Sociology Books
So You've Been Publicly Shamed
For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of high-profile public shamings. The shamed are people like us - p…
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
O capitalismo está morto. Bem-vindos ao tecnofeudalismo. Um dos Melhores Livros do Ano para o The Financial Times Gradualmente, a partir do…
Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age
The instant New York Times bestseller. From Microsoft's president and one of the tech industry's broadest thinkers, a frank and thoughtful …
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Explaining the process of the “enshittification” of digital platforms over time and what to do about it. Cory Doctorow's Enshittification t…
Technics and Civilization
This is a history of the machine and a critical study of its effects on civilization. Mumford has drawn on every aspect of life to explain the mac…
Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction Named one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly. A riveting story of what it…
Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
A field manual to the technologies that are transforming our lives Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our l…
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives--where we go to school, whether we can get a job or a loan,…
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
Terms and phrases such as "the global village" and "the medium is the message" are now part of the lexicon, and McLuhan's theories continue to cha…
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
"If you had told Roger McNamee even three years ago that he would soon be devoting himself to stopping Facebook from destroying our democracy, he …