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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 10 books in this booklist
£14.99 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781804291245 | ISBN 10: 1804291242
A detailed disassembly manual for people who want to dismantle Big Tech. When the tech platforms promised a future of "connection," they were lying. They said their "walled gardens" would keep us safe, but those were prison walls. T ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780552178389 | ISBN 10: 0552178381
How women can take back tech – to communicate, investigate, problem-solve, broker deals and protect themselves in a digital world. 'A practical and positive guide to using tech to change women's lives for the better' - Caroline Criado Pere ... more
View book details£14.99 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781839762024 | ISBN 10: 1839762020
Why is the internet so broken, and what could ever possibly fix it? In Internet for the People, leading tech writer Ben Tarnoff offers an answer. The internet is broken, he argues, because it is owned by private firms and run for profit. Goo ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781839761324 | ISBN 10: 1839761326
A consensus-shattering account of automation technologies and their effect on workplaces and the labor market. In this consensus-shattering account of automation technologies, Aaron Benanav investigates the economic trends that will shape our ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781526607232 | ISBN 10: 1526607239
The internet is a network of physical cables and connections, a web of wires enmeshing the world, linking huge data centres to one another and eventually to us. All are owned by someone, financed by someone, regulated by someone. We refer to the inte ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781736205907 | ISBN 10: 1736205900
How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism was first published online in August, where it was an instant hit with readers, scholars, and critics alike. For years now, we've been hearing about the ills of surveillance capitalism - the business o ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786632630 | ISBN 10: 1786632632
A different kind of politics for a new kind of society—beyond work, scarcity and capitalism. In the twenty-first century, new technologies should liberate us from work. Automation, rather than undermining an economy built on full employment, i ... more
View book details£14.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780241399361 | ISBN 10: 024139936x
James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth. He argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale ... more
View book details£14.95 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780262535182 | ISBN 10: 0262535181
In 1944, Britain led the world in electronic computing. By 1974, the British computer industry was all but extinct. What happened in the intervening thirty years holds lessons for all postindustrial superpowers. As Britain struggled to use technology ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780300199000 | ISBN 10: 0300199007
What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media affect the quality of teens’ lives? In this eye-opening book, youth culture and technology expert danah boyd uncovers some of ... more
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