“We look around and feel as if book culture as we know it is crumbling to dust, but there’s one important thing to keep in mind: as we know it.” What happens if we separate the idea of "the book" from the experience it has...
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
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Author:Coady, Lynn, Kennedy, PaulSummary: -
Author:Lovink, GeertSummary:Social Media Abyss plunges into the paradoxical condition of the new digital normal versus a lived state of emergency. There is a heightened, post-Snowden awareness ' we know we are under surveillance but we click, share, rank and...
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Author:Fuller, MatthewSummary:Computer software and its structures, devices and processes are woven into our everyday life. Their significance is not just technical: the algorithms, programming languages, abstractions and metadata that millions of people rely on...
- Author:Baillargeon, Normand, Boissinot, Christian, Irving, ScottSummary:
Does hockey provide a better understanding of the differences between Canadian and Québécois nationalisms? Is there a fundamental relationship between the hockey arena and the political arena? What have we lost as a society in...
- Author:Poundstone, WilliamSummary:
The real-world value of knowledge in the mobile-device age. More people know who Khloe Kardashian is than who Rene Descartes was. Most can't find Delaware on a map, correctly spell the word occurrence, or name the largest ocean on...
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Author:Zha, JianyingSummary:China Pop is a highly original and lively look at the ways that contemporary China is changing by Jianying Zha, a critic hailed in The Nation as "incisive, witty and eloquent all at once-a sort of female, Chinese Jonathan Spence....
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Author:Nordhaus, HannahSummary:The dark-eyed woman in the long black gown was first seen in the 1970s standing near a fireplace. She was sad and translucent, present and absent at once. Strange things began to happen in the Santa Fe hotel where she was seen. Gas...
