Modernity and technology [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Thomas J. Misa, Philip Brey, and Andrew Feenberg

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (433 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.48/3
• Soggetto topico: Technology - Social aspects
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: MisaThomas J BreyPhilip FeenbergAndrew
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-407) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents ; Acknowledgments; Workshop Participants; 1 - The Compelling Tangle of Modernity and Technology ; I - Modernity Theory and Technology Studies; 2 - Theorizing Modernity and Technology; 3 - Modernity Theory and Technology Studies: Reflections on Bridging the Gap; 4 - Critical Theory, Feminist Theory, and Technology Studies ; II - Technologies of Modernity ; 5 - Modernity under Construction: Building the Internet in Trinidad ; 6 - Surveillance Technology and Surveillance Society ; 7 - Infrastructure and Modernity: Force, Time, and Social Organization in the History of Sociotechnical Systems 8 - Creativity of Technology: An Origin of Modernity?; III - Changing Modernist Regimes ; 9 - The Contested Rise of a Modernist Technology Politics ; 10 - Technology, Medicine, and Modernity: The Problem of Alternatives ; 11 - The Environmental Transformation of the Modern Order ; 12 - Technology, Modernity, and Development: Creating Social Capabilities in a POLIS ; 13 - Modernity and Technology-An Afterword; References ; About the Authors ; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Studies of the co-construction of technology and modernity that lay the foundation for a new, interdisciplinary field.
• Titolo autorizzato: Modernity and technology
• ISBN: 1-282-09968-X; 0-262-27993-2; 9780585446768; 9786612099687; 0-585-44676-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454889703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II