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): W. David Lee | Jeffrey Drazen | Phillip A. Sharp • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Bio-Science and Agriculture • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyAn argument that technology accelerates biological discover...

• 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): Angus Mcintosh • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThe last fifty years have seen dramatic changes in towns and cities. People have moved out of central urban areas, r...

• 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): Kelly Sims Gallagher • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental PolicyAn examination of barriers that impede and incentives that motivate the glob...

• 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): Barry R. Posen • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Military ScienceBarry R. Posen explores how military doctrine takes shape and the role it plays in grand strategy-that collec...

• 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): 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): Elizabeth Goldring • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: SA+P Press • BISAC: Museum StudiesThe first comprehensive history of MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS), told through personal accounts and groundbreakin...

• 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): Zainab Bahrani • Publisher: Princeton University Press • Publisher Imprint: Zone Books • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralRituals of war and images of violence in Mesopotamia ca. 3000-500 BCE examined as “magical technologies of warfare.”Ritu...

• Author(s): Simone Tosoni • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsConversations with a founder of the influential Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) approach in science and technology studies of...

• Author(s): Jon R. Lindsay • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Military ScienceMilitaries with state-of-the-art information technology sometimes bog down in confusing conflicts. To underst...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): Peter H. Jr Kahn • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsWhy it matters that our relationship with nature is increasingly mediated and augmented by technology.Our forebears may have had a ...

• 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): Benoit Godin • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryBenoît Godin is a Professor at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Montreal. Models abound in science, technology, and society...

• Author(s): John M. Staudenmaier • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralTechnology's Storytellers documents the emergence of the history of technology as a coherent intellectual discipline. Based on an analysis of ...

• 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): 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): Steve F Anderson • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Media StudiesAn investigation of the computational turn in visual culture, centered on the entangled politics and pleasures of data and images.If...

• 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...