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  • Truth-Seeking in an Age of (Mis)Information Overload

    Edited by David R. Castillo, Siwei Lyu, Christina Milletti, Cynthia Stewart ...
    Series series SUNY series, Humanities to the Rescue
    The unprecedented spread of false and misleading information is the flip side of the Internet's promise of universal access and information democratization. This volume features original contributions from scholars working on the challenge of misinformation across a wide range of STEM, humanities, and art disciplines. Modeling a collaborative, multidisciplinary "convergence approach," Truth ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

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  • The Misinformation Age

    How False Beliefs Spread

    by Cailin O'Connor, James Owen Weatherall ...
    "Empowering and thoroughly researched, this book offers useful contemporary analysis and possible solutions to one of the greatest threats to democracy." — Kirkus ReviewsEditors' choice, The New York Times Book ReviewRecommended reading, Scientific AmericanWhy should we care about having true beliefs? And why do demonstrably false beliefs persist and spread despite bad, even fatal, consequenc... ... Read more

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  • The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

    Principles, Challenges, and Opportunities

    by Prof Luciano Floridi ...
    The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence has two goals. The first goal is meta-theoretical and is fulfilled by Part One, which comprises the first three chapters: an interpretation of the past (Chapter 1), the present (Chapter 2), and the future of AI (Chapter 3). Part One develops the thesis that AI is an unprecedented divorce between agency and intelligence. On this basis, Part Two investigates the ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD

  • The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, fourth edition

    Edited by Ulrike Felt, Rayvon Fouche, Clark A. Miller, Laurel Smith-Doerr ...
    The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field.Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and rearrange contemporary societies. The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies provides a comprehensive and ... Read more

    $103.99 CAD

  • Informatics of Domination

    by Donna J. Haraway ...
    Informatics of Domination is an experimental collection addressing formations of power that manifest through technical systems and white capitalist patriarchy in the twenty-first century. The volume takes its name from a chart in Donna J. Haraway’s canonical 1985 essay “A Manifesto for Cyborgs.” Haraway theorizes the informatics of domination as a feminist, diagrammatic concept for situating power ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Future Morality

    Edited by David Edmonds ...
    The world is changing so fast that it's hard to know how to think about what we ought to do. We barely have time to reflect on how scientific advances will affect our lives before they're upon us. New kinds of dilemma are springing up. Can robots be held responsible for their actions? Will artificial intelligence be able to predict criminal activity? Is the future gender-fluid? Should we strive to ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Research Ethics

    A Philosophical Guide to the Responsible Conduct of Research

    by Gary Comstock ...
    Education in the responsible conduct of research typically takes the form of online instructions about rules, regulations, and policies. Research Ethics takes a novel approach and emphasizes the art of philosophical decision-making. Part A introduces egoism and explains that it is in the individual's own interest to avoid misconduct, fabrication of data, plagiarism and bias. Part B explains ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • Against Reduction

    Designing a Human Future with Machines

    by Noelani Arista, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Vafa Ghazavi, Suzanne Kite ...
    Provocative, hopeful essays imagine a future that is not reduced to algorithms.What is human flourishing in an age of machine intelligence, when many claim that the world’s most complex problems can be reduced to narrow technical questions? Does more computing make us more intelligent, or simply more computationally powerful? We need not always resist reduction; our ability to simplify helps us ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Data Paradoxes

    The Politics of Intensified Data Sourcing in Contemporary Healthcare

    by Klaus Hoeyer ...
    Why healthcare cannot—and should not—become data-driven, despite the many promises of intensified data sourcing.In contemporary healthcare, everybody seems to want more data, of higher quality, on more people, and to use this data for a wider range of purposes. In theory, such pervasive data collection should lead to a healthcare system in which data can quickly, efficiently, and unambiguously be ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Science of Science Communication

    Edited by Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Dan Kahan, Dietram A. Scheufele ...
    Series series Oxford Library of Psychology
    The proposal to vaccinate adolescent girls against the human papilloma virus ignited political controversy, as did the advent of fracking and a host of other emerging technologies. These disputes attest to the persistent gap between expert and public perceptions. Complicating the communication of sound science and the debates that surround the societal applications of that science is a changing ... Read more

    $183.19 CAD

  • Seeing Like a Platform

    An Inquiry into the Condition of Digital Modernity

    by Petter Törnberg, Justus Uitermark ...
    Series series Complexity in Social Science
    Power needs abstraction, to make the unwieldy complexity of the social world legible and manageable. The proposition at the heart of Seeing Like a Platform is that digital technology brings new metaphors through which power operates. While industrial modernity saw society as a machinery to be designed according to detailed blueprints, digital modernity views society as organic and alive, to be ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of Public Communication of Science and Technology

    Edited by Massimiano Bucchi, Brian Trench ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Communicating science and technology is a high priority of many research and policy institutions, a concern of many other private and public bodies, and an established subject of training and education. In the past few decades, the field has developed and expanded significantly, both in terms of professional practice, and in terms of research and reflection. At the same time, particularly in ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD