Search results for “[subject: technology]”

• Author(s): Meredith Broussard • Publisher: BOOKAZINE • Publisher Imprint: BOOKAZINE • Subject: Computer Science and Information Technology • BISAC: Social AspectsWhen technology reinforces inequality, it's not just a glitch--it's a signal that ...

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

• Author(s): John G. Truxal • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Electronics - GeneralWhat are the frontiers of today's communications technology? The Age of Electronic Messages explains the scientific principles on whic...

• Author(s): Edward Jones-Imhotep • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryA cultural history of technological breakdown, social order, and the self in the modern Atlantic World. The Broken Machine explores the intert...

• 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): Morris, Margaret E. • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Social AspectsUnexpected ways that individuals adapt technology to reclaim what matters to them, from working th...

• Author(s): Philip Sporn • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsFrom the foreword by Howard W. Johnson: Philip Sporn's long and distinguished career has been at the interface of economics, engineering, and m...

• Author(s): John M. Jordan • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Computer Science and Information Technology • BISAC: RoboticsAbout the Book An accessible and engaging account of robots, covering the current state of t...

• Author(s): Karin Bijsterveld • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryTracing efforts to control unwanted sound--the noise of industry, city traffic, gramophones and radios, and aircraft--from the late nineteenth to...

• Author(s): Anita Say Chan • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsAn exploration of the diverse experiments in digital futures as they advance far from the celebrated centers of technological innovation and ...

• Author(s): Seb Franklin • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsAn examination of digitality not simply as a technical substrate but also as the logical basis for reshaped concepts of labor, subjectivity, an...

• Author(s): Howard Rheingold • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsIn a highly engaging style, Rheingold tells the story of what he calls the patriarchs, pioneers, and infonauts of the computer, focusing in...

• Author(s): Elisabeth B. Reynolds | Simon Johnson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Industrial TechnologyHow to build innovation and industrial ecosystems in the US that support global leadership in priority technolo...

• Author(s): Greg Epstein • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsAn urgently needed exploration of global technology worship, and a measured case for skepticism and agnosticism as a way of life, from the New ...

• Author(s): Bonnie A. Nardi • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsThe common rhetoric about technology falls into two extreme categories: uncritical acceptance or blanket rejection. Claiming a middle ground...

• 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): 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): 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): Clapperton Chakanets Mavhunga • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryAn account of technology in Africa from an African perspective, examining hunting in Zimbabwe as an example of an innovative mobile w...

• Author(s): Orit Halpern • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryOver the last half century, "smartness"--the drive for ubiquitous computing--has become a mandate: a new mode of managing and governing politics, econ...

• Author(s): Carroll Pursell • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryScholars working at the intersection of African-American history and the history of technology are redefining the idea of technology to include the...

• Author(s): Margaret E. Morris | Sherry Turkle • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsUnexpected ways that individuals adapt technology to reclaim what matters to them, from working through conflict with sma...

• Author(s): Rosalind Williams • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryA humanistic account of the changing role of technology in society, by a historian and a former Dean of Students and Undergraduate Education at M...

• Author(s): Sherry Turkle • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsMemoir, clinical writings, and ethnography inform new perspectives on the experience of technology; personal stories illuminate how technology...

• Author(s): W. H. G. Armytage • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsHow social and economic conditions have precipitated advances in engineering. A Social History of Engineering shows how social and economi...

• Author(s): Batya Friedman | David G. Hendry • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Engineering (General)A new edition of the definitive guide to value sensitive design--chock full of theory, design methods, and hands-on ...

• Author(s): Julie A. Cohn • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryThe history of the grid, the world's largest interconnected power machine that is North America's electricity infrastructure.The North American power...

• Author(s): Thomas Haigh • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsHow the computer became universal. Over the past fifty years, the computer has been transformed from a hulking scientific supertool and data pr...

• Author(s): Richard Ling • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: TelecommunicationsHow cell phones and mobile communication may in many cases strengthen social cohesion.The message of this book is simple: the mobile phone ...

• Author(s): Dorothy Hosler • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MetallurgyA groundbreaking analysis of the relationship between culture and technology.This is a groundbreaking analysis of the relationship between cultur...

• Author(s): Thomas B. Sheridan • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: RoboticsThis reference brings together a variety of theories and technologies that have emerged in a number of fields of application, describing common...

• 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): Robert Hassan • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryWhy, surrounded by screens and smart devices, we feel a deep connection to the analog--vinyl records, fountain pens, Kodak film, and other nondigital...

• Author(s): James W. Mar | Harold Liebowitz • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Civil - GeneralThe national interest in large radio and radar telescope systems spans the entire engineering and scientific community, and...

• 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): Ramaswamy Sridharan | Antonio F. Pensa • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Aeronautics & AstronauticsThe development of deep space surveillance technology and its later application to near-Earth surveil...