Your Computer Is On Fire / edited by Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks, and Kavita Philip.

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Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London England: The MIT Press, [2021]Description: vi, 409 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9780262539739

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DDC classification:

303.4834 MUL 23

LOC classification:

QA76.9.C66 Y67 2021

Contents:

Introductions Your Computer is on Fire Thomas S. Mullaney 3; When Did the Fire Start? Mar Hicks 11; Part I Nothing is Virtual; 1 The Cloud is a Factory Nathan Ensmenger 29; 2 Your AI is a Human Sarah T. Roberts 51; 3 A Network is Not a Network Benjamin Peters 71; 4 The Internet Will Be Decolonized Kavita Philip 91; 5 Capture is Pleasure Mitali Thakor 117; Part II This is an Emergency; 6 Sexism is a Feature, Not a Bug Mar Hicks 135; 7 Gender is a Corporate Tool Corinna Schlombs 159; 8 Siri Disciplines Halcyon M. Lawrence 179; 9 Your Robot Isn't Neutral Safiya Umoja Noble 199; 10 Broken is Word Andrea Stanton 213; 11 You Can't Make Games About Much Noah Wardrip-Fruin 231; Part III Where Will the Fire Spread?; 12 Coding is Not Empowerment Janet Abbate 253; 13 Source Code Isn't Ben Allen 273; 14 Skills Will Not Set You Free Sreela Sarkar 297; 15 Platforms are Infrastructures on Fire Paul N. Edwards 313; 16 Typing is Dead Thomas S. Mullaney 337; Afterwords; How to Stop Worrying About Clean Signals and Start Loving the Noise Kavita Philip 363; How Do We Live Now? In The Aftermath of Ourselves Benjamin Peters 377; Contributors 385; Index 387

Summary: "Collection of arguments about STEM fields' blind spots in computing and a deliberately provocative underscoring of humanists' appeals for a "wake up call" in computing culture"-- Provided by publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
BOOKs	National Law School	General Stacks	303.4834 MUL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		38967

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introductions
Your Computer is on Fire Thomas S. Mullaney 3;
When Did the Fire Start? Mar Hicks 11;
Part I Nothing is Virtual;
1 The Cloud is a Factory Nathan Ensmenger 29;
2 Your AI is a Human Sarah T. Roberts 51;
3 A Network is Not a Network Benjamin Peters 71;
4 The Internet Will Be Decolonized Kavita Philip 91;
5 Capture is Pleasure Mitali Thakor 117;
Part II This is an Emergency;
6 Sexism is a Feature, Not a Bug Mar Hicks 135;
7 Gender is a Corporate Tool Corinna Schlombs 159;
8 Siri Disciplines Halcyon M. Lawrence 179;
9 Your Robot Isn't Neutral Safiya Umoja Noble 199;
10 Broken is Word Andrea Stanton 213;
11 You Can't Make Games About Much Noah Wardrip-Fruin 231;
Part III Where Will the Fire Spread?;
12 Coding is Not Empowerment Janet Abbate 253;
13 Source Code Isn't Ben Allen 273;
14 Skills Will Not Set You Free Sreela Sarkar 297;
15 Platforms are Infrastructures on Fire Paul N. Edwards 313;
16 Typing is Dead Thomas S. Mullaney 337;
Afterwords;
How to Stop Worrying About Clean Signals and Start Loving the Noise Kavita Philip 363;
How Do We Live Now? In The Aftermath of Ourselves Benjamin Peters 377;
Contributors 385;
Index 387

"Collection of arguments about STEM fields' blind spots in computing and a deliberately provocative underscoring of humanists' appeals for a "wake up call" in computing culture"-- Provided by publisher.

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