Search results for “[subject: technology-studies]”

• Author(s): Bruce Sinclair • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History

• Author(s): Sang-Woon Jeon • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryIt might surprise Western scientists to learn that there were periods in Korean history when the level of scientific achievement was the highest in ...

• Author(s): Lynette Jones • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralAn accessible, nontechnical overview of active touch sensing, from sensory receptors in the skin to tactile surfaces on flat screen displays....

• Author(s): Ashley Lynn Carlson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Women remain woefully underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and math (...

• Author(s): Thomas G. Mahnken • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyIntelligence operations face the challenging task of predicting the shape of future wars. This...

• Author(s): Michael Thad Allen | Gabrielle Hecht • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryThis collection explores how technologies become forms of power, how people embed their authority in technological systems, an...

• Author(s): Siva Vaidhyanathan | Carolyn T. de la Pena • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: HistoryScholars working among an array of "technologies" and "Americas" were invited ...

• Author(s): Wiebe E. Bijker | Thomas Parke Hughes | Trevor Pinch • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralAn anniversary edition of an influential book that introduced a groundbreaking approach to the study of scienc...

• Author(s): Gabrielle Hecht | Michel Callon • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceHow it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or "radiance," which also means "radiation" in French) becam...

• Author(s): Eric T. Meyer | Ralph Schroeder • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Library & Information Science - Digital & Online ResourcesAn examination of the ways that digital and networked technologies have ...

• Author(s): Anique Hommels • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsCity planning initiatives and redesign of urban structures often become mired in debate and delay. Despite the fact that cities are considere...

• Author(s): Larry Hirschhorn • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Management ScienceOne critical change in how people work, argues Larry Hirschhorn, is that they are expected to bring more of themselves psychologically ...

• Author(s): Kazys Varnelis • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Information TechnologyHow maturing digital media and network technologies are transforming place, culture, politics, and infrastructure in our everyday lif...

• Author(s): Juris Dilevko | Lisa Gottlieb • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Reference librarians are no longer expected to know much about the information they find; they are merel...

• Author(s): Michel A. Amsalem • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentA developing country's choice of an appropriate technology from among those available for use in a particular industry...

• Author(s): David Brin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Future StudiesIn New York and Baltimore, police cameras scan public areas twenty-four hours a day. Huge commercial databases track you finances and sell th...

• Author(s): Jonathan B. Tucker | Richard Danzig • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Chemical & BiochemicalA framework for assessing the security risks of emerging dual-use technologies and devising tailored governa...

• Author(s): Valtteri Arstila | Dan Lloyd • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsInterdisciplinary perspectives on the feature of conscious life that scaffolds every act of cognition: subjective time. Our awaren...

• Author(s): Meryl Alper • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsHow communication technologies meant to empower people with speech disorders—to give voice to the voiceless—are still subject to disempo...

• Author(s): Nelly Oudshoorn | Trevor Pinch • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsUsers have become an integral part of technology studies. The essays in this volume look at the creative capacity of users to...

• Author(s): Siegfried Zielinski | Gloria Custance • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Media StudiesA quest to find something new by excavating the "deep time" of media's development--not by simply looking at new media'...

• Author(s): Carol Smallwood | Lura Sanborn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General Libraries are charged with fostering new skills and capabilities, a...

• Author(s): Carl Silvio | Tony M. Vinci | Donald E. Palumbo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews Released in May 1977, the original Star Wars movie inaugurated the...

• Author(s): Christine Greenhow | Julia Sonnevend | Colin Agur • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Distance, Open & Online EducationLeading scholars from a variety of disciplines explore the future of education, inc...

• Author(s): David Hakken • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialArguing that humans have always been technological as well as cultural beings, David Hakken calls for a fundamental rethi...

• Author(s): Norie Neumark | Ross Gibson | Theo Van Leeuwen • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Media StudiesPerspectives on the voice and technology, from discussions of voice mail and podcasts to reflections on dance ...

• Author(s): Catelijne Coopmans | Janet Vertesi | Michael E. Lynch • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: EssaysA fresh approach to visualization practices in the sciences that considers novel forms of imaging technology a...

• Author(s): T.H. Christensen • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: CRC Press • BISAC: Methods & MaterialsLandfilling of Waste: Biogas is the third in a series of reference books which provide a comprehensive overview of the ...

• Author(s): Martha Lampland • Publisher: Cornell UP • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • Subject: Computer Science and Information Technology • BISAC: Information ManagementStandardization is one of the defining aspects of modern life...

• Author(s): Walter J. Ong • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: RhetoricThis collection of essays by Walter J. Ong focuses on the complex and dynamic relationship between verbal performance ...

• Author(s): Kelly Sims Gallagher • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental PolicyAn examination of barriers that impede and incentives that motivate the global development and deployment of clea...

• Author(s): Dietmar Offenhuber | Carlo Ratti • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsThe relationship between infrastructure governance and the ways we read and represent waste systems, examined through three...

• Author(s): Joseph Harris • Publisher: Utah State University Press • Publisher Imprint: Utah State University Press • BISAC: Composition & Creative Writing - GeneralIn this classic text, Joseph Harris traces the evolution of college writing ...

• Author(s): Christophe Lecuyer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Corporate & Business History - GeneralIn Making Silicon Valley, Christophe Lécuyer shows that the explosive growth of the personal computer industr...

• Author(s): Tom Huhn | Lambert Zuidervaart • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: AestheticsTheodor W. Adorno died in 1969 and his last major work, Ästhetische Theorie, was published posthumously a year later. Few philoso...

• Author(s): Jacqueline Ryan Vickery | S. Craig Watkins • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Media StudiesWhy media panics about online dangers overlook another urgent concern: creating equitable online opportunities for...