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  • Computational Humanities

    Edited by Jessica Marie Johnson, David Mimno, Lauren Tilton ...
    Series series Debates in the Digital Humanities
    The first book to intervene in debates on computation in the digital humanitiesBringing together leading experts from across North America and Europe, Computational Humanities redirects debates around computation and humanities digital scholarship from dualistic arguments to nuanced discourse centered around theories of knowledge and power. This volume is organized around four questions: Why or ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

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  • How Data Happened

    A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms

    by Chris Wiggins, Matthew L. Jones ...
    **“Fascinating.” —Jill Lepore, The New YorkerA sweeping history of data and its technical, political, and ethical impact on our world.**From facial recognition—capable of checking people into flights or identifying undocumented residents—to automated decision systems that inform who gets loans and who receives bail, each of us moves through a world determined by data-empowered algorithms. But ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • How We Think

    Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis

    by N. Katherine Hayles ...
    "How do we think?" N. Katherine Hayles poses this question at the beginning of this bracing exploration of the idea that we think through, with, and alongside media. As the age of print passes and new technologies appear every day, this proposition has become far more complicated, particularly for the traditionally print-based disciplines in the humanities and qualitative social sciences. With a ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cultural Logic of Computation

    by David Golumbia ...
    Advocates of computers make sweeping claims for their inherently transformative power: new and different from previous technologies, they are sure to resolve many of our existing social problems, and perhaps even to cause a positive political revolution.In The Cultural Logic of Computation, David Golumbia, who worked as a software designer for more than ten years, confronts this orthodoxy, arguing ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Computing Taste

    Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation

    by Nick Seaver ...
    Meet the people who design the algorithms that capture our musical tastes.The people who make music recommender systems have lofty goals: they want to broaden listeners’ horizons and help obscure musicians find audiences, taking advantage of the enormous catalogs offered by companies like Spotify, Apple Music, and Pandora. But for their critics, recommender systems seem to embody all the potential ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Information and Society

    by Michael Buckland ...
    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    A short, informal account of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data.We live in an information society, or so we are often told. But what does that mean? This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a concise, informal account of the ways in which information and society are related and of our ever-increasing dependence ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Coding Literacy

    How Computer Programming Is Changing Writing

    by Annette Vee ...
    Series series Software Studies
    How the theoretical tools of literacy help us understand programming in its historical, social and conceptual contexts.The message from educators, the tech community, and even politicians is clear: everyone should learn to code. To emphasize the universality and importance of computer programming, promoters of coding for everyone often invoke the concept of “literacy,” drawing parallels between ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Updating to Remain the Same

    Habitual New Media

    by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun ...
    What it means when media moves from the new to the habitual—when our bodies become archives of supposedly obsolescent media, streaming, updating, sharing, saving.New media—we are told—exist at the bleeding edge of obsolescence. We thus forever try to catch up, updating to remain the same. Meanwhile, analytic, creative, and commercial efforts focus exclusively on the next big thing: figuring out ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Boundary Objects and Beyond

    Working with Leigh Star

    Edited by Geoffrey C. Bowker, Stefan Timmermans, Adele E. Clarke, Ellen Balka ...
    Series series Infrastructures
    The multifaceted work of the late Susan Leigh Star is explored through a selection of her writings and essays by friends and colleagues.Susan Leigh Star (1954–2010) was one of the most influential science studies scholars of the last several decades. In her work, Star highlighted the messy practices of discovering science, asking hard questions about the marginalizing as well as the liberating ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Philosophy of Blockchain Technology - Ontologies

    by Nicolae Sfetcu ...
    About the necessity and usefulness of developing a philosophy specific to the blockchain technology, emphasizing on the ontological aspects. After an Introduction that highlights the main philosophical directions for this emerging technology, in Blockchain Technology I explain the way the blockchain works, discussing ontological development directions of this technology in Designing and Modeling. ... Read more

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  • Digital Humanities

    Knowledge and Critique in a Digital Age

    by David M. Berry, Anders Fagerjord ...
    As the twenty-first century unfolds, computers challenge the way in which we think about culture, society and what it is to be human: areas traditionally explored by the humanities.In a world of automation, Big Data, algorithms, Google searches, digital archives, real-time streams and social networks, our use of culture has been changing dramatically. The digital humanities give us powerful ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Spatial Humanities

    GIS and the Future of Humanities Scholarship

    Edited by David J. Bodenhamer, John Corrigan, Trevor M. Harris ...
    Geographic information systems (GIS) have spurred a renewed interest in the influence of geographical space on human behavior and cultural development. Ideally GIS enables humanities scholars to discover relationships of memory, artifact, and experience that exist in a particular place and across time. Although successfully used by other disciplines, efforts by humanists to apply GIS and the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD