4S: Digital Culture
Web sale for those interested in science and technology studies and/or attendees of the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science. Books on sale, University of Minnesota Press information, and more.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS: 20% OFF BOOKS + FREE SHIPPING
All books below qualify for 20% off and free domestic shipping using code MNSTS22. Code expires January 10, 2023.
BROWSE BOOKS:
PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY // ART AND MEDIA // ENVIRONMENT
POLITICS AND ACTIVISM // ANIMALS AND SOCIETY // ANTHROPOLOGY
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY // DIGITAL CULTURE // ETHNOGRAPHY
RACE // GENDER AND SEXUALITY // GEOGRAPHY
LITERATURE // LITERARY CRITICISM // DISABILITY STUDIES
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The Prison House of the Circuit Politics of Control from Analog to Digital Jeremy Packer, Paula Nuñez de Villavicencio, Alexander Monea, Kathleen Oswald, Kate Maddalena and Joshua Reeves 2022 Fall
- Has society ceded its self-governance to technogovernance?
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Citizens of Worlds Open-Air Toolkits for Environmental Struggle Jennifer Gabrys 2022 Fall
- An unparalleled how-to guide to citizen-sensing practices that monitor air pollution
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Arte Programmata Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s Italy Lindsay Caplan 2022 Fall
- Tracing the evolution of the Italian avant-garde’s pioneering experiments with art and technology and their subversion of freedom and control
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Technopharmacology Joshua Neves, Aleena Chia, Susanna Paasonen and Ravi Sundaram 2022 Spring
- Exploring networked technologies and bioeconomy and their links to biotechnologies, pharmacology, and pharmaceuticals
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Algorithms of Education How Datafication and Artificial Intelligence Shape Policy Kalervo N. Gulson, Sam Sellar and P. Taylor Webb 2022 Spring
- A critique of what lies behind the use of data in contemporary education policy
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Global Debates in the Digital Humanities Domenico Fiormonte, Sukanta Chaudhuri and Paola Ricaurte, Editors 2022 Spring
- A necessary volume of essays working to decolonize the digital humanities
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The Lab Book Situated Practices in Media Studies Darren Wershler, Lori Emerson and Jussi Parikka 2022 Spring
- An important new approach to the study of laboratories, presenting a practical method for understanding labs in all walks of life
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People, Practice, Power Digital Humanities outside the Center Anne B. McGrail, Angel David Nieves and Siobhan Senier, Editors 2021 Fall
- An illuminating volume of critical essays charting the diverse territory of digital humanities scholarship
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The Digital Is Kid Stuff Making Creative Laborers for a Precarious Economy 2021 Fall
- How popular debates about the so-called digital generation mediate anxieties about labor and life in twenty-first-century America
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How We Became Sensorimotor Movement, Measurement, Sensation Mark Paterson 2021 Fall
- An engrossing history of the century that transformed our knowledge of the body’s inner senses
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Therapy Tech The Digital Transformation of Mental Healthcare Emma Bedor Hiland 2021 Fall
- A pointed look at the state of tech-based mental healthcare and what we must do to change it
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Profit over Privacy How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet Matthew Crain 2021 Fall
- A deep dive into the political roots of advertising on the internet
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The Digitally Disposed Racial Capitalism and the Informatics of Value Seb Franklin 2021 Spring
- Locates the deep history of digitality in the development of racial capitalism
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Really Fake Alexandra Juhasz, Ganaele Langlois and Nishant Shah 2020 Fall
- More important than flagging things “really fake” is to understand why they are dismissed as fake
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The Other Side of the Digital The Sacrificial Economy of New Media Andrea Righi 2021 Spring
- A necessary, rich new examination of how the wired world affects our humanity
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Undoing Networks Tero Karppi, Urs Stäheli, Clara Wieghorst and Lea P. Zierott 2020 Fall
- Exploring and conceptualizing practices, technologies, and politics of disconnecting
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Molecular Capture The Animation of Biology Adam Nocek 2021 Spring
- How computer animation technologies became vital visualization tools in the life sciences
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The Computer’s Voice From Star Trek to Siri Liz W. Faber 2020 Fall
- A deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000, and other computers that talk
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Action at a Distance John Durham Peters, Florian Sprenger and Christina Vagt 2020 Fall
- How are human actions shaped by the materiality of media?
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Digitize and Punish Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age Brian Jefferson 2020 Spring
- Tracing the rise of digital computing in policing and punishment and its harmful impact on criminalized communities of color
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Variations on Media Thinking Siegfried Zielinski 2019 Fall
- A diverse, enriching volume of media analysis from a pioneering thinker in the field
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Sensations of History Animation and New Media Art James J. Hodge 2019 Fall
- A phenomenological investigation into new media artwork and its relationship to history
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Organize Timon Beyes, Reinhold Martin and Lisa Conrad 2019 Fall
- A pioneering systematic inquiry into—and mapping of—the field of media and organization
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How to Do Things with Sensors Jennifer Gabrys 2019 Fall
- An investigation of how-to guides for sensor technologies
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Archives Andrew Lison, Marcel Mars, Tomislav Medak and Rick Prelinger 2019 Fall
- How digital networks and services bring the issues of archives out of the realm of institutions and into the lives of everyday users
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Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019 Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors 2019 Spring
- The latest installment of a digital humanities bellwether
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The Platform Economy How Japan Transformed the Consumer Internet Marc Steinberg 2019 Spring
- Offering a deeper understanding of today’s internet media and the management theory behind it
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Machine Thomas Pringle, Gertrud Koch and Bernard Stiegler 2019 Spring
- On the social consequences of machines
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Communication Paula Bialski, Finn Brunton and Mercedes Bunz 2019 Spring
- On contemporary communication in its various human and nonhuman forms
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Bodies of Information Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities Elizabeth Losh and Jacqueline Wernimont, Editors 2018 Fall
- A wide-ranging, interconnected anthology presents a diversity of feminist contributions to digital humanities