Technology -- Sociological aspects

Contemporary applications of actor network theory

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This book provides empirically driven discussions and investigations into the relevance of Actor Network Theory (ANT) and its theoretical concepts. As our civilization evolves from human to technologically-driven, new socio-technical networks of actors--in society, business and …

Communication of smart media

by Zhang, Lei, Duan, Peng, Song, Kai, Han, Xiao

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This book provides the readers with an interdisciplinary perspective on communication in the diffuse boundaries that also demonstrates the diversity and inclusion for presenting wide range and rapid changes in contents, and the authors use "smart" as the guiding principle while …

Communication of smart media

by Zhang, Lei, Duan, Peng, Song, Kai, Han, Xiao

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Appropriately, the book is divided into eight major sections. As always, the inevitable result of upgrading and constant iterations of developing new communication technology, the media communication has turned out to be one of the most important means in the smart era. The book…

Risks and Regulation of New Technologies

by Yanagawa, Takashi, Matsuda, Tsuyoshi, Wolff, Jonathan

fromKobe University monograph series in social science research

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How should we proceed with advanced research of humanities and social sciences in collaboration? What are the pressing issues of this new trend in a cataclysmic time for civilization? This book, originated with a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Topic-Setting Pr…

From measuring rods to DNA sequencing: assessing the human

fromHealth, technology, and society

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This book provides a solid basis to understand two centuries of bodily measurement practices and their scientific and political scope throughout the Western world. By exploring various cases, it proposes a new approach of measurement from an epistemological point of view and dem…

Immobility and Medicine: Exploring Stillness, Waiting and the In-Between

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Recent work in the mobilities literature has highlighted the importance of thinking about mobility and immobility as a continuum, where movement intersects with processes that might entail episodes of transition, waiting, emptiness, and fixity. This focus on stillness, things th…

The Palgrave Handbook of Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature and Science

by Ahuja, Neel, Allewaert, Monique, Andrews, Lindsey, Canavan, Gerry, Evans, Rebecca, Farooq, Nihad M., Fretwell, Erica, Gaskill, Nicholas, Jagoda, Patrick, Rhee, Jennifer, Rusert, Britt, Vadde, Aarthi, Wald, Priscilla, Walsh, Rebecca, Taylor, Matthew A., Gentry Lamb, Erin

fromPalgrave handbooks of literature and science

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This handbook illustrates the evolution of literature and science, in collaboration and contestation, across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The essays it gathers question the charged rhetoric that pits science against the humanities while also demonstrating the ways i…

The Palgrave handbook of twentieth and twenty-first century literature and science

fromPalgrave handbooks of literature and science

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"This handbook illustrates the evolution of literature and science, in collaboration and contestation, across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The essays it gathers question the charged rhetoric that pits science against the humanities while also demonstrating the ways …

Ecología Política de la Agricultura. Agroecología y Posdesarrollo

by Giraldo, Omar Felipe

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This study discusses an original proposal aimed at critically analyzing the power relations that exist in contemporary agriculture. The author endeavors herein to clarify some of the strategies that industrial agribusiness, in collusion with the state and multilateral structures…

Modes of bio-bordering: the hidden (dis)integration of Europe

by Amelung, Nina, Granja, Rafaela, Machado, Helena

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This open access book explores how biometric data is increasingly flowing across borders in order to limit, control and contain the mobility of selected people, namely criminalized populations. It introduces the concept of bio-bordering, using it to capture reverse patterns of b…

Chemical Youth: Navigating Uncertainty in Search of the Good Life

by Hardon, Anita

fromCritical studies in risk and uncertainty

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This open access book explores how young people engage with chemical substances in their everyday lives. It builds upon and supplements a large body of literature on young people's use of drugs and alcohol to highlight the subjectivities and socialities that chemical use enables…

The social context of technological experiences: three studies from India

by Kamath, Anant

fromScience and technology studies (Routledge)

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This book demonstrates how technology and society shape one another and that there are intrinsic connections between technological experiences and social relationships. It employs an array of theoretical concepts and methodological tools to examine the technology-society nexus a…