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  • Digital Futures between Domination and Participation

    Edited by Markus S. Schulz, Isabel da Costa ...
    Series Book 28 - Studies in Media and Communications
    Digital technologies from the Internet and social media to artificial intelligence and robotics are reshaping the world. They offer joy, participation, and higher productivity, but they have also brought disruption, alienation, control, oppression, and exacerbated inequalities. This volume explores this ongoing transformation and its social implications between domination and participation. ... Read more

    $139.99 CAD

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  • The Ordinal Society

    by Marion Fourcade, Kieran Healy ...
    A sweeping critique of how digital capitalism is reformatting our world.We now live in an “ordinal society.” Nearly every aspect of our lives is measured, ranked, and processed into discrete, standardized units of digital information. Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy argue that technologies of information management, fueled by the abundance of personal data and the infrastructure of the internet, ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Technocolonialism

    When Technology for Good is Harmful

    by Mirca Madianou ...
    Winner of the 2026 International Communication Association Outstanding Book AwardWinner of the 2026 Philosophy, Theory and Critique (PTC-ICA) Book AwardWith over 300 million people in need of humanitarian assistance, and with emergencies and climate disasters becoming more common, AI and big data are being championed as forces for good and as solutions to the complex challenges of the aid sector ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Information Society

    Cyber Dreams and Digital Nightmares

    by Robert Hassan ...
    Series series Digital Media and Society
    What are we to make of the information society? Many prominent theorists have argued it to be the most profound and comprehensive transformation of economy, culture and politics since the rise of the industrial way of life in the 18th century. Some saw its arrival in a positive light, where the dreams of democracy, of ‘connectivity’ and ‘efficiency’ constituted a break with the old ways. But other ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

    Principles, Challenges, and Opportunities

    by Prof Luciano Floridi ...
    The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence has two goals. The first goal is meta-theoretical and is fulfilled by Part One, which comprises the first three chapters: an interpretation of the past (Chapter 1), the present (Chapter 2), and the future of AI (Chapter 3). Part One develops the thesis that AI is an unprecedented divorce between agency and intelligence. On this basis, Part Two investigates the ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Power of Organizations

    A New Approach to Organizational Theory

    by Heather A. Haveman ...
    How organizations developed in history, how they operate, and how research on them has evolvedOrganizations are all around us: government agencies, multinational corporations, social-movement organizations, religious congregations, scientific bodies, sports teams, and more. Immensely powerful, they shape all social, economic, political, and cultural life, and are critical for the planning and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Distrusting Educational Technology

    Critical Questions for Changing Times

    by Neil Selwyn ...
    Distrusting Educational Technology critically explores the optimistic consensus that has arisen around the use of digital technology in education. Drawing on a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives, this book shows how apparently neutral forms of educational technology have actually served to align educational provision and practices with neo-liberal values, thereby eroding the nature ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI

    Edited by Markus D. Dubber, Frank Pasquale, Sunit Das ...
    This volume tackles a quickly-evolving field of inquiry, mapping the existing discourse as part of a general attempt to place current developments in historical context; at the same time, breaking new ground in taking on novel subjects and pursuing fresh approaches. The term "A.I." is used to refer to a broad range of phenomena, from machine learning and data mining to artificial general ... Read more

    $40.79 CAD

  • Understanding E-Government

    Information Systems in Public Administration

    by Vincent Homburg ...
    Governments these days often boast about the efficiency of their electronic systems. Information communication technologies (ICTs) apparently allow public service to become cheaper, faster and more democratic. E-government has become another buzzword, the shining future of the public realm. Critics claim, however, that ICTs’ potential for democratic renewal is hampered by ancient assumptions of ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • Shared Wisdom

    Cultural Evolution in the Age of AI

    by Alex Pentland ...
    How to build a flourishing society by using what we know about human nature to design our technology—rather than let technology shape our society.In Shared Wisdom, Alex Pentland delves into the history of innovation, emphasizing the importance of understanding how technologies and cultural inventions impact human society. Humanity’s great leaps forward—the rise of civilizations, the Enlightenment, ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies

    Edited by William H. Dutton ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Internet Studies has been one of the most dynamic and rapidly expanding interdisciplinary fields to emerge over the last decade. The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies has been designed to provide a valuable resource for academics and students in this area, bringing together leading scholarly perspectives on how the Internet has been studied and how the research agenda should be pursued in the ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Smart Urbanism

    Utopian vision or false dawn?

    Edited by Simon Marvin, Andrés Luque-Ayala, Colin McFarlane ...
    Smart Urbanism (SU) – the rebuilding of cities through the integration of digital technologies with buildings, neighbourhoods, networked infrastructures and people – is being represented as a unique emerging ‘solution’ to the majority of problems faced by cities today. SU discourses, enacted by technology companies, national governments and supranational agencies alike, claim a supremacy of urban ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD