Technology Studies

Bioethicist Mark Navin and policy scholar Katie Attwell explore the evolution of American childhood vaccination policy through the prism of political history, contemporary parenthood, and diverse governance strategies. America's New Vaccine Wars focuses...

This accessible book introduces students to perspectives from the field of science and technology studies. Putting forward the thesis that science and democracy share important characteristics, it shows how authority cannot be taken for granted and...

Every new tractor now contains built-in sensors that collect data and stream it to cloud-based infrastructure. Seed and chemical companies are using these data, and these agribusinesses are a form of big tech alongside firms like Google and Facebook.The...

This book explores the fundamental contradiction at the heart of the digital environment: technology offers all manner of promises, yet habitually fails to deliver. This failure often arises from numerous problems: the proficiency of the technology or...

Technology is key to the development of nations yet is not freely or easily accessible. This book aims to contribute to the debate about empowering Africa to play a more meaningful role in the global innovation system. It emphasizes the important role of...

Transgenerational Technology and Interactions for the 21st Century explores how we as humans navigate the 21st Century, interacting with technologies, including those that are intended to support and enhance our experiences across the lifespan. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912729067Author Susanne BauerFormat HardbackPage Count 628Imprint Mattering PressPublisher Mattering PressWeight(grams) 1002gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

The concept of transhumanism emerged in the middle of the 20th century, and has influenced discussions around AI, brain-computer interfaces, genetic technologies and life extension. Despite its enduring influence in the public imagination, a fully...

This collection offers the first up-to-date, book-length, academic study of Amazon. It is an indispensable tool for any researcher in the humanities and social sciences in the future looking to study not only Amazon, but also other capitalist platform...

Characters are a vital aspect of today's transmedia practices. Combining theories on fictional persons from Japanese and Euro-American practices, this book discusses video game characters embedded in our popular media culture in which they are constantly...

Data Borders investigates entrenched and emerging borderland technology that ensnares all people in an intimate web of surveillance where data resides and defines citizenship. Detailing the new trend of biologically mapping undocumented people through...

"The digital now thoroughly saturates our everyday lives to the point where it seems we are drowning. But is it possible to swim on our terms? This book thoughtfully examines this question, critically teasing apart the structures of power that permeate...

The financial industry derives its legitimacy through the claim that it acts in the interest of shareholders. A vast international network of funds, banks, insurance companies, brokerages, rating agencies, and regulatory agencies defends its status by...

AS HEARD ON BBC BREAKFAST AND BBC SUNDAY WITH LAURA KUENSSBERG'A thrilling story of how democracies can respond to the world's most powerful industry, told by the woman who is leading the charge.' Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation'Kidron...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578597796Author A.G.G. LiuFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Visible Ink PressPublisher Visible Ink PressDimensions(mm) 234mm * 190mm * 25mm

Society Without People is the first major scholarly analysis of the profound social and cultural effects of emerging technologies such as generative AI and the Metaverse. Using an approachable style and compelling scenarios, Pieper and Nelson examine the...

'Incisive' - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'A brilliant, funny, omnivorous excavation of how technology and entertainment have warped humanity 'SOPHIE GILBERT, PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST AND AUTHOR OF GIRL ON GIRL_______From an award-winning staff writer for the...

'Incisive' - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'A brilliant, funny, omnivorous excavation of how technology and entertainment have warped humanity 'SOPHIE GILBERT, PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST AND AUTHOR OF GIRL ON GIRL_______From an award-winning staff writer for the...

The Extinction of Experience reveals the true cost of our digital age – and shows us how to return to the real world, while we still can.‘A passionate case for the human experiences which are central to a truly vibrant and meaningful existence’ OLIVER...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316581318Author Henry a KissingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943003747Author Michael RectenwaldFormat HardbackPage Count 388Imprint World Encounter Institute/New English Review PressPublisher World Encounter...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523524174Author Lawrence CappelloFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Workman PublishingPublisher Workman Publishing

We live in a world of rapidly growing gaps between rich and poor. In the rich parts of the world, new resource-consuming devices are launched every year. But at the same time, about a fourth of the world’s population does not have access to clean...

In From Online Platforms to Digital Monopolies: Technology, Information and Power, Jonas C.L. Valente discusses the rise of platforms as key players in different social activities, from economy to culture and politics. These companies have a daily...

This anthology contributes to creating awareness on how digital ageism operates in relation to the widely spread symbolic representations of old and young age around digital technologies, the (lack of) representation of diverse older individuals in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250868480Author Madhumita MurgiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 210mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959820659Author Logan CarderFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Logan CarderPublisher Logan CarderWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798869045959Author RodinFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint SunshinePublisher SunshineWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685747114Author Elena VelásquezFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Ibukku, LLCPublisher Ibukku, LLCWeight(grams) 68g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789523691063Author Ilpo HelénFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Helsinki University PressPublisher Helsinki University PressWeight(grams) 417g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912729081Author James MaguireFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Mattering PressPublisher Mattering Press

Transgenerational Technology and Interactions for the 21st Century explores how we as humans navigate the 21st Century, interacting with technologies, including those that are intended to support and enhance our experiences across the lifespan. This...

Digital Theology is a rapidly emerging field of academic research and gaining traction with scholars of Computer Science, Theology, Sociology of Religion and the wider Humanities. This book explores Digital Theology from a Computer Science...

Journalism and Austerity: Digitization and Crisis During the Greek Memoranda presents an overview of press coverage focused on the Greek crisis. The impacts of disaster and digitization in Greek journalism are analyzed with the help of expert testimonies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262548137Author Tomas PausFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

This book aims to thoroughly examine noise’s conceptual potencies and explore and amplify its epistemic consequences. The author explores the prospect of different “contextures” of a present made volatile by noise. In a moment when our species exhibits...

How we lost control of the internet-and how to win it back. The internet has become a battleground. Although it was unlikely to live up to the hype and hopes of the 1990s, only the most skeptical cynics could have predicted the World Wide Web as we know...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782359261158Author Olugbenga AdesidaFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Amalion PublishingPublisher Amalion PublishingWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm)...

In a present marked by planetary crisis, a radical rethinking of aesthetics is necessary. This inspirational collection proposes a new way of thinking about aesthetics as fundamental to cultivating more liveable futures. Drawing on the philosophies of...

Governmental entities in the United States have multiple, well publicized failures and challenges when it comes to procuring and integrating new technologies. A quick search will yield a treasure trove of technology procurement and implementation gone...