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Acting with Technology eBook Series

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  • Data Rules

    Reinventing the Market Economy

    by Cristina Alaimo, Jannis Kallinikos ...
    Series series Acting with Technology
    A new social science framework for studying the unprecedented social and economic restructuring driven by digital data.Digital data have become the critical frontier where emerging economic practices and organizational forms confront the traditional economic order and its institutions. In Data Rules, Cristina Alaimo and Jannis Kallinikos establish a social science framework for analyzing the ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

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  • Doing Economics

    What You Should Have Learned in Grad School—But Didn’t

    by Marc F. Bellemare ...
    A guide for research economists: how to write papers, give talks, navigate the peer-review process, advise students, and more.Newly minted research economists are equipped with a PhD’s worth of technical and scientific expertise but often lack some of the practical tools necessary for “doing economics.” With this book, economics professor Marc Bellemare breaks down the components of doing research ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

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  • Digital Sociology

    The Reinvention of Social Research

    by Noortje Marres ...
    This provocative new introduction to the field of digital sociology offers a critical overview of interdisciplinary debates about new ways of knowing society that are emerging today at the interface of computing, media, social research and social life.Digital Sociology introduces key concepts, methods and understandings that currently inform the development of specifically digital forms of social ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Computer Aided Policy Making

    by Ray Wyatt ...
    This book will prove a unique source of information and instruction for anyone seeking to make better human-oriented policy, whether urban planner, business strategist, or manager in the field of education, health or welfare, Ingeniously Wyatt has created two books in one: the main text covers the types of software package available: mainstream software, peripheral software, innovative software, ... Read more

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  • The Microstructure of Organizations

    by Phanish Puranam ...
    This book synthesizes a decade of research by the author into fundamental issues in organization design. The result is a novel micro-structural perspective on organizations, which aims to both expand and narrow current thinking. The new perspective takes an expansive view on the kinds of phenomena that can be studied in terms of organization design- such as cross-functional teams, strategic ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Sociological Theory for Digital Society

    The Codes that Bind Us Together

    by Ori Schwarz ...
    The digital revolution has not only transformed multiple aspects of social life – it also shakes sociological theory, transforming the most basic assumptions that have underlain it. In this timely book, Ori Schwarz explores the main challenges digitalization poses to different strands of sociological theory and offers paths to adapt them to new social realities.What would symbolic interactionism ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Critical Data Literacies

    Rethinking Data and Everyday Life

    by Luci Pangrazio, Neil Selwyn ...
    A guide to everything you need to understand to navigate a world increasingly governed by data.Data has become a defining issue of current times. Our everyday lives are shaped by the data that is produced about us (and by us) through digital technologies. In this book, Critical Data Literacies, Luci Pangrazio and Neil Selwyn introduce readers to the central concepts, ideas, and arguments required ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Netnography Unlimited

    Understanding Technoculture using Qualitative Social Media Research

    Edited by Robert V. Kozinets, Rossella Gambetti ...
    Netnography has become an essential tool for qualitative research in the dynamic, complex, and conflicted worlds of contemporary technoculture. Shaped by academic fields, industries, national contexts, technologies and platforms, and languages and cultures for over two decades, netnography has impacted the research practices of scholars around the world.In this volume, 34 researchers present 19 ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Algorithmic Realism

    Data Science Practices to Promote Social Justice

    by Ben Green ...
    A bold new vision for data science—and a practical, step-by-step guide for how data scientists can contribute to social justice.The field of data science faces a moral crisis. Despite the desires of data scientists to develop algorithms for good, algorithms regularly produce injustice in practice. Given these persistent harms, the field must reflect on difficult questions about its identity and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Decoding the Social World

    Data Science and the Unintended Consequences of Communication

    by Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon ...
    Series series Information Policy
    How data science and the analysis of networks help us solve the puzzle of unintended consequences.Social life is full of paradoxes. Our intentional actions often trigger outcomes that we did not intend or even envision. How do we explain those unintended effects and what can we do to regulate them? In Decoding the Social World, Sandra González-Bailón explains how data science and digital traces ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Digital Timescapes

    Technology, Temporality and Society

    by Rob Kitchin ...
    Digital technologies are having a profound effect on the temporalities of individuals, households and organisations. We now expect to be able to instantly source a vast array of information at any time and from anywhere, as well as buy goods with the click of a button and have them delivered within hours, while time management apps and locative media have altered how everyday scheduling and ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Critical Data Studies

    An A to Z Guide to Concepts and Methods

    by Rob Kitchin ...
    Critical Data Studies has come of age as a vibrant, interdisciplinary field of study. Taking data as its primary analytical focus, the field theorises the nature of data; examines how data are produced, managed, governed and shared; investigates how they are used to make sense of the world and to perform practical action; and explores whose agenda data-driven systems serve.This book is the first ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD