Dear all,
Two new publications that may be of interest to you:
/Digital Methods: A Short Introduction
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by Tommaso Venturini and Richard Rogers.
About the book:
Tommaso Venturini and Richard Rogers offer a critical and conceptual
introduction to digital methods.
In a direct and accessible way, the authors provide hands-on advice to
equip readers with the knowledge they need to understand which digital
methods are best suited to their research goals and how to use
them. Cutting through theoretical and technical complications, they
focus on the different practices associated with digital methods to
skillfully provide a quick-start guide to the art of querying,
prompting, API calling, scraping, mining, wrangling, visualizing,
crawling, plotting networks, and scripting. While embracing the capacity
of digital methods to rekindle sociological imagination, this book also
delves into their limits and biases and reveals the hard labor of
digital fieldwork. The book also touches upon the epistemic and
political consequences of these methods, but with the purpose of
providing practical advice for their usage.
/Digital Methods/ is a must-read for students and scholars of digital
social research, media studies, critical data studies, digital
humanities, computational social sciences, and for those who are
interested in digital methods but do not know where to start.
Tommaso Venturini is Associate Professor at the Medialab of the
University of Geneva and researcher at the CNRS Centre for Internet and
Society.
Richard Rogers is Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the
University of Amsterdam.
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Technology and Oligopoly Capitalism
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by Luis Suarez-Villa (publisher: Routledge).
To request an inspection copy:
https://www.routledge.com/textbooks/evaluation/9781003345893?utm_id=
Description:
Technology and Oligopoly Capitalism is a major contribution to our
understanding of how technology oligopolies are shaping America’s
social, economic, and political reality.
Technology oligopolies are the most powerful socioeconomic entities in
America. From cradle to grave, the decisions they make affect the most
intimate aspects of our lives, how we work, what we eat, our health, how
we communicate, what we know and believe, whom we elect, and how we
relate to one another and to nature. Their power over markets, trade,
regulation, and most every aspect of our governance is more intrusive
and farther-reaching than ever. They benefit from tax breaks, government
guarantees, and bailouts that we must pay for and have no control over.
Their accumulation of capital creates immense wealth for a minuscule
elite, deepening disparities while politics and governance become ever
more subservient to their power. They determine our skills and transform
employment through the tools and services they create, as no other
organizations can. They produce a vast array of goods and services with
labor, marketing, and research that are more intrusively controlled than
ever, as workplace rights and job security are curtailed or disappear.
Our consumption of their products---and their capacity to promote
wants---is deep and far reaching, while the waste they generate raises
concerns about the survival of life on our planet. And their links to
geopolitics and the martial domain are stronger than ever, as they
influence how warfare is waged and who will be vanquished.
Technology and Oligopoly Capitalism’s critical, multidisciplinary
perspective provides a systemic vision of how oligopolistic power shapes
these forces and phenomena. An inclusive approach spans the spectrum of
technology oligopolies and the ways in which they deploy their power.
Numerous, previously unpublished ideas expand the repertory of
established work on the topics covered, advancing explanatory
quality---to elucidate how and why technology oligopolies operate as
they do, the dysfunctions that accompany their power, and their effects
on society and nature. This book has no peers in the literature, in its
scope, the unprecedented amount and diversity of documentation, the
breadth of concepts, and the vast number of examples it provides. Its
premises deserve to be taken into account by every student, researcher,
policymaker, bibliographer, and author interested in the socioeconomic
and political dimensions of technology in America.
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