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Essential Writings on Software Preservation and Game Histories
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CA$65.95
ISBN: 9781421445946
Pub Date: June 2023
Imprint: John Hopkins University
A leading voice in technology studies shares a collection of essential essays on the preservation of software and history of games.Since the early 2000s, Henry Lowood has led or had a key role in numerous...
The Birth of Computer Vision
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CA$37.99
ISBN: 9781517914219
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
A revealing genealogy of image-recognition techniques and technologies Today's most advanced neural networks and sophisticated image-analysis methods come from 1950s and '60s Cold War culture-and...
Floppy Disk Fever
The Curious Afterlives of a Flexible Medium
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CA$25.00
ISBN: 9789493148864
Pub Date: November 2022
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
A delightful romp through the surprising subcultures of an obsolete formatThis volume explores the curious afterlives of the floppy disk in the 21st century through the work...
Abstractions and Embodiments
New Histories of Computing and Society
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CA$51.95
ISBN: 9781421444376
Pub Date: August 2022
Imprint: John Hopkins University
Cutting-edge historians explore ideas, communities, and technologies around modern computing to explore how computers mediate social relations.Computers have been framed both as a mirror for the human...
Profit over Privacy
How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet
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CA$139.99
ISBN: 9781517905040
Pub Date: September 2021
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
A deep dive into the political roots of advertising on the internet The contemporary internet's de facto business model is one of surveillance. Browser cookies follow us around the web, Amazon targets...
Profit over Privacy
How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet
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CA$34.99
ISBN: 9781517905057
Pub Date: September 2021
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
A deep dive into the political roots of advertising on the internet The contemporary internet's de facto business model is one of surveillance. Browser cookies follow us around the web, Amazon targets...
Internet Daemons
Digital Communications Possessed
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CA$156.99
ISBN: 9781517901530
Pub Date: October 2018
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
A complete history and theory of internet daemons brings these little-known-but very consequential-programs into the spotlight We're used to talking about how tech giants like Google, Facebook, and...
Internet Daemons
Digital Communications Possessed
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CA$38.99
ISBN: 9781517901547
Pub Date: October 2018
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
A complete history and theory of internet daemons brings these little-known-but very consequential-programs into the spotlight We're used to talking about how tech giants like Google, Facebook, and...
Archaeologies of Touch
Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing
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CA$38.99
ISBN: 9781517900595
Pub Date: February 2018
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
David Parisi offers the first full history of new computing technologies known as haptic interfaces-which use electricity, vibration, and force feedback to stimulate the sense of touch-showing how the efforts of scientists and engineers over the past 300 years have gradually remade and redefined our sense of touch. Archaeologies of Touch offers a timely and provocative engagement with the long history of touch technology that helps us confront and question the power relations underpinning the project of giving touch its own set of technical media.
The Bleeding Edge
Why Technology Turns Toxic in an Unequal World
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CA$19.95
ISBN: 9781771132909
Pub Date: October 2016
Imprint: Between the Lines
Unequal societies are incapable of using new technologies well. Wherever elites exist, self-preservation decrees that they must take control of new technologies to protect and entrench their status, rather than satisfy people’s needs.
Coin-Operated Americans
Rebooting Boyhood at the Video Game Arcade
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CA$112.99
ISBN: 9780816691821
Pub Date: September 2015
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Video gaming: it's a boy's world, right? That's what the industry wants us to think. Why and how we came to comply are what Carly A. Kocurek investigates in this provocative consideration of how an...
Coin-Operated Americans
Rebooting Boyhood at the Video Game Arcade
Price:
CA$31.99
ISBN: 9780816691838
Pub Date: September 2015
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Video gaming: it's a boy's world, right? That's what the industry wants us to think. Why and how we came to comply are what Carly A. Kocurek investigates in this provocative consideration of how an...
Inventing the PC
The MCM/70 Story
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CA$45.95
ISBN: 9780773538528
Pub Date: May 2011
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
In May 1973, Micro Computer Machines, a Toronto-based electronics company, gave a public demonstration of a small computer called the MCM/70. Powered by a microprocessor and operated with APL, a sophisticated programming language, the MCM/70 was positioned to be a practical, affordable, and easy-to-use personal computer - the very first of its kind.
Affect and Artificial Intelligence
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CA$48.00
ISBN: 9780295990477
Pub Date: August 2010
Imprint: University of Washington Press
In 1950, Alan Turing, the British mathematician, cryptographer, and computer pioneer, looked to the future: now that the conceptual and technical parameters for electronic brains had been established,...
Punched-Card Systems and the Early Information Explosion, 1880-1945
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CA$94.95
ISBN: 9780801891434
Pub Date: April 2009
Imprint: John Hopkins University
At a time when Internet use is closely tracked and social networking sites supply data for targeted advertising, Lars Heide presents the first academic study of the invention that fueled today’s information...
Information Ages
Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution
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CA$39.95
ISBN: 9780801864124
Pub Date: May 2000
Imprint: John Hopkins University
A grand intellectual history from clay tablets to Bill Gates.Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleThe late twentieth century is trumpeted as the Information Age by pundits and...
Replayed
Essential Writings on Software Preservation and Game Histories
CA$65.95
ISBN: 9781421445946
Pub Date: June 2023
Imprint: John Hopkins University
The Birth of Computer Vision
CA$37.99
ISBN: 9781517914219
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Floppy Disk Fever
The Curious Afterlives of a Flexible Medium
CA$25.00
ISBN: 9789493148864
Pub Date: November 2022
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
Abstractions and Embodiments
New Histories of Computing and Society
CA$51.95
ISBN: 9781421444376
Pub Date: August 2022
Imprint: John Hopkins University
Profit over Privacy
How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet
CA$139.99
ISBN: 9781517905040
Pub Date: September 2021
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Profit over Privacy
How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet
CA$34.99
ISBN: 9781517905057
Pub Date: September 2021
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Internet Daemons
Digital Communications Possessed
CA$156.99
ISBN: 9781517901530
Pub Date: October 2018
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Internet Daemons
Digital Communications Possessed
CA$38.99
ISBN: 9781517901547
Pub Date: October 2018
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Archaeologies of Touch
Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing
CA$38.99
ISBN: 9781517900595
Pub Date: February 2018
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
David Parisi offers the first full history of new computing technologies known as haptic interfaces-which use electricity, vibration, and force feedback to stimulate the sense of touch-showing how the efforts of scientists and engineers over the past 300 years have gradually remade and redefined our sense of touch. Archaeologies of Touch offers a timely and provocative engagement with the long history of touch technology that helps us confront and question the power relations underpinning the project of giving touch its own set of technical media.
The Bleeding Edge
Why Technology Turns Toxic in an Unequal World
CA$19.95
ISBN: 9781771132909
Pub Date: October 2016
Imprint: Between the Lines
Coin-Operated Americans
Rebooting Boyhood at the Video Game Arcade
CA$112.99
ISBN: 9780816691821
Pub Date: September 2015
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Coin-Operated Americans
Rebooting Boyhood at the Video Game Arcade
CA$31.99
ISBN: 9780816691838
Pub Date: September 2015
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Inventing the PC
The MCM/70 Story
CA$45.95
ISBN: 9780773538528
Pub Date: May 2011
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Affect and Artificial Intelligence
CA$48.00
ISBN: 9780295990477
Pub Date: August 2010
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Punched-Card Systems and the Early Information Explosion, 1880-1945
CA$94.95
ISBN: 9780801891434
Pub Date: April 2009
Imprint: John Hopkins University
Information Ages
Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution
CA$39.95
ISBN: 9780801864124
Pub Date: May 2000
Imprint: John Hopkins University