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Universal Access and Its Asymmetries

The Untold Story of the Last 200 Years

by Harmeet Sawhney and Hamid R. Ekbia

ISBN: 9780262544559

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: December 13, 2022

A framework for understanding the totality of costs and benefits of universal access that will foster honest appraisal and guide the development of good policies.

The Political Lives of Information

Information and the Production of Development in India

by Janaki Srinivasan

ISBN: 9780262544047

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 4, 2022

How the definition, production, and leveraging of information are shaped by caste, class, and gender, and the implications for development.

Cloud Empires

How Digital Platforms Are Overtaking the State and How We Can Regain Control

by Vili Lehdonvirta

ISBN: 9780262047227

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 27, 2022

The rise of the platform economy into statelike dominance over the lives of entrepreneurs, users, and workers.

You Are Here

A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape

by Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner

ISBN: 9780262539913

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 2, 2021

How to understand a media environment in crisis, and how to make things better by approaching information ecologically.

Technoprecarious

by Precarity Lab

ISBN: 9781912685981

Publisher: Goldsmiths Press

Pub Date: November 24, 2020

An analysis that traces the role of digital technology in multiplying precarity.

Researching Internet Governance

Methods, Frameworks, Futures

Edited by Laura DeNardis, Derrick Cogburn, Nanette S. Levinson and Francesca Musiani

ISBN: 9780262539753

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 8, 2020

A multidisciplinary book that takes internet governance research as a research subject in its own right, discussing methods and conceptual approaches.

Hacker States

by Luca Follis and Adam Fish

ISBN: 9780262043601

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 21, 2020

How hackers and hacking moved from being a target of the state to a key resource for the expression and deployment of state power.

Too Smart

How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over the World

by Jathan Sadowski

ISBN: 9780262538589

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 17, 2020

Who benefits from smart technology? Whose interests are served when we trade our personal data for convenience and connectivity?

Fake News

Understanding Media and Misinformation in the Digital Age

Edited by Melissa Zimdars and Kembrew McLeod

ISBN: 9780262538367

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 18, 2020

New perspectives on the misinformation ecosystem that is the production and circulation of fake news.

The Paradoxes of Network Neutralities

by Russell A. Newman

ISBN: 9780262043007

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: November 5, 2019

An argument that the movement for network neutrality was of a piece with its neoliberal environment, solidifying the continued existence of a commercially driven internet.

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