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  • The General Library

    Piracy and the Politics of Minority Access

    Collections series Distribution Matters
    A bold argument for piracy as a system of knowledge sharing, cultural preservation, and political resistance.What if copying and sharing media, acts frequently labeled as “piracy,” were understood as part of a vast cultural infrastructure that sustains knowledge? The General Library dismantles the myth that piracy is theft, demonstrating how unauthorized modes of distribution and access can act as ... En savoir plus

    $63.99 CAD

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  • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

    The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

    par Shoshana Zuboff ...
    **An exposé of the unprecedented form of power called “surveillance capitalism,” and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior“Groundbreaking, magisterial, alarming.” – Financial Times**The heady optimism of the Internet’s early days has turned dark. Surveillance capitalism has deepened inequality, sown societal chaos, and undermined democracy.The fight for a human ... En savoir plus

    $22.99 CAD

  • The AI Con

    How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want

    A smart, incisive work of technology criticism that examines the technologies sold as artificial intelligence, the drawbacks of systems sold under this banner, and why it’s crucial to recognize the many ways in which AI hype covers for a small set of power-hungry actors.Is artificial intelligence going to take over the world? Have big tech scientists created an artificial lifeform that can think ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Race After Technology

    Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

    par Ruha Benjamin ...
    From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity.Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination while appearing neutral and even ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Algorithms of Oppression

    How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

    A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithmsRun a Google search for “black girls”—what will you find? “Big Booty” and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top search terms. But, if you type in “white girls,” the results are radically different. The suggested porn sites and un-moderated discussions about “why ... En savoir plus

    $27.09 CAD

  • Spreadable Media

    Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture

    Collections Livre 15 - Postmillennial Pop
    Spreadable Media maps fundamental changes taking place in our contemporary media environment, a space where corporations no longer tightly control media distribution and many of us are directly involved in the circulation of content. It contrasts “stickiness”—aggregating attention in centralized places—with “spreadability”—dispersing content widely through both formal and informal networks,some ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • We, the Data

    Human Rights in the Digital Age

    par Wendy H. Wong ...
    A rallying call for extending human rights beyond our physical selves—and why we need to reboot rights in our data-intensive world.Winner of the 2024 Balsillie Prize for Public PolicyShortlisted, 2024 Lionel Gelber PrizeOur data-intensive world is here to stay, but does that come at the cost of our humanity in terms of autonomy, community, dignity, and equality? In We, the Data, Wendy H. Wong ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • The People's Platform

    Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

    par Astra Taylor ...
    From a cutting-edge cultural commentator and documentary filmmaker, a bold and brilliant challenge to cherished notions of the Internet as the great democratizing force of our age.The Internet has been hailed as a place where all can be heard and everyone can participate equally. But how true is this claim? In a seminal dismantling of techno-utopian visions, The People's Platform argues that for ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • A City Is Not a Computer

    Other Urban Intelligences

    par Shannon Mattern ...
    Collections series Places Books
    A bold reassessment of "smart cities" that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computersComputational models of urbanism—smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration—promise to deliver new urban efficiencies and conveniences. Yet these models limit our understanding of what we can know about a city. A City Is Not a Computer reveals how cities ... En savoir plus

    $22.99 CAD

  • Your Computer Is on Fire

    Techno-utopianism is dead: Now is the time to pay attention to the inequality, marginalization, and biases woven into our technological systems.This book sounds an alarm: after decades of being lulled into complacency by narratives of technological utopianism and neutrality, people are waking up to the large-scale consequences of Silicon Valley-led technophilia. This book trains a spotlight on the ... En savoir plus

    $36.79 CAD

  • The Fight for Privacy

    Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age

    **"A crucial book." —Safiya Noble, author of Algorithms of OppressionThe essential road map for understanding—and defending—your right to privacy in the twenty-first century.**Privacy is disappearing. From our sex lives to our workout routines, the details of our lives once relegated to pen and paper have joined the slipstream of new technology. As a MacArthur fellow and distinguished professor of ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Ordinal Society

    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, ... En savoir plus

    $50.99 CAD