Politics Recoded

Aure Schrock

• Paperback | Engels | Information Society
• The first detailed history of Code for America that examines how democratically designed government systems can collectively improve technology's impa... Lees meer

The Secret Life of Data

Aram Sinnreich, Jesse Gilbert

• Hardcover | Engels | Information Society
• How data surveillance, digital forensics, and generative AI pose new long-term threats and opportunities--and how we can use them to make better decis... Lees meer

Digital Countercultures and the Struggle for Community

Jessa Lingel

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• How countercultural communities have made the Internet meet their needs, subverting established norms of digital technology use. Whether by accidental... Lees meer

Pirate Politics

Patrick Burkart

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• An examination of the Pirate political movement in Europe analyzes its advocacy for free expression and the preservation of the Internet as a commons.... Lees meer

Technologies of Choice?

Dorothea Kleine

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• A new framework for assessing the role of information and communication technologies in development that draws on Amartya Sen's capabilities approach.... Lees meer

After Access

Jonathan Donner

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• An expert considers the effects of a more mobile Internet on socioeconomic development and digital inclusion, examining both potentialities and constr... Lees meer

The Politics of Dating Apps

Lik Sam Chan

• Paperback | Engels | Information Society
• An examination of dating app culture in China, across user demographics--straight women, straight men, queer women, and queer men. In this exploration... Lees meer

The End of Ownership

Aaron Perzanowski, Jason Schultz

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• An argument for retaining the notion of personal property in the products we "buy" in the digital marketplace. If you buy a book at the bookstore, you... Lees meer

The Reputation Society

• Paperback | Engels | Information Society
• Experts discuss the benefits and risks of online reputation systems. In making decisions, we often seek advice. Online, we check Amazon recommendation... Lees meer

The Reputation Society

• Hardcover | Engels | Information Society
• Experts discuss the benefits and risks of online reputation systems. In making decisions, we often seek advice. Online, we check Amazon recommendation... Lees meer

The Political Lives of Information

Janaki Srinivasan

• Paperback | Engels | Information Society
• How the definition, production, and leveraging of information are shaped by caste, class, and gender, and the implications for development. Informatio... Lees meer

Opening Standards

• Hardcover | Engels | Information Society
• The economic and political stakes in the current heated debates over "openness" and open standards in the Internet's architecture. Openness is not a g... Lees meer

Protecting Children Online?

Tijana Milosevic

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• A critical examination of efforts by social media companies--including Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram--to rein in cyberbullying by young u... Lees meer

Authors, Users, and Pirates

James Meese

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• An examination of subjectivity in copyright law, analyzing authors, users, and pirates through a relational framework. In current debates over copyrig... Lees meer

The Digital Rights Movement

Hector Postigo

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• The evolution of activism against the expansion of copyright in the digital domain, with case studies of resistance including eBook and iTunes hacks. ... Lees meer

The World Made Meme

Ryan M Milner

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• How memetic media--aggregate texts that are collectively created, circulated, and transformed--become a part of public conversations that shape broade... Lees meer

The Systemic Image

Inge Hinterwaldner

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• A new conceptualization of the relationship between the systemic and the iconic in real-time simulations that distinguishes among four levels of formi... Lees meer

Weaving the Dark Web

Robert W Gehl

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• An exploration of the Dark Web--websites accessible only with special routing software--that examines the history of three anonymizing networks, Freen... Lees meer

Technology of the Oppressed

David Nemer

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• How Brazilian favela residents engage with and appropriate technologies, both to fight the oppression in their lives and to represent themselves in th... Lees meer

Hacker States

Luca Follis, Adam Fish

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• How hackers and hacking moved from being a target of the state to a key resource for the expression and deployment of state power. In this book, Luca ... Lees meer

The End of Ownership

Aaron Perzanowski, Jason Schultz

• Hardcover | Engels | Information Society
• An argument for retaining the notion of personal property in the products we "buy" in the digital marketplace. If you buy a book at the bookstore, you... Lees meer