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        Acting with Technology

        Books published in the Acting With Technology Series are concerned with the study of meaningful human activity as it is mediated by tools and technologies. The series has a broad interdisciplinary scope. While grounded in science and technology studies, human-computer interaction, and computer-supported collaborative work, the series aims to bring together and mutually inform conceptual developments and empirical explorations of the technological mediation of human activity in these and other fields such as sociology, communication, education, and organizational studies. Acting With Technology volumes encompass a diversity of theoretical frameworks including activity theory, actor network theory, distributed cognition, and other practice-based theories developed through ethnomethodological and grounded theory approaches. The books investigate tool-mediated processes of working, organizing, playing, and learning in and across a wide variety of social settings, with a special focus on significant contemporary issues related to emerging technology-related trends in culture and society.

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        Data Rules

        Data Rules

        Data Rules

        Reinventing the Market Economy

        by Cristina Alaimo and Jannis Kallinikos

        Foreword by Michael Power

        ISBN: 9780262547932

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: June 4, 2024

        A new social science framework for studying the unprecedented social and economic restructuring driven by digital data.
        Virtually Amish

        Virtually Amish

        Virtually Amish

        Preserving Community at the Internet's Margins

        by Lindsay Ems

        ISBN: 9780262543637

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: June 7, 2022

        How the Amish have adopted certain digital tools in ways that allow them to work and live according to their own value system.
        The Good Drone

        The Good Drone

        The Good Drone

        How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance

        by Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick

        ISBN: 9780262538886

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: July 28, 2020

        How small-scale drones, satellites, kites, and balloons are used by social movements for the greater good.
        Venture Labor

        Venture Labor

        Venture Labor

        Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries

        by Gina Neff

        ISBN: 9780262527422

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: January 30, 2015

        Why employees of pioneering Internet companies chose to invest their time, energy, hopes, and human capital in start-up ventures.
        Technology Choices

        Technology Choices

        Technology Choices

        Why Occupations Differ in Their Embrace of New Technology

        by Diane E. Bailey and Paul M. Leonardi

        ISBN: 9780262028424

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: January 23, 2015

        An analysis of the occupational factors that shape the technology choices made by people who perform the same type of work.
        Digitally Enabled Social Change

        Digitally Enabled Social Change

        Digitally Enabled Social Change

        Activism in the Internet Age

        by Jennifer Earl and Katrina Kimport

        ISBN: 9780262525060

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 16, 2013

        An investigation into how specific Web technologies can change the dynamics of organizing and participating in political and social protest.
        Invisible Users

        Invisible Users

        Invisible Users

        Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana

        by Jenna Burrell

        ISBN: 9780262017367

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: May 4, 2012

        An account of how young people in Ghana's capital city adopt and adapt digital technology in the margins of the global economy.
        Tracing Genres through Organizations

        Tracing Genres through Organizations

        Tracing Genres through Organizations

        A Sociocultural Approach to Information Design

        by Clay Spinuzzi

        ISBN: 9780262527064

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 26, 2003

        A sociocultural study of workers' ad hoc genre innovations and their significance for information design.
        Heteromation, and Other Stories of Computing and Capitalism

        Heteromation, and Other Stories of Computing and Capitalism

        Heteromation, and Other Stories of Computing and Capitalism

        by Hamid R. Ekbia and Bonnie A. Nardi

        ISBN: 9780262036252

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: May 4, 2017

        An exploration of a new division of labor between machines and humans, in which people provide value to the economy with little or no compensation.
        Coding Places

        Coding Places

        Coding Places

        Software Practice in a South American City

        by Yuri Takhteyev

        ISBN: 9780262018074

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 21, 2012

        An examination of software practice in Brazil that reveals both the globalization and the localization of software development.
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