By Vili Lehdonvirta
Tech giants like Amazon, eBay and Apple currently rule the Internet like autocrats. Digital economy expert Vili Lehdonvirta explores the rise of the platform economy into statelike dominance over our lives and proposes a new way forward.
By Philip N. Howard
Harnessing information from polling data, internet postings, and interviews with journalists, bot writers, and political consultants, Howard offers a way to identify and derail "bot" technologies that jeopardize our discourse and democracies.
By Viktor Mayer-Schönberger & Thomas Ramge
Information is power, and the time is now for digital liberation. Access Rules mounts a strong and hopeful argument for how informational tools at present in the hands of a few could instead become empowering machines for everyone.
By Mark Graham and Fabian Ferrari
Understanding the embedded and disembedded, material and immaterial, territorialized and deterritorialized natures of digital work.
By Mohammad Amir Anwar and Mark Graham
The Digital Continent investigates what the new world of digital work means for the lives of African workers. Anwar and Graham draw on a year-long field study in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, and Uganda.
By Andreas Jungherr and Ralph Schroeder
Digital technologies have changed the public arena, but there is little scholarly consensus about how they have done so. This book rethinks the workings and dysfunctions of the contemporary public arena, and considers ways to improve it.
By Mark Graham and Martin Dittus
Today's urban environments are layered with data and algorithms that shape how we perceive and move through space. But are our digitally dense environments continuing to amplify inequalities rather than alleviate them?
By Kenneth Cukier, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Francis de Véricourt
We're always told that humans make bad decisions and that more data is better. But this is backwards: people are actually good at decisions because we use mental models and can envision new realities outside of data.
By Samuel C. Woolley (Editor) and Philip N. Howard (Editor)
Social media misinformation is spreading globally. This book argues that this automation and platform manipulation, amounts to a new political communications mechanism that editors Samuel Woolley and Philip N. Howard call "computational propaganda."
By Mark Graham (Editor), Rob Kitchin (Editor), Shannon Mattern (Editor), and Joe Shaw (Editor)
With 44 contributing authors and 38 chapters, the book playfully combines speculative fiction and analysis of 38 different business models and practices when applied to running our cities of the future.
By Jamie Woodcock and Mark Graham
Drawing upon years of research, stories from gig workers, and a review of the key trends and debates, Jamie Woodcock and Mark Graham shed light on how the gig economy came to be, how it works and what it’s like to work in it.
By Mark Graham (Editor) and William Dutton (Editor)
How is society being reshaped by the continued diffusion and increasing centrality of the Internet in everyday life and work? This volume addresses the big questions about one of the most significant technological transformations of this century.
