| Description |
xxxvii, 214 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Lelia Green -- Pt. I. Framing the Individual. 1. Technological a/genders: technology, culture and class / Judy Wajcman. 2. Virtual reality fakes the future: cybersex, lies and computer games /David McKie. 3. The technology of television / Albert Moran. 4. Anticipating tomorrow: technology and the future / Susan Oliver. 5. Till death us do part: technology and health / David More and Elizabeth More -- Pt. II. Framing the Communal. 6. Regulating technology / Len Palmer. 7. Australia's information society: clever enough? / Trevor Barr. 8. Universal suffrage? Technology and democracy / Julianne Schultz. 9. Dataveillance: delivering 1984 / Roger Clarke. 10. Electronic neighbourhoods: communicating power in computer-based networks / Lynda Davies and Wayne Harvey -- Pt. III. Framing the Global. 11. The multilocals: transnationals and communications technology / Dick Bryan. 12. Missing the post(modern): cores, peripheries and globalisation / Lelia Green |
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13. Victory in the Gulf: technology, communications and war / Michael Galvin. 14. A sustainable future: living with technology / Adrianne Kinnear |
| Summary |
Uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore some of the key issues in technology today, including virtual reality, gender health, the environment, regulation, the information society, surveillance and globalisation |
| Analysis |
Social change |
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Technological innovations Social aspects |
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Technology Social aspects |
| Notes |
CIP confirmed |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Social change.
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Technological innovations -- Social aspects.
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Technology -- Social aspects.
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Technology -- Sociological aspects.
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Social Change.
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Technology.
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Sociology.
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| Author |
Green, Lelia, 1956-
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Guinery, Roger.
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| LC no. |
94225105 |
| ISBN |
1863735259 |
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