Impact of science & technology on society books

8577 books were found.

Rethinking e-Government Services: User-Centered Approaches

Rethinking e-Government Services: User-Centered Approaches...

Author: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD
ISBN: 9789264059405
Format: Paperback
$91.95

A report that provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges in getting citizens to use e-government services...  Read More >>

The Laws of Disruption: Harnessing the New Forces That Govern Life and Business in the Digital Age

The Laws of Disruption: Harnessing the New Forces That...

Author: Larry Downes
ISBN: 9780465018642
Format: Hardback
$71.15

Ask anyone in the recording industry or the news business about the consequences of ignoring the Laws of Disruption....  Read More >>

Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep?: Monochrom's Arse Elektronika Anthology: Critical Perspectives on Sexuality and Pornography in Science and Social Fiction

Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep?: Monochrom's...

Author: Thomas Ballhausen ,  Johannes Grenzfurthner
ISBN: 9781889307237
Format: Paperback
$79.17

Provocative and penetrating, Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep? reveals a wealth of depictions of the future...  Read More >>

Gender, Health and Information Technology in Context

Gender, Health and Information Technology in Context...

Author: E. Balka ,  E. Green
ISBN: 9781349303489
Format: Paperback
$84.99

This volume breaks new ground by asking how our understandings of gender can be informed by exploring the socio-technical...  Read More >>

Gender, Health and Information Technology in Context

Gender, Health and Information Technology in Context...

Author: E. Balka ,  E. Green
ISBN: 9780230216341
Format: Hardback
$167.00

This volume breaks new ground by asking how our understandings of gender can be informed by exploring the socio-technical...  Read More >>

Video Cultures: Media Technology and Everyday Creativity

Video Cultures: Media Technology and Everyday Creativity...

Author: D. Buckingham ,  R. Willett
ISBN: 9780230221864
Format: Hardback
$154.00

Over the past decade, there has been a huge increase in ordinary people's access to video production technology....  Read More >>

A Casual Revolution: Reinventing Video Games and Their Players

A Casual Revolution: Reinventing Video Games and Their...

Author: Jesper Juul (Associate Professor, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts)
ISBN: 9780262013376
Format: Hardback
$65.87

How casual games like Guitar Hero, Bejeweled, and those for Nintendo Wii are expanding the audience for video games....  Read More >>

The Best Technology Writing 2009

The Best Technology Writing 2009

Author: Steven Johnson
ISBN: 9780300154108
Format: Paperback
$47.95

A collection of essays that announces a fresh brand of technology journalism, deeply immersed in the fascinating...  Read More >>

The Rise of the Network Society

The Rise of the Network Society

Author: Manuel Castells (University of Southern California, USA)
ISBN: 9781405196864
Format: Paperback
$59.95

A little over a decade since its first publication, the hypotheses set out in Manuel Castells' groundbreaking trilogy...  Read More >>

The Next Big Thing: A Rough Guide to things that seemed like a good idea at the time

The Next Big Thing: A Rough Guide to things that seemed...

Author: Rhodri Marsden
ISBN: 9781848363526
Format: Paperback
$26.37

We live our lives amid a complex web of rapidly changing ideas, desires and ethics; we pick the ones that seem like...  Read More >>

Futile Progress: Technology's empty promise

Futile Progress: Technology's empty promise

Author: Ernest Braun
ISBN: 9781853832437
Format: Paperback
$48.99

Questioning whether new technology has brought true benefits to society, this treatise explores the far-reaching...  Read More >>

Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective

Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective...

Author: Manuel Castells (Professor of Communication and Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society, University of Southern California) ,  Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol (University of Oberta De Catalunya)
ISBN: 9780262513180
Format: Paperback
$44.75

How wireless technology is redefining the relationship of communication, technology, and society around the world—in...  Read More >>

Young People, Ethics, and the New Digital Media: A Synthesis from the GoodPlay Project

Young People, Ethics, and the New Digital Media: A Synthesis...

Author: Carrie James (Harvard University) ,  Katie Davis (Assisstant Professor, University of Washington)
ISBN: 9780262513630
Format: Paperback
$36.96

"Researchers explore the ethical fault lines of young people's new media engagement and propose a model of ""good...  Read More >>

Communities of Science in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Communities of Science in Nineteenth-Century Ireland...

Author: Juliana Adelman
ISBN: 9781851966530
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Adelman challenges historians to reassess the relationship between science and society, showing that the unique...  Read More >>

Selling Outer Space: Kennedy, the Media, and Funding for Project Apollo, 1961-1963

Selling Outer Space: Kennedy, the Media, and Funding...

Author: James Lee Kauffman
ISBN: 9780817355906
Format: Paperback
$63.36

Examines how the Kennedy administration and the media constructed the space program in ways designed to win congressional...  Read More >>

The Young and the Digital

The Young and the Digital

Author: Craig S. Watkins
ISBN: 9780807061930
Format: Hardback
$71.15

"Timely and deeply relevant, The Young and the Digital covers a host of provocative issues—the influence of social...  Read More >>

The Paradox of Scientific Authority: The Role of Scientific Advice in Democracies

The Paradox of Scientific Authority: The Role of Scientific...

Author: Wiebe E. Bijker (Professor of Technology and Society, Maastricht University) ,  Roland Bal (Professor, Erasmus University Rotterdam)
ISBN: 9780262026581
Format: Hardback
$84.48

Assessing the influence of scientific advice in societies that increasingly question scientific authority and expertise....  Read More >>

Mediating Piety: Technology and Religion in Contemporary Asia

Mediating Piety: Technology and Religion in Contemporary...

Author: Francis Khek Gee Lim
ISBN: 9789004178397
Format: Paperback
$308.88

Combining wide-ranging empirical investigations and sophisticated theoretical reflections, this book offers a comprehensive...  Read More >>

Creazione e creatività scientifica

Creazione e creatività scientifica

Author: Paul Haffner
ISBN: 9780852442258
Format: Paperback
$41.37

Questo libro tratta il rapporto fra la fede cristiana in Dio Creatore e la scienza moderna, in uno studio di frontiera....  Read More >>

The Hancocks of Marlborough: Rubber, Art and the Industrial Revolution - A Family of Inventive Genius

The Hancocks of Marlborough: Rubber, Art and the Industrial...

Author: John Loadman ,  Francis James
ISBN: 9780199573554
Format: Hardback
$73.95

This book tells the largely unknown history of the Hancock family of Marlborough. It shows how members of one unique...  Read More >>

Ordinary Genomes: Science, Citizenship, and Genetic Identities

Ordinary Genomes: Science, Citizenship, and Genetic...

Author: Karen-Sue Taussig
ISBN: 9780822345343
Format: Paperback
$60.59

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Ordinary Genomes: Science, Citizenship, and Genetic Identities

Ordinary Genomes: Science, Citizenship, and Genetic...

Author: Karen-Sue Taussig
ISBN: 9780822345169
Format: Hardback
$211.07

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Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age

Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming...

Author: Maggie Jackson ,  Bill McKibben
ISBN: 9781591027485
Format: Paperback
$36.99

Despite our scientific advances, we are nurturing a culture of diffusion, fragmentation, and detachment. In this...  Read More >>

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