Routledge Focus on IT & Society
About the Book Series
Routledge Focus on IT & Society provides a showcase for cutting-edge scholarship on social aspects of technology and media. This truly interdisciplinary series offers a space for the emergence of offbeat ideas, works from different perspectives that open a window in the mind, methodological agnosticism, flexibility that operates above barriers to interdisciplinary work, and a focus on conceptual payoff of lasting value.
Countering the Cloud: Thinking With and Against Data Infrastructures
1st Edition
By Luke Munn
October 09, 2024
How do cables and data centers think? This book investigates how information infrastructures enact particular forms of knowledge. It juxtaposes the pervasive logics of speed, efficiency, and resilience with more communal and ecological ways of thinking and being, turning technical “solutions” back ...
How Information Systems Came to Rule the World: And Other Essays
1st Edition
By Burt Swanson
January 29, 2024
This book offers a fresh perspective on information systems, a field of study and practice currently undergoing substantial upheaval, even as it expands rapidly and widely with new technologies and applications. Mapping the field as it has developed, the author firmly establishes the ...