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“evie handby”

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  • Investigating Online Heritage Crime

    New Directions, New Technologies, Emerging Markets

    Edited by Damien Huffer, Evie Handby ...
    From Reddit and YouTube to collector forums and live auctions, the avenues through which cultural heritage can be bought and sold are rapidly growing alongside new digital technologies. Considering anew the implications of this digital expansion for the online trafficking of cultural property and human remains, Investigating Online Heritage Crime conducts an exacting examination of these ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

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  • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

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

    by 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 ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • 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

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  • The Digital Republic

    On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century

    by Jamie Susskind ...
    From one of the leading intellectuals of the digital age, The Digital Republic is the definitive guide to the great political question of our time: how can freedom and democracy survive in a world of powerful digital technologies?A Financial Times “Book to Read” in 2022Not long ago, the tech industry was widely admired, and the internet was regarded as a tonic for freedom and democracy. Not... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Foundations of Library and Information Science

    by Richard E. Rubin, Rachel G. Rubin ...
    Richard E. Rubin’s book has served as the authoritative introductory text for generations of library and information science practitioners, with each new edition taking in its stride the myriad societal, technological, political, and economic changes affecting our users and institutions and transforming our discipline. Rubin teams up with his daughter, Rachel G. Rubin, a rising star in the library ... Read more

    $70.39 CAD

  • The Fight for Privacy

    Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age

    by Danielle Keats Citron ...
    **"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 ... Read more

    $18.19 CAD

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  • 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

  • Data Action

    Using Data for Public Good

    by Sarah Williams ...
    How to use data as a tool for empowerment rather than oppression.Big data can be used for good, from tracking disease to exposing human rights violations, and for bad, implementing surveillance and control. Data inevitably represents the ideologies of those who control its use; data analytics and algorithms too often exclude women, the poor, and ethnic groups. In Data Action, Sarah Williams ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Cloud Empires

    How Digital Platforms Are Overtaking the State and How We Can Regain Control

    by Vili Lehdonvirta ...
    The rise of the platform economy into statelike dominance over the lives of entrepreneurs, users, and workers.The early Internet was a lawless place, populated by scam artists who made buying or selling anything online risky business. Then Amazon, eBay, Upwork, and Apple established secure digital platforms for selling physical goods, crowdsourcing labor, and downloading apps. These tech giants ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • Guardrails

    Guiding Human Decisions in the Age of AI

    by Urs Gasser, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger ...
    How society can shape individual actions in times of uncertaintyWhen we make decisions, our thinking is informed by societal norms, “guardrails” that guide our decisions, like the laws and rules that govern us. But what are good guardrails in today’s world of overwhelming information flows and increasingly powerful technologies, such as artificial intelligence? Based on the latest insights from ... Read more

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  • Infotopia : How Many Minds Produce Knowledge

    by Cass R. Sunstein ...
    The rise of the "information society" offers not only considerable peril but also great promise. Beset from all sides by a never-ending barrage of media, how can we ensure that the most accurate information emerges and is heeded? In this book, Cass R. Sunstein develops a deeply optimistic understanding of the human potential to pool information, and to use that knowledge to improve our lives. In ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD

  • 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

    $17.59 CAD