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Author | : Stephen H. Cutcliffe |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0791491129 |
Visions of STS brings together the views of ten leading scholars to clarify the nature of Science, Technology, and Society Studies and point toward future developments. The interdisciplinary field of STS maps out the interconnected relationships among science, technology, and society in order to better understand both the innumerable benefits as well as problematic challenges. This book, rather than presenting science and technology as autonomous entities, analyzes each contextually as societal-mediated processes that reflect cultural, political, and economic values. It contains four basic programmatic essays that deal with technological determinism, the social constructivist view, STS and policy information, and the issue of interdisciplinarity. Visions of STS also stresses more specialized perspectives of work, education, and public policy analysis, and challenges the way STS itself is pursued. Taken together, these essays offer an exciting and unusually broad overview of STS.
Author | : Stephen H. Cutcliffe |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2001-02-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780791448465 |
Maps interconnections between science, technology, and society in order to understand both benefits and costs.
Author | : Tom Easton |
Publisher | : Skyhorse Publishing Inc. |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2010-07-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1602399980 |
Gathers science fiction stories that accurately predicted future developments, including "The Land Iron Clads" by H.G. Wells, which foresaw tank warfare in 1903, and a tale that so closely depicted the atomic bomb in 1944 it worried the FBI.
Author | : Deborah G. Johnson |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 853 |
Release | : 2008-10-17 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0262303388 |
An anthology of writings by thinkers ranging from Freeman Dyson to Bruno Latour that focuses on the interconnections of technology, society, and values and how these may affect the future. Technological change does not happen in a vacuum; decisions about which technologies to develop, fund, market, and use engage ideas about values as well as calculations of costs and benefits. This anthology focuses on the interconnections of technology, society, and values. It offers writings by authorities as varied as Freeman Dyson, Laurence Lessig, Bruno Latour, and Judy Wajcman that will introduce readers to recent thinking about technology and provide them with conceptual tools, a theoretical framework, and knowledge to help understand how technology shapes society and how society shapes technology. It offers readers a new perspective on such current issues as globalization, the balance between security and privacy, environmental justice, and poverty in the developing world. The careful ordering of the selections and the editors' introductions give Technology and Society a coherence and flow that is unusual in anthologies. The book is suitable for use in undergraduate courses in STS and other disciplines. The selections begin with predictions of the future that range from forecasts of technological utopia to cautionary tales. These are followed by writings that explore the complexity of sociotechnical systems, presenting a picture of how technology and society work in step, shaping and being shaped by one another. Finally, the book goes back to considerations of the future, discussing twenty-first-century challenges that include nanotechnology, the role of citizens in technological decisions, and the technologies of human enhancement.
Author | : Jennifer S. Light |
Publisher | : Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2014-03-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781421413846 |
The Nature of Cities brings together environmental and urban history to reveal how, over four decades, this ecological vision shaped the development of cities around the nation.
Author | : Janet Vertesi |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 569 |
Release | : 2019-05-07 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0691190607 |
New perspectives on digital scholarship that speak to today's computational realities Scholars across the humanities, social sciences, and information sciences are grappling with how best to study virtual environments, use computational tools in their research, and engage audiences with their results. Classic work in science and technology studies (STS) has played a central role in how these fields analyze digital technologies, but many of its key examples do not speak to today’s computational realities. This groundbreaking collection brings together a world-class group of contributors to refresh the canon for contemporary digital scholarship. In twenty-five pioneering and incisive essays, this unique digital field guide offers innovative new approaches to digital scholarship, the design of digital tools and objects, and the deployment of critically grounded technologies for analysis and discovery. Contributors cover a broad range of topics, including software development, hackathons, digitized objects, diversity in the tech sector, and distributed scientific collaborations. They discuss methodological considerations of social networks and data analysis, design projects that can translate STS concepts into durable scientific work, and much more. Featuring a concise introduction by Janet Vertesi and David Ribes and accompanied by an interactive microsite, this book provides new perspectives on digital scholarship that will shape the agenda for tomorrow’s generation of STS researchers and practitioners.
Author | : Ullica Christina Olofsdotter Segerstrale |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2000-08-03 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780791446171 |
Contextualizes the "Science Wars" from interdisciplinary sociological, historical, scientific, political, and cultural perspectives.
Author | : Sheila Jasanoff |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2015-09-02 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 022627666X |
Dreamscapes of Modernity offers the first book-length treatment of sociotechnical imaginaries, a concept originated by Sheila Jasanoff and developed in close collaboration with Sang-Hyun Kim to describe how visions of scientific and technological progress carry with them implicit ideas about public purposes, collective futures, and the common good. The book presents a mix of case studies—including nuclear power in Austria, Chinese rice biotechnology, Korean stem cell research, the Indonesian Internet, US bioethics, global health, and more—to illustrate how the concept of sociotechnical imaginaries can lead to more sophisticated understandings of the national and transnational politics of science and technology. A theoretical introduction sets the stage for the contributors’ wide-ranging analyses, and a conclusion gathers and synthesizes their collective findings. The book marks a major theoretical advance for a concept that has been rapidly taken up across the social sciences and promises to become central to scholarship in science and technology studies.
Author | : Zaheer Baber |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1996-05-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780791429204 |
Investigates the complex social processes involved in the introduction and institutionalization of Western science in colonial India.
Author | : Matthew Dal Santo |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2012-07-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199646791 |
In Debating the Saints' Cults in the Age of Gregory the Great, Dal Santo argues that Pope Gregory the Great's Dialogues, which debated the nature and plausibility of the saints' miracles and the propriety of the saints' cult, should be considered from the perspective of a wide-ranging debate which took place in early Byzantine society.