Mit Press imprint: 940 books
Things That Keep Us Busy
The Elements of Interaction
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
An investigation of interactivity, interfaces and their design, and the webs of complex interactions that result.
We are surrounded by interactive devices, artifacts, and systems. The general assumption is that interactivity is good—that it is a positive feature associated with being modern,...
Crowdsourced Health
How What You Do on the Internet Will Improve Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
How data from our health-related Internet searches can lead to discoveries about diseases and symptoms and help patients deal with diagnoses.
Most of us have gone online to search for information about health. What are the symptoms of a migraine? How effective is this drug? Where can I find...
Language in Our Brain
The Origins of a Uniquely Human Capacity
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
A comprehensive account of the neurobiological basis of language, arguing that species-specific brain differences may be at the root of the human capacity for language.
Language makes us human. It is an intrinsic part of us, although we seldom think about it. Language is also an extremely complex...
Heat Advisory
Protecting Health on a Warming Planet
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
How climate change can affect our health, from heat-related illnesses to extreme weather events.
Climate change affects not just the planet but the people who live on it. In this book, physician Alan Lockwood describes how global warming will be bad for our health. Drawing on peer-reviewed...
Transit-Oriented Displacement or Community Dividends?
Understanding the Effects of Smarter Growth on Communities
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
An examination of the neighborhood transformation, gentrification, and displacement that accompany more compact development around transit.
Cities and regions throughout the world are encouraging smarter growth patterns and expanding their transit systems to accommodate this growth, reduce...
The Fabric of Interface
Mobile Media, Design, and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Tracing the genealogy of our physical interaction with mobile devices back to textile and needlecraft culture.
For many of our interactions with digital media, we do not sit at a keyboard but hold a mobile device in our hands. We turn and tilt and stroke and tap, and through these physical...
The Shape of Actions
What Humans and Machines Can Do
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 1999
What can humans do? What can machines do? How do humans delegate actions to machines? In this book, Harry Collins and Martin Kusch combine insights from sociology and philosophy to provide a novel answer to these increasingly important questions.The authors begin by distinguishing between two basic...
The World Made Meme
Public Conversations and Participatory Media
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
How memetic media—aggregate texts that are collectively created, circulated, and transformed—become a part of public conversations that shape broader cultural debates.
Internet memes—digital snippets that can make a joke, make a point, or make a connection—are now a lingua franca of...
Scripting Reading Motions
The Codex and the Computer as Self-Reflexive Machines
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
An exploration of what experimental literature in both print and programmable media tells us about the act of reading.
In Scripting Reading Motions, Manuel Portela explores the expressive use of book forms and programmable media in experimental works of both print and electronic literature...
Waste
A New Media Primer
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
On Facebook and fake news, selfies and self-consciousness, selling our souls to the Internet, and other aspects of the digital revolution.
With these engaging and provocative essays, Roberto Simanowski considers what new media has done to us. Why is digital privacy being eroded and why does...
by Michael Madary
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Phenomenological and empirical methods of investigating visual experience converge to support the thesis that visual perception is an ongoing process of anticipation and fulfillment.
In this book, Michael Madary examines visual experience, drawing on both phenomenological and empirical methods...
Dying in the Twenty-First Century
Toward a New Ethical Framework for the Art of Dying Well
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Physicians, philosophers, and theologians consider how to address death and dying for a diverse population in a secularized century.
Most of us are generally ill-equipped for dying. Today, we neither see death nor prepare for it. But this has not always been the case. In the early fifteenth...
by Nicholas Agar
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
An argument in favor of finding a place for humans (and humanness) in the future digital economy.
In the digital economy, accountants, baristas, and cashiers can be automated out of employment; so can surgeons, airline pilots, and cab drivers. Machines will be able to do these jobs more efficiently,...
Power Button
A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Push a button and turn on the television; tap a button and get a ride; click a button and “like” something. The touch of a finger can set an appliance, a car, or a system in motion, even if the user doesn't understand the underlying mechanisms or algorithms. How did buttons become so ubiquitous?...