The Mit Press: 939 books
by Gina Neff, Dawn Nafus
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
What happens when people turn their everyday experience into data: an introduction to the essential ideas and key challenges of self-tracking.
People keep track. In the eighteenth century, Benjamin Franklin kept charts of time spent and virtues lived up to. Today, people use technology to self-track:...
In Praise of Reason
Why Rationality Matters for Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
A spirited defense of the relevance of reason for an era of popular skepticism over such matters as climate change, vaccines, and evolution.
Why does reason matter, if (as many people seem to think) in the end everything comes down to blind faith or gut instinct? Why not just go with what you...
Digital Signatures
The Impact of Digitization on Popular Music Sound
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
How sonically distinctive digital “signatures”—including reverb, glitches, and autotuning—affect the aesthetics of popular music, analyzed in works by Prince, Lady Gaga, and others.
Is digital production killing the soul of music? Is Auto-Tune the nadir of creative expression? Digital...
Memory and Movies
What Films Can Teach Us about Memory
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
How popular films from Memento to Slumdog Millionaire can help us understand how memory works.
In the movie Slumdog Millionaire, the childhood memories of a young game show contestant trigger his correct answers. In Memento, the amnesiac hero uses tattoos as memory aids. In Away from Her, an...
by Umberto Eco
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Umberto Eco's wise and witty guide to researching and writing a thesis, published in English for the first time.
By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel The Name of the Rose, he was one of Italy's most celebrated intellectuals, a distinguished academic and the author of influential...
Bad Call
Technology's Attack on Referees and Umpires and How to Fix It
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
How technologies can get it wrong in sports, and what the consequences are—referees undermined, fans heartbroken, and the illusion of perfect accuracy maintained.
Good call or bad call, referees and umpires have always had the final say in sports. Bad calls are more visible: plays are televised...
Inter/vention
Free Play in the Age of Electracy
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
A proposal that electracy—the special skills needed to navigate and understand our digital world—can be developed through play.
In today's complex digital world, we must understand new media expressions and digital experiences not simply as more technologically advanced forms of “writing”...
The Materiality of Interaction
Notes on the Materials of Interaction Design
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
A new approach to interaction design that moves beyond representation and metaphor to focus on the material manifestations of interaction.
Smart watches, smart cars, the Internet of things, 3D printing: all signal a trend toward combining digital and analog materials in design. Interaction...
Programmed Inequality
How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
How Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating against its most qualified workers: women.
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...
Creating Language
Integrating Evolution, Acquisition, and Processing
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences.
Language is a hallmark of the human species; the flexibility and unbounded expressivity of our linguistic abilities is unique...
Learnability and Cognition
The Acquisition of Argument Structure
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
A classic book about language acquisition and conceptual structure, with a new preface by the author, "The Secret Life of Verbs."
Before Steven Pinker wrote bestsellers on language and human nature, he wrote several technical monographs on language acquisition that have become classics in cognitive...
Young People, Ethics, and the New Digital Media
A Synthesis from the GoodPlay Project
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2009
Social networking, blogging, vlogging, gaming, instant messaging, downloading music and other content, uploading and sharing their own creative work: these activities made possible by the new digital media are rich with opportunities and risks for young people. This report, part of the GoodPlay Project,...
Privacy on the Line
The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
A penetrating and insightful study of privacy and security in telecommunications for a post-9/11, post-Patriot Act world.
Telecommunication has never been perfectly secure. The Cold War culture of recording devices in telephone receivers and bugged embassy offices has been succeeded by a post-9/11...
by Margaret A. Boden, Liane Gabora, Apara Ranjan
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Experts describe current perspectives and experimental approaches to understanding the neural bases of creativity.
This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the latest neuroscientific approaches to the scientific study of creativity. In chapters that progress logically from neurobiological...