The Mit Press: 939 books
Rules of Play
Game Design Fundamentals
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2003
As pop culture, games are as important as film or television--but game design has yet to develop a theoretical framework or critical vocabulary. In Rules of Play Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman present a much-needed primer for this emerging field. They offer a unified model for looking at all kinds...
Sound Unbound
Sampling Digital Music and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008
The role of sound and digital media in an information-based society: artists—from Steve Reich and Pierre Boulez to Chuck D and Moby—describe their work.
If Rhythm Science was about the flow of things, Sound Unbound is about the remix—how music, art, and literature have blurred the lines...
Collision Course
Endless Growth on a Finite Planet
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
The story behind the reckless promotion of economic growth despite its disastrous consequences for life on the planet.
The notion of ever-expanding economic growth has been promoted so relentlessly that “growth” is now entrenched as the natural objective of collective human effort. The...
Ecstatic Worlds
Media, Utopias, Ecologies
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
When media translate the world to the world: twentieth-century utopian projects including Edward Steichen's “Family of Man,” Jacques Cousteau's underwater films, and Buckminster Fuller's geoscope.
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On Hitler's Mein Kampf
The Poetics of National Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
An examination of the narrative strategies employed in the most dangerous book of the twentieth century and a reflection on totalitarian literature.
Hitler's Mein Kampf was banned in Germany for almost seventy years, kept from being reprinted by the accidental copyright holder, the Bavarian...
Atari Age
The Emergence of Video Games in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
The cultural contradictions of early video games: a medium for family fun (but mainly for middle-class boys), an improvement over pinball and television (but possibly harmful)
Beginning with the release of the Magnavox Odyssey and Pong in 1972, video games, whether played in arcades and taverns...
Ethics in Everyday Places
Mapping Moral Stress, Distress, and Injury
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
An exploration of moral stress, distress, and injuries inherent in modern society through the maps that pervade academic and public communications worlds.
In Ethics in Everyday Places, ethicist and geographer Tom Koch considers what happens when, as he puts it, “you do everything right but...
Connected Play
Tweens in a Virtual World
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
How kids play in virtual worlds, how it matters for their offline lives, and what this means for designing educational opportunities.
Millions of children visit virtual worlds every day. In such virtual play spaces as Habbo Hotel, Toontown, and Whyville, kids chat with friends from school,...
Mismatch
How Inclusion Shapes Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
How inclusive methods can build elegant design solutions that work for all.
Sometimes designed objects reject their users: a computer mouse that doesn't work for left-handed people, for example, or a touchscreen payment system that only works for people who read English phrases, have 20/20...
by Yu Zheng
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
An authoritative treatment of urban computing, offering an overview of the field, fundamental techniques, advanced models, and novel applications.
Urban computing brings powerful computational techniques to bear on such urban challenges as pollution, energy consumption, and traffic congestion....
An Inclusive Academy
Achieving Diversity and Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
How colleges and universities can live up to their ideals of diversity, and why inclusivity and excellence go hand in hand.
Most colleges and universities embrace the ideals of diversity and inclusion, but many fall short, especially in the hiring, retention, and advancement of faculty who...
Design, When Everybody Designs
An Introduction to Design for Social Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
The role of design, both expert and nonexpert, in the ongoing wave of social innovation toward sustainability.
In a changing world everyone designs: each individual person and each collective subject, from enterprises to institutions, from communities to cities and regions, must define and...
Bleak Houses
Disappointment and Failure in Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Why some architects fail to realize their ideal buildings, and what architecture critics can learn from novelists.
The usual history of architecture is a grand narrative of soaring monuments and heroic makers. But it is also a false narrative in many ways, rarely acknowledging the personal...
Making Democracy Fun
How Game Design Can Empower Citizens and Transform Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Drawing on the tools of game design to fix democracy.
Anyone who has ever been to a public hearing or community meeting would agree that participatory democracy can be boring. Hours of repetitive presentations, alternatingly alarmist or complacent, for or against, accompanied by constant heckling,...