Product Description: Deep Search collects 13 texts which investigate the social and political dimensions of how we navigate the deep seas of knowledge. What do we win, and what do we lose when we move from an analogue to a digital information order? How is computer readable significance produced, how is meaning involved in machine communication? Where is the potential of having access to such vast amounts of information? What are the dangers of our reliance on search engines and are there any approaches that do not follow the currently dominating paradigm of Google? This volume answers these questions of culture, context and classification regarding information systems that should not be ignored...read more

Product Description: Media art is one of the most exciting experimental fields to emerge in contemporary art in recent years—and yet its innovations have been sparsely documented. Media Arts Zurich, the third yearbook published by the Department New Media at the newly founded Zurich University of the Arts, seeks to fill this gap, offering an illuminating overview of the Swiss media art scene of the past decade...read more

Product Description: Anyone interested in the relation between cultural production and consumption and the development of Free and Open Software (FOSS) will want to read these essays by Open Source pioneer Felix Stalder, the first research to be published within the "Note Book" project by kuda...read more

Product Description: First in-depth study of Manuell Castells pioneering workTraces Castells thought from his work on urban change in the 1970s to his recent theories of global social transformationsDistills the central ideas in Castells work into an accessible and concise introduction for undergraduate studentsExplores Castells writings on the network society, informational capitalism and democracy in crisisProvides a critical analysis of Castells thought in relation to ongoing debates about globalizatio...read more