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Wolf, Gunnar
Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas UNAM
Coyoacán, Mexico
 
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  Language, gender and videogames: using corpora to analyse the representation of gender in fantasy videogames
Heritage F., Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY, 2021. 199 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-030743-97-0)

It has often been stated that the videogaming environment is filled with machismo, and there are many observations to that end: numerous studies have been published that back this assertion, based on the size comparison of the male and female gami...

Apr 25 2023  
  Jerusalem online: critical cartography for the digital age
Carraro V., Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore, 2021. 143 pp.  Type: Book (978-9-811633-13-3)

While cartography studies the making and using of maps, this book focuses on a specific case study of critical cartography, that is, when power relations and differing understandings of reality and politics change or shape the making of maps for a...

Mar 14 2023  
   Phishing and communication channels: a guide to identifying and mitigating phishing attacks
Sonowal G., Apress, New York, NY, 2022. 240 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-484277-43-0)

It is not far-fetched to say that most (if not all) CR readers have been subjected to some sort of phishing attack--and even more likely if we consider the wide taxonomy of activities that Sonowal’s book covers. Can we as individ...

Jan 12 2023  
   Learn enough developer tools to be dangerous: command line, text editor, and Git version control essentials
Hartl M., Pearson, Hoboken, NJ, 2022. 368 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-137843-45-9)

The command-line interface (CLI) scares many newcomers to the computing field. It is, however, a most powerful way to interact with the computer, allowing the user a command composition richness that cannot be matched via graphical interfaces. As ...

Jan 10 2023  
   Can AI learn to forget?
Greengard S. Communications of the ACM 65(4): 9-11, 2022.  Type: Article

Nowadays, we can assume readers of Computing Reviews are familiar with the ideas behind machine learning, where neural networks are trained with large training sets so that they “learn” to recognize patterns ...

Aug 8 2022  
   A world without email
Newport C., Penguin Random House, New York, NY, 2021. 320 pp.  Type: Book (978-5-255365-58-6)

Intellectual work draws a lot from communication between collaborating parties. Speed and ease of communication have enormously improved--both qualitatively and quantitatively--in the course of the last decades. So, h...

Jun 15 2022  
 
 
 
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