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Digital Ethology

Human Behavior in Geospatial Context

Edited by Tomáš Paus and Hye-Chung Kum

ISBN: 9780262548137

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: June 18, 2024

An edited collection that looks deeply at how humans transform their environments and how these environments, in turn, shape humans.

Cracking the Bro Code

by Coleen Carrigan

ISBN: 9780262547055

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 9, 2024

Why dominant racial and gender groups have preferential access to jobs in computing, and how feminist labor activism in computing culture can transform the field into a force that serves democracy and social justice.

Digital Lethargy

Dispatches from an Age of Disconnection

by Tung-Hui Hu

ISBN: 9780262548373

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 5, 2024

The exhaustion, disappointment, and listlessness experienced under digital capitalism, explored through works by contemporary artists, writers, and performers.

Machine Decision Is Not Final

China and the History and Future of Artificial Intelligence

Edited by Benjamin H. Bratton, Anna Greenspan and Bogna Konior

ISBN: 9781913029999

Publisher: Urbanomic

Pub Date: March 5, 2024

An interdisciplinary, cross-cultural collection that decenters familiar narratives to provide a fresh perspective on what artificial intelligence is today, and what it might become.

A Place for Science and Technology Studies

Observation, Intervention, and Collaboration

by Jane Calvert

ISBN: 9780262546942

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: January 9, 2024

An exploration of science and technology studies in eight different places, and the possibilities that arise for observation, intervention, and collaboration.

Autographic Design

The Matter of Data in a Self-Inscribing World

by Dietmar Offenhuber

ISBN: 9780262547024

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: December 19, 2023

An ambitious vision for design based on the premise that data is material, not abstract.

Machines like Us

Toward AI with Common Sense

by Ronald J. Brachman and Hector J. Levesque

ISBN: 9780262547321

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 17, 2023

How we can create artificial intelligence with broad, robust common sense rather than narrow, specialized expertise.

The Infrastructural South

Techno-Environments of the Third Wave of Urbanization

by Jonathan Silver

ISBN: 9780262546874

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 10, 2023

An in-depth look at the infrastructural landscape of Africa amid the third wave of urbanization, drawing on case studies from Africa and extending further afield.