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  • Your Computer Is on Fire

    Modifié par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $36.79 CAD

  • Queens of Code

    Inspiring True Stories from NSA’s Computing Women

    par Eileen Buckholtz ...
    Collections series Labor and Technology
    The stories of America’s unsung computing women, brought out of the shadows and into their rightful place in the history of technology.The dearth of women in our histories of technology cannot be overstated. In Queens of Code, author and one of the female pioneers of computer science Eileen Buckholtz aims to set the record straight. Much as Margot Lee Shetterly’s Hidden Figures revealed the role ... En savoir plus

    $35.19 CAD

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  • Programmed Inequality

    How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing

    par Mar Hicks ...
    Collections series History of Computing
    This “sobering tale of the real consequences of gender bias” explores how Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating against its most qualified workers: women (Harvard Magazine)In 1944, Britain led the world in electronic computing. By 1974, the British computer industry was all but extinct. What happened in the intervening thirty years holds lessons for all ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

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    Queens of Code

    Inspiring True Stories from NSA's Computing Women

    par Eileen Buckholtz ...
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    The stories of America’s unsung computing women, brought out of the shadows and into their rightful place in the history of technology.The dearth of women in our histories of technology cannot be overstated. In Queens of Code, author and one of the female pioneers of computer science Eileen Buckholtz aims to set the record straight. Much as Margot Lee Shetterly’s Hidden Figures revealed the role ... En savoir plus

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    From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity.Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination while appearing neutral and even ... En savoir plus

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  • Algorithms of Oppression

    How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

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    A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithmsRun a Google search for “black girls”—what will you find? “Big Booty” and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top search terms. But, if you type in “white girls,” the results are radically different. The suggested porn sites and un-moderated discussions about “why ... En savoir plus

    $26.39 CAD

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    The Folly of Technological Solutionism

    par Evgeny Morozov ...
    A New York Times Notable Book of the YearIn the very near future, "smart" technologies and "big data" will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions in politics, culture, and everyday life. Technology will allow us to solve problems in highly original ways and create new incentives to get more people to do the right thing. But how will such "solutionism" affect our society, once ... En savoir plus

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  • Obfuscation

    A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest

    par Finn Brunton, Helen Nissenbaum ...
    How we can evade, protest, and sabotage today's pervasive digital surveillance by deploying more data, not less—and why we should.With Obfuscation, Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum mean to start a revolution. They are calling us not to the barricades but to our computers, offering us ways to fight today's pervasive digital surveillance—the collection of our data by governments, corporations, ... En savoir plus

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  • Coding Freedom

    The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking

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    $42.89 CAD

  • The Costs of Connection

    How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism

    par Nick Couldry, Ulises A. Mejias ...
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  • The Googlization of Everything

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    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 ... En savoir plus

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  • The Internet of Things

    par Mercedes Bunz, Graham Meikle ...
    Collections series Digital Media and Society
    More objects and devices are connected to digital networks than ever before. Things - from your phone to your car, from the heating to the lights in your house - have gathered the ability to sense their environments and create information about what is happening. Things have become media, able to both generate and communicate information. This has become known as 'the internet of things'.In this ... En savoir plus

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