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Networked Press Freedom

Creating Infrastructures for a Public Right to Hear

by Mike Ananny
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018

Reimagining press freedom in a networked era: not just a journalist's right to speak but also a public's right to hear. In Networked Press Freedom, Mike Ananny offers a new way to think about freedom of the press in a time when media systems are in fundamental flux. Ananny challenges the idea...
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Making in America

From Innovation to Market

by Suzanne Berger, MIT Task Force on Production i Innovation Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013

How America can rebuild its industrial landscape to sustain an innovative economy. America is the world leader in innovation, but many of the innovative ideas that are hatched in American start-ups, labs, and companies end up going abroad to reach commercial scale. Apple, the superstar of innovation,...
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by Cathy N. Davidson, David Theo Goldberg, Zoë Marie Jones
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2009

In this report, Cathy Davidson and David Theo Goldberg focus on the potential for shared and interactive learning made possible by the Internet. They argue that the single most important characteristic of the Internet is its capacity for world-wide community and the limitless exchange of ideas. The...
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by Jason Pontin, Mark Pontin, SL Huang
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018

Twelve visions of the future—by turns hilarious, frightening, and relevant—from new and established voices in science fiction. In this book, new and established voices in science fiction come together to offer original stories of the future. Ken Liu writes about a virtual currency that...
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by John V. Guttag
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2013

An introductory text that teaches students the art of computational problem solving, covering topics that range from simple algorithms to information visualization. This book introduces students with little or no prior programming experience to the art of computational problem solving using...
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The The Monstrosity of Christ

Paradox or Dialectic?

by John Milbank, Creston Davis, Slavoj Žižek
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011

"What matters is not so much that Žižek is endorsing a demythologized, disenchanted Christianity without transcendence, as that he is offering in the end (despite what he sometimes claims) a heterodox version of Christian belief."--John Milbank"To put it even more bluntly, my claim is that it is...
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by Ben Barres
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018

A leading scientist describes his life, his gender transition, his scientific work, and his advocacy for gender equality in science. Ben Barres was known for his groundbreaking scientific work and for his groundbreaking advocacy for gender equality in science. In this book, completed shortly...
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by Morana Alac, Rachel Prentice, Michael Barany
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014

A fresh approach to visualization practices in the sciences that considers novel forms of imaging technology and draws on recent theoretical perspectives on representation. Representation in Scientific Practice, published by the MIT Press in 1990, helped coalesce a long-standing interest in...
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Walking in Berlin

A Flaneur in the Capital

by Franz Hessel
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017

The first English translation of a lost classic that reinvents the flaneur in Berlin. Franz Hessel (1880–1941), a German-born writer, grew up in Berlin, studied in Munich, and then lived in Paris, where he moved in artistic and literary circles. His relationship with the fashion journalist...
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Digital Crossroads

Telecommunications Law and Policy in the Internet Age

by Jonathan E. Nuechterlein, Philip J. Weiser
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013

A thoroughly updated, comprehensive, and accessible guide to U.S. telecommunications law and policy, covering recent developments including mobile broadband issues, spectrum policy, and net neutrality. In Digital Crossroads, two experts on telecommunications policy offer a comprehensive and...
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by Lee McIntyre
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018

How we arrived in a post-truth era, when “alternative facts” replace actual facts, and feelings have more weight than evidence. Are we living in a post-truth world, where “alternative facts” replace actual facts and feelings have more weight than evidence? How did we get here? In this...
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The The Social Construction of Technological Systems

New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology

by Wiebe E. Bijker, Thomas P. Hughes, Trevor Pinch
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012

This pioneering book, first published in 1987, launched the new field of social studies of technology. It introduced a method of inquiry--social construction of technology, or SCOT--that became a key part of the wider discipline of science and technology studies. The book helped the MIT Press shape...
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by Margaret Cuonzo
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014

An introduction to paradoxes showing that they are more than mere puzzles but can prompt new ways of thinking. Thinkers have been fascinated by paradox since long before Aristotle grappled with Zeno's. In this volume in The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Margaret Cuonzo explores paradoxes...
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by Amaranth Borsuk
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018

The book as object, as content, as idea, as interface. What is the book in a digital age? Is it a physical object containing pages encased in covers? Is it a portable device that gives us access to entire libraries? The codex, the book as bound paper sheets, emerged around 150 CE. It was preceded...
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