The Book Company: New Products - Privacy & Surveillance

Privacy in the Age of Social Media: Beyond the Like

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:41:22 +0000

Privacy in the Age of Social Media: Beyond the Like explores the hidden dynamics of social media and the ways our online behavior is tracked, analyzed, and monetized, offering an accessible overview of the interaction between social media engagement and personal data privacy.

Price: $233.99

Electric Sheep, Encrypted Dreams (A Field Guide to Defending Humanity in the Age of Neuro-Clouds, Quantum Hackers and Ethical Black Holes)

Sat, 19 Sep 2026 16:47:14 +0000

Your pancreas has been hacked. Your brain is a Wi-Fi hotspot. Your Roomba just quoted Marx.

It's Tuesday.

Electric Sheep, Encrypted Dreams is a darkly comic field guide to the cybersecurity catastrophes lurking in our hyperconnected future.

Price: $166.99

Cybersecurity Ethics (An Introduction)

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:30:12 +0000

This textbook offers an accessible introduction to the topic of cybersecurity ethics. The second edition has been revised and updated, and contains new chapters on social justice, AI and big data.

Price: $180.00

Ecology of Communication

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:16:46 +0000

Altheide's new book advances the argument set in motion some years ago with 'Media Logic' and continued in 'Media Worlds in the Postjournalism Era:' that in our age, information technology and the communication environments it posits have affected the private and the social spheres of all our powe..

Price: $189.99

Communication Technology and Social Change (Theory and Implications)

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:40:49 +0000

Communication Technology and Social Change is a distinctive collection that provides current theoretical, empirical, and legal analyses for a broader understanding of the dynamic influences of communication technology on social change. With a distinguished panel of contributors, the volum..

Price: $233.99

Policing Communications Data (Privacy, Surveillance, and Policy)

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 16:28:38 +0000

This book explores how communications data has transformed policing practices and the challenges this poses for fundamental privacy rights. It presents several recommendations for the effective regulation of technologies which aim to speak to both the needs of law enforcement and to the protect..

Price: $233.99

Routledge Handbook of Online Violent Extremism

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:38:34 +0000

This new Handbook is the first reference work to offer an overview of the problem of online violent extremism and possible solutions to this.

Price: $350.00

Automating Vision (The Social Impact of the New Camera Consciousness)

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:33:59 +0000

Automating Vision explores the rise of seeing machines through four case studies: facial recognition, drone vision, mobile and locative media, and driverless cars. Proposing a conceptual lens of camera consciousness, it accounts for the growing power and value of camera technologies an..

Price: $233.99

The Algorithmic Society (Technology, Power, and Knowledge)

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:32:46 +0000

This book brings together three academic fields – Public Administration, Criminal Justice and Urban Governance – into a single conceptual framework, and offers a broad cultural-political analysis, addressing critical and ethical issues of algorithms.

Price: $233.99

The New Communications Technologies (Applications, Policy, and Impact)

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:41:04 +0000

Provides information on the emerging technologies that will shape the way communicators do business. This book explores the communications technologies and covers topics ranging from multimedia and production to satellites to digital communication. It examines the social, economic, and political i..

Price: $310.00