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More-than-Human Aging
Animals, Robots, and Care in Later Life
Price:
CA$49.95
ISBN: 9781978840935
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Aging is not only reserved for humans. Similarly, how humans age is often a process in which other-than-humans - be it other species or technology - become entangled or carved out. The contributions to this edited volume open a conversation about how aging is always a hybrid, more-than-human process.
Childhood Unplugged
Practical Advice to Get Kids Off Screens and Find Balance
Price:
CA$24.99
ISBN: 9780865719828
Pub Date: July 2023
Imprint: New Society Publishers
Ditch the devices and bring back the magic of being a kid Screens are everywhere. Children spend an average of 7.5 hours on digital devices every day with profoundly negative consequences. While some...
The Counterfeit Coin
Videogames and Fantasies of Empowerment
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CA$46.95
ISBN: 9781978825505
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
The Counterfeit Coin argues that games and related entertainment media have become almost inseparable from fantasy. In turn, these media are making fantasy itself visible in new ways. Though apparently asocial and egocentric, fantasy has become a key term in social contestations of the emerging medium. At issue is whose fantasies are catered to, who feels powerful and gets their way, and who is left out.
The Counterfeit Coin
Videogames and Fantasies of Empowerment
Price:
CA$188.00
ISBN: 9781978825512
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
The Counterfeit Coin argues that games and related entertainment media have become almost inseparable from fantasy. In turn, these media are making fantasy itself visible in new ways. Though apparently asocial and egocentric, fantasy has become a key term in social contestations of the emerging medium. At issue is whose fantasies are catered to, who feels powerful and gets their way, and who is left out.
Simulating Good and Evil
The Morality and Politics of Videogames
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CA$45.95
ISBN: 9781978818569
Pub Date: September 2020
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Simulating Good and Evil shows that the moral panic surrounding violent videogames is deeply misguided, and often politically motivated, but that games are nevertheless morally important. Videogames should be seen as spaces in which players may experiment with moral reasoning strategies without inflicting real harm.
Metaphors of Internet
Ways of Being in the Age of Ubiquity
Price:
CA$41.13
CA$68.55
ISBN: 9781433174506
Pub Date: September 2020
Imprint: Peter Lang, International Academic Publishers
What happens when the internet is absorbed into everyday life? How do we make sense of something that is invisible but still so central? A group of digital culture experts address these questions in Metaphors of Internet: Ways of Being in the Age of Ubiquity.
War Games
Price:
CA$30.95
ISBN: 9780813598918
Pub Date: November 2019
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Covering everything from chess to football, from Saving Private Ryan to American Sniper, and from Call of Duty to drone interfaces, War Games is an essential guide for anyone seeking to understand the militarization of American culture, offering a compact yet comprehensive look at how we play with images of war.
War Games
Price:
CA$90.00
ISBN: 9780813598925
Pub Date: November 2019
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Covering everything from chess to football, from Saving Private Ryan to American Sniper, and from Call of Duty to drone interfaces, War Games is an essential guide for anyone seeking to understand the militarization of American culture, offering a compact yet comprehensive look at how we play with images of war.
i-Minds - 2nd edition
How and Why Constant Connectivity is Rewiring Our Brains and What to Do About it
Price:
CA$34.99
ISBN: 9780865719019
Pub Date: May 2019
Imprint: New Society Publishers
Engaging and scientifically rigorous, this fully updated edition of i-Minds explores screen-based technology's assimilation into our lives, pondering them as both godsend and plague, demonstrating how constant connectivity is changing our brains and exploring positive steps to take to embrace new technologies.
Who’s Afraid of AI?
Fear and Promise in the Age of Thinking Machines
Price:
CA$12.95
ISBN: 9781615195503
Pub Date: April 2019
Imprint: The Experiment
A penetrating guide to artificial intelligence: what it is, what it does, and how it will change our lives
Technology and Engagement
Making Technology Work for First Generation College Students
Price:
CA$50.95
ISBN: 9780813594194
Pub Date: February 2018
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Technology and Engagement explores how first generation college students use social media, aimed at improving their transition to and engagement with their university. This 'ecology of transition' is important in keeping them focused on why they were in college, and helped them become more integrated into the university setting.
When Technocultures Collide
Innovation from Below and the Struggle for Autonomy
Price:
CA$26.99
ISBN: 9781554588978
Pub Date: October 2013
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Examines computer hackers, phone phreaks, urban explorers, calculator and computer collectors, CrackBerry users, whistle-blowers, Yippies, zinsters, roulette cheats, and chess geeks. The dangers and joys of struggles for autonomy are underlined in studies of RIMs BlackBerry and Julian Assanges WikiLeaks website.
Buy It Now
Lessons from eBay
Price:
CA$140.95
ISBN: 9780822352266
Pub Date: July 2012
Imprint: Duke University Press
In Buy It Now, Michele White examines eBay and its emphasis on community and social norms, revealing the cultural assumptions about gender, race, and sexuality that are reinforced throughout the site. She shows how instructional texts, rule systems, and advertisements "configure the user," allowing eBay to indicate how the site is supposed to function while concurrently upholding and promoting particular social values, practices, and norms.
Buy It Now
Lessons from eBay
Price:
CA$37.95
ISBN: 9780822352402
Pub Date: July 2012
Imprint: Duke University Press
In Buy It Now, Michele White examines eBay and its emphasis on community and social norms, revealing the cultural assumptions about gender, race, and sexuality that are reinforced throughout the site. She shows how instructional texts, rule systems, and advertisements "configure the user," allowing eBay to indicate how the site is supposed to function while concurrently upholding and promoting particular social values, practices, and norms.
Connecting Canadians
Investigations in Community Informatics
Price:
CA$39.99
ISBN: 9781926836041
Pub Date: June 2012
Imprint: Athabasca University Press
Connecting Canadians examines the burgeoning field of community informatics.
Designing Culture
The Technological Imagination at Work
Price:
CA$140.95
ISBN: 9780822344339
Pub Date: July 2011
Imprint: Duke University Press
The cultural theorist and media designer Anne Balsamo calls for transforming learning practices to inspire culturally attuned technological imaginations.
More-than-Human Aging
Animals, Robots, and Care in Later Life
CA$49.95
ISBN: 9781978840935
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Childhood Unplugged
Practical Advice to Get Kids Off Screens and Find Balance
CA$24.99
ISBN: 9780865719828
Pub Date: July 2023
Imprint: New Society Publishers
The Counterfeit Coin
Videogames and Fantasies of Empowerment
CA$46.95
ISBN: 9781978825505
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
The Counterfeit Coin
Videogames and Fantasies of Empowerment
CA$188.00
ISBN: 9781978825512
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Simulating Good and Evil
The Morality and Politics of Videogames
CA$45.95
ISBN: 9781978818569
Pub Date: September 2020
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Metaphors of Internet
Ways of Being in the Age of Ubiquity
CA$41.13 CA$68.55
ISBN: 9781433174506
Pub Date: September 2020
Imprint: Peter Lang, International Academic Publishers
What happens when the internet is absorbed into everyday life? How do we make sense of something that is invisible but still so central? A group of digital culture experts address these questions in Metaphors of Internet: Ways of Being in the Age of Ubiquity.
War Games
CA$30.95
ISBN: 9780813598918
Pub Date: November 2019
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
War Games
CA$90.00
ISBN: 9780813598925
Pub Date: November 2019
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
i-Minds - 2nd edition
How and Why Constant Connectivity is Rewiring Our Brains and What to Do About it
CA$34.99
ISBN: 9780865719019
Pub Date: May 2019
Imprint: New Society Publishers
Engaging and scientifically rigorous, this fully updated edition of i-Minds explores screen-based technology's assimilation into our lives, pondering them as both godsend and plague, demonstrating how constant connectivity is changing our brains and exploring positive steps to take to embrace new technologies.
Who’s Afraid of AI?
Fear and Promise in the Age of Thinking Machines
CA$12.95
ISBN: 9781615195503
Pub Date: April 2019
Imprint: The Experiment
Technology and Engagement
Making Technology Work for First Generation College Students
CA$50.95
ISBN: 9780813594194
Pub Date: February 2018
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
When Technocultures Collide
Innovation from Below and the Struggle for Autonomy
CA$26.99
ISBN: 9781554588978
Pub Date: October 2013
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Buy It Now
Lessons from eBay
CA$140.95
ISBN: 9780822352266
Pub Date: July 2012
Imprint: Duke University Press
Buy It Now
Lessons from eBay
CA$37.95
ISBN: 9780822352402
Pub Date: July 2012
Imprint: Duke University Press
Connecting Canadians
Investigations in Community Informatics
CA$39.99
ISBN: 9781926836041
Pub Date: June 2012
Imprint: Athabasca University Press
Designing Culture
The Technological Imagination at Work
CA$140.95
ISBN: 9780822344339
Pub Date: July 2011
Imprint: Duke University Press