The Mit Press: 939 books
by Tung-Hui Hu
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
The militarized legacy of the digital cloud: how the cloud grew out of older network technologies and politics.
We may imagine the digital cloud as placeless, mute, ethereal, and unmediated. Yet the reality of the cloud is embodied in thousands of massive data centers, any one of which can...
An Aesthesia of Networks
Conjunctive Experience in Art and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
The experience of networks as the immediate sensing of relations between humans and nonhuman technical elements in assemblages such as viral media and databases.
Today almost every aspect of life for which data exists can be rendered as a network. Financial data, social networks, biological...
by Alex Cho, Veronika Tzankova, Jodi Dean
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Investigations of affective experiences that emerge in online settings that range from Facebook discussion forums to “smart” classrooms.
Our encounters with websites, avatars, videos, mobile apps, discussion forums, GIFs, and nonhuman intelligent agents allow us to experience sensations...
Beyond Choices
The Design of Ethical Gameplay
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
How computer games can be designed to create ethically relevant experiences for players.
Today's blockbuster video games—and their never-ending sequels, sagas, and reboots—provide plenty of excitement in high-resolution but for the most part fail to engage a player's moral imagination....
by Frank A. Sloan, Chee-Ruey Hsieh
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
The new edition of a textbook that combines economic concepts with empirical evidence, updated with material on the Affordable Care Act and other developments.
This book introduces students to the growing research field of health economics. Rather than offer details about health systems without...
Traversing Digital Babel
Information, E-Government, and Exchange
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
A groundbreaking approach to information sharing among government agencies: using selective incentives to “nudge” them to exchange information assets.
The computer systems of government agencies are notoriously complex. New technologies are piled on older technologies, creating layers that...
by Kimiz Dalkir
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
A new, thoroughly updated edition of a comprehensive overview of knowledge management (KM), covering theoretical foundations, the KM process, tools, and professions.
The ability to manage knowledge has become increasingly important in today's knowledge economy. Knowledge is considered a valuable...
Site Planning
International Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Ebook Volume 3 of 3. A comprehensive, state-of-the-art guide to site planning, covering planning processes, new technologies, and sustainability, with extensive treatment of practices in rapidly urbanizing countries.
Ebook Volume 3 of 3.
Cities are built site by site. Site planning—the...
by Pol Antràs, Ngo Van Long, Sebastian Benz
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Theoretical and empirical perspectives on the fragmentation of production processes across borders, shedding light on global sourcing decisions and their economic effects.
Recent decades have seen a fragmentation of production processes across borders, as firms find it increasingly profitable...
Connected Code
Why Children Need to Learn Programming
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Why every child needs to learn to code: the shift from “computational thinking” to computational participation.
Coding, once considered an arcane craft practiced by solitary techies, is now recognized by educators and theorists as a crucial skill, even a new literacy, for all children....
Connected Gaming
What Making Video Games Can Teach Us about Learning and Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
How making and sharing video games offer educational benefits for coding, collaboration, and creativity.
Over the last decade, video games designed to teach academic content have multiplied. Students can learn about Newtonian physics from a game or prep for entry into the army. An emphasis...
Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture
Media Education for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2009
Many teens today who use the Internet are actively involved in participatory cultures—joining online communities (Facebook, message boards, game clans), producing creative work in new forms (digital sampling, modding, fan videomaking, fan fiction), working in teams to complete tasks and develop...
Good Science
The Ethical Choreography of Stem Cell Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
An examination of a decade and a half of political controversy, ethical debate, and scientific progress in stem cell research.
After a decade and a half, human pluripotent stem cell research has been normalized. There may be no consensus on the status of the embryo—only a tacit agreement...
Spam
A Shadow History of the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
What spam is, how it works, and how it has shaped online communities and the Internet itself.
The vast majority of all email sent every day is spam, a variety of idiosyncratically spelled requests to provide account information, invitations to spend money on dubious products, and pleas to send...