| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 421 pages) |
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Compelling tangle of modernity and technology / Thomas J. Misa -- I. Modernity theory and technology studies -- Theorizing modernity and technology / Philip Brey -- Modernity theory and technology studies: reflections on bridging the gap / Andrew Feenberg -- Critical theory, feminist theory, and technology studies / Barbara L. Marshall -- II. Technologies of modernity -- Modernity under construction: building the Internet in Trinidad / Don Slater -- Surveillance technology and surveillance society / David Lyon -- Infrastructure and modernity: force, time, and social organization in the history of sociotechnical systems / Paul N. Edwards -- Creativity of technology: an origin of modernity? / Junichi Murata -- III. Changing modernist regimes -- Contested rise of a modernist technology politics / Johan Schot -- Technology, medicine, and modernity: the problem of alternatives / David Hess -- Environmental transformation of the modern order / Arthur P.J. Mol -- Technology, modernity, and development: creating social capabilities in a POLIS / Haider A. Khan -- Modernity and technology -- an afterword / Arie Rip |
| Summary |
Studies of the co-construction of technology and modernity that lay the foundation for a new, interdisciplinary field |
| Analysis |
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-407) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Technology -- Social aspects.
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SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Social Aspects.
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Technology -- Social aspects
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Moderniteit.
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Technologie.
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Sociale aspecten.
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| Genre/Form |
Congressen (vorm)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Misa, Thomas J
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Brey, Philip
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Feenberg, Andrew
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| ISBN |
9780262279932 |
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0262279932 |
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0585446768 |
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9780585446769 |
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128209968X |
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9781282099685 |
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9780262134217 |
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0262134217 |
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9786612099687 |
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6612099682 |
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