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Discriminating Data

Discriminating Data

Discriminating Data

Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the New Politics of Recognition

by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

ISBN: 9780262046220

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: November 2, 2021

How big data and machine learning encode discrimination and create agitated clusters of comforting rage.
If Schools Didn’t Exist

If Schools Didn't Exist

If Schools Didn't Exist

A Study in the Sociology of Schools

by Nils Christie

Translated by Lucas Cone and Joachim Wiewiura

Edited by Lucas Cone and Joachim Wiewiura

Foreword by Judith Suissa

ISBN: 9780262538893

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 4, 2020

A classic in the philosophy of education, considering the fundamental purpose and function of schools, translated into English for the first time.
The Reputation Society

The Reputation Society

The Reputation Society

How Online Opinions Are Reshaping the Offline World

Edited by Hassan Masum and Mark Tovey

Foreword by Craig Newmark

ISBN: 9780262527439

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: January 30, 2015

Experts discuss the benefits and risks of online reputation systems.
Factories of Knowledge, Industries of Creativity

Factories of Knowledge, Industries of Creativity

Factories of Knowledge, Industries of Creativity

by Gerald Raunig

Afterword by Antonio Negri

Translated by Aileen Derieg

ISBN: 9781584351160

Publisher: Semiotext(e)

Pub Date: March 8, 2013

With the economy deindustrialized and the working class decentralized, a call for alternative horizons for resistance: the university and the art world.
Regulating Code

Regulating Code

Regulating Code

Good Governance and Better Regulation in the Information Age

by Ian Brown and Christopher T. Marsden

ISBN: 9780262018821

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 1, 2013

The case for a smarter “prosumer law” approach to Internet regulation that would better protect online innovation, public safety, and fundamental democratic rights.
The Comingled Code

The Comingled Code

The Comingled Code

Open Source and Economic Development

by Josh Lerner and Mark Schankerman

ISBN: 9780262518567

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: January 11, 2013

The interaction of open source and proprietary software and the implications for economic development.
Networks and States

Networks and States

Networks and States

The Global Politics of Internet Governance

by Milton L. Mueller

ISBN: 9780262518574

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: January 11, 2013

How institutions for Internet governance are emerging from the tension between the territorially bound nation-state and a transnational network society.
Blaming Islam

Blaming Islam

Blaming Islam

by John R. Bowen

ISBN: 9780262017589

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 2, 2012

Why fears about Muslim integration into Western society—propagated opportunistically by some on the right—misread history and misunderstand multiculturalism.
Acting in an Uncertain World

Acting in an Uncertain World

Acting in an Uncertain World

An Essay on Technical Democracy

by Michel Callon, Pierre Lascoumes and Yannick Barthe

Translated by Graham Burchell

ISBN: 9780262515962

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: January 21, 2011

A call for a new form of democracy in which “hybrid forums” composed of experts and laypeople address such sociotechnical controversies as hazardous waste, genetically modified organisms, and nanotechnology.
The Soul at Work

The Soul at Work

The Soul at Work

From Alienation to Autonomy

by Franco "Bifo" Berardi

Preface by Jason E. Smith

Translated by Francesca Cadel and Giuseppina Mecchia

ISBN: 9781584350767

Publisher: Semiotext(e)

Pub Date: October 16, 2009

An examination of new forms of alienation in our never-off, plugged-in culture—and a clarion call for a “conspiracy of estranged people.”
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