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  • The Prison House of the Circuit

    Politics of Control from Analog to Digital

    by Jeremy Packer, Paula Nuñez de Villavicencio, Alexander Monea, Kathleen Oswald, Kate Maddalena, Joshua Reeves ...
    Has society ceded its self-governance to technogovernance?The Prison House of the Circuit presents a history of digital media using circuits and circuitry to understand how power operates in the contemporary era. Through the conceptual vocabulary of the circuit, it offers a provocative model for thinking about governance and media.The authors, writing as a collective, provide a model for ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Mobility without Mayhem

    Safety, Cars, and Citizenship

    by Jeremy Packer ...
    While Americans prize the ability to get behind the wheel and hit the open road, they have not always agreed on what constitutes safe, decorous driving or who is capable of it. Mobility without Mayhem is a lively cultural history of America’s fear of and fascination with driving, from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Jeremy Packer analyzes how driving has been understood by experts, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Killer Apps

    War, Media, Machine

    by Jeremy Packer, Joshua Reeves ...
    In Killer Apps Jeremy Packer and Joshua Reeves provide a detailed account of the rise of automation in warfare, showing how media systems are central to building weapons systems with artificial intelligence in order to more efficiently select and eliminate military targets. Drawing on the insights of a wide range of political and media theorists, Packer and Reeves develop a new theory for ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Communication Matters

    Materialist Approaches to Media, Mobility and Networks

    Edited by Jeremy Packer, Stephen B. Crofts Wiley ...
    Series series Shaping Inquiry in Culture, Communication and Media Studies
    Communication has often been understood as a realm of immaterial, insubstantial phenomena—images, messages, thoughts, languages, cultures, and ideologies—mediating our embodied experience of the concrete world. Communication Matters challenges this view, assembling leading scholars in the fields of Communication, Rhetoric, and English to focus on the materiality of communication. Building on the ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

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  • The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age

    Edited by Darin Barney, Gabriella Coleman, Christine Ross, Jonathan Sterne, Tamar Tembeck ...
    Series series Electronic Mediations
    Just what is the “participatory condition”? It is the situation in which taking part in something with others has become both environmental and normative. The fact that we have always participated does not mean we have always lived under the participatory condition. What is distinctive about the present is the extent to which the everyday social, economic, cultural, and political activities that ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Geomedia

    Networked Cities and the Future of Public Space

    by Scott McQuire ...
    Geomedia offers critical analysis of the new possibilities and power relations emerging in the public space of contemporary cities. As ubiquitous digital networks enable embedded and mobile devices to integrate place-specific data with real-time feedback circuits, everyday experience of public space has become subject to new demands. Looking beyond debates framed by the dominance of surveillance ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Inventive Methods

    The Happening of the Social

    Edited by Celia Lury, Nina Wakeford ...
    Series series CRESC
    Social and cultural research has changed dramatically in the last few years in response to changing conceptions of the empirical, an intensification of interest in interdisciplinary work, and the growing need to communicate with diverse users and audiences. Methods texts, however, have not kept pace with these changes.This volume provides a set of new approaches for the investigation of the ... Read more

    $126.41 CAD

  • Philosophy and Engineering: An Emerging Agenda

    Edited by Ibo van de Poel, David E. Goldberg ...
    Series Book 2 - Philosophy of Engineering and Technology
    Whereas science, technology, and medicine have all called forth dedicated philosophical investigations, a fourth major contributor to the technoscientific world in which we all live - that is, engineering - has been accorded almost none of the philosophical attention it deserves. This volume thus offers a first characterisation of this important new field, by some of the primary philosophers and ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • Making Things and Drawing Boundaries

    Experiments in the Digital Humanities

    Edited by Jentery Sayers ...
    Series series Debates in the Digital Humanities
    In Making Things and Drawing Boundaries, critical theory and cultural practice meet creativity, collaboration, and experimentation with physical materials as never before. Foregrounding the interdisciplinary character of experimental methods and hands-on research, this collection asks what it means to “make” things in the humanities. How is humanities research manifested in hand and on screen ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities

    Edited by Jentery Sayers ...
    Series series Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions
    Although media studies and digital humanities are established fields, their overlaps have not been examined in depth. This comprehensive collection fills that gap, giving readers a critical guide to understanding the array of methodologies and projects operating at the intersections of media, culture, and practice. Topics include: access, praxis, social justice, design, interaction, interfaces, ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • How Data Happened

    A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms

    by Chris Wiggins, Matthew L. Jones ...
    **“Fascinating.” —Jill Lepore, The New YorkerA sweeping history of data and its technical, political, and ethical impact on our world.**From facial recognition—capable of checking people into flights or identifying undocumented residents—to automated decision systems that inform who gets loans and who receives bail, each of us moves through a world determined by data-empowered algorithms. But ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • Organizations

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Mary Jo Hatch ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Most of us recognize that organizations are everywhere. You meet them on every street corner in the form of families and shops, study in them, work for them, buy from them, pay taxes to them. But have you given much thought to where they came from, what they are today, and what they might become in the future? How and why do they have so much influence over us, and what influences them? How do ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD