Technology Studies
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Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write
$12.00 Read moreLiterary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking readers on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past
- Author: Tenen, Dennis Yi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105054
- Language: English
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From Pessimism to Promise: Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech
$26.95 Add to cartA radical paradigm shift in the way we think about AI and tech, taking hope and inspiration from the aspirational users of new technologies around the world.
When it comes to tech, the mainstream head
- Author: Arora, Payal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0262049309
- Language: English
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Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
$19.00 Add to cartFrom New Yorker staff writer and author of The Longing for Less Kyle Chayka comes a timely history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture itself.
From t- Author: Chayka, Kyle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0593466799
- Language: English
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Perspective Agents: A Human Guide to the Autonomous Age
$20.95 Add to cartA guidebook for anyone looking to comprehend and prosper in the new world order
In the age of autonomy, two parallel revolutions are unfolding. The first is a technological uprising, in which machines
- Author: Perry, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: January 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1639080821
- Language: English
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Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk about What They Do–And How They Do It
$17.00 Add to cartFrom FSGO x Logic: anonymous interviews with tech workers at all levels, providing a bird’s-eye view of the industry
In Voices from the Valley, the celebrated writers and Logic cofounders Moira Weigel- Series: Fsg Originals X Logic
- Author: Tarnoff, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 0374538670
- Language: English
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Thrive: Maximizing Well-Being in the Age of AI
$32.95 Read moreHow AI can positively impact so many aspects of our daily lives, from health and wellness to work, education, and home life.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful general-purpose technology that- Author: Bapna, Ravi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0262049317
- Language: English
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These Strange New Minds: How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means
$32.00 Add to cartAn insider look at the Large Language Models (LLMs) that are revolutionizing our relationship to technology, exploring their surprising history, what they can and should do for us today, and where the… [more below]
- Author: Summerfield, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 593831713
- Language: English
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Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
$29.99 Add to cartFrom the telegraph and telephone in the 1800s to the internet and social media in our own day, the public has welcomed new communication systems. Whenever people gain more power to share information,
- Author: Carr, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1324064617
- Language: English
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Artificial General Intelligence
$17.95 Add to cartHow to make AI capable of general intelligence, and what such technology would mean for society.
Artificial intelligence surrounds us. More and more of the systems and services you interact with every
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Togelius, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0262549344
- Language: English
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Log Off: Why Posting and Politics (Almost) Never Mix
$19.95 Read moreSocial media was supposed to pull us together for noble causes, but doomscrolling might not have been what most of us had in mind. Elon Musk might have ruined Twitter, but “he’s merely Twitter’s all-t
- Author: Cross, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1736716867
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Algorithms: A Tiktok Manifesto
$22.00 Read moreFrom an artist and TikTok creator, a critical look at the controversial app and its effect on cultural heritage, artificial intelligence, community organizing, and digital censorship.
In Revolutionar- Author: Akers, Torey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1538773732
- Language: English
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Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit
$30.00 Add to cartAs Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes more dynamic and ubiquitous, it is dramatically empowering people in all walks of life while also giving rise to urgent questions about the future of humanity–
- Author: Kissinger, Henry a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0316581291
- Language: English
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Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media for Equity and Justice
$34.95 Read moreHow to co-create–and why: the emergence of media co-creation as a concept and as a practice grounded in equity and justice.
Co-creation is everywhere: It’s how the internet was built; it generated ma- Author: Cizek, Katerina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 026254377X
- Language: English
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When Science Meets Power
$29.95 Read moreScience and politics have collaborated throughout human history, and science is repeatedly invoked today in political debates, from pandemic management to climate change. But the relationship between
- Author: Mulgan, Geoff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 261
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1509553061
- Language: English
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Future Philanthropy: The Tech, Trends & Talent Defining New Civic Leadership
$29.99 Read moreCHALLENGE THE SYSTEMS QUO
Philanthropy is stuck. As societal issues constantly evolve, philanthropic systems have been slow to match, leaving our communities’ needs sorely unmet. But what would happen
- Author: Ginard, Ryan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1634894782
- Language: English
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Hydraulic Societies: Water, Power, and Control in East and Central Asian History
$39.95 Read moreHydraulic Societies explores the linked themes of water, power, state-building, and hydraulic control. Bringing together a range of ecological, geographical, chronological, and methodological perspect
- Author: Breyfogle, Nicholas B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0870712373
- Language: English
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The Digital Closet: How the Internet Became Straight
$21.95 Read moreAn exploration of how heteronormative bias is deeply embedded in the internet, hidden in algorithms, keywords, content moderation, and more.
In The Digital Closet, Alexander Monea argues provocatively- Series: Strong Ideas
- Author: Monea, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0262545950
- Language: English
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Machines Like Us: Toward AI with Common Sense
$24.95 Read moreHow we can create artificial intelligence with broad, robust common sense rather than narrow, specialized expertise.
It’s sometime in the not-so-distant future, and you send your fully autonomous self- Author: Brachman, Ronald J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0262547325
- Language: English
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You’ve Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All
$30.00 Read moreHow games are being harnessed as instruments of exploitation–and what we can do about it
Warehouse workers pack boxes while a virtual dragon races across their screen. If they beat their colleagues,- Author: Hon, Adrian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1541600177
- Language: English
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Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
$16.95 Read moreRefusing the digital world of late capitalism
In this uncompromising essay, Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality: our “digital age” is synonymous with the disastrous terminal sta- Author: Crary, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1784784443
- Language: English
