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Milestones eBook Series

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  • Milestones in Digital Journalism

    Edited by John V. Pavlik ...
    Series series Milestones
    Milestones in Digital Journalism sets out ten defining moments that changed the way we understand, produce, finance and engage with the news today.Designed for weekly use on digital journalism courses, these ten milestones provide a conceptual roadmap to understanding the subject while drawing on case study examples which help students home in on key markers in its history. Each milestone is ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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  • We, the Data

    Human Rights in the Digital Age

    by 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 ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

    $13.29 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Fuzzy and the Techie

    Why the Liberal Arts Will Rule the Digital World

    by Scott Hartley ...
    "Artfully explains why it is time for us to get over the false division between the human and the technical."—Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO and author of Change by DesignScott Hartley first heard the terms fuzzy and techie while studying political science at Stanford University. If you majored in humanities or social sciences, you were a fuzzy. If you majored in computer or hard sciences, you were a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Networked

    The New Social Operating System

    by Lee Rainie, Barry Wellman ...
    How social networks, the personalized Internet, and always-on mobile connectivity are transforming—and expanding—social life.Daily life is connected life, its rhythms driven by endless email pings and responses, the chimes and beeps of continually arriving text messages, tweets and retweets, Facebook updates, pictures and videos to post and discuss. Our perpetual connectedness gives us endless ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Platform Society

    Public Values in a Connective World

    by José van Dijck, Thomas Poell, Martijn de Waal ...
    Individuals all over the world can use Airbnb to rent an apartment in a foreign city, check Coursera to find a course on statistics, join PatientsLikeMe to exchange information about one's disease, hail a cab using Uber, or read the news through Facebook's Instant Articles. The promise of connective platforms is that they offer personalized services and contribute to innovation and economic growth ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Your Computer Is on Fire

    Edited by Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks, Kavita Philip ...
    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 ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • 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

    $40.49 USD

  • Design to Thrive

    Creating Social Networks and Online Communities that Last

    by Tharon Howard ...
    Social networks and online communities are reshaping the way people communicate, both in their personal and professional lives. What makes some succeed and others fail? What draws a user in? What makes them join? What keeps them coming back? Entrepreneurs and businesses are turning to user experience practitioners to figure this out. Though they are well-equipped to evaluate and create a variety ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Newsmakers

    Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Journalism

    by Francesco Marconi ...
    Will the use of artificial intelligence (AI), algorithms, and smart machines be the end of journalism as we know it—or its savior? In Newsmakers, Francesco Marconi, who has led the development of the Associated Press and Wall Street Journal’s use of AI in journalism, offers a new perspective on the potential of these technologies. He explains how reporters, editors, and newsrooms of all sizes can ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Content

    by Kate Eichhorn ...
    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    A concise introduction to content and the content industry, from the early internet to the Instagram egg.From the time we roll out of bed to check overnight updates to our last posts, likes, and views of the previous day, we're consuming and producing content. But what does the term “content” even mean? When did it become ubiquitous? And at what cost? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Social Media

    Edited by Jean Burgess, Thomas Poell, Alice E. Marwick ...
    The world is in the midst of a social media paradigm. Once viewed as trivial and peripheral, social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and WeChat have become an important part of the information and communication infrastructure of society. They are bound up with business and politics as well as everyday life, work, and personal relationships.This international Handbook addresses the most ... Read more

    $59.39 USD