Publisher: The MIT Press

Computational Thinking Curricula in K–12

Computational Thinking Curricula in K–12

An international overview of how policy makers, curriculum developers, and school practitioners can integrate computational thinking into K–12 curricula. In today's digital society, computational thinking (CT) is a critical component...
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328 pages
2024-05-21 Published
Transforming School Food Politics around the World

Transforming School Food Politics around the World

How to successfully challenge and transform public school-food programs to emphasize care, justice, and sustainability, with insights from eight countries across the Global North and South. School food programs are...
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360 pages
2024-05-28 Published
Data Rules

Data Rules

A new social science framework for studying the unprecedented social and economic restructuring driven by digital data. Digital data have become the critical frontier where emerging economic practices and organizational...
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240 pages
2024-06-04 Published
Mainstreaming and Game Journalism

Mainstreaming and Game Journalism

Why games are still niche and not mainstream, and how journalism can help them gain cultural credibility. Mainstreaming and Game Journalism addresses both the history and current practice of game journalism,...
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224 pages
2023-09-26 Published
The Sensorium of the Drone and Communities

The Sensorium of the Drone and Communities

A comprehensive overview of how civilian drones sense the world and how they build the aesthetic imaginaries of our communities. Drone technology has garnered critical attention across many fields, from...
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304 pages
2023-10-03 Published
The Infrastructural South

The Infrastructural South

An in-depth look at the infrastructural landscape of Africa amid the third wave of urbanization, drawing on case studies from Africa and extending further afield. The Infrastructural South represents a major...
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336 pages
2023-10-10 Published
1: Noticing Movement: Meaning, Measurement, and Experience 2: Studying Movement: Somatics, Choreography, and Notation 3: Constructing Movement: Somatic Strategies, Choreographic Technologies, and Notational Abstractions through a Laban/Bartenieff Lens 4: What Is Moving? The Interconnection of Body Parts and Action (Body) 5: Where Is the Movement? Spatial Fiducials for Movement (Space) 6: When Is the Movement Happening? The Temporal Perception of Movement (Time) 7: For Whom Is the Movement? The Relationship between Mover and Environment (Shape) 8: How Is the Movement Executed? Movement Quality Enables Shading of Motion (Effort) 9: Deconstructing Movement: Case Studies in Expression (Answering “Why?”) 10: Notating Movement: Advanced Analysis through Symbolic Representation

Making Meaning with Machines

A rigorous primer in movement studies for designers, engineers, and scientists that draws on the fields of dance and robotics. How should a gestural interface react to a “flick” versus...
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418 pages
2023-10-10 Published
Exploring and Exploiting Genetic Risk for Psychiatric Disorders

Exploring and Exploiting Genetic Risk for Psychiatric Disorders

An edited volume that looks at the state of psychiatric genetics and how to chart a path forward. In this edited collection—experts from psychiatric and statistical genetics, neurobiology, and clinical...
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340 pages
2023-10-10 Published
Nature-Made Economy

Nature-Made Economy

An exploration of the economization of the ocean through the small modifications that enable great transformations of nature. The ocean is the site of an ongoing transformation that is aimed...
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280 pages
2023-10-26 Published
On the Brink of Utopia

On the Brink of Utopia

A new and coherent framework for fostering the breakthrough innovations that we urgently need to confront our collective future. We live in less innovative times than we think. Despite having...
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296 pages
2023-10-24 Published