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        Youth Well-Being by Design

        Youth Well-Being by Design

        Youth Well-Being by Design

        Integrating Research, Critical Perspectives, and Innovation

        Edited by Carrie James and Mizuko Ito

        ISBN: 9780262052542

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 14, 2026

        An edited collection with fresh approaches to tech and youth well-being that go beyond blame and simplistic solutions.
        Artificial Religion

        Artificial Religion

        Artificial Religion

        On AI, Myth, and Power

        by Mark Coeckelbergh

        ISBN: 9780262052214

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 7, 2026

        How AI is shaped by Western religious culture and universal existential aspirations—and why we think we need it in the first place.
        Hot Connections

        Hot Connections

        Hot Connections

        Why Sexual Platforms Matter

        by Jenny Sundén, Susanna Paasonen and Katrin Tiidenberg

        ISBN: 9780262052061

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 24, 2026

        A rethinking of “the social” in social media which includes the sexual.
        Notes on the Third Ear / Phantom Lure

        Notes on the Third Ear / Phantom Lure

        Notes on the Third Ear / Phantom Lure

        by Steve Goodman and Angus Carlyle

        ISBN: 9781915103208

        Publisher: Urbanomic

        Pub Date: March 17, 2026

        Two original essays scrutinize the use of acoustic camouflage and the outer limits of unsound.
        The Stack

        The Stack, 10th anniversary edition with new preface by the author

        The Stack

        On Software and Sovereignty

        by Benjamin H. Bratton

        ISBN: 9780262553919

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 3, 2026

        Why The Stack—an accidental megastructure—is both a technological apparatus and the geopolitical model of our times.
        Thrive

        Thrive

        Thrive

        Maximizing Well-Being in the Age of AI

        by Ravi Bapna and Anindya Ghose

        ISBN: 9780262553971

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: December 2, 2025

        How AI can positively impact so many aspects of our daily lives, from health and wellness to work, education, and home life.
        Bibliographic Classification

        Bibliographic Classification

        Bibliographic Classification

        From Mimetic Representation to Isomorphic Documentality

        by Joacim Hansson

        ISBN: 9780262553490

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: November 18, 2025

        A novel analysis that understands bibliographic classification systems as autonomous documents and not just as information retrieval tools.
        Mourning on Mobile Media

        Mourning on Mobile Media

        Mourning on Mobile Media

        Everyday Affective Witnessing

        by Larissa Hjorth

        ISBN: 9780262553551

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: November 11, 2025

        How our mourning rituals on mobile media reflect our social, cultural and emotional lives.
        Shared Wisdom

        Shared Wisdom

        Shared Wisdom

        Cultural Evolution in the Age of AI

        by Alex Pentland

        ISBN: 9780262050999

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: November 11, 2025

        How to build a flourishing society by using what we know about human nature to design our technology—rather than let technology shape our society.
        Triangles and Tribulations

        Triangles and Tribulations

        Triangles and Tribulations

        Translations, Betrayals, and the Making of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory

        by Clay Spinuzzi

        ISBN: 9780262552172

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: June 17, 2025

        How the sociology of translation can help us understand a social science framework—cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT)—as a set of uneasy settlements that both further and betray their original intentions.
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