A revealing and gripping investigation into how social media platforms police what we post online—and the large societal impact of these decisions Most users want their Twitter feed, Facebook page, and YouTube comments to be free of harassment and porn. Whether faced with “fake news” or livestreamed violence, “content moderators”—who censor or promote user-posted content—have n...(展开全部)

An eye-opening look at the invisible workers who protect us from seeing humanity’s worst on today’s commercial internet Social media on the internet can be a nightmarish place. A primary shield against hateful language, violent videos, and online cruelty uploaded by users is not an algorithm. It is people. Mostly invisible by design, more than 100,000 commercial content modera...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly Irrational behavior is a part of human nature, but as MIT professor Ariely has discovered in 20 years of researching behavioral economics, people tend to behave irrationally in a predictable fashion. Drawing on psychology and economics, behavioral economics can show us why cautious people make poor decisions about sex when aroused, why patients get greate...(展开全部)

Why do smart people make irrational decisions every day? The answers will surprise you. Predictably Irrational is an intriguing, witty and utterly original look at why we all make illogical decisions. Why can a 50p aspirin do what a 5p aspirin can't? If an item is "free" it must be a bargain, right? Why is everything relative, even when it shouldn't be? How do our expectations...(展开全部)

"This book is comprehensive and magisterial, and at the same time enormously readable. It will undoubtedly become one of the very few definitive texts in the rapidly growing field of media and cultural studies, providing a crucial link to critical theory and to social theory as a whole." Professor William Outhwaite, University of Sussex "An extremely powerful and sustained diag...(展开全部)

基尔特·洛文克（Geert Lovink），欧洲前卫批判的网络文化批评家，从占屋运动开始迈向激进网络文化的实验，是荷兰网络文化中心的创始主任，荷兰与澳大利亚的媒体理论家、评论者与行动者。他在2003年于墨尔本大学获得博士学位，加入昆士兰大学批判与文化研究中心。2004年被任命为阿姆斯特丹应用科技大学的研究教授及阿姆斯特丹大学的助理教授。他发起网络时钟(nettime)、光纤文化(fibreculture)等网络计划。出版的书籍包括《暗光纤》（Dark Fibre, 2002）、《怪而熟悉的网络》（Uncanny Networks,2002）、《我的第一次经济衰退》（My First Recession, 2003）、《零评论》（Zero Comments, 2007）、《没有原因的网络：对社交媒体的批评》（Networks Without a Cau...(展开全部)

How should a democracy choose its representatives? How does disease spread? How do computers teach themselves chess, and why is chess easier for them than analyzing a sentence? What should your kids study in school if they really want to learn to think? All of these are questions about geometry. Jordan Ellenberg reveals the mathematics behind some of the most important scientif...(展开全部)

""Time Maps" extends beyond all of the old cliches about linear, circular, and spiral patterns of historical process and provides us with models of the actual legends used to map history. It is a brilliant and elegant exercise in model building that provides new insights into some of the old questions about philosophy of history, historical narrative, and what is called straigh...(展开全部)

"Time Maps extends beyond all of the old clichés about linear, circular, and spiral patterns of historical process and provides us with models of the actual legends used to map history. It is a brilliant and elegant exercise in model building that provides new insights into some of the old questions about philosophy of history, historical narrative, and what is called straight ...(展开全部)

String theory says we live in a ten-dimensional universe, but that only four are accessible to our everyday senses. According to theorists, the missing six are curled up in bizarre structures known as Calabi-Yau manifolds. In The Shape of Inner Space , Shing-Tung Yau, the man who mathematically proved that these manifolds exist, argues that not only is geometry fundamental to ...(展开全部)