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Experimental Games Critique, Play, and Design in the Age of Gamification
ISBN: PB: 9780226629971, ISBN: HB: 9780226629834, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 46 halftones
In our unprecedentedly networked world, games have come to occupy an important space in many of our everyday lives. Digital games alone engage an estimated 2.5 billion people worldwide as of 2020, and other forms of gaming, such as board games, role...
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£22,00
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Promiscuous Knowledge Information, Image, and Other Truth Games in History
ISBN: HB: 9780226611853, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones, 2 line drawings,
Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google, once compared the perfect search engine to the "mind of God". As the modern face of promiscuous knowledge, however, Google's divine omniscience traffics indifferently in news, maps, weather, and porn. This book, b...
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£27,00
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Knuth par Knuth
ISBN: PB: 9781684000586, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, January 2020
226 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The interviews in this volume form the nearest thing possible to an autobiography of eminent computer scientist Donald E. Knuth. Based on the English-language Companion to the Papers of Donald Knuth, also published by CSLI Publications, this book bri...
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£23,00
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Life by Algorithms How Roboprocesses Are Remaking Our World
ISBN: PB: 9780226627564, ISBN: HB: 9780226627427, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones
Computerized processes are everywhere in our society. They are the automated phone messaging systems that businesses use to screen calls; the link between student standardized test scores and public schools' access to resources; the algorithms that r...
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£21,00
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£62,00
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Computer Game Worlds
ISBN: PB: 9783035800135, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2017
350 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 180 halftones
Computer games have become ubiquitous in today's society. Many scholars have speculated on the reasons for their massive success. Yet we haven't considered the most basic questions: Why do computer games exist? What specific circumstances led to the...
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£37,50
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Cybernetics The Macy Conferences 1946-1953. The Complete Transactions
ISBN: PB: 9783037345986, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2016
736 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 78 halftones
Between 1946 and 1953, the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation sponsored a series of conferences aiming to bring together a diverse, interdisciplinary community of scholars and researchers who would join forces to lay the groundwork for the new science of cy...
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£52,50
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Interface Experience A User's Guide
ISBN: PB: 9781941792025, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, March 2015
128 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 20 colour plates
The last forty years have seen the rise of the personal computer, a device that has enabled ordinary individuals to access a tool that had been exclusive to laboratories and corporate technology centers. During this time, computers have become smalle...
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£19,00
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Studying Social Networks A Guide to Empirical Research
ISBN: PB: 9783593397634, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2013
220 pp., 21.5x14 cm
"Studying Social Networks" provides a concise, comprehensive introduction to the process of empirical network research. Students and practitioners new to social research will find easily understandable learning goals, numerous examples, and helpful e...
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£28,00
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Cyberscience 2.0 Research in the Age of Digital Social Networks
ISBN: PB: 9783593395180, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, May 2012
210 pp., 22x14 cm
At the start of the twenty-first century, the Internet was already perceived to have fundamentally changed the landscape for research. With its opportunities for digital networking, novel publication schemes, and new communication formats, the web wa...
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£40,00
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Companion to the Papers of Donald Knuth
ISBN: PB: 9781575866345, ISBN: HB: 9781575866352, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2012
441 pp., 23x15 cm
Donald E. Knuth's seminal publications, such as "Selected Papers on Fun and Games" and "Selected Paper on the Design of Algorithms", have earned him a loyal following among scholars and computer scientists, and his award-winning textbooks have become...
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£26,50
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£56,00
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