Publications
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Engineering a Safer World
(2016)
A new approach to safety, based on systems thinking, that is more effective, less costly, and easier to use than current techniques.Engineering has experienced a technological revolution, but the basic engineering techniques ...
Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out
(2013)
An examination of young people's everyday new media practices—including video-game playing, text-messaging, digital media production, and social media use.Conventional wisdom about young people's use of digital technology ...
The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering
(2014)
Tools to make hard problems easier to solve.In this book, Sanjoy Mahajan shows us that the way to master complexity is through insight rather than precision. Precision can overwhelm us with information, whereas insight ...
Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets!
(2014)
An exploration of social movement media practices in an increasingly complex media ecology, through richly detailed cases of immigrant rights activism.For decades, social movements have vied for attention from the mainstream ...
Functional Differential Geometry
(2013)
An explanation of the mathematics needed as a foundation for a deep understanding of general relativity or quantum field theory.Physics is naturally expressed in mathematical language. Students new to the subject must ...
Measuring What Matters Most
(2013)
An argument that choice-based, process-oriented educational assessments are more effective than static assessments of fact retrieval.If a fundamental goal of education is to prepare students to act independently in the ...
The Future of the Curriculum
(2013)
An examination of curriculum innovations that are shaped by new ideas about digital media and learning.Although ideas about digital media and learning have become an important area for educational research, little attention ...
We Used to Wait
(2014)
An investigation of music videos as a form, a practice, and a literacy.Music videos were once something broadcast by MTV and received on our TV screens. Today, music videos are searched for, downloaded, and viewed on our ...
Participatory Politics
(2014)
An examination of the mix of face-to-face and digital methods that young people use in their experiments with civic engagement. Although they may disavow politics as such, civic-minded young people use every means and media ...
The Civic Potential of Video Games
(2009)
This report draws from the 2008 Pew Teens, Video Games, and
Civics Survey, a national survey of youth and their experiences
with video games done in partnership with Amanda Lenhart at
the Pew Internet and American Life ...
The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age
(2009)
This John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Report is
a redaction of the argument in our book-in-progress, currently
titled The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age.
That book, to be published ...
Knowledge Unbound
(2016)
Influential writings make the case for open access to research, explore its implications, and document the early struggles and successes of the open access movement. Peter Suber has been a leading advocate for open access ...
Making Futures
(2014)
Experiments in innovation, design, and democracy that search not for a killer app but for a collaboratively created sustainable future.Innovation and design need not be about the search for a killer app. Innovation and ...
Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics
(2015-02-06)
The new edition of a classic text that concentrates on developing general methods for studying the behavior of classical systems, with extensive use of computation.We now know that there is much more to classical mechanics ...
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(2014)
A single line of code offers a way to understand the cultural context of computing.This book takes a single line of code—the extremely concise BASIC program for the Commodore 64 inscribed in the title—and uses it as a lens ...
Free Innovation
(2016)
A leading innovation scholar explains the growing phenomenon and impact of free innovation, in which innovations developed by consumers and given away “for free.”In this book, Eric von Hippel, author of the influential ...
Documenting and Assessing Learning in Informal and Media-Rich Environments
(2015)
An extensive review of the literature on learning assessment in informal settings, expert discussion of key issues, and a new model for good assessment practice. Today educational activities take place not only in school ...
Digital Youth with Disabilities
(2014)
An examination of media and technology use by school-aged youth with disabilities, with an emphasis on media use at home.Most research on media use by young people with disabilities focuses on the therapeutic and rehabilitative ...
Evaluation and Credentialing in Digital Music Communities
(2014)
An examination of the use of digital badges as a reward for both casual online music evaluators and professional musicians.Professional and amateur musicians alike use social media as a platform for showcasing and promoting ...
Human Rights in the Age of Platforms
(2019-10-01)
Today such companies as Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter play an increasingly important role in how users form and express opinions, encounter information, debate, disagree, mobilize, and maintain their ...
Development of Linguistic Linked Open Data Resources for Collaborative Data-Intensive Research in the Language Sciences
(2019-10-01)
This book is the product of an international workshop dedicated to addressing data accessibility in the linguistics field. It is therefore vital to the book’s mission that its content be open access. Linguistics as a field ...
What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean from Africa?
(2017-04-30)
Clapperton Mavhunga's collection of essays about science, technology, and innovation (STI) from an African perspective opens with the idea, "Things do not (always) mean the same from everywhere; when we insist that only ...
Frankenstein
(2017-04-30)
This new critical edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was developed by leading scholars for aspiring scientists, engineers, and medical professionals. This unique framing will make this a core text in promoting and ...
Democratic Experiments
(2017-04-28)
This book looks at the democratic constructions surrounding public debates about issues related to scientific and technological development, specifically in this case nanotechnology. Brice Laurent argues that nanotechnology ...