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The Digital Environment

How We Live, Learn, Work, and Play Now

by Pablo J. Boczkowski and Eugenia Mitchelstein

ISBN: 9780262548595

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 5, 2025

Understanding digital technology in daily life: why we should think holistically in terms of a digital environment instead of discrete devices and apps.

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.

Fragilities

Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair

Edited by Fernando Domínguez Rubio, Jérôme Denis and David Pontille

ISBN: 9780262550758

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 29, 2025

An original essay collection that explores the generative dimensions of fragility, which can help reveal new life-affirming politics and ethics.

Unboxing Japanese Videogames

A Metadata-Based Approach to the Production and Distribution of Spatial Instability

by Martin Roth

ISBN: 9780262552226

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 25, 2025

A new perspective on the spatial complexity and plurality of Japanese videogames.

Trans Technologies

by Oliver L. Haimson

ISBN: 9780262551861

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 25, 2025

How technology creates new possibilities for transgender people, and how trans experiences, in turn, create new possibilities for technology.

The Silicon Shrink

How Artificial Intelligence Made the World an Asylum

by Daniel Oberhaus

ISBN: 9780262049351

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 4, 2025

Why the race to apply AI in psychiatry is so dangerous, and how to understand the new tech-driven psychiatric paradigm.

Design Rules

How Technology Shapes Organizations

by Carliss Y. Baldwin

ISBN: 9780262049337

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: December 24, 2024

How the innate physical properties of different technologies influence the strategy and structure of the organizations implementing the technologies, the sequel to Design Rules: The Power of Modularity.

Tech Agnostic

How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation

by Greg Epstein

ISBN: 9780262049207

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 29, 2024

An urgently needed exploration of global technology worship, and a measured case for skepticism and agnosticism as a way of life, from the New York Times–bestselling author of Good without God.