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Modernity and technology

Author: Thomas J Misa; Philip Brey; Andrew Feenberg
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Thomas J Misa; Philip Brey; Andrew Feenberg
ISBN: 0262134217 9780262134217 0262633108 9780262633109
OCLC Number: 49871676
Description: vi, 421 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 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.
Responsibility: edited by Thomas J. Misa, Philip Brey, and Andrew Feenberg.
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