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  • Feeling Machines

    Japanese Robotics and the Global Entanglements of More-Than-Human Care

    by Shawn Bender ...
    In recent years, debates over healthcare have accompanied rapid advances in technology, from the expansion of telehealth services to artificial intelligence driven diagnostics. In this book, Shawn Bender delves into the world of Japanese robots engineered for care. Care robots (kaigo robotto) emerged early in the 21st century, when roboticists began converting assembly line technologies into ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Media Technologies for Work and Play in East Asia

    Critical Perspectives on Japan and the Two Koreas

    by Shawn Bender, Geoffrey Martin Rockwell, Keiji Amano, Keung Yoon Bae, Elizabeth Shim, Weiqi Zhang, Deirdre Sneep, Ana Gascón Marcén, Patrick W Galbraith, Kyooeun Jang ...
    Media technologies for play have become major industries in Japan and South Korea. Even in North Korea, citizens bypass the state to enjoy popular culture. At the same time, corporations and governments encourage people to produce economic values through play.The first comparative study of media technologies in Japan and the two Koreas, this book illuminates the peculiar geopolitical relations ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Taiko Boom

    Japanese Drumming in Place and Motion

    by Shawn Bender ...
    Series Book 23 - Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes
    With its thunderous sounds and dazzling choreography, Japanese taiko drumming has captivated audiences in Japan and across the world, making it one of the most successful performing arts to emerge from Japan in the past century. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted among taiko groups in Japan, Taiko Boom explores the origins of taiko in the early postwar period and its popularization over the ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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    My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines

    by Joy Buolamwini ...
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  • Raising the Stakes

    E-Sports and the Professionalization of Computer Gaming

    by T. L. Taylor ...
    How a form of play becomes a sport: players, agents, referees, leagues, tournaments, sponsorships, and spectators, and the culture of professional computer game play.Competitive video and computer game play is nothing new: the documentary King of Kong memorably portrays a Donkey Kong player's attempts to achieve the all-time highest score; the television show Starcade (1982–1984) featured ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Dying for an iPhone

    Apple, Foxconn, and The Lives of China's Workers

    by Jenny Chan, Mark Selden, Ngai Pun ...
    Suicides, excessive overtime, and hostility and violence on the factory floor in China. Drawing on vivid testimonies from rural migrant workers, student interns, managers and trade union staff, Dying for an iPhone is a devastating expose of two of the world’s most powerful companies: Foxconn and Apple.As the leading manufacturer of iPhones, iPads, and Kindles, and employing one million workers in ... Read more

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  • Who's Afraid of AI?

    Fear and Promise in the Age of Thinking Machines

    by Thomas Ramge ...
    A penetrating guide to artificial intelligence: what it is, what it does, and how it will change our livesAt a breathtaking pace, artificial intelligence is getting better and faster at making complex decisions. AI can already identify malignant tumors on CT scans, give legal advice, out-bluff the best poker players in the world, and, with ever-increasing skill, drive our cars.In Who’s Afraid of ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Television Studies After TV

    Understanding Television in the Post-Broadcast Era

    Edited by Graeme Turner, Jinna Tay ...
    Television studies must now address a complex environment where change has been vigorous but uneven, and where local and national conditions vary significantly. Globalizing media industries, deregulatory policy regimes, the multiplication, convergence and trade in media formats, the emergence of new content production industries outside the US/UK umbrella, and the fragmentation of media audiences ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Games of Empire

    Global Capitalism and Video Games

    by Nick Dyer-Witheford, Greig de Peuter ...
    Series Book 29 - Electronic Mediations
    In the first decade of the twenty-first century, video games are an integral part of global media culture, rivaling Hollywood in revenue and influence. No longer confined to a subculture of adolescent males, video games today are played by adults around the world. At the same time, video games have become major sites of corporate exploitation and military recruitment.In Games of Empire, Nick Dyer ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Man-Made

    How the bias of the past is being built into the future

    by Tracey Spicer ...
    **Walkley Award-winning journalist Tracey Spicer exposes the next frontier of feminism through the lens of artificial intelligence. Man-Made aims to open readers’ eyes to a transformative technological shift in society and give them the tools to make positive change.Winner,** 2023 Australian Business Book Awards, Social ResponsibilityLonglisted for the 2023 Walkley Book Award'Mum, I want a robot ... Read more

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  • The Great Decoupling

    China, America and the Struggle for Technological Supremacy

    by Nigel Inkster ...
    For much of recorded history, China was a leading science and technology power. But just as the West rose, China turned in on itself, and missed the Industrial Revolution. The result was the 'Hundred Years of Humiliation', and a long struggle for a modern, yet distinctly Chinese, civilisational identity. Today, technological innovation has returned to the core of national pride and ambition. Since ... Read more

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  • Artificial intelligence And life in 2030

    Report Of The 2015 Study Panel

    by Stanford University ...
    This is the ebook version of the report. PDF version is accessible on Stanford website.-Detailed "table of contents" was added-Footnotes are bi-directional hyperlinks-Reference links are clickable ... Read more

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