Impact of science & technology on society books

8581 books were found.

Urban Elites and Mass Transportation: The Dialectics of Power

Urban Elites and Mass Transportation: The Dialectics...

Author: J. Allen Whitt
ISBN: 9780691614311
Format: Paperback
$62.99

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A Fragile Power: Scientists and the State

A Fragile Power: Scientists and the State

Author: Chandra Mukerji
ISBN: 9780691607542
Format: Paperback
$87.99

When the National Science Foundation funds research about the earth's crust and the Department of Energy supports...  Read More >>

Ulysses' Sail: An Ethnographic Odyssey of Power, Knowledge, and Geographical Distance

Ulysses' Sail: An Ethnographic Odyssey of Power, Knowledge,...

Author: Mary W. Helms
ISBN: 9780691605722
Format: Paperback
$72.99

What do long-distance travelers gain from their voyages, especially when faraway lands are regarded as the source...  Read More >>

New Frontiers in Technological Literacy: Breaking with the Past

New Frontiers in Technological Literacy: Breaking with...

Author: J. Dakers
ISBN: 9781137386328
Format: Paperback
$71.95

This book attempts to rethink the concept of technological literacy in a modern context, not only in terms of a...  Read More >>

New Frontiers in Technological Literacy: Breaking with the Past

New Frontiers in Technological Literacy: Breaking with...

Author: J. Dakers
ISBN: 9781137394743
Format: Hardback
$208.95

This book attempts to rethink the concept of technological literacy in a modern context, not only in terms of a...  Read More >>

Misbehaving Science: Controversy and the Development of Behavior Genetics

Misbehaving Science: Controversy and the Development...

Author: Aaron Panofsky
ISBN: 9780226058450
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Behavior genetics has always been a breeding ground for controversies. From the ""criminal chromosome"" to the ""gay...  Read More >>

Misbehaving Science: Controversy and the Development of Behavior Genetics

Misbehaving Science: Controversy and the Development...

Author: Aaron Panofsky
ISBN: 9780226058313
Format: Hardback
$163.95

"Behavior genetics has always been a breeding ground for controversies. From the ""criminal chromosome"" to the...  Read More >>

The Transformative Capacity of New Technologies: A Theory of Sociotechnical Change

The Transformative Capacity of New Technologies: A Theory...

Author: Ulrich Dolata
ISBN: 9781138807846
Format: Paperback
$88.99

Scientific concepts on the co-evolution of technology and society, as well as recent sociotechnical system approaches,...  Read More >>

Cultural Technologies: The Shaping of Culture in Media and Society

Cultural Technologies: The Shaping of Culture in Media...

Author: Göran Bolin
ISBN: 9781138811522
Format: Paperback
$98.99

Covering diverse themes such as intellectual property, media and architecture, satellite debris, server farms and...  Read More >>

Design Directions: The Relationship Between Humans and Technology

Design Directions: The Relationship Between Humans and...

Author: Alise Piebalga ,  Sylvia Tzvetanova Yung
ISBN: 9781443852715
Format: Hardback
$103.47

This book is a collection of papers, exploring how designers, researchers and practitioners respond to the changing...  Read More >>

To Save Everything, Click Here: Technology, Solutionism, and the Urge to Fix Problems that Don't Exist

To Save Everything, Click Here: Technology, Solutionism,...

Author: Evgeny Morozov
ISBN: 9780241957707
Format: Paperback
$22.99

Our gadgets are getting smarter. Technology can log what we buy, customize what we consume and enable us to save...  Read More >>

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

Author: Nick Bostrom (Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy & Oxford Martin School and Director, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780199678112
Format: Hardback
$51.95

This seminal book injects the topic of superintelligence into the academic and popular mainstream. What happens...  Read More >>

Technological Advancements and the Impact of Actor-Network Theory

Technological Advancements and the Impact of Actor-Network...

Author: Arthur Tatnall ,  Tatnall
ISBN: 9781466661264
Format: Hardback
$273.95

Focuses on cross-disciplinary research as well as examples of the use of actor-network theory in a variety of fields,...  Read More >>

Evolving Issues Surrounding Technoethics and Society in the Digital Age

Evolving Issues Surrounding Technoethics and Society...

Author: Rocci Luppicini ,  Luppicini
ISBN: 9781466661226
Format: Hardback
$467.95

Leverages ethical analysis, risk analysis, technology evaluation, and the combination of ethical and technological...  Read More >>

Human Rights and the Impact of ICT in the Public Sphere: Participation, Democracy, and Political Autonomy

Human Rights and the Impact of ICT in the Public Sphere:...

Author: Christina M. Akrivopoulou ,  N. Garipidis
ISBN: 9781466662483
Format: Hardback
$402.95

Focuses on the new technological era as an innovative way to initiate democratic dialogue, but one that can also...  Read More >>

Cases on the Societal Effects of Persuasive Games

Cases on the Societal Effects of Persuasive Games

Author: Dana Ruggiero ,  Ruggiero
ISBN: 9781466662063
Format: Hardback
$445.95

Investigates the connection between multimedia technologies and game-based learning for an improved understanding...  Read More >>

The Digital Practices of African Americans: An Approach to Studying Cultural Change in the Information Society

The Digital Practices of African Americans: An Approach...

Author: Roderick Graham
ISBN: 9781433122712
Format: Paperback
$143.35

Using three case studies, this book argues that the lenses through which scholars and society’s leaders think about...  Read More >>

The Digital Practices of African Americans: An Approach to Studying Cultural Change in the Information Society

The Digital Practices of African Americans: An Approach...

Author: Roderick Graham
ISBN: 9781433122729
Format: Hardback
$563.38

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Digination: Identity, Organization, and Public Life in the Age of Small Digital Devices and Big Digital Domains

Digination: Identity, Organization, and Public Life...

Author: Robert C. MacDougall
ISBN: 9781611476996
Format: Paperback
$121.00

Digination offers an inter-disciplinary overview of the psychic, social, and institutional effects of some of the...  Read More >>

The Social Life of Nanotechnology

The Social Life of Nanotechnology

Author: Barbara Herr Harthorn (University of California, USA) ,  John W. Mohr (University of California, USA)
ISBN: 9780415629621
Format: Paperback
$114.00

This book addresses the interconnections and tensions between technological development, the social benefits and...  Read More >>

Nanotechnology for Sustainable Development

Nanotechnology for Sustainable Development

Author: Mamadou S. Diallo ,  Neil A. Fromer
ISBN: 9783319050409
Format: Hardback
$517.47

The world is facing great challenges in meeting rising demands for basic commodities (e.g., food, water, and energy),...  Read More >>

Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound

Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the...

Author: Lori Emerson
ISBN: 9780816691265
Format: Paperback
$44.95

In Reading Writing Interfaces, Lori Emerson examines howinterfaces-from today's multitouch devices to yesterday's...  Read More >>

Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound

Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the...

Author: Lori Emerson
ISBN: 9780816691258
Format: Hardback
$75.93

Lori Emerson examines how interfaces—from today’s multitouch devices to yesterday’s desktops, from typewriters to...  Read More >>

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