Titles for Review
Books on digital studies published during the last 2 years. Please contact @dgolumbia on Twitter for information on reviewing these titles.
- Louise Amoore, Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others (Duke UP, 2020)
- Sinan Aral, The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health–And How We Must Adapt (Currency, 2020)
- Chris Bail, Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing (Princeton UP, 2021)
- Moya Bailey, Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance (NYU Press, 2021)
- Jonathan Beller, The World Computer: Derivatives of Racial Capitalism (Duke UP, 2021)
- Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (Polity, 2019)
- Lucy Bernholz, Hélène Landemore, & Rob Reich, eds., Digital Technology and Democratic Theory (U Chicago Press, 2021)
- Sarah Brayne, Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing (Oxford UP, 2021)
- Andre Brock, Distributed Blackness: African-American Cybercultures (NYU Press, 2020)
- Ben Buchanan, The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics (Harvard UP, 2020)
- Tara Isabella Burton, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World (PublicAffairs, 2020)
- Lik Sam Chan, The Politics of Dating Apps: Gender, Sexuality, and Emergent Politics in Urban China (MIT Press, 2021)
- Aubrey Clayton, Bernoulli’s Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science (Columbia UP, 2021)
- Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Discriminating Data: Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the New Politics of Recognition (MIT Press, 2021)
- Mark Coeckelbergh, AI Ethics (MIT Press, 2020)
- Kate Crawford, Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence (Yale UP, 2021)
- Audrey Kurth Cronin, Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation is Arming Tomorrow’s Terrorists (Oxford UP, 2019)
- Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein, Data Feminism (MIT Press, 2020)
- Kate Darling, The New Breed: What Our History with Animals Reveals about Our Future with Robots (Henry Holt, 2021)
- Adrian Daub, What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Logic, 2020)
- Laura DeNardis, Internet in Everything: Freedom and Security in a World with No Off Switch (Yale UP, 2020)
- Shane Denson, Discorrelated Images (Duke UP, 2020)
- Cory Doctorow, How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (Medium Editions, 2021)
- April Falcon Doss, Cyber Privacy: Who Has Your Data and Why You Should Care (BenBella Books, 2020)
- Nadia Eghbal, Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software (Stripe Press, 2020)
- Jon Fasman, We See It All: Liberty and Justice in an Age of Perpetual Surveillance (PublicAffairs, 2021)
- Steven Feldstein, The Rise of Digital Repression: How Technology Is Reshaping Power, Politics, and Resistance (Oxford UP, 2021)
- Sheera Frankel and Cecilia Kang, An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination (Harper, 2021)
- Alexander R. Galloway, Uncomputable: Play and Politics in the Long Digital Age (Verso, 2021)
- Maëlle Gavet, Trampled by Unicorns: Big Tech’s Empathy Problem and How to Fix It (Wiley, 2020)
- Dipayan Ghosh, Terms of Disservice: How Silicon Valley is Destructive by Design (Brookings, 2020)
- Giansiracusa, Noah, How Algorithms Create and Prevent Fake News: Exploring the Impacts of Social Media, Deepfakes, GPT-3, and More (Apress, 2021)
- Mary L. Gray and Siddharth Suri, Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019)
- Sun-ha Hong, Technologies of Speculation: The Limits of Knowledge in a Data-Driven Society (MIT Press, 2020)
- Philip N. Howard, Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives (Yale UP, 2020)
- Tim Hwang, Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Logic, 2020)
- Sarah E. Igo, The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America (Harvard UP, 2020)
- Sarah J. Jackson, Moya Bailey, & Brooke Foucault Welles, #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice (MIT Press, 2020)
- Ben Jacobsen and David Beer, Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory (Bristol UP, 2021)
- Nina Jankowicz, How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict (IB Tauris, 2020)
- Brian Jefferson, Digitize and Punish: Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
- Justin Joque, Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and the Logic of Capitalism (Verso, 2022)
- Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth, The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design (Oxford UP, 2019)
- Hélène Landemore, Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century (Princeton UP, 2020)
- Jill Lepore, If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future (Liveright, 2020)
- Wendy Liu, Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism (Repeater, 2020)
- Yanni Alexander Loukissas, All Data Are Local: Thinking Critically in a Data-Driven Society (MIT Press, 2019)
- MacGillis, Alec, Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021)
- Charlton McIlwain, Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter (Oxford UP, 2019)
- Cait McKinney, Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies (Duke UP, 2020)
- Brendan McQuade, Pacifying the Homeland: Intelligence Fusion and Mass Supervision (U California Press, 2019)
- Joanne McNeil, Lurking: How a Person Became a User (MCD, 2020)
- Esther Milne, Email and the Everyday: Stories of Disclosure, Trust, and Digital Labor (MIT Press, 2012)
- Gavin Mueller, Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job (Verso, 2021)
- Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks, and Kavita Philip, eds., Your Computer Is On Fire (MIT Press, 2021)
- Lauren Oyler, Fake Accounts (Catapult, 2021)
- Frank Pasquale, New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI (Harvard UP, 2020)
- Nicole Perlroth, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race (Bloomsbury, 2021)
- Sarah Roberts, Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadow of Social Media (Yale UP, 2019)
- Legacy Russell, Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto (Verso, 2020)
- Jathan Sadowski, Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism Is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over the World (MIT Press, 2020)
- Pratim Sengupta, Amanda Dickes, and Amy Voss Farris, Voicing Code in STEM: A Dialogical Imagination (MIT Press, 2021)
- Catherine Knight Steele, Digital Black Feminism (NYU Press, 2021)
- Ben Tarnoff & Moira Weigel, eds., Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk about What They Do–And How They Do It (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Logic, 2020)
- Turow, Joseph, The Voice Catchers: How Marketers Listen in to Exploit Your Feelings, Your Privacy, and Your Wallet (Yale UP, 2021)
- Carissa Véliz, Privacy Is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data (Bantam, 2021)
- Xiaowei Wang, Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China’s Countryside, (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Logic, 2020)
- Audrey Watters, Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning (MIT Press, 2021)
- Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley: A Memoir (Picador, 2020)
- Sarah Williams, Data Action: Using Data for Public Good (MIT Press, 2020)
- York, Jillian C., Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism (Verso, 2021)