The myths of technology : innovation and inequality / edited by Judith Burnett, Peter Senker, Kathy Walker
- Bib ID:
- 4559693
- Format:
- Book
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- New York : Peter Lang, c2009
- xv, 226 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9781433101281
- 1433101289
- 9781433105203
- 1433105209
- Series:
- Digital formations ; v. 46.
- Summary:
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"This book questions whether technologies are the rational, tangible, scientific, forward-thinking, neutral objects they are so often perceived to be, exploring instead how powerful, mythic ideas about technologies drive our social understanding and our expectations of them. Against a rising tide of information, we encounter significant technological, scientific, and medical advances which promise to create an educated, humane, and equal world."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: Chapter 1. Introduction 1
- JUDITH BURNETT, PETER SENKER AND KATHY WALKER
- Part I. Myths about Technology and Inequality
- Chapter 2. Technological Determinism and Ideology: Questioning the
- 'Information Society' and the 'DigitalDivide' 23
- ALVARO DE MIRANDA
- Chapter 3. Inequalities in the Globalised Knowledge-Based Economy 39
- RICHARD SHARPE
- Chapter 4. Old Wine in New Bottles: How New Technology Recycles
- Old Myths 53
- BERNARD KAHANE
- Part II. Myths of Information and Communication Technologies
- Chapter 5. Brains, Generations and One Last Push: Myths Used to Establish
- and Sustain the Computer Industry 69
- RICHARD SHARPE
- Chapter 6. ERP in Higher Education: The Reinforcement of /Myths 83
- LINDA STEPULEVAGE
- Chapter 7 Reality Check: Interactivity, Reality Television and
- Elmpowerment 97
- KATHY WALKER
- Chapter 8. Myths, Crimes and Videotape 113
- DELIA LANGSTONE
- Part III. Myths about Nature, Society and Biotechnology
- Chapter 9. Nature, Culture, Technology: Myths and Inequalities in the
- Posthuman Zoo 131
- ERIKA CUDWORTH
- Chapter 10. Myth and HIVMedical Technologies: Perspectives from the
- 'Transitions in HIV' Project 145
- MARK DAVIS AND PAUL FLOWERS
- Chapter 11. The Myth of the Biotech Revolution 159
- PAUL NIGHTINGALE AND PAUL MARTIN
- Chapter 12. The Myths of Agricultural Biotechnology 171
- PETER SENKER AND JOANNA CHATAWAY.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. [193]-210.
- Subject:
- Technology -- Social aspects
- Other authors/contributors:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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