Everyone Breaks These Laws
How Copyrights Made the Online World
ISBN: HB: 9780300251265,
Yale University Press,
July 2025
288 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 23 black&white illus.
288 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 23 black&white illus.
Copyright's profound impact on the online world as we know it.
This book is a captivating exploration of the profound impact of American copyright law on our online lives. It uncovers the hidden forces shaping our digital world by telling stories a...
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28.00 GBP
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As If Human
Ethics and Artificial Intelligence
ISBN: HB: 9780300268294,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
272 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
272 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
A new approach to the challenges surrounding artificial intelligence that argues for assessing AI actions as if they came from a human being.
Intelligent machines present us every day with urgent ethical challenges. Is the facial recognition softwa...
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20.00 GBP
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Death Glitch
How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond
ISBN: HB: 9780300248272,
Yale University Press,
November 2023
272 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 16 black&white illus.
272 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 16 black&white illus.
An accessible yet erudite deep dive into how platforms are remaking experiences of death.
Since the internet's earliest days, people have died and mourned online. In quiet corners of past iterations of the web, the dead linger. But attempts at pres...
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27.50 GBP
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Private Is Political
Networked Privacy and Social Media
ISBN: HB: 9780300229622,
Yale University Press,
July 2023
384 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
384 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
A compelling firsthand investigation of how social media and big data have amplified the close relationship between privacy and inequality.
Online privacy is under constant attack by social media and big data technologies. But we cannot rely on ind...
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20.00 GBP
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Age of Guilt
The Super-Ego in the Online World
ISBN: HB: 9780300265811,
Yale University Press,
June 2023
192 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
192 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
How Freud's concept of the super-ego can help us to understand the harsh cultural climate of the digital age.
Cancellation, scapegoating, raving on Twitter. How did the Internet, which began as a place for open thought and exchange, become a forum...
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18.99 GBP
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Atlas of AI
ISBN: PB: 9780300264630,
Yale University Press,
October 2022
336 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 31 black&white illus.
336 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 31 black&white illus.
What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? Drawing on more than a decade of original research, award-winning science and technology s...
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12.99 GBP
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Custodians of the Internet
Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions That Shape Social Media
ISBN: PB: 9780300261431,
Yale University Press,
October 2021
296 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 14 black&white illus.
296 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 14 black&white illus.
Most users want their Twitter feed, Facebook page, and YouTube comments to be free of harassment and porn. Whether faced with "fake news" or livestreamed violence, "content moderators" – who censor or promote user-posted content – have never been mor...
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18.99 GBP
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Lie Machines
How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives
ISBN: HB: 9780300250206,
Yale University Press,
June 2020
224 pp., 20,9x13,9 cm
224 pp., 20,9x13,9 cm
Artificially intelligent "bot" accounts bolster or berate politicians on Twitter. Conspiracy theorists publish junk news sites to promote their bunk. Campaigners create fake dating profiles to attract young voters. We live in a world of technologies...
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22.50 GBP
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Internet in Everything
Freedom and Security in a World with No Off Switch
ISBN: HB: 9780300233070,
Yale University Press,
February 2020
288 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 4 black&white illus.
288 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 4 black&white illus.
The Internet has leapt from human-facing display screens into the material objects all around us. In this so-called Internet of Things – connecting everything from cars to cardiac monitors to home appliances – there is no longer a meaningful distinct...
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27.50 GBP
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Listening In
Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age
ISBN: PB: 9780300244427,
Yale University Press,
May 2019
240 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm
240 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm
New technologies have provided both incredible convenience and new threats. The same kinds of digital networks that allow you to hail a ride using your smartphone let power grid operators control a country's electricity – and these personal, corporat...
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32.00 GBP
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