Sociology Books

“New Dark Age is among the most unsettling and illuminating books I’ve read about the Internet, which is to say that it is among the most unsettli…

In The Glass Cage, best-selling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and …

â Perfectly placed to tell us whatâ s really new about [the] second-generation Web.â â Los Angeles TimesBusiness visionary and bestselling author …

A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture itself. From trendy restaurants to city gr…

Your cell phone provider tracks your location and knows who’s with you. Your online and in-store purchasing patterns are recorded, and reveal if y…

Mumford explains the forces that have shaped technology since prehistoric times and shaped the modern world. He shows how tools developed because …

Social media has been weaponized, as state hackers and rogue terrorists have seized upon Twitter and Facebook to create chaos and destruction. Thi…

The award-winning author of The Net Delusion shows how the radical transparency we've become accustomed to online may threaten the spirit of real-…

A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination—and how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equity The State …

Evaluates the significant role being played by technological advances on the formation and experience of modern group dynamics, citing such exampl…