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        Regulating Code

        Regulating Code

        Regulating Code

        Good Governance and Better Regulation in the Information Age

        by Ian Brown and Christopher T. Marsden

        ISBN: 9780262548847

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 15, 2023

        The case for a smarter “prosumer law” approach to Internet regulation that would better protect online innovation, public safety, and fundamental democratic rights.
        If Schools Didn’t Exist

        If Schools Didn't Exist

        If Schools Didn't Exist

        A Study in the Sociology of Schools

        by Nils Christie

        Translated by Lucas Cone and Joachim Wiewiura

        Edited by Lucas Cone and Joachim Wiewiura

        Foreword by Judith Suissa

        ISBN: 9780262538893

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 4, 2020

        A classic in the philosophy of education, considering the fundamental purpose and function of schools, translated into English for the first time.
        The Reputation Society

        The Reputation Society

        The Reputation Society

        How Online Opinions Are Reshaping the Offline World

        Edited by Hassan Masum and Mark Tovey

        Foreword by Craig Newmark

        ISBN: 9780262527439

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: January 30, 2015

        Experts discuss the benefits and risks of online reputation systems.
        Factories of Knowledge, Industries of Creativity

        Factories of Knowledge, Industries of Creativity

        Factories of Knowledge, Industries of Creativity

        by Gerald Raunig

        Afterword by Antonio Negri

        Translated by Aileen Derieg

        ISBN: 9781584351160

        Publisher: Semiotext(e)

        Pub Date: March 8, 2013

        With the economy deindustrialized and the working class decentralized, a call for alternative horizons for resistance: the university and the art world.
        The Comingled Code

        The Comingled Code

        The Comingled Code

        Open Source and Economic Development

        by Josh Lerner and Mark Schankerman

        ISBN: 9780262518567

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: January 11, 2013

        The interaction of open source and proprietary software and the implications for economic development.
        Networks and States

        Networks and States

        Networks and States

        The Global Politics of Internet Governance

        by Milton L. Mueller

        ISBN: 9780262518574

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: January 11, 2013

        How institutions for Internet governance are emerging from the tension between the territorially bound nation-state and a transnational network society.
        Blaming Islam

        Blaming Islam

        Blaming Islam

        by John R. Bowen

        ISBN: 9780262017589

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 2, 2012

        Why fears about Muslim integration into Western society—propagated opportunistically by some on the right—misread history and misunderstand multiculturalism.
        Acting in an Uncertain World

        Acting in an Uncertain World

        Acting in an Uncertain World

        An Essay on Technical Democracy

        by Michel Callon, Pierre Lascoumes and Yannick Barthe

        Translated by Graham Burchell

        ISBN: 9780262515962

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: January 21, 2011

        A call for a new form of democracy in which “hybrid forums” composed of experts and laypeople address such sociotechnical controversies as hazardous waste, genetically modified organisms, and nanotechnology.
        The Soul at Work

        The Soul at Work

        The Soul at Work

        From Alienation to Autonomy

        by Franco "Bifo" Berardi

        Preface by Jason E. Smith

        Translated by Francesca Cadel and Giuseppina Mecchia

        ISBN: 9781584350767

        Publisher: Semiotext(e)

        Pub Date: October 16, 2009

        An examination of new forms of alienation in our never-off, plugged-in culture—and a clarion call for a “conspiracy of estranged people.”
        Voluntary Programs

        Voluntary Programs

        Voluntary Programs

        A Club Theory Perspective

        Edited by Matthew Potoski and Aseem Prakash

        ISBN: 9780262662048

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 18, 2009

        A conceptual framework and empirical case studies of the policy effect of voluntary programs sponsored by industry, government, and nongovernmental organizations.
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