"Two senior scholars explain what language does to human beings, especially how it affects our intersubjective competence"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Cracking the Bro-Code is an ethnography that engages women navigating male-dominated cultures of computing. It provides evidence of women's experiences to reveal the values and practices of U.S.-based high-tech institutions and how they reproduce discrimination and harassment not only in their workplaces, but also in the broader political economy"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Argues that what makes AI socially relevant and useful is not intelligence at all but something even more human: communication. If machines are going to improve their ability to address ever more important human issues, it will not be because they have learned to think like people, but because we have learned to communicate with them"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Using original data and mixed methods, the book offers a comprehensive study on the spread of transnational sustainability certification in China's agri-food supply chains"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Based on a multi-sited ethnography among schools and activist groups in India and South Africa, this study offers an exploration of education practices in the context of impoverished, marginal communities where environmental crises intersect with colonial and racist histories and unsustainable presents"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Companies like Amazon, Upwork, Apple's App Store, and Ebay are shaping the world and the prospects of millions of people who depend on them for their livelihoods. This book explores the implications of this power and shows how it compares with traditional statecraft"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"How modern technology is influencing how humans connect with each other, how it is creating gaps in need-fulfillment, and how genuine connections can be forged in a time where technology paradoxically creates both an abundance of opportunities for connection, but fewer opportunities for real intimacy"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Bonini and Trere explore how people all around the world use different tactics to interfere with the algorithms behind the platforms they use to work, entertain, and inform themselves"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Selfie Democracy exposes the unintended consequences of wireless technologies on political leadership and shows how seemingly benign mobile devices that hold out the promise of direct democracy ultimately undermine representative forms of government and deepen partisan divides. As the smart phone and mobile applications are reshaping civic participation, attitudes about freedom, civic rights, …
"An accessible and self-contained treatment of the current state of thinking about rationality in economics and other social sciences"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.