Impact of science & technology on society books

8574 books were found.

The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine

The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales...

Author: Peter Lunenfeld (UCLA - Broad Art Center) ,  Brian Roettinger
ISBN: 9780262015479
Format: Hardback
$57.95

As we hurtle into the twenty-first century, will we be passive downloaders of content or active uploaders of meaning?...  Read More >>

The Techno-Human Condition

The Techno-Human Condition

Author: Braden R. Allenby (Arizona State University) ,  Daniel Sarewitz
ISBN: 9780262015691
Format: Hardback
$65.87

A provocative analysis of what it means to be human in an era of incomprehensible technological complexity and change....  Read More >>

Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing

Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous...

Author: Paul Dourish (Chancellor's Professor of Informatics, University of California, Irvine) ,  Genevieve Bell (Intel Fellow and Director, User Experience Research, INTEL)
ISBN: 9780262015554
Format: Hardback
$84.48

A sociotechnical investigation of ubiquitous computing as a research enterprise and as a lived reality.  Read More >>

Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life

Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life

Author: Rob Kitchin (National University of Ireland Maynooth) ,  Martin Dodge (Senior Lecturer, The University of Manchester)
ISBN: 9780262042482
Format: Hardback
$92.40

An analysis of the ways that software creates new spatialities in everyday life, from supermarket checkout lines...  Read More >>

The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30)

The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies...

Author: Mark Bauerlein ,  Danny Campbell
ISBN: 9781452632322
Format: Audio
$221.73

This shocking, surprisingly entertaining romp into the intellectual nether regions of today's under-thirty set reveals...  Read More >>

The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30)

The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies...

Author: Mark Bauerlein ,  Danny Campbell
ISBN: 9781452602325
Format: Audio
$105.57

This shocking, surprisingly entertaining romp into the intellectual nether regions of today's under-thirty set reveals...  Read More >>

The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30)

The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies...

Author: Mark Bauerlein ,  Danny Campbell
ISBN: 9798200093854
Format: Audio
$47.49

"A startling examination of the intellectual life of young adults, ""The Dumbest Generation"" reveals the disturbing,...  Read More >>

The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30)

The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies...

Author: Mark Bauerlein ,  Danny Campbell
ISBN: 9798200093861
Format: Audio
$47.49

"A startling examination of the intellectual life of young adults, ""The Dumbest Generation"" reveals the disturbing,...  Read More >>

The Dumbest Generation Lib/E: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30)

The Dumbest Generation Lib/E: How the Digital Age Stupefies...

Author: Mark Bauerlein ,  Danny Campbell
ISBN: 9798200093847
Format: Audio
$47.49

Let's take stock of young America. Compared to previous generations, American youth have more schooling (college...  Read More >>

Plastic: A Toxic Love Story

Plastic: A Toxic Love Story

Author: Susan Freinkel ,  Pam Ward
ISBN: 9781611201895
Format: Mixed media product
$184.77

In this probing look at how plastic built the modern world--and the price the world has paid for plastic--journalist...  Read More >>

Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work

Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at...

Author: Anne Balsamo
ISBN: 9786613251763
Format: Electronic book text
$300.80

Looks at how cultural theory impacts technology design. The book will include a DVD that provides samples of the...  Read More >>

Technology and Religion: Remaining Human in a Co-Created World

Technology and Religion: Remaining Human in a Co-Created...

Author: Noreen Herzfeld
ISBN: 9786613260529
Format: Electronic book text
$52.75

<p>Technology is changing all the time, but does it also have the ability to change us and the way we approach religion...  Read More >>

Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines

Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the...

Author: Richard A Muller ,  Pete Larkin
ISBN: 9798200092741
Format: Audio
$52.77

Learn the science behind the headlines-the tools of terrorists, the dangers of nuclear power, and the reality of...  Read More >>

Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines

Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the...

Author: Richard A Muller ,  Pete Larkin
ISBN: 9798200092758
Format: Audio
$52.77

Learn the science behind the headlines-the tools of terrorists, the dangers of nuclear power, and the reality of...  Read More >>

Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines

Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the...

Author: Richard A Muller ,  Pete Larkin
ISBN: 9798200092734
Format: Audio
$52.77

Learn the science behind the headlines-the tools of terrorists, the dangers of nuclear power, and the reality of...  Read More >>

Minds, Bodies, Machines, 1770-1930

Minds, Bodies, Machines, 1770-1930

Author: D. Coleman ,  H. Fraser
ISBN: 9780230284678
Format: Hardback
$84.99

It is during the nineteenth-century, the age of machinery, that we begin to witness a sustained exploration of the...  Read More >>

The Cluetrain Manifesto: 10th Anniversary Edition

The Cluetrain Manifesto: 10th Anniversary Edition

Author: Christopher Locke ,  Dan Gillmor
ISBN: 9780465024094
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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Regulating Technology: International Harmonization and Local Realities

Regulating Technology: International Harmonization and...

Author: Patrick van Zwanenberg ,  Adrian Ely (University of Sussex, UK)
ISBN: 9781849712477
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Examining the regulation of technologies, this book explores how the drive to harmonize regulatory policies across...  Read More >>

Regulating Technology: International Harmonization and Local Realities

Regulating Technology: International Harmonization and...

Author: Patrick van Zwanenberg ,  Adrian Ely (University of Sussex, UK)
ISBN: 9781849712460
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Examining the regulation of technologies, this book explores how the drive to harmonize regulatory policies across...  Read More >>

Digital Cultures

Digital Cultures

Author: Milad Doueihi
ISBN: 9780674055247
Format: Hardback
$43.95

In a world of giddy celebrants and dire detractors, Milad Doueihi speaks with measured authority about what the...  Read More >>

Information Communication Technologies and the Virtual Public Sphere: Impacts of Network Structures on Civil Society

Information Communication Technologies and the Virtual...

Author: Robert Cropf ,  William S. Krummenacher
ISBN: 9781609601591
Format: Hardback
$384.95

Demonstrates how the virtual public sphere uses information communications technology to empower ordinary citizens...  Read More >>

Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics

Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics

Author: Jennifer Gabrys
ISBN: 9780472117611
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Exploring the materiality of digital devices through electronic waste  Read More >>

Toxic Bodies: Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES

Toxic Bodies: Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES...

Author: Nancy Langston
ISBN: 9780300171372
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Shows how diethylstilbestrol, the first synthetic chemical to be marketed as an estrogen, has since WW II penetrated...  Read More >>

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