Media studies: internet, digital media and society
Uncanny Valley: Seduction and Disillusionment in San Francisco’s Startup Scene
‘Joan Didion at a startup’ Rebecca Solnit
‘Impossibly pleasurable’ Jia Tolentino
‘This is essential reading’ Stylist
The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age
From a cutting-edge cultural commentator, a bold and brilliant challenge to cherished notions of the internet as the great leveler of our age.
You Can’t Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom
The uncompromising Nick Cohen exposes the reality behind the freedoms we enjoy in the book that won Polemic of the Year at the 2013 Political Book Awards.
The Nineties: When Surface was Depth
the first clear anatomy of a confused decade, the 1990s – ‘Bracewell, with great verve and style, animates the cultural conversation’, Greil Marcus
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood: Enhanced edition
Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012, the world’s leading prize for popular science writing.
This enhanced e-book version contains twelve animations created by graphic design students from the world renowned Central Saint Martins college of Art and Design.
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Enhanced Edition): Enhanced edition
Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012, the world’s leading prize for popular science writing.
This enhanced e-book version contains twelve animations created by graphic design students from the world renowned Central Saint Martins college of Art and Design.
What on Earth is Going On?: A Crash Course in Current Affairs
“Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock”. Ben Hecht
What on Earth is Going On?: A Crash Course in Current Affairs: Unabridged edition
“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.” Gertrude Stein
Sonic Boom: Napster, P2P and the Battle for the Future of Music
The first book to tell the inside story of the battle for control over the future of music and how technology is ripping up the traditional rules of business.
Zeros and Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture
A highly contentious, very readable and totally up-to-the-minute investigation of women’s natural relationship with modern technology, an association which, Plant argues, will trigger a new sexual revolution.