The Leading eBooks Store Online

for Kindle Fire, Apple, Android, Nook, Kobo, PC, Mac, Sony Reader...

New to eBooks.com?

Learn more
Browse our categories
  • Bestsellers - This Week
  • Foreign Language Study
  • Pets
  • Bestsellers - Last 6 months
  • Games
  • Philosophy
  • Archaeology
  • Gardening
  • Photography
  • Architecture
  • Graphic Books
  • Poetry
  • Art
  • Health & Fitness
  • Political Science
  • Biography & Autobiography
  • History
  • Psychology & Psychiatry
  • Body Mind & Spirit
  • House & Home
  • Reference
  • Business & Economics
  • Humor
  • Religion
  • Children's & Young Adult Fiction
  • Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Romance
  • Computers
  • Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Science
  • Crafts & Hobbies
  • Law
  • Science Fiction
  • Current Events
  • Literary Collections
  • Self-Help
  • Drama
  • Literary Criticism
  • Sex
  • Education
  • Literary Fiction
  • Social Science
  • The Environment
  • Mathematics
  • Sports & Recreation
  • Family & Relationships
  • Media
  • Study Aids
  • Fantasy
  • Medical
  • Technology
  • Fiction
  • Music
  • Transportation
  • Folklore & Mythology
  • Nature
  • Travel
  • Food and Wine
  • Performing Arts
  • True Crime
  • Foreign Language Books
Computers and civilization

Most popular at the top

  • Noise Channelsby Peter Krapp

    University of Minnesota Press 2011; US$ 68.00

    To err is human; to err in digital culture is design. In the glitches, inefficiencies, and errors that ergonomics and usability engineering strive to surmount, Peter Krapp identifies creative reservoirs of computer-mediated interaction. Throughout new media cultures, he traces a resistance to the heritage of motion studies, ergonomics, and efficiency;... more...

  • Critical Cyberculture Studiesby David Silver; Adrienne Massanari; Steve Jones

    NYU Press 2006; US$ 79.00

    Starting in the early 1990s, journalists and scholars began responding to and trying to take account of new technologies and their impact on our lives. By the end of the decade, the full-fledged study of cyberculture had arrived. Today, there exists a large body of critical work on the subject, with cutting-edge studies probing beyond the mere existence... more...

  • Terminal Signsby Bennetta Jules-Rosette

    De Gruyter 1990; US$ 133.00

    Terminal signs : computers and social change in Africa Approaches to Semiotics [AS] more...

  • White Noiseby Andrew Calcutt

    Palgrave Macmillan 1998; US$ 48.00

    Transcending recent attempts to pigeonhole 'the information revolution', this book shows how the paradoxical aspects of new media and the Internet (is it masculine or feminine? Does it mean peace or war?) are the peculiarly intense expression of the contradictions underlying our whole society. Andrew Calcutt is an enthusiastic champion of the potential... more...

  • Materializing New Mediaby Anna Munster

    Dartmouth College Press 2011; US$ 24.99

    A significant contribution to investigations of the social and cultural impact of new media and digital technologies more...

  • Computer Mediated Communicationby Crispin Thurlow; Laura Lengel; Alice Tomic

    SAGE Publications 2004; US$ 74.00

    This book offers students a task-based introduction to Computer-Mediated Communication and the impact of the internet on social interaction. Aimed primarily at communication studies students, this book would also be useful as a sourcebook for students of media, sociology, psychology and English Language Studies. more...

  • Communities and Technologies 2005by Peter van den Besselaar; Giorgio de Michelis; Jenny Preece; Carla Simone

    Springer 2005; US$ 139.99

    This book includes 23 papers dealing with the impact of modern information and communication technologies that support a wide variety of communities: local communities, virtual communities, and communities of practice, such as knowledge communities and scientific communities. more...

  • Computerization and Controversyby Rob Kling

    Elsevier Science 1996; US$ 87.95

    The Second Edition of Computerization and Controversy: Value Conflicts and Social Choices is a collection of 78 articles that examine the social aspects of computerization from a variety of perspectives, many presenting important viewpoints not often discussed in the conventional literature. A number of paired articles comprise thought-provoking... more...

  • The Ethics of Cyberspaceby Cees Jan Hamelink

    SAGE Publications 2000; US$ 60.00

    In this book, Cees J Hamelink proposes an answer to - how should democratic societies organize cyberspace? - that puts human-rights, rather than profit, at the top of the agenda. He argues that conventional ethical approaches are all seriously flawed. There is a growing volume of moral rules, netiquettes and codes of conduct, but they are of little... more...

  • At Home with Computersby Elaine Lally

    Bloomsbury Publishing 2002; US$ 109.95

    Presents an examination of the role computers play in our domestic lives. This book deals with questions such as: do computers cause or help to resolve arguments? What role does gender play? Who spends the most time with the computer? And how does the importance of home computers change as we move from childhood through careers to retirement? Please... more...