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Knowledge Machines
Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities
ISBN: 9780262547857
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 9, 2023
An examination of the ways that digital and networked technologies have fundamentally changed research practices in disciplines from astronomy to literary analysis.
Data Paradoxes
The Politics of Intensified Data Sourcing in Contemporary Healthcare
ISBN: 9780262545419
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 18, 2023
Why healthcare cannot—and should not—become data-driven, despite the many promises of intensified data sourcing.
Lifelines of Our Society
A Global History of Infrastructure
ISBN: 9780262546386
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 1, 2023
A comprehensive history and examination of global infrastructures and the outsized role they play in our lives.
Digital Oil
Machineries of Knowing
ISBN: 9780262544672
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 8, 2022
How is digitalization of the offshore oil industry fundamentally changing how we understand work and ways of knowing?
The Demonstration Society
ISBN: 9780262542890
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 12, 2021
Today, as in the past, public demonstrations are not only tools to prove, persuade, and promote, but also fundamental forms of social interaction and exchange.
Underground
The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran
ISBN: 9780262542845
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 28, 2021
How Iranians forged a vibrant, informal video distribution infrastructure when their government banned all home video technology in 1983.
Borders as Infrastructure
The Technopolitics of Border Control
ISBN: 9780262542883
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 17, 2021
An investigation of borders as moving entities that influence our notions of territory, authority, sovereignty, and jurisdiction.
Riding the New York Subway
The Invention of the Modern Passenger
ISBN: 9780262542012
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 16, 2021
A history of New York subway passengers as they navigated the system's constraints while striving for individuality, or at least a smooth ride.
Urban Operating Systems
Producing the Computational City
ISBN: 9780262539814
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 15, 2020
A new wave of enthusiasm for smart cities, urban data, and the Internet of Things has created the impression that computation can solve almost any urban problem. Subjecting this claim to critical scrutiny,...
Knowledge Machines
Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities
ISBN: 9780262547857
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 9, 2023
An examination of the ways that digital and networked technologies have fundamentally changed research practices in disciplines from astronomy to literary analysis.
Data Paradoxes
The Politics of Intensified Data Sourcing in Contemporary Healthcare
ISBN: 9780262545419
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 18, 2023
Why healthcare cannot—and should not—become data-driven, despite the many promises of intensified data sourcing.
Lifelines of Our Society
A Global History of Infrastructure
ISBN: 9780262546386
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 1, 2023
A comprehensive history and examination of global infrastructures and the outsized role they play in our lives.
Digital Oil
Machineries of Knowing
ISBN: 9780262544672
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 8, 2022
How is digitalization of the offshore oil industry fundamentally changing how we understand work and ways of knowing?
The Demonstration Society
ISBN: 9780262542890
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 12, 2021
Today, as in the past, public demonstrations are not only tools to prove, persuade, and promote, but also fundamental forms of social interaction and exchange.
Underground
The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran
ISBN: 9780262542845
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 28, 2021
How Iranians forged a vibrant, informal video distribution infrastructure when their government banned all home video technology in 1983.
Borders as Infrastructure
The Technopolitics of Border Control
ISBN: 9780262542883
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 17, 2021
An investigation of borders as moving entities that influence our notions of territory, authority, sovereignty, and jurisdiction.
Riding the New York Subway
The Invention of the Modern Passenger
ISBN: 9780262542012
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 16, 2021
A history of New York subway passengers as they navigated the system's constraints while striving for individuality, or at least a smooth ride.
Urban Operating Systems
Producing the Computational City
ISBN: 9780262539814
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 15, 2020
A new wave of enthusiasm for smart cities, urban data, and the Internet of Things has created the impression that computation can solve almost any urban problem. Subjecting this claim to critical scrutiny,...