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  • The Modem World

    A Prehistory of Social Media

    by Kevin Driscoll ...
    The untold story about how the internet became social, and why this matters for its future"Whether you're reading this for a nostalgic romp or to understand the dawn of the internet, The Modem World will delight you with tales of BBS culture and shed light on how the decisions of the past shape our current networked world."—danah boyd, author of It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Moony Moon Shines at Noon!

    by Kevin Driscoll ...
    Illustrated by Kevin Driscoll ...
    Series Book 1 - Moony Moon Series
    Moony Moon wishes so badly that he could shine at noon with Sunny Sun, so, one day, he does! And by doing so, Moony Moon learns where he is truly meant to be, and what true happiness really means. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Minitel

    Welcome to the Internet

    by Julien Mailland, Kevin Driscoll ...
    Series series Platform Studies
    The first scholarly book in English on Minitel, the pioneering French computer network, offers a history of a technical system and a cultural phenomenon.A decade before the Internet became a medium for the masses in the United States, tens of millions of users in France had access to a network for e-mail, e-commerce, chat, research, game playing, blogging, and even an early form of online porn. In ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Public Space/Contested Space

    Imagination and Occupation

    Edited by Sally O'Driscoll, Kevin Murphy ...
    Series series The Metropolis and Modern Life
    It is not possible to be alive today in the United States without feeling the influence of the political climate on the spaces where people live, work, and form communities. Public Space/Contested Space illustrates the ways in which creative interventions in public space have constituted a significant dimension of contemporary political action, and how this space can both reflect and spur economic ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • Studies in Ephemera

    Text and Image in Eighteenth-Century Print

    Edited by Kevin Murphy, Sally O'Driscoll ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    Studies in Ephemera: Text and Image in Eighteenth-Century Print bringstogether established and emerging scholars of early modern print culture to explore the dynamic relationships between words and illustrations in awide variety of popular cheap print from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century. While ephemerawas ubiquitous in the period, it is scarcely visible to us now, because only a ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

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  • Artificial Unintelligence

    How Computers Misunderstand the World

    by Meredith Broussard ...
    A software developer’s misadventures in computer programming, machine learning, and artificial intelligence reveal why we should never assume technology always gets it right.In Artificial Unintelligence, Meredith Broussard argues that our collective enthusiasm for applying computer technology to every aspect of life has resulted in a tremendous amount of poorly designed systems. We are so eager to ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Working in Public

    The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software

    by Nadia Asparouhova ...
    An inside look at modern open source software development and its influence on our online social world.Open source software, in which developers publish code that anyone can use, has long served as a bellwether for other online behavior. In the late 1990s, it provided an optimistic model for public collaboration, but in the last 20 years it’s shifted to solo operators who write and publish code ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "You Are Not Expected to Understand This"

    How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World

    Edited by Torie Bosch ...
    Leading technologists, historians, and journalists reveal the stories behind the computer coding that touches all aspects of life—for better or worseFew of us give much thought to computer code or how it comes to be. The very word “code” makes it sound immutable or even inevitable. “You Are Not Expected to Understand This” demonstrates that, far from being preordained, computer code is the result ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 50 Digital Ideas You Really Need to Know

    by Tom Chatfield ...
    Series series 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know series
    We are in the throes of a revolution, yet most of us are so disorientated by the rapid pace of technological and cultural change that we find it difficult to understand what's going on. 50 Digital Ideas you Really Need to Know provides a clear path through the confusion and misinformation surrounding those technologies that, for better or for worse, are transforming the world we live in and even ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Apple II Age

    How the Computer Became Personal

    by Laine Nooney ...
    An engrossing origin story for the personal computer—showing how the Apple II's software helped a machine transcend from hobbyists' plaything to essential home appliance.Skip the iPhone, the iPod, and the Macintosh. If you want to understand how Apple Inc. became an industry behemoth, look no further than the 1977 Apple II. Designed by the brilliant engineer Steve Wozniak and hustled into the ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A History of Modern Computing, second edition

    by Paul E. Ceruzzi ...
    Series series History of Computing
    From the first digital computer to the dot-com crash—a story of individuals, institutions, and the forces that led to a series of dramatic transformations.This engaging history covers modern computing from the development of the first electronic digital computer through the dot-com crash. The author concentrates on five key moments of transition: the transformation of the computer in the late ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Free as in Freedom [Paperback]

    Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software

    by Sam Williams ...
    Free as in Freedom interweaves biographical snapshots of GNU project founder Richard Stallman with the political, social and economic history of the free software movement. It examines Stallman's unique personality and how that personality has been at turns a driving force and a drawback in terms of the movement's overall success.Free as in Freedom examines one man's 20-year attempt to codify and ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD