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  • The Next Billion Users

    Digital Life Beyond the West

    by Payal Arora ...
    A digital anthropologist examines the online lives of millions of people in China, India, Brazil, and across the Middle East—home to most of the world’s internet users—and discovers that what they are doing is not what we imagine.New-media pundits obsess over online privacy and security, cyberbullying, and revenge porn, but do these things really matter in most of the world? The Next Billion Users ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • From Pessimism to Promise

    Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech

    by Payal Arora ...
    A radical paradigm shift in the way we think about AI and tech, taking hope and inspiration from the aspirational users of new technologies around the world.When it comes to tech, the mainstream headlines are bleak: Algorithms control and oppress. AI will destroy democracy and our social fabric, and possibly even drive us to extinction. While legitimate concerns drive these fears, we need to ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Dot Com Mantra

    Social Computing in the Central Himalayas

    by Payal Arora ...
    Billions of dollars are being spent nationally and globally on providing computing access to digitally disadvantaged groups and cultures with an expectation that computers and the Internet can lead to higher socio-economic mobility. This ethnographic study of social computing in the Central Himalayas, India, investigates alternative social practices with new technologies and media amongst a ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • The Leisure Commons

    A Spatial History of Web 2.0

    by Payal Arora ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
    There is much excitement about Web 2.0 as an unprecedented, novel, community-building space for experiencing, producing, and consuming leisure, particularly through social network sites. What is needed is a perspective that is invested in neither a utopian or dystopian posture but sees historical continuity to this cyberleisure geography. This book investigates the digital public sphere by drawing ... Read more

    $53.58 CAD

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    From Pessimism to Promise

    Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech

    by Payal Arora ...
    Narrated by Jeed Saddy ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 20 min

    When it comes to tech, the mainstream headlines are bleak: Algorithms control and oppress. AI will destroy democracy and our social fabric, and possibly even drive us to extinction. While legitimate concerns drive these fears, we need to equally account for the fact that tech affords young people something incredibly valuable—a rare space for self-actualization. In From Pessimism to Promise, award ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    From Pessimism To Promise

    Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech

    by Payal Arora ...
    Narrated by Ellie Flory Fawcett ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 18 min

    When it comes to technology, mainstream headlines are bleak: Algorithms control and oppress. AI will destroy democracy and our social fabric, and possibly even drive us to extinction.While these concerns are legitimate, we need to equally account for the fact that technology affords young people something incredibly valuable: a rare space for self-actualization. In From Pessimism to Promise, award ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Feminist Futures of Work

    Reimagining Labour in the Digital Economy

    Edited by Payal Arora, Usha Raman, René König ...
    Series series Digital Studies
    The future of work is at the centre of debates related to the emerging digital society. Concerns range from the inclusion, equity, and dignity of those at the far end of the value chain, who participate on and off platforms, often in the shadows, invisible to policymakers, designers, and consumers. Precarity and informality characterize this largely female workforce, across sectors ranging from ... Read more

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  • Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age

    The 2009 Presidential Election Uprising in Iran

    by Yahya R. Kamalipour, Jonathan M. Acuff, Sareh Afshar, Rasha Allam, Ibrahim Al-Marashi, Payal Arora, Aliaa Dakroury, Patrick Disney, Mahmoud Eid, David J. Elliott, Mohammed el-Nawawy, Ali Fisher, Elham Gheytanchi, Mahboub E. Hashem, Christine Horz, Negin Hosseini, Wang Jing, Michele Bach Malek, Hamid Naficy, Abeer Najjar, Madhav D. Nalapat, Ashok Panikkar, Trita Parsi, Tomasz Pludowski, Siavush Randjbar-Daemi, Setareh Sabety, Mahmoud Sadri, Nancy Snow, Kourosh Ziabari, Banu Akdenizli, Ahmad Sadri, Li Xiguang ...
    Focusing on the Iranian presidential elections of 2009 and ensuing demonstrations in major cities across Iran and world, Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age provides a balanced discussion of the role and impact of modern communication technologies, particularly the novel utilization of "small digital media" vis-à-vis the elections and global media coverage. Written in a non-technical, ... Read more

    $126.39 CAD

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  • Geek Heresy

    Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology

    by Kentaro Toyama ...
    After a decade designing technologies meant to address education, health, and global poverty, award-winning computer scientist Kentaro Toyama came to a difficult conclusion: Even in an age of amazing technology, social progress depends on human changes that gadgets can't deliver.Computers in Bangalore are locked away in dusty cabinets because teachers don't know what to do with them. Mobile phone ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • The World Is Your Office

    How Work from Anywhere Boosts Talent, Productivity, and Innovation

    by Prithwiraj Choudhury ...
    A National BestsellerA research-based deep dive into a growing phenomenon—companies allowing employees to work from anywhere—and how those who adopt this model can boost talent, innovation, and productivity.As the debate around remote versus in-office work rages on, leaders in a wide range of industries continue to implement radically flexible work practices, allowing most, if not all, of their ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Humans 3.0

    The Upgrading of the Species

    by Peter Nowak ...
    Life for early humans wasn't easy. They may have been able to walk on two feet and create tools 4 million years ago, but they couldn't remember or communicate. Fortunately, people got smarter, and things got better. They remembered on-the-spot solutions and shared the valuable information of their experiences. Clubs became swords, caves became huts, and fires became ovens. Collectively these new ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Information And Communication Technologies For Women's Socio-Economic Empowerment

    by Melhem Samia; Morell Claudia; Tandon Nidhi ...
    The report will provide a brief overview of major themes for women and ICTs, including issues for girls versus women; the ICT workforce; and opportunities versus the threat of ICTs for women's lives. The report will discuss as well the issue of women and Sciences and Technologies. Several policy recommendations will be drawn, amongst which•The economic opportunities women can bring to development ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD