Impact of science & technology on society books

8577 books were found.

Society and Technological Change

Society and Technological Change

Author: University Rudi Volti (Pitzer College)
ISBN: 9781429221214
Format: Paperback
$172.52

In the Sixth Edition of Society and Technological Change, Rudi Volti continues to bring both his enthusiasm and...  Read More >>

The Electronic Republic: The Impact of Technology on Education for Citizenship

The Electronic Republic: The Impact of Technology on...

Author: Phillip J. Vanfossen ,  Michael J. Berson
ISBN: 9781557535061
Format: Paperback
$86.99

In 1991, Lawrence Grossman wrote that 'a new political system is taking shape in the United States. As we approach...  Read More >>

Everyday Engineering: An Ethnography of Design and Innovation

Everyday Engineering: An Ethnography of Design and Innovation...

Author: Dominique Vinck (University of Lausanne)
ISBN: 9780262512640
Format: Paperback
$49.99

A guide to the everyday working world of engineers, written by researchers trained in both engineering and sociology....  Read More >>

New Technologies and Human Rights

New Technologies and Human Rights

Author: Therese Murphy (, Professor of Law and Critical Theory at the University of Nottingham)
ISBN: 9780199562572
Format: Hardback
$254.00

In an era increasingly dominated by new technologies there are many calls for regulation to control their application....  Read More >>

Law Complexity and Globalisation

Law Complexity and Globalisation

Author: Julian Webb
ISBN: 9781844720330
Format: Hardback
$196.00

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Biosemiotics

Biosemiotics

Author: Jesper Hoffmeyer ,  Donald Favareau
ISBN: 9781589661844
Format: Paperback
$72.45

Recent debates surrounding the teaching of biology divide participants into three camps based on how they explain...  Read More >>

The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google

The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google...

Author: Nicholas Carr
ISBN: 9780393333947
Format: Paperback
$44.75

"""Future Shock for the Web-apps era.... Compulsively readable—for nontechies, too.""—Fast Company"  Read More >>

The Mangle in Practice: Science, Society, and Becoming

The Mangle in Practice: Science, Society, and Becoming...

Author: Andrew Pickering ,  Keith Guzik
ISBN: 9780822343516
Format: Hardback
$237.47

"Argues for a re-conceptualization of research practice as a ""mangle,"" an open-ended, evolutionary, and performative...  Read More >>

Acting in an Uncertain World: An Essay on Technical Democracy

Acting in an Uncertain World: An Essay on Technical...

Author: Michel Callon (CSI Ecole des mines de Paris) ,  Pierre Lascoumes (CEVIPOF)
ISBN: 9780262033824
Format: Hardback
$97.68

A call for a new form of democracy in which ""hybrid forums"" composed of experts and laypeople address such sociotechnical...  Read More >>

Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own

Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic...

Author: David Bollier
ISBN: 9781595583963
Format: Paperback
$71.15

A stunning narrative history of the emergence of electronic free culture'and a radically different organisation...  Read More >>

Virtual Shadows: Your Privacy in the Information Society

Virtual Shadows: Your Privacy in the Information Society...

Author: Karen Lawrence Oqvist
ISBN: 9781906124090
Format: Paperback
$68.51

Social networking, government databases, online shopping and loyalty cards have all generated vast amounts of personal...  Read More >>

Content Nation: Surviving and Thriving as Social Media Changes Our Work, Our Lives, and Our Future

Content Nation: Surviving and Thriving as Social Media...

Author: John Blossom
ISBN: 9780470379219
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Find out how social media communications is changing the content provider industry in Content Nation: Surviving...  Read More >>

Descartes' Daughters: Thinking-Machines and the Emergence of Posthuman Complexity

Descartes' Daughters: Thinking-Machines and the Emergence...

Author: Dawn E Lausa
ISBN: 9798843340384
Format: Paperback
$19.12

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Cyberculture and New Media

Cyberculture and New Media

Author: Francisco J. Ricardo
ISBN: 9789042025189
Format: Paperback
$160.51

In the extension of digital media from optional means to central site of activity, the domains of language, art,...  Read More >>

Sex, Science And Profits

Sex, Science And Profits

Author: Terence Kealey
ISBN: 9780099281931
Format: Paperback
$35.00

The question 'What is art?' is frequently debated, but 'What is science?' appears to be discussed less often - though...  Read More >>

Electric Sounds: Technological Change and the Rise of Corporate Mass Media

Electric Sounds: Technological Change and the Rise of...

Author: Steve Wurtzler, , Ph.D. (Professor of English, Georgetown University)
ISBN: 9780231136778
Format: Paperback
$56.95

Electric Sounds brings to vivid life an era when innovations in the production, recording, and transmission of sound...  Read More >>

Did I Ever Tell You About the Whale?: Or Measuring Technology Maturity

Did I Ever Tell You About the Whale?: Or Measuring Technology...

Author: William L. Nolte ,  James W. Bilbro
ISBN: 9781593119638
Format: Paperback
$121.41

Examines the state of technology maturity measurement, pointing out strengths and weaknesses of available measures,...  Read More >>

Technology and Nationalism in India: Cultural Negotiations from Colonialism to Cyberspace

Technology and Nationalism in India: Cultural Negotiations...

Author: Rohit Chopra (Santa Clara University USA)
ISBN: 9781604975673
Format: Hardback
$290.27

"This book examines the phenomenon of ""technocultural Hindu nationalism"" or the use of the internet by global...  Read More >>

Scientific Way of Warfare: Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity

Scientific Way of Warfare: Order and Chaos on the Battlefields...

Author: Antoine J Bosquet (Birkbeck, University of London) ,  Antoine J Bousquet (Birkbeck, University of London)
ISBN: 9780199326754
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Bousquet's book considers the impact of key technologies and scientific ideas on the practice of warfare and the...  Read More >>

Communities of Knowledge in Nineteenth-century Ireland: Science, Culture and Society

Communities of Knowledge in Nineteenth-century Ireland:...

Author: Marc Caball ,  Clara Cullen
ISBN: 9781846821592
Format: Hardback
$130.95

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The Wonder Phone in the Land of Miracles: Mobile Telephony in Israel

The Wonder Phone in the Land of Miracles: Mobile Telephony...

Author: Akiba A. Cohen ,  Dafna Lemish
ISBN: 9781572738553
Format: Paperback
$69.96

In analyzing the mobile phone as it is contextualized in Israeli society, two opposing social forces can clearly...  Read More >>

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