Social Aspects

Drug Abuse (NIDA) funded research project on drug information and online drug-related communities. The editors of this pivotal text, Edward Murguia, Ann Lessem, and Melissa Tackett-Gibson, elevate the debate about drug use and the Internet from a polemic...

Atomic energy is not only invisible, it has been cloaked in secrecy by government, industry, and the military. Yet for many Americans the effects of radiation have been less than secret. Just ask the radium workers in Ottawa, Illinois, the "downwinders"...

From the telegraph to the touchscreen, how the development of binary switching transformed everyday life and changed the shape of human agency The Switch traces the sudden rise of a technology that has transformed everyday life for billions of people:...

A firsthand look at efforts to improve diversity in software and hackerspace communitiesHacking, as a mode of technical and cultural production, is commonly celebrated for its extraordinary freedoms of creation and circulation. Yet surprisingly few women...

In the summer of 1991, population geneticists and evolutionary biologists proposed to archive human genetic diversity by collecting the genomes of "isolated indigenous populations." Their initiative, which became known as the Human Genome Diversity...

This book is a useful text for advanced students of MIS and ICT courses, and for those studying ICT in related areas: Management and Organization Studies, Cultural Studies, and Technology and Innovation. As ICT's permeate every sphere of...

Featuring twenty-five writers in all, this book includes Howard P. Segal's acclaimed work on utopian visionaries.About the AuthorHoward P. Segal is Bird Professor of History at the University of Maine. He is also director of its technology and society...

We have long recognized technology as a driving force behind much historical and cultural change. The invention of the printing press initiated the Reformation. The development of the compass ushered in the Age of Exploration and the discovery of the New...

This is the first book to take an extensive look at the many different types of users and cultures that comprise the popular social media platform Tumblr. Though it does not receive nearly as much attention as other social media such as Twitter or...

The technological realm provides an unusually active laboratory not only for new ideas and products but also for the remarkable linguistic innovations that accompany and describe them. How else would words like qubit (a unit of quantum information), sock...

We live in a surveillance society. Anyone who uses a credit card, cell phone, or even search engines to navigate the Web is being monitored and assessed - and often in ways that are imperceptible to us. The first general introduction to the growing field...

A dizzying tour of the ways technologies, both real and imagined, can transform humanityThe mind of the machine, the body suspended in time, organs exchanged, thought computed, genes manipulated, DNA samples abducted by aliens: the terrain between...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538754306Author Nina SchickFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint TwelvePublisher TwelveWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 23mm

We live in an age of awesome technological potential. From nanotechnology to synthetic organisms, new technologies stand to revolutionize whole domains of human experience. But with awesome potential comes awesome risk: drones can deliver a bomb as...

Click and Kin is an interdisciplinary examination of how our increasingly mobile and networked age is changing the experience of kinship and connection. Focusing on how identity formation is affected by quick media such as instant messaging, video chat,...

Can we use technology in the pursuit of a good life, or are we doomed to having our lives organized and our priorities set by the demands of machines and systems? How can philosophy help us to make technology a servant rather than a master?Technology and...

This book presents results of an international conference which addressed the interaction of aesthetical and technological dimensions within the formation of contemporary society. The contributions discuss the production of time and space, self and...

Almost without anybody noticing, a new cultural paradigm has come center stage, displacing an exhausted and increasingly marginalised postmodernism. Dr. Alan Kirby calls this cultural paradigm digimodernism, a name comprising both its central technical...

When technology reinforces inequality, it's not just a glitch-it's a signal that we need to redesign our systems to create a more equitable world.The word "glitch" implies an incidental error, as easy to patch up as it is to identify. But what if racism,...

The workplace has been changed by the rise of digital technologies. This work examines this process by covering women in the workplace and at home. It explores changing categories of employment and modes of organization, and how new divisions of race and...

Biotechnologies already on the horizon will enable us to be smarter, have better memories, be stronger and quicker, have more stamina, live longer, be more resistant to diseases, and enjoy richer emotional lives. To some of us, these prospects are...

In this visionary look into the future, Freeman Dyson argues that technological changes fundamentally alter our ethical and social arrangements and that three rapidly advancing new technologies - solar energy, genetic engineering, and worldwide...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262640343Author David E. NyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 23mm

A brand-new book from the award-winning SUNDAY TIMES journalist Brian Appleyard.Simplicity has become a brand and a cult. People want simple lives and simple solutions. And now our technology wants us to be simpler, to be 'machine readable'. From...

An esteemed historian of science explores the diversity of scientific experimentation. The experiment has long been seen as a test bed for theory, but in Split and Splice, Hans-Joerg Rheinberger makes the case, instead, for treating experimentation as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262542265Author Ainissa RamirezFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

With the advent of the Internet and the limitless information it contains, we're less sure about what we know, who knows what, or even what it means to know at all. And yet, human knowledge has recently grown in previously unimaginable ways and in...

In this eye-opening book, author Lloyd J. Dumas argues that our capacity for developing ever more powerful technologies and the unavoidable fallibility of both machine and man will lead us towards a disaster of an unprecedented scale.Most of us assume...

To ordinary people, science used to seem infallible. Scientists were heroes, selflessly pursuing knowledge for the common good. More recently, a series of scientific scandals, frauds and failures have led us to question science's pre-eminence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262045728Author Jonathan ChapmanFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

This book describes how two newly invented communications technologies - the telephone and the electric light - were publicly envisioned, in specialized engineering trade journals as well as in more popular media, at the end of the nineteenth century...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048576Author Wendy H. WongFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 343gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 154mm * 18mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358120575Author Mary L GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing CompanyPublisher HarperCollins Publishers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546928Author Ilpo KoskinenFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

This book provides a long-overdue account of online technology and its impact on the work and lifestyles of professional employees. It moves between the offices and homes of workers in the knew "knowledge" economy to provide intimate insight into the...

From a world-renowned expert on creative play and the impact of commercial marketing on children, a timely investigation into how big tech is hijacking childhood-and what we can do about it"Engrossing and insightful . . . rich with details that paint a...

The new edition of this authoritative introduction to the philosophy of technology includes recent developments in the subject, while retaining the range and depth of its selection of seminal contributions and its much-admired editorial commentary. *...

How did we end up here, masters of scientific insight, purveyors of ever more powerful technologies, astride the burning planet that created us, and now responsible for cleaning up the mess and determining the future direction of all of life? And what do...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262529952Author Jesper JuulFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 11mm

America's most renowned social philosopher John Dewey shines his powerful intellect on the serious public and cultural issues surrounding the place of the individual in a technologically advanced society. In this penetrating study, he addresses the fear...