The Mit Press: 939 books
The Shape of Actions
What Humans and Machines Can Do
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 1999
What can humans do? What can machines do? How do humans delegate actions to machines? In this book, Harry Collins and Martin Kusch combine insights from sociology and philosophy to provide a novel answer to these increasingly important questions.The authors begin by distinguishing between two basic...
The World Made Meme
Public Conversations and Participatory Media
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
How memetic media—aggregate texts that are collectively created, circulated, and transformed—become a part of public conversations that shape broader cultural debates.
Internet memes—digital snippets that can make a joke, make a point, or make a connection—are now a lingua franca of...
Scripting Reading Motions
The Codex and the Computer as Self-Reflexive Machines
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
An exploration of what experimental literature in both print and programmable media tells us about the act of reading.
In Scripting Reading Motions, Manuel Portela explores the expressive use of book forms and programmable media in experimental works of both print and electronic literature...
Waste
A New Media Primer
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
On Facebook and fake news, selfies and self-consciousness, selling our souls to the Internet, and other aspects of the digital revolution.
With these engaging and provocative essays, Roberto Simanowski considers what new media has done to us. Why is digital privacy being eroded and why does...
by Michael Madary
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Phenomenological and empirical methods of investigating visual experience converge to support the thesis that visual perception is an ongoing process of anticipation and fulfillment.
In this book, Michael Madary examines visual experience, drawing on both phenomenological and empirical methods...
Dying in the Twenty-First Century
Toward a New Ethical Framework for the Art of Dying Well
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Physicians, philosophers, and theologians consider how to address death and dying for a diverse population in a secularized century.
Most of us are generally ill-equipped for dying. Today, we neither see death nor prepare for it. But this has not always been the case. In the early fifteenth...
by Nicholas Agar
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
An argument in favor of finding a place for humans (and humanness) in the future digital economy.
In the digital economy, accountants, baristas, and cashiers can be automated out of employment; so can surgeons, airline pilots, and cab drivers. Machines will be able to do these jobs more efficiently,...
Power Button
A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Push a button and turn on the television; tap a button and get a ride; click a button and “like” something. The touch of a finger can set an appliance, a car, or a system in motion, even if the user doesn't understand the underlying mechanisms or algorithms. How did buttons become so ubiquitous?...
Good Reception
Teens, Teachers, and Mobile Media in a Los Angeles High School
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
A year in the life of a ninth-grade English class shows how participatory culture and mobile devices can transform learning in schools.
Schools and school districts have one approach to innovation: buy more technology. In Good Reception, Antero Garcia describes what happens when educators build...
by Michael Batty
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
How we can invent—but not predict—the future of cities.
We cannot predict future cities, but we can invent them. Cities are largely unpredictable because they are complex systems that are more like organisms than machines. Neither the laws of economics nor the laws of mechanics apply; cities...
The Expressive Moment
How Interaction (with Music) Shapes Human Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
A new way to understand expressive interaction, focusing on the dynamic, fast, pre-reflective processes underlying interactions with music.
The expressive moment is that point in time when we grasp a situation and respond quickly, even before we are aware of it. In this book, Marc Leman argues...
Chasing Men on Fire
The Story of the Search for a Pain Gene
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
A thirty-year quest, from genes to pain-signaling neurons to people with a rare genetic disorder that makes them feel they are on fire.
Two soldiers, both with wounds injuring the same nerve, show very different responses: one is disabled by neuropathic pain, unable to touch the injured limb...
by Kristine Jørgensen
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
An investigation into computer game interfaces, both naturalistic and symbolic, and the distinction between gameworlds and other kinds of fictional worlds.
Computer games usually take one of two approaches to presenting game information to players. A game might offer information naturalistically,...
Designing with the Body
Somaesthetic Interaction Design
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
Interaction design that entails a qualitative shift from a symbolic, language-oriented stance to an experiential stance that encompasses the entire design and use cycle.
With the rise of ubiquitous technology, data-driven design, and the Internet of Things, our interactions and interfaces with...