Social Aspects 45

How seemingly innocuous technologies are unsettling the balance of power by putting it in the hands of the masses - and what a world without "big" will mean for all of us. In The End of Big, social ……続きを見る

From the coauthor of Algorithms to Live By, an exploration of the quest to use mathematics to describe the ways we think, from its origins three hundred years ago to the ideas behind modern AI syste……続きを見る

Indigenous communities globally struggle to preserve their cultural heritage amidst a modern landscape shaped by technological advancement and free market capitalism. In today's globalized economy, ……続きを見る

C'est à un voyage à l'intérieur de la recherche que nous convie Catherine Mougenot, hors des sentiers battus des évaluations, des acquis et des résultats chiffrés. L'aventure commence à l'occasion d……続きを見る

Questo testo brillante sul nostro tempo ha come protagonista Eleni Haifa, una ragazza con due cellulari. Attraverso un divertente e originale parallelismo con La signora Dalloway di Virginia Woolf e……続きを見る

Il coronavirus sta velocizzando la mutazione tecnologica e sta rendendo il dibattito sui gemelli digitali più che mai urgente. Il gemello digitale è la nostra vita riprodotta e raccontata dai dati; ……続きを見る

Nella spasmodica ricerca di contenere il dilagare della pandemia, sempre più nazioni, inclusa l’Italia, hanno approvato decreti emergenziali volti a ridurre il più possibile i contatti sociali dei c……続きを見る

History shows us that technologies help humankind in our daily activities. Every major technological evolution brings about an economic, cultural and social revolution, transforming the lifestyles o……続きを見る

What do you do when you don't believe in gods? You turn to data. This is what happens when a disillusioned analyst interrogates an experimental AI that refuses to validate. This isn't a guidebook. I……続きを見る

Thanks! Based on your powerful title We Clicked 'I Agree' to Dystopia: Messages to Future Generations from the First Digital Prisoners here's a strong, SEO-friendly, emotionally gripping Amazon prod……続きを見る

¿La inteligencia artificial te intimida, te confunde… o simplemente no sabes por dónde empezar? Entonces este libro es para ti. "Deja de Hacerle Preguntas Tontas a la IA" no es otro manual técnico n……続きを見る

How users experience and influence technological changeーwhen so much of that change feels out of our control Every day, we casually employ one of the most complex tools ever created, using it to re……続きを見る

***A CrimeReads Best True Crime Book of 2026!* *A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB MUST-READ SELECTION!* An immersive, pulse-pounding exposé on the global rise of teenage hackers, offering an insider's portrait o……続きを見る

Ever since the invention of the telegraph, journalists have sought to remove the barriers of time and space. Today, we readily accept that reporters can jet quickly to a distant location and broadca……続きを見る

This intellectual biography covers the trajectory of Bateson’s career, from his anthropological work in Bali alongside his wife, Margaret Mead, to his contributions to family therapy in the United S……続きを見る

After broadband access, what next? What role do metrics play in understanding “information societies”? And, more important, in shaping their policies? Beyond counting people with broadband access, h……続きを見る

Husserl’s Missing Technologies looks at the early-twentieth-century “classical” phenomenology of Edmund Husserl, both in the light of the philosophy of science of his time, and retrospectively at hi……続きを見る

The essays in this volume explore how two domains of human experience and actionーreligion and technologyーare implicated in each other. Contrary to commonsense understandings of both religion (as a……続きを見る

There’s a well-known story about an older fish who swims by two younger fish andasks, “How’s the water?” The younger fish are puzzled. “What’s water?” they ask. Many of us today might ask a similar ……続きを見る

Flat-World Fiction analyzes representations of digital technology and the social and ethical concerns it creates in mainstream literary American fiction and fiction written about the United States i……続きを見る

Winner of the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies Who speaks? The author as producer, the contingency of the text, intertextuality, the “de……続きを見る

The time-worn aphorism "close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades" is clearly inadequate. Close also counts in golf, shuffleboard, archery, darts, curling, and other games of accuracy in whi……続きを見る

Empires and their aftermaths were massive planning institutions; in the past two hundred years, the natural and social sciences emergedーat least in partーas modes of knowledge production for imperi……続きを見る

Science Interrupted examines how scientists in China pursue environmental sustainability within the constraints of domestic and international bureaucracies. Timothy G. McLellan offers a theoretical ……続きを見る

'Dripping with delicious detail' - Aditya Chakrabortty Taking the reader on a journey through North East Scotland, Merseyside, South Wales, the Thames Estuary and London, this is the story of Britai……続きを見る

‘Work hard, have fun, make history’ proclaims the slogan on the walls of Amazon’s warehouses. This cheerful message hides a reality of digital surveillance, aggressive anti-union tactics and discipl……続きを見る

Science and technology are playing increasingly important roles in our lives. New projects in development today will fundamentally shape the world around us, and manipulate our lived experience. But……続きを見る

Sadness is now a design problem. The highs and lows of melancholy are coded into social media platforms. After all the clicking, browsing, swiping and liking, all we are left with is the flat and em……続きを見る

The world is overheated. Too full and too fast; uneven and unequal. It is the age of the Anthropocene, of humanity’s indelible mark upon the planet. In short, it is globalisation - but not as we kno……続きを見る

Western aid is in decline. Non-traditional development actors from the developing countries and elsewhere are in the ascendant. A new set of global economic and political processes are shaping the t……続きを見る