What's the Beef?: The Contested Governance of European Food Safety

A series of food-related crises--most notably mad cow disease in Britain, farmer protests in France against American hormone-treated beef, and the European Union's banning of genetically modified food--has turned the regulation of food safety in Europe into a crucible for issues of institutional trust, legitimacy, and effectiveness. What's the Beef? examines European food safety regulation at t…

Embodying Design: An Applied Science of Radical Embodied Cognition

In this book, Christopher Baber uses embodied cognition as a lens through which to view both how designers engage in creative practices and how people use designed artifacts. This view of cognition as enactive, embedded, situated, or distributed, without recourse to internal representations, provides a theoretical grounding that makes possible a richer account of human interaction with technolo…

Designing publics

Contemporary computing technologies have thoroughly embedded themselves in every aspect of modern life -- conducting commerce, maintaining and extending our networks of friends, and mobilizing political movements all occur through a growing collection of devices and services designed to keep and hold our attention. Yet what happens when our attention needs to be more local, collective, and focu…

Words without Meaning

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Optimizing play :why theorycrafting breaks games and how to fix it

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Going big :a scientist's guide to large projects and collaborations

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Real life in real time :live streaming culture

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Tenacious beasts :animals back from the brink

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