The Mit Press imprint: 939 books
Connected Gaming
What Making Video Games Can Teach Us about Learning and Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
How making and sharing video games offer educational benefits for coding, collaboration, and creativity.
Over the last decade, video games designed to teach academic content have multiplied. Students can learn about Newtonian physics from a game or prep for entry into the army. An emphasis...
Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture
Media Education for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2009
Many teens today who use the Internet are actively involved in participatory cultures—joining online communities (Facebook, message boards, game clans), producing creative work in new forms (digital sampling, modding, fan videomaking, fan fiction), working in teams to complete tasks and develop...
Good Science
The Ethical Choreography of Stem Cell Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
An examination of a decade and a half of political controversy, ethical debate, and scientific progress in stem cell research.
After a decade and a half, human pluripotent stem cell research has been normalized. There may be no consensus on the status of the embryo—only a tacit agreement...
Spam
A Shadow History of the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
What spam is, how it works, and how it has shaped online communities and the Internet itself.
The vast majority of all email sent every day is spam, a variety of idiosyncratically spelled requests to provide account information, invitations to spend money on dubious products, and pleas to send...
Art School
(Propositions for the 21st Century)
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
Leading international artists and art educators consider the challenges of art education in today's dramatically changed art world.
The last explosive change in art education came nearly a century ago, when the German Bauhaus was formed. Today, dramatic changes in the art world—its increasing...
Worker Leadership
America's Secret Weapon in the Battle for Industrial Competitiveness
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
How to increase both job satisfaction and enterprise productivity—and make American manufacturing competitive again.
How can American manufacturing recapture its former dominance in the globalized industrial economy? In Worker Leadership, Fred Stahl proposes a strategy to boost enterprise...
The Qualified Self
Social Media and the Accounting of Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
How sharing the mundane details of daily life did not start with Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube but with pocket diaries, photo albums, and baby books.
Social critiques argue that social media have made us narcissistic, that Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube are all vehicles for me-promotion....
Made in the USA
The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
"There is probably no other writer whose books I anticipate with more enthusiasm than Vaclav Smil. He brings remarkable insight to every topic he examines, combining his vast knowledge of science and energy, history and business to address some of the most pressing issues we face today. So I'm pleased...
by Ana Iorga, Ming Hsu, Irit Shapira-Lichter
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
A comprehensive introduction to using the tools and techniques of neuroscience to understand how consumers make decisions about purchasing goods and services.
Contrary to the assumptions of economists, consumers are not always rational actors who make decisions in their own best interests....
by Hamid R. Ekbia, Bonnie A. Nardi
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
An exploration of a new division of labor between machines and humans, in which people provide value to the economy with little or no compensation.
The computerization of the economy—and everyday life—has transformed the division of labor between humans and machines, shifting many people...
Afflicted
How Vulnerability Can Heal Medical Education and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
How medical education and practice can move beyond a narrow focus on biological intervention to recognize the lived experiences of illness, suffering, and death.
In Afflicted, Nicole Piemonte examines the preoccupation in medicine with cure over care, arguing that the traditional focus on biological...
Architect?
A Candid Guide to the Profession
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2013
The new edition of an essential text offers an informative, engaging view of the architectural profession from education through practice.
Since 1985, Architect? has been an essential text for aspiring architects, offering the best basic guide to the profession available. This third edition...
Aluminum Dreams
The Making of Light Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
How aluminum enabled a high-speed, gravity-defying American modernity even as other parts of the world paid the price in environmental damage and political turmoil.
Aluminum shaped the twentieth century. It enabled high-speed travel and gravity-defying flight. It was the material of a streamlined...
Atari to Zelda
Japan's Videogames in Global Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
The cross-cultural interactions of Japanese videogames and the West, from DIY localization by fans to corporate strategies of “Japaneseness.”
In the early days of arcades and Nintendo, many players didn't recognize Japanese games as coming from Japan; they were simply new and interesting...