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): Mark Coeckelbergh • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Technology StudiesHow AI is shaped by Western religious culture and universal existential aspirations--and why we think we need it in the first place. A...

• Author(s): Klaus Hoeyer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Technology StudiesWhy healthcare cannot--and should not--become data-driven, despite the many promises of intensified data sourcing. In contemporary healthca...

• Author(s): Luci Pangrazio • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - MathematicsA guide to everything you need to understand to navigate a world increasingly governed by data. Data has become a defining...

• 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): 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): 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): Thomas J. Misa | Philip Brey | Andrew Feenberg • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: ReferenceIf asked, most people would agree that there are deep connections between technology and the modern world, and eve...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): Kathrin Maurer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsA comprehensive overview of how civilian drones sense the world and how they build the aesthetic imaginaries of our communities. Drone techno...

• 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): David Ribes • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Research & MethodologyAn examination of three research infrastructures over three decades as they sought to support studies of HIV/AIDS across dramatic ch...

• Author(s): Tomas Paus • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Technology StudiesAn edited collection that looks deeply at how humans transform their environments and how these environments, in turn, shape humans. Countles...

• Author(s): Benjamin H. Bratton • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Technology StudiesWhy The Stack--an accidental megastructure--is both a technological apparatus and the geopolitical model of our times. A tenth anniv...

• Author(s): Pablo J. Boczkowski | C. W. Anderson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Media StudiesLeading scholars chart the future of studies on technology and journalism in the digital age. The use of digital technol...

• Author(s): Tung-Hui Hu • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Technology StudiesThe exhaustion, disappointment, and listlessness experienced under digital capitalism, explored through works by contemporary artists, write...

• 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): 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): Federico Pianzola • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: LiteracyHow digital social reading apps are powerfully changing--and nurturing--the way we read. Conventional wisdom would have us believe that digital ...

• Author(s): Jeffrey Pomerantz • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Weights & MeasuresAn engaging introduction to standards, the invisible infrastructure that shapes the built and digital environments of the modern w...

• Author(s): Terrence Sejnowski • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Artificial Intelligence - Computer Vision & Pattern RecognitHow deep learning--from Google Translate to driverless cars to personal cognitive assis...

• 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): 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): Sarah Kember | Joanna Zylinska • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Media StudiesAn argument for a shift in understanding new media--from a fascination with devices to an examination of the complex processes...