Technology Studies
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Own This!: How Platform Cooperatives Help Workers Build a Democratic Internet
$26.95 Read moreWhat if taxi drivers in New York City or rickshaw operators in Bangalore could start a worker-owned and-operated alternative to Uber with stable hourly wages?
Winner of the First Prize in the Joyce Ro- Author: Scholz, R. Trebor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1839764554
- Language: English
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Digital Madness: How Social Media Is Driving Our Mental Health Crisis–And How to Restore Our Sanity
$28.99 Read moreFrom the author of the provocative and influential Glow Kids, Digital Madness explores how we’ve become mad for our devices as our devices are driving us mad, as revolutionary research reveals technol
- Author: Kardaras, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 125027849X
- Language: English
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Technology’s Child: Digital Media’s Role in the Ages and Stages of Growing Up
$29.95 Read moreHow children engage with technology at each stage of development, from toddler to twentysomething, and how they can best be supported.
What happens to the little ones, the tweens, and the teenagers, w
- Author: Davis, Katie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0262046962
- Language: English
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Barcode
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Barcodes are about as ordinary as an object can be. Billions of them are scanned each day and- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Frith, Jordan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1501399918
- Language: English
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Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World’s Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation
$29.95 Add to cartAn urgently needed exploration of global technology worship, and a measured case for skepticism and agnosticism as a way of life, from the New York Times-bestselling author of Good without God.
Today’- Author: Epstein, Greg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0262049201
- Language: English
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The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans
$18.99 Add to cart“This book unravels the mysteries behind humanity’s greatest masterpieces.” — Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again
Discover the secret method used to build the world…
For m
- Author: Hammack, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1728280451
- Language: English
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Technocapitalism: The Rise of the New Robber Barons and the Fight for the Common Good
$21.95 Read moreA fascinating look at how the Space Barons and Techtitans–heads of companies like Uber, Amazon, Tesla–have hijacked technology, preventing it from being used on behalf of the common good and profiti… [more below]
- Author: Napoleoni, Loretta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 164421329X
- Language: English
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The Unplugged Hours: Cultivating a Life of Presence in a Digitally Connected World
$19.99 Add to cartNo matter what you do for a living, how much time your apps save you, or how much entertainment your phone brings, it is possible to unplug–and find an even better life on the other side.
In the sprin
- Author: Brencher, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0310367700
- Language: English
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Everything to Play for: An Insider’s Guide to How Videogames Are Changing Our World
$24.95 Read moreAn insider’s account of the videogame industry telling how gaming can become a force for good
Everything To Play For asks if videogames can achieve egalitarian goals instead of fuelling hyper-material- Author: Did, Marijam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1804293245
- Language: English
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Fear: An Alternative History of the World
$35.00 Add to cartIt’s been said that, after 9/11, the 2008 financial crash and the Covid-19 pandemic, we’re a more fearful society than ever before. Yet fear, and the panic it produces, have long been driving forces -… [more below]
- Author: Peckham, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1788167236
- Language: English
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The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care
$22.50 Add to cartA short, thought-provoking book about what happens to our online identities after we die.
These days, so much of our lives takes place online–but what about our afterlives? Thanks to the digital tra- Author: Öhman, Carl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0226828220
- Language: English
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The Web We Weave: Why We Must Reclaim the Internet from Moguls, Misanthropes, and Moral Panic
$29.00 Add to cartA bold defense of the internet, arguing attempts to fix and regulate it are often misguided —“essential reading for anyone who cares about the future of the internet” (Taylor Lorenz, author of Extrem… [more below]
- Author: Jarvis, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1541604121
- Language: English
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The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
$19.95 Read moreA USA TODAY BESTSELLER
Winner of the 2024 Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity “An essential read for anyone that wants to understand how we lost control of our di- Author: Doctorow, Cory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1804292141
- Language: English
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Generative Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
$18.95 Add to cart“AI expert Jerry Kaplan explains how generative AI will revolutionize virtually every human activity. Highly recommended.” – Francis Fukuyama, Political scientist and author of The End of History and … [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
- Author: Kaplan, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0197773540
- Language: English
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Size: How It Explains the World
$19.99 Add to cart- Author: Smil, Vaclav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0063324105
- Language: English
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The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley
$27.95 Add to cartAn insider offers a “forceful critique…of Big Tech’s steady erosion of democracy” (The New Yorker) and describes what must be done to stop it
Over the past decades, under the cover of “innovation,”- Author: Schaake, Marietje
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0691241171
- Language: English
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Our Next Reality: How the AI-Powered Metaverse Will Reshape the World
$29.95 Read moreForeword by Neal Stephenson, bestselling author of Snow Crash
Over the last 100 years, technology has changed our world. Over the next decade it will transform our reality. The planet is headed for a- Author: Graylin, Alvin Wang
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1399812246
- 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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What Is Cybersecurity For?
$13.95 Add to cartHow will protecting our digital infrastructure shape our future? Cybersecurity is one of the key practical and political challenges of our time. It is at the heart of how modern societies survive and … [more below]
- Series: What Is It For?
- Author: Stevens, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1529226953
- Language: English
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The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century
$28.95 Read moreFrom one of the leading intellectuals of the digital age, The Digital Republic is the definitive guide to the great political question of our time: how can freedom and democracy survive in a world of … [more below]
- Author: Susskind, Jamie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1643139010
- Language: English
