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Attention Is Discovery
The Life and Legacy of Astronomer Henrietta Leavitt
ISBN: 9780262049382
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 17, 2024
A portrait of trailblazing astronomer Henrietta Leavitt and an illustrated exploration of the power of attention in scientific observation, artistic creation, and the making of meaning.
Discriminating Data
Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the New Politics of Recognition
ISBN: 9780262548526
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 5, 2024
How big data and machine learning encode discrimination and create agitated clusters of comforting rage.
Distant Viewing
Computational Exploration of Digital Images
ISBN: 9780262546133
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 17, 2023
A new theory and methodology for the application of computer vision methods to the computational analysis of collected, digitized visual materials, called “distant viewing.”
Data Action
Using Data for Public Good
ISBN: 9780262545310
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 20, 2022
How to use data as a tool for empowerment rather than oppression.
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.
The Stuff of Bits
An Essay on the Materialities of Information
ISBN: 9780262546522
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 1, 2022
An argument that the material arrangements of information—how it is represented and interpreted—matter significantly for our experience of information and information systems.
Ideas That Created the Future
Classic Papers of Computer Science
ISBN: 9780262045308
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 2, 2021
Classic papers by thinkers ranging from Aristotle and Leibniz to Norbert Wiener and Gordon Moore that chart the evolution of computer science.
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?
Athena Unbound
Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All
ISBN: 9780262048002
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 28, 2023
A clear-eyed examination of the open access movement: past history, current conflicts, and future possibilities.

Attention Is Discovery
The Life and Legacy of Astronomer Henrietta Leavitt
ISBN: 9780262049382
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 17, 2024
A portrait of trailblazing astronomer Henrietta Leavitt and an illustrated exploration of the power of attention in scientific observation, artistic creation, and the making of meaning.
Discriminating Data
Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the New Politics of Recognition
ISBN: 9780262548526
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 5, 2024
How big data and machine learning encode discrimination and create agitated clusters of comforting rage.
Distant Viewing
Computational Exploration of Digital Images
ISBN: 9780262546133
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 17, 2023
A new theory and methodology for the application of computer vision methods to the computational analysis of collected, digitized visual materials, called “distant viewing.”
Data Action
Using Data for Public Good
ISBN: 9780262545310
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 20, 2022
How to use data as a tool for empowerment rather than oppression.
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.
The Stuff of Bits
An Essay on the Materialities of Information
ISBN: 9780262546522
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 1, 2022
An argument that the material arrangements of information—how it is represented and interpreted—matter significantly for our experience of information and information systems.
Ideas That Created the Future
Classic Papers of Computer Science
ISBN: 9780262045308
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 2, 2021
Classic papers by thinkers ranging from Aristotle and Leibniz to Norbert Wiener and Gordon Moore that chart the evolution of computer science.
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?
Athena Unbound
Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All
ISBN: 9780262048002
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 28, 2023
A clear-eyed examination of the open access movement: past history, current conflicts, and future possibilities.