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  • Facebook Democracy

    The Architecture of Disclosure and the Threat to Public Life

    by José Marichal ...
    In July 2010, Facebook had over 500 million subscribers worldwide and the rapid rise of the site prompted Time magazine to name Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg its person of the year for 2010. This novel book advances our understanding of how democratic citizens are transformed by the "Facebook revolution". Despite increasing interest in politics and popular media, there has been little ... Read more

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  • You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem

    Renegotiating the Socio-Technical Contract

    by José Marichal ...
    In the age of AI, where personal data fuels corporate profits and state surveillance, what are the implications for democracy?This incisive book explores the unspoken agreement we have with tech companies. In exchange for reducing the anxiety of an increasingly complex online world, we submit to algorithmic classification and predictability. This reduces incentives for us to become “algorithmic ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Latinas in American Politics

    Changing and Embracing Political Tradition

    by Sharon A. Navarro, Samantha L. Hernandez, Leslie A. Navarro, Ivy A. M. Cargile, John Garcia, Sarah Allen Gershon, Lizeth Gonzalez, Julia Marin Hellwege0, Patricia D. Lopez1, Jose Marichal2, Jessica Lavariega Monforti3, Jean Reith Schroedel4, Christine Marie Sierra5, Juan Urbano6, Walter Clark Wilson7, Jennifer L. Merolla9, Tony Affigne0 ...
    Series series Latinos and American Politics
    The challenges that women face as political candidates can be compounded by race. In the case of Latinas, stereotypes as well as national media coverage and labeling of “Latino” issues potentially creates an electoral burden for Latina candidates at the local, state, and national level. The intersection of race and gender is complicated and often creates more questions than it answers. How are ... Read more

    $129.99 CAD

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  • Organizations

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Mary Jo Hatch ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Most of us recognize that organizations are everywhere. You meet them on every street corner in the form of families and shops, study in them, work for them, buy from them, pay taxes to them. But have you given much thought to where they came from, what they are today, and what they might become in the future? How and why do they have so much influence over us, and what influences them? How do ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Communities of Practice

    Learning, Meaning, and Identity

    by Etienne Wenger ...
    Series series Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
    This book presents a theory of learning that starts with the assumption that engagement in social practice is the fundamental process by which we get to know what we know and by which we become who we are. The primary unit of analysis of this process is neither the individual nor social institutions, but the informal 'communities of practice' that people form as they pursue shared enterprises over ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Life in Media

    A Global Introduction to Media Studies

    by Mark Deuze ...
    A new way to teach media studies that centers students’ lived experiences and diverse perspectives from around the world.From the intimate to the mundane, most aspects of our lives—how we learn, love, work, and play—take place in media. Taking an expansive, global perspective, this introductory textbook covers what it means to live in, rather than with, media. Mark Deuze focuses on the lived ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Privacy in Context

    Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life

    by Helen Nissenbaum ...
    Privacy is one of the most urgent issues associated with information technology and digital media. This book claims that what people really care about when they complain and protest that privacy has been violated is not the act of sharing information itself—most people understand that this is crucial to social life —but the inappropriate, improper sharing of information.Arguing that privacy ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Master the GRE Analytical Writing

    by Peterson's, Mark Alan Stewart ...
    A thorough review of the all-important Analytical Writing section of the General GRE. Follow the 7-Step plan for crafting a high-scoring GRE Issue essay and GRE Argument essay. Learn advanced techniques for handling Issue and Argument Tasks, and brush up on your skills with a complete review of essay writing techniques. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Re-Engineering Humanity

    by Brett Frischmann, Evan Selinger ...
    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 ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Big Mind

    How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World

    by Geoff Mulgan ...
    A new field of collective intelligence has emerged in the last few years, prompted by a wave of digital technologies that make it possible for organizations and societies to think at large scale. This “bigger mind”—human and machine capabilities working together—has the potential to solve the great challenges of our time. So why do smart technologies not automatically lead to smart results? ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • Against Platforms

    Surviving Digital Utopia

    by Mike Pepi ...
    Series series Activist Citizens Library
    A bold and imaginative critique of the hidden costs of digital life – and a manifesto for a better future . . .At the turn of the millennium, digital technologies seemed to have immense promise for transforming our society. With these powerful new tools, the thinking went, we would be free to live our best lives, connected to our communities in ways full of infinite potential.A quarter of a ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • 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