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  • Computing and Technology Ethics

    Engaging through Science Fiction

    A new approach to teaching computing and technology ethics using science fiction stories.Should autonomous weapons be legal? Will we be cared for by robots in our old age? Does the efficiency of online banking outweigh the risk of theft? From communication to travel to medical care, computing technologies have transformed our daily lives, for better and for worse. But how do we know when a new ... Leer más

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  • Race After Technology

    Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

    de Ruha Benjamin ...
    From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity.Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination while appearing neutral and even ... Leer más

    $16.00 USD

  • Stand out of our Light

    Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy

    Former Google advertising strategist, now Oxford-trained philosopher James Williams launches a plea to society and to the tech industry to help ensure that the technology we all carry with us every day does not distract us from pursuing our true goals in life. As information becomes ever more plentiful, the resource that is becoming more scarce is our attention. In this 'attention economy', we ... Leer más

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  • Superminds

    The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together

    From the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence comes a fascinating look at the remarkable capacity for intelligence exhibited by groups of people and computers working together.If you're like most people, you probably believe that humans are the most intelligent animals on our planet. But there's another kind of entity that can be far smarter: groups of people. In this ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Internet of Us

    Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data

    "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 ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Your Computer Is on Fire

    Techno-utopianism is dead: Now is the time to pay attention to the inequality, marginalization, and biases woven into our technological systems.This book sounds an alarm: after decades of being lulled into complacency by narratives of technological utopianism and neutrality, people are waking up to the large-scale consequences of Silicon Valley-led technophilia. This book trains a spotlight on the ... Leer más

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  • Re-Engineering Humanity

    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 ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • A City Is Not a Computer

    Other Urban Intelligences

    Series series Places Books
    A bold reassessment of "smart cities" that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computersComputational models of urbanism—smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration—promise to deliver new urban efficiencies and conveniences. Yet these models limit our understanding of what we can know about a city. A City Is Not a Computer reveals how cities ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Extra Bold

    A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers

    **Extra Bold is the inclusive, practical, and informative (design) career guide for everyone!Part textbook and part comic book, zine, manifesto, survival guide, and self-help manual, Extra Bold is filled with stories and ideas that don't show up in other career books or design overviews.**• Both pragmatic and inquisitive, the book explores power structures in the workplace and how to navigate them ... Leer más

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  • Pressed for Time

    The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism

    de Judy Wajcman ...
    "A splendid new book. . . . Takes on—and mostly demolishes—the conventional narrative about the acceleration of life in a digital world." ― ObserverMost of us complain that there aren't enough hours in the day and too many e-mails in our thumb-accessible inboxes. This widespread perception that life is faster than it used to be is now ingrained in our culture, and smartphones and the Internet are ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Design for Belonging

    How to Build Inclusion and Collaboration in Your Communities

    Series series Stanford d.school Library
    A practical, illustrated guide to using the tools of design to create feelings of inclusion, collaboration, and respect in groups of any type or size—a classroom, a work team, an international organization—from Stanford University's d.school.“This is a beautiful book. Wise has applied the gift and imagination and lenses of the d.school to one of our most precious questions: how to create belonging ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • We Are Data

    Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves

    Do algorithms get to decide who we are? "Essential reading for anyone who cares about the internet's extraordinary impact on each of us and on our society." ― Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Derived from our every search, like, click, and purchase, algorithms determine the news we get, the ads we see, the information accessible to us, and even who our friends are. These complex configurations not ... Leer más

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