DIGITAL STUDIES 2023
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UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
T he University of Chicago Press
publishes books in digital studies that reveal new insights and highlight trends and innovations in these fields.
To get 30% off the books inside this brochure use the code AD2018 on our website press.uchicago.edu.
Joseph Calamia is an Executive Editor commissioning and editing new books in digital studies, mathematics, and the sciences.
For book proposal submissions, write to jcalamia@uchicago.edu.
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An engrossing origin story for the personal computer—showing how the Apple II’s software helped a machine transcend from hobbyists’ plaything to essential home appliance.
Meet the people who design the algorithms that capture our musical tastes.
A compelling biography of Mark Weiser, a pioneering innovator whose legacy looms over the tech industry’s quest to connect everything— and who hoped for something better.
An optimistic and nuanced portrait of a generation that has much to teach us about how to live and collaborate in our digital world.
Acclaimed American photographer Mary Beth
Meehan and Silicon Valley culture expert Fred Turner join forces to give us an unseen view of the heart of the tech world
The Digital Factory reveals the surprising and hidden human labor that supports today’s digital capitalism.
Should the insidious spread of gamification in contemporary life make us think less of video games? No, argues Patrick Jagoda in this account of experimental games and their challenge to neoliberal values.
An indispensable guide for telling fact from fiction on the internet—often in less than 30 seconds.
Capello investigates why we’ve been so blithe about giving up our privacy and all the opportunities we’ve had along the way to rein it in.
A wide-ranging history of the intellectual developments that produced the modern idea of the algorithm.
From two experts in the field comes an accessible, how-to guide that will help researchers think more productively about the relation between theory and data at every stage of their work.
A surprising and deeply researched look at how everyone can develop tech fluency by focusing on five easily developed learning habits.
REPLAY SERIES
Replay is a series of short books, each about a single game. Accessible and engaging, the books connect authors’ personal experiences of gameplay with insights into a game’s development, reception, and implications for contemporary social life.
Our first proposals have come from journalists and scholars with expertise in queer and feminist game criticism, Black studies, and Native American studies. For more information, visit:
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