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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “phoebe moore”
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  • The Quantified Self in Precarity

    Work, Technology and What Counts

    by Phoebe V. Moore ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Humans are accustomed to being tool bearers, but what happens when machines become tool bearers, calculating human labour via the use of big data and people analytics by metrics?The Quantified Self in Precarity highlights how,whether it be in insecure ‘gig’ work or office work, such digitalisation is not an inevitable process – nor is it one that necessarily improves working conditions. Indeed, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Humans and Machines at Work

    Monitoring, Surveillance and Automation in Contemporary Capitalism

    Edited by Martin Upchurch, Xanthe Whittaker, Phoebe V. Moore ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited collection provides a series of accounts of workers’ local experiences that reflect the ubiquity of work’s digitalisation. Precarious gig economy workers ride bikes and drive taxis in China and Britain; call centre workers in India experience invasive tracking; warehouse workers discover that hidden data has been used for layoffs; and academic researchers see their labour obscured by a ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • South-South Cooperation Beyond the Myths

    Rising Donors, New Aid Practices?

    Edited by Isaline Bergamaschi, Phoebe Moore, Arlene B. Tickner ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book, which brings together scholars from the developed and developing world, explores one of the most salient features of contemporary international relations: South-South cooperation. It builds on existing empirical evidence and offers a comparative analytical framework to critically analyse the aid policies and programmes of ten rising donors from the global South. Amongst these are ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Augmented Exploitation

    Artificial Intelligence, Automation and Work

    Edited by Phoebe Moore, Jamie Woodcock ...
    Series series Wildcat
    Artificial Intelligence is a seemingly neutral technology, but it is increasingly used to manage workforces and make decisions to hire and fire employees. Its proliferation in the workplace gives the impression of a fairer, more efficient system of management. A machine can't discriminate, after all.Augmented Exploitation explores the reality of the impact of AI on workers' lives. While the ... Read more

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    How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism

    by Nick Couldry, Ulises A. Mejias ...
    Series series Culture and Economic Life
    Just about any social need is now met with an opportunity to "connect" through digital means. But this convenience is not free—it is purchased with vast amounts of personal data transferred through shadowy backchannels to corporations using it to generate profit. The Costs of Connection uncovers this process, this "data colonialism," and its designs for controlling our lives—our ways of knowing; ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Everyday Automation

    Experiencing and Anticipating Emerging Technologies

    Edited by Sarah Pink, Martin Berg, Deborah Lupton, Minna Ruckenstein ...
    This Open Access book brings the experiences of automation as part of quotidian life into focus. It asks how, where and when automated technologies and systems are emerging in everyday life across different global regions? What are their likely impacts in the present and future? How do engineers, policy makers, industry stakeholders and designers envisage artificial intelligence (AI) and automated ... Read more

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  • Digital Media and Society

    An Introduction

    by Adrian Athique ...
    The rise of digital media has been widely regarded as transforming the nature of our social experience in the twenty-first century. The speed with which new forms of connectivity and communication are being incorporated into our everyday lives often gives us little time to stop and consider the social implications of those practices. Nonetheless, it is critically important that we do so, and this ... Read more

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  • The SAGE Handbook of Social Media

    Edited by Jean Burgess, Thomas Poell, Alice E. Marwick ...
    The world is in the midst of a social media paradigm. Once viewed as trivial and peripheral, social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and WeChat have become an important part of the information and communication infrastructure of society. They are bound up with business and politics as well as everyday life, work, and personal relationships.This international Handbook addresses the most ... Read more

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  • Smart Urbanism

    Utopian vision or false dawn?

    Edited by Simon Marvin, Andrés Luque-Ayala, Colin McFarlane ...
    Smart Urbanism (SU) – the rebuilding of cities through the integration of digital technologies with buildings, neighbourhoods, networked infrastructures and people – is being represented as a unique emerging ‘solution’ to the majority of problems faced by cities today. SU discourses, enacted by technology companies, national governments and supranational agencies alike, claim a supremacy of urban ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies

    Edited by William H. Dutton ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Internet Studies has been one of the most dynamic and rapidly expanding interdisciplinary fields to emerge over the last decade. The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies has been designed to provide a valuable resource for academics and students in this area, bringing together leading scholarly perspectives on how the Internet has been studied and how the research agenda should be pursued in the ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Education and Social Media

    Toward a Digital Future

    Edited by Christine Greenhow, Julia Sonnevend, Colin Agur ...
    Series series The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning
    Leading scholars from a variety of disciplines explore the future of education, including social media usage, new norms of knowledge, privacy, copyright, and MOOCs.How are widely popular social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram transforming how teachers teach, how kids learn, and the very foundations of education? What controversies surround the integration of social media in students ... Read more

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  • Inhuman Power

    Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism

    by Nick Dyer-Witheford, Atle Mikkola Kjøsen, James Steinhoff ...
    Series series Digital Barricades
    Artificial Intelligence (AI) has seen major advances in recent years. While machines were always central to the Marxist analysis of capitalism, AI is a new kind of machine that Marx could not have anticipated. Contemporary machine-learning AI allows machines to increasingly approach human capacities for perception and reasoning in narrow domains.This book explores the relationship between Marxist ... Read more

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