Mit Press: 1072 books

How the shift toward "technical copy protection" in the battle over digital copyright depends on changing political and commercial alignments that are profoundly shaping the future of cultural expression in a digital age.

The evolution of activism against the expansion of copyright in the digital domain, with case studies of resistance including eBook and iTunes hacks.

The contentious history of the computer programmers who developed the software that made the computer revolution possible.

How race as a categoryreinforced by new discoveries in geneticsis used as a basis for practice and policy in law, science, and medicine.

The summary of an ambitious three-year ethnographic investigation into the uses of new media in varied settings by American youth.

An examination of Mozillas unique approach to software development considers how this model of participation might be applied to political and civic engagement.

The new celebration of womens aggression in contemporary culture, from Kill Bill and Prime Suspect to the artists group Toxic Titties.

Shepheard examines old assumptions about architecture and replaces the critical theory of the academic with the active theory of the architect-citizen enamored of the world around him.

An argument that achieving millennial life spans or monumental intellects will destroy values that give meaning to human lives. Proposals to make us smarter than the greatest geniuses or to add thousands of years to our life spans seem fit only for the spam folder or trash can. And yet this...

Examines the culture, politics, and history of the movement for environmental justice in New York City, tracking activism in four neighborhoods on issues of public health, garbage, and energy systems in the context of privatization, deregulation, and globalization.

Haunted by a secret knowledge and a repressed enchantment, Western rationality is not what it seems.

Essays link Gaian science to such global environmental quandaries as climate change and biodiversity destruction, providing perspectives from science, philosophy, politics, and technology.

Logic Primer presents a rigorous introduction to natural deduction systems of sentential and first-order logic. Logic Primer presents a rigorous introduction to natural deduction systems of sentential and first-order logic. The text is designed to foster the student-instructor relationship....

Perspectives on the voice and technology, from discussions of voice mail and podcasts to reflections on dance and sound poetry.