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  • Forwarded as Received

    How Misinformation Turns Viral, Violent and True

    by Saadia Azim ...
    WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE MUCH OF WHAT WE KNOW MAY NOT BE TRUE?Misinformation has never felt truer than it does today. Claims that once invited examination and debate now float freely and settle into everyday conversation as facts. Repetition lends them authority; familiarity gives them legitimacy. In this quiet transformation, falsehood does not announce itself. It embeds, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Twitter and Tear Gas

    The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest

    by Zeynep Tufekci ...
    A firsthand account and incisive analysis of modern protest, revealing internet-fueled social movements’ greatest strengths and frequent challengesTo understand a thwarted Turkish coup, an anti–Wall Street encampment, and a packed Tahrir Square, we must first comprehend the power and the weaknesses of using new technologies to mobilize large numbers of people. An incisive observer, writer, and ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

  • Antisocial Media

    How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy

    by Siva Vaidhyanathan ...
    A fully updated paperback edition that includes coverage of the key developments of the past two years, including the political controversies that swirled around Facebook with increasing intensity in the Trump era. If you wanted to build a machine that would distribute propaganda to millions of people, distract them from important issues, energize hatred and bigotry, erode social trust, undermine ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Meet the Savarnas

    Indian Millennials Whose Mediocrity Broke Everything

    by Ravikant Kisana ...
    In the early 2000s, India was expected to ‘shine’ and emerge as a rising superpower. It was the post-1990s golden generation— professionals fresh out of B-schools and engineering programmes —who were supposed to take us there. The Great Indian Dream was ready to lift-off. Except we never left the ground.No one could really explain what went wrong. Some blamed politicians, some corruption, some ... Read more

    $6.89 CAD

  • Radical Attention

    by Julia Bell ...
    An essay on the battle for our attention in the age of distraction. Attention pays. In today's online economy it has become a commodity to be bought and sold. Bombarding us with free smartphone apps and news websites, developers and advertisers have turned what and how focus our attention into the world's fastest growing industry. In exchange for our attention, information and entertainment is ... Read more

    $9.09 CAD

  • The Googlization of Everything

    (And Why We Should Worry)

    by Siva Vaidhyanathan ...
    In the beginning, the World Wide Web was exciting and open to the point of anarchy, a vast and intimidating repository of unindexed confusion. Into this creative chaos came Google with its dazzling mission—"To organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible"—and its much-quoted motto, "Don’t be evil." In this provocative book, Siva Vaidhyanathan examines the ways we have used ... Read more

    $49.49 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

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • The Virtual Hindu Rashtra

    Saffron Nationalism and New Media

    by Rohit Chopra ...
    From websites devoted to battling a 'Left-liberal' media ecosystem to the formidable internet army of Hindu Right volunteers, from online narratives of Hindu valour to Narendra Modi's impeccably-managed social media presence, new media is an integral part of present-day Hindu nationalism.The Virtual Hindu Rashtra examines the relationship of Hindu nationalism and new media across a range of ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Trusting the News in a Digital Age

    Toward a "New" News Literacy

    by Jeffrey Dvorkin ...
    TRUSTING THE NEWS in a Digital AgeHow to use critical thinking to discern real news from fake newsTrusting the News in a Digital Age provides an ethical framework and the much-needed tools for assessing information produced in our digital age. With the tsunami of information on social media and other venues, many have come to distrust all forms of communication, including the news. This practical ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Summer of Unrest: Activism or Slacktivism?

    The Future of Digital Politics

    by Tom Chatfield ...
    The student protests during the closing months of 2010 were organised online via Facebook, Twitter, university forums, Google Maps and other networks. They came in the wake of a surge of activity on the web that confonted the traditional media channels when Wikileaks and Anonymous disrupted them, creating a New World Order of breaking news.The fluid organisation of the protests showed that the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Ethical Technologist

    Text Book, #8

    by David Tuffley ...
    Series Book 8 - Text Book
    Every generation of technologists inherits capability faster than it inherits wisdom about how to use it. The Ethical Technologist, now in its third edition, is David Tuffley's answer to that gap, a full-length course text grown out of his Applied Ethics and Sociotechnical Studies teaching at Griffith University, and substantial enough to serve as either a university unit's core reading or a ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Four Internets

    Data, Geopolitics, and the Governance of Cyberspace

    by Kieron O'Hara, Wendy Hall ...
    The Internet has become a staple of modern civilized life, now as vital a utility as electricity. But despite its growing influence, the Internet isn't as stable as it might seem; rather, it can be best thought of as a network of networks reliant on developing technical and social measures to function, including hardware, software, standards, and protocols. As millions of new internet users sign ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD