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The Digital Environment
How We Live, Learn, Work, and Play Now
ISBN: 9780262548595
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 5, 2025
Understanding digital technology in daily life: why we should think holistically in terms of a digital environment instead of discrete devices and apps.
Triangles and Tribulations
Translations, Betrayals, and the Making of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory
ISBN: 9780262552172
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 17, 2025
How the sociology of translation can help us understand a social science framework—cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT)—as a set of uneasy settlements that both further and betray their original intentions.
Fragilities
Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair
ISBN: 9780262550758
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 29, 2025
An original essay collection that explores the generative dimensions of fragility, which can help reveal new life-affirming politics and ethics.
Unboxing Japanese Videogames
A Metadata-Based Approach to the Production and Distribution of Spatial Instability
ISBN: 9780262552226
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 25, 2025
A new perspective on the spatial complexity and plurality of Japanese videogames.
Trans Technologies
ISBN: 9780262551861
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 25, 2025
How technology creates new possibilities for transgender people, and how trans experiences, in turn, create new possibilities for technology.
The Silicon Shrink
How Artificial Intelligence Made the World an Asylum
ISBN: 9780262049351
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 4, 2025
Why the race to apply AI in psychiatry is so dangerous, and how to understand the new tech-driven psychiatric paradigm.
Design Rules
How Technology Shapes Organizations
ISBN: 9780262049337
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 24, 2024
How the innate physical properties of different technologies influence the strategy and structure of the organizations implementing the technologies, the sequel to Design Rules: The Power of Modularity.
Tech Agnostic
How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation
ISBN: 9780262049207
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 29, 2024
An urgently needed exploration of global technology worship, and a measured case for skepticism and agnosticism as a way of life, from the New York Times–bestselling author of Good without God.
Pioneering Progress
American Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy
ISBN: 9780262549448
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 29, 2024
An expert exploration of the foundations of America's science and technology policies, and the dynamics of its innovation system.
The Digital Environment
How We Live, Learn, Work, and Play Now
ISBN: 9780262548595
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 5, 2025
Understanding digital technology in daily life: why we should think holistically in terms of a digital environment instead of discrete devices and apps.
Triangles and Tribulations
Translations, Betrayals, and the Making of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory
ISBN: 9780262552172
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 17, 2025
How the sociology of translation can help us understand a social science framework—cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT)—as a set of uneasy settlements that both further and betray their original intentions.
Fragilities
Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair
ISBN: 9780262550758
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 29, 2025
An original essay collection that explores the generative dimensions of fragility, which can help reveal new life-affirming politics and ethics.
Unboxing Japanese Videogames
A Metadata-Based Approach to the Production and Distribution of Spatial Instability
ISBN: 9780262552226
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 25, 2025
A new perspective on the spatial complexity and plurality of Japanese videogames.
Trans Technologies
ISBN: 9780262551861
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 25, 2025
How technology creates new possibilities for transgender people, and how trans experiences, in turn, create new possibilities for technology.
The Silicon Shrink
How Artificial Intelligence Made the World an Asylum
ISBN: 9780262049351
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 4, 2025
Why the race to apply AI in psychiatry is so dangerous, and how to understand the new tech-driven psychiatric paradigm.
Design Rules
How Technology Shapes Organizations
ISBN: 9780262049337
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 24, 2024
How the innate physical properties of different technologies influence the strategy and structure of the organizations implementing the technologies, the sequel to Design Rules: The Power of Modularity.
Tech Agnostic
How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation
ISBN: 9780262049207
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 29, 2024
An urgently needed exploration of global technology worship, and a measured case for skepticism and agnosticism as a way of life, from the New York Times–bestselling author of Good without God.
Pioneering Progress
American Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy
ISBN: 9780262549448
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 29, 2024
An expert exploration of the foundations of America's science and technology policies, and the dynamics of its innovation system.