycho Brahe, Newton, Kepler, ... Read more

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  • Democracy and invisible codes

    How algorithms are modulating behaviors and political choices

    by Sergio Amadeu da Silveira ...
    Series series Coleção democracia digital
    The series features in this fifth title the work of the professor and sociologist Sergio Amadeu da Silveira on the social implications of the technological development of algorithms. The author discusses the relationship between the advance of digital systems based on algorithms and the democratic debate. In an effort to understand how digital networks organize our daily lives, Amadeu looks into ... Read more

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  • Everything about Every@ne

    Digital Networks, Privacy and the Personal Data Trade

    by Sergio Amadeu da Silveira, Danilo Santos de Miranda ...
    Translated by Anthony Sean Cleaver ...
    Viewing cybernetic technologies as technologies of communication but also of control, the sociologist and professor Sergio Amadeu da Silveira addresses in this book the implications of the growth of digital networks and the establishment of a market for personal data collection and sale that encroaches on those environments. Referencing both prestigious authors and practical examples, the book ... Read more

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  • Beyond machines of loving grace

    Hacker culture, cybernetics and democracy

    by Rafael Evangelista ...
    Series series Coleção Democracia Digital
    Through a historical cross section dating back to the 1950s, the journalist and social scientist with a PhD in Anthropology Rafael Evangelista presents an original approach to hackers, those individuals passionate about technology who acquire prestige among their peers facing complex problems and acting creatively in software development. The author shows how hacking became consolidated in the ... Read more

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  • Democracy in the digital world

    History, issues and themes

    by Wilson Gomes ...
    Series series Coleção Democracia Digital
    In times of crisis of representation the question of what kind of democracy can be achieved through the expansion of new technologies emerges with renewed vigor. Is it direct democracy or yet another appendage of representative democracy? Is it democracy as understood by classical liberals, libertarians or communitarians? Is it deliberative or participatory electronic democracy? In the first book ... Read more

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  • To Explain the World

    The Discovery of Modern Science

    by Steven Weinberg ...
    The Nobel Prize–winner shares "a masterful journey through humankind's scientific coming-of-age" from the Greeks to modern times (Brian Greene).In this rich, irreverent, and compelling history, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg takes us across centuries of human striving to unravel the mysteries of the world. This sweeping saga ranges from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad and Oxford ... Read more

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  • Life in Media

    A Global Introduction to Media Studies

    by Mark Deuze ...
    A new way to teach media studies that centers students’ lived experiences and diverse perspectives from around the world.From the intimate to the mundane, most aspects of our lives—how we learn, love, work, and play—take place in media. Taking an expansive, global perspective, this introductory textbook covers what it means to live in, rather than with, media. Mark Deuze focuses on the lived ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The P2P Mode of Production

    by Grupo Cooperativo de Las Indias ...
    Big industries have given us an ever-greater capacity to communicate and to produce goods. But, the more we use this capacity, the less we need big industries. This has thrown whole sectors of the economy into crisis. The answer to the crisis is understanding that knowledge is the new secret to success -- not secretive, proprietary knowledge, but knowledge that is shared openly in the commons. ... Read more

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  • Hyperspace

    A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension

    by Michio Kaku ...
    Are there other dimensions beyond our own? Is time travel possible? Can we change the past? Are there gateways to parallel universes? All of us have pondered such questions, but there was a time when scientists dismissed these notions as outlandish speculations. Not any more. Today, they are the focus of the most intense scientific activity in recent memory. In Hyperspace, Michio Kaku, author of ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • The Video Game Industry

    Formation, Present State, and Future

    Edited by Peter Zackariasson, Timothy Wilson ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
    The Video Game Industry provides a platform for the research on the video game industry to draw a coherent and informative picture of this industry. Previously this has been done sparsely through conference papers, research articles, and popular science books. Although the study of this industry is still stigmatized as frivolous and ‘only’ game oriented, those who grew up with video games are ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Reverse Engineering Social Media

    Software, Culture, and Political Economy in New Media Capitalism

    by Robert W Gehl ...
    Robert Gehl's timely critique, Reverse Engineering Social Media, rigorously analyzes the ideas of social media and software engineers, using these ideas to find contradictions and fissures beneath the surfaces of glossy sites such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter.Gehl adeptly uses a mix of software studies, science and technology studies, and political economy to reveal the histories and contexts ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • The Einstein Theory Of Relativity: A Concise Statement By Prof. H.A. Lorentz (Mobi Classics)

    by Albert Einstein,H.A. Lorentz ...
    Relativity: The Special and General Theory is an introduction to Einstein's space-bending, time-stretching theory of Relativity, first published in December 1916. Special and General relativity explain the structure of space time and provide a theory of gravitation, respectively. Einstein's theories shocked the world with their counterintuitive results, including the dissolution of absolute time. ... Read more

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