Impact of science and technology on society Books
Yale University Press The Voice Catchers
Book SynopsisYour voice as biometric data, and how marketers are using it to manipulate youTrade Review“[Dr. Turow ] is encouraging policymakers and the public to do something I wish we did more often: Be careful and considerate about how we use a powerful technology before it might be used for consequential decisions.”—Shira Ovide, New York Times“If you think your voice belongs to you, think again. Joseph Turow performs a critical public service, exposing in all its slimy detail this latest frontier of exploitation, where our voices are plundered for analysis, prediction, behavioral manipulation, and profit.”—Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism“A ground-breaking exploration of the new frontier of surveillance—the voice. With clarity and nuance, Joseph Turow reveals the stakes for democracies and liberty.”—Danielle Citron, author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace“In this forward-thinking and original book, Joseph Turow explores how our voices are the next frontier for technology companies and marketers, connecting the dots in a way that no one else yet has.”—Mara Einstein, author of Black Ops Advertising: Native Ads, Content Marketing and the Covert World of the Digital Sell“In this well-researched call to action, Joseph Turow explains why we need to protect the human voice to shield our thoughts and emotions.”—Chris Jay Hoofnagle, University of California, Berkeley“The Voice Catchers is compelling, thoroughly researched, and filled with jaw-dropping revelations. It gives readers a fascinating peek under the hood of the companies exploiting our voices, as well as reasons to hold them accountable.”—Woodrow Hartzog, Northeastern University
£14.00
WW Norton & Co Colliding Worlds
Book SynopsisA dazzling look at the artists working on the frontiers of science.Trade Review"[An] encyclopedic survey… Dr. Miller’s grasp of the scene is impressive." -- Jascha Hoffman - New York Times Book Review"[Arthur I. Miller] deftly demonstrates in this survey of what he calls "artsci" [that] both artists and scientists…have probed the porous borders between art and science, creating aesthetic objects that incorporate scientific ideas… Miller eloquently chronicles the story of artsci in brief vignettes of the lives and works of the individuals working at the intersections of these disciplines." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Arthur I. Miller understands the intersection of art and science better than anyone writing today. In Colliding Worlds, he brilliantly helps us expand our definitions of art and science while encouraging us to appreciate how both involve an intuitive feel for the beauty of the unseen." -- Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs"Arthur I. Miller explores what happens when the brainwaves, objectivity and logic of science spark off the inspiration, subjectivity and wildness of art, and vice versa. After tracing out the contacts between these spheres of endeavor, Miller goes even further, suggesting that the boundaries between them are breaking down: science is redefining contemporary art to seed a third culture." -- Roger Highfield, director of external affairs, Science Museum, London"Arthur I. Miller’s Colliding Worlds answers the age-old question of whether art and science can find common ground with a resounding YES! From the foundations of Cubism to bacterial radios, fluorescent rabbits, and musical hyper-instruments, Miller’s easygoing, anecdotal, and wide-ranging narrative shows how artists exploit cutting-edge advances in science and technology to alter dramatically the palette of artistic invention." -- Mark Pagel, author of Wired for Culture"Arthur I. Miller has the rare intellectual range to address the ways modern scientific discoveries have nourished the creativity of artists—and that’s what he’s done in this fine book." -- Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal and author of From Here to Infinity"Illuminating… [A] philosophically rich study of creativity and aesthetics." -- Grace Labatt - Santa Fe New Mexican
£25.19
WW Norton & Co Utopia Is Creepy
Book SynopsisA freewheeling, sharp-shooting indictment of a tech-besotted culture.Trade Review"The prescient Nicholas Carr punches a hole in Silicon Valley hubris." -- Rana Foroohar - Time"Carr, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, takes on modern life’s short attention spans and worship of the superficial in a . . . rapid-fire volley of ideas deceptively designed to engage at a depth greater than 140 characters. By turns wry and revelatory, and occasionally maddening, Carr succeeds at shaking the reader out of screen-zombie complacency." -- Discover Magazine"[F]ull of wry vignettes and articles lampooning the motivated enthusiasm and game-changing promises of Silicon Valley’s tech bro elite… by turns cute, funny or chilling. And it’s more than the sum of its parts." -- Sally Adee - New Scientist"Carr’s best hits for those who missed the last decade of his stream of thoughtful commentary about our love affair with technology and its effect on our relationships." -- Richard Cytowic - New York Journal of Books"Bright, fun, telling. . . . A collection that reminds us that critical thinking is the best way to view the mixed blessings of rampant technology. A treat for Carr fans." -- Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)"This highly browsable collection will hold great appeal for anyone interested in the social aspects of technology, from tech lovers to pre-Internet nostalgists." -- Library Journal
£19.94
WW Norton & Co Utopia Is Creepy
Book SynopsisTrenchant writing from a Pulitzer Prize finalist that dissects our obsession with technological utopia and looks towards a smarter future.Trade Review"[F]ull of wry vignettes and articles lampooning the motivated enthusiasm and game-changing promises of Silicon Valley’s tech bro elite… by turns cute, funny or chilling. And it’s more than the sum of its parts." -- Sally Adee - New Scientist
£12.34
John Wiley & Sons Inc The Science and Ethics of Engineering the Human
Book SynopsisWith implications that go to the core of what it means to be human, the issues raised by genetic manipulation especially cloning have sparked a passionate debate among governmental, religious, and scientific quarters, as well as the media and the general public. This work covers this topic.Trade Review"...will help us engage in a sensible and productive discussion to decide collectively the role genetic technologies should play in our future." (The Quarterly Review of Biology, December 2004) "Academic, hospital, and corporate health sciences libraries would welcome this title as an asset to their collections." (E-STREAMS, July 2004) "...an essential and accessible guide to these important subjects. Dr. Gordon and John-Wiley Corporation jointly deserve a pat in the back for producing a beneficial and 'eye-opening' book." (Annals of Biomedical Engineering, August 2004) “...elucidates the background of genetic manipulation for the layman...recommended...” (Choice, Vol. 41, No. 8, April 2004) “...this book succeeds in demystifying many of the issues surrounding germline genetic manipulations...” (Science Books & Films, April 2004) "This powerful ethical message, combined with Gordon's scientific acumen, make for a simultaneously accessible and thoughtful book." (Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, July 2003)Table of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgments. PART I. 1. Setting the Table. 2. Building a Living Organism from Inanimate Parts. 3. Molecular Biology and Recombinant DNA Technology. 4. Transmitting the Genetic Information to Future Generations. 5. Developmental Biology. 6. Reproductive Biology and Assisted Reproductive Technologies. 7. Methods and Strategies for Gene Transfer and Engineering of the Germ Line. PART II. 8. Introduction to the Ethics of Reproductive Genetic Technologies. 9. Future Developments and Applications of Genetic Engineering Technology. 10. What If? Ethical and Legal Aspects of Germ Line Genetic Manipulation. A Brief Epilogue: Understanding Our Biases. Index.
£91.76
LUP - University of Michigan Press Prometheus Reimagined
Book SynopsisInstead of treating technology, health, and the environment as discrete issues, Albert C. Lin argues that laws must acknowledge their fundamental relationship, anticipating both future technological developments and their potential adverse effects. Laws should encourage international cooperation and the development of common global standards, while allowing for flexibility and reassessment.Trade ReviewWhat this book contributes is a detailed look at potential governance mechanisms in a historical perspective, and a close legal analysis of existing and potential regulatory structures for a particular group of emerging technologies. The biggest strength is the legal analysis of how U.S. regulation applies and does not apply to emerging technologies, and some good policy ideas for generating new governance."" - David Winickoff, University of California, Berkeley, College of Natural Resources
£27.50
LUP - University of Michigan Press Stephanie Dinkins
Book SynopsisBrings together renowned curators and theorists who draw from methodologies of art criticism, social practice, new media theory, and critical studies to offer an in-depth analysis of key installations in Stephanie Dinkins’s survey exhibition. The book also includes an important essay by Stephanie Dinkins on her concept of Afro-now-ism.Table of Contents Foreword On Love & Data by Salome Asega Artistic Framework Afro-now-ism by Stephanie Dinkins Essays Radical Love & Data Justice — The Empowering Art of Stephanie Dinkins Srimoyee Mitra The Data that Gives Christiane Paul Secret Garden Shari Frilot Who Are Your People?”: Stephanie Dinkins’ Afro-Now-ism as Algorithmic Abundance by Lisa Nakamura Works in the Exhibition Artist’s Biography Contributors’ Biographies About Stamps Gallery Acknowledgements
£23.70
LUP - University of Michigan Press Electoral Campaigns Media and the New World of
Book SynopsisToday, political leaders and candidates for office must campaign in a multi-media world not only through the traditional media forums, but also through new digital media, particularly social media. This volume chronicles how Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, email, and memes are used successfully and unsuccessfully to influence elections.Table of Contents Introduction - David Taras Chapter 1: Owning Identity: Struggles to Align Voters during the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election Daniel Kreiss, University of North Carolina; Shannon McGregor, University of Utah; and Regina Lawrence, University of Oregon Chapter 2: Trending Politics: How the Internet has Changed Political News Coverage Kevin Wagner, Florida Atlantic University, and Jason Gainous, University of Louisville Chapter 3: Feminism, Social Media and Political Campaigns: Justin Trudeau and Sadiq Khan Kaitlyn Mendes, University of Leicester and Diretman Dikwal-Bot, De Montfort University Chapter 4: A Women’s Place is in the (U.S. ) House: An analysis of issues women candidates discussed on Twitter in 2016 and 2018 Congressional elections Heather K. Evans, University of Virginia’s College at Wise Chapter 5: Two Different Worlds; The gap between the interests of voters and the media in Canada in the 2019 Federal Election Chris Waddell, Carleton University Chapter 6: The Agenda building power of Facebook and Twitter: The Case of the 2018 Italian General Election Sara Bentivegna, University of Rome, Rita Marchetti and Anna Stanziano, University of Perugia Chapter 7: “Many thanks for your support”: Email Populism and the People’s Party of Canada Brian Budd and Tamara Small, University of Guelph Chapter 8: Benjamin Netanyahu and online campaigning in Israel’s 2019 and 2020 elections Michael Keren, University of Calgary Chapter 9: Stabbed democracy: How social media and home views made a populist president in Brazil Francisco Brandao, University of Brasilia Chapter 10: Memes; a New emerging logic: Evidence from the 2019 British General Election Rosalynd Southern, The University of Liverpool Chapter 11: Populists and social media campaigning in Ukraine: The Election of Volodymyr Zelensky Larisa Doroshenko, Northeastern University Chapter 12: The changing face of political campaigning in Kenya Martin Ndlela, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences Chapter 13: Social media as strategic campaign tool: Austrian political parties use of social media over time Uta Russman, FH Wien University of Applied Sciences Chapter 14: “Many thanks for your support”: Email Populism and the People’s Party of Canada Chris Wells, Blake Wertz, Li Zhang, and Rebecca Auger, Boston University Conclusion - Richard Davis
£69.30
University of California Press For Love of the Automobile
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£45.05
University of California Press Renaissance Futurities
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£27.00
University of California Press Contesting Crime Science
Book SynopsisIn this eye-opening critique, Ronald Kramer and James C. Olesoninterrogate the promises of crime scienceand target our misplaced faith in technology as the solution to criminality.This book deconstructs crime science's most prominent manifestationsbiological, actuarial, security, and environmental sciences.Rather than holding the technological keys to crime's resolution, crime sciences inscribe criminality on particular bodies and constitute a primary resource for the conceptualization of crime that many societies take for granted.Crime science may strive to reduce crime, but in doing so, itreproduces power asymmetries, creates profit motives,undermines important legal concepts, instantiates questionable practices,and forces open new vistas of deviant activity.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. A Brief Sketch of Crime Science and Its Limits 2. Biological Crime Science Identification and Biosocial Criminology 3. Actuarial Science Crime Control as a Risky Business 4. Security Science Cartographies of Crime, States of Exception, and the Twilight of Liberty 5. Environmental Crime Science Missing the Forest for the Acronyms Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£64.00
University of California Press Contesting Crime Science
Book SynopsisIn this eye-opening critique, Ronald Kramer and James C. Olesoninterrogate the promises of crime scienceand target our misplaced faith in technology as the solution to criminality.This book deconstructs crime science's most prominent manifestationsbiological, actuarial, security, and environmental sciences.Rather than holding the technological keys to crime's resolution, crime sciences inscribe criminality on particular bodies and constitute a primary resource for the conceptualization of crime that many societies take for granted.Crime science may strive to reduce crime, but in doing so, itreproduces power asymmetries, creates profit motives,undermines important legal concepts, instantiates questionable practices,and forces open new vistas of deviant activity.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. A Brief Sketch of Crime Science and Its Limits 2. Biological Crime Science Identification and Biosocial Criminology 3. Actuarial Science Crime Control as a Risky Business 4. Security Science Cartographies of Crime, States of Exception, and the Twilight of Liberty 5. Environmental Crime Science Missing the Forest for the Acronyms Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£22.50
University of California Press Networked Refugees
Book SynopsisA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more atwww.luminosoa.org. Almost 68.5 million refugees in the world today live in a protection gap, the chasm between protections stipulated in the Geneva Convention and the abrogation of those responsibilities by states and aid agencies. With dwindling humanitarian aid, how do refugee communities solve collective dilemmas, like raising funds for funeral services, or securing other critical goods and services? In Networked Refugees, Nadya Hajj finds that Palestinian refugees utilize Information Communication Technology platforms to motivate reciprocitya cooperative action marked by the mutual exchange of favors and servicesand informally seek aid and connection with their transnational diaspora community. Using surveys conducted with Palestinians throughout the diaspora, interviews with those inside the Nahr al Bared Refugee camp in Lebanon, and data pulled from online community spaces, these findings push back against thTrade Review"Thoroughly researched and conveniently enriched by interview snippets that strengthen Hajj’s main arguments. . . . A deeply valuable contribution to both the field of Palestinian studies and the thriving body of research on the intersection of new technologies and political and social developments." * Mondoweiss *"Networked Refugees is a valuable contribution to both the field of Palestinian studies and the thriving body of research on the intersection of new technologies and political and social developments." * The Middle East Journal *
£27.00
University of California Press Networked Feminism How Digital Media Makers
Book SynopsisNetworked Feminismtells the story of how activists have used media to reconfigure what feminist politics and organizing look like in the United States. Drawing on years spent participating in grassroots communities and observing viral campaigns, Rosemary Clark-Parsons argues that feminists engage in a do-it-ourselves feminism characterized by the use of everyday media technologies. Faced with an electoral system and a history of collective organizing that have failed to address complex systems of oppression, do-it-ourselves feminists do not rely on political organizations, institutions, or authorities. Instead, they use digital networks to build movements that reflect their values and meet the challenges of the current moment, all the while juggling the advantages and limitations of their media tools. Through its practitioner-centered approach, this book sheds light on feminist media activists' shared struggles and best practices at a time when collective organizing for social justice has become more important than ever.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments 1. Hope for a Feminist Future 2. Networked Feminist Organizing 3. Networked Feminist Visibility 4. Networked Feminist Communities 5. Strength in a Feminist Present Notes References Index
£63.90
University of California Press Networked Feminism
Book SynopsisNetworked Feminismtells the story of how activists have used media to reconfigure what feminist politics and organizing look like in the United States. Drawing on years spent participating in grassroots communities and observing viral campaigns, Rosemary Clark-Parsons argues that feminists engage in a do-it-ourselves feminism characterized by the use of everyday media technologies. Faced with an electoral system and a history of collective organizing that have failed to address complex systems of oppression, do-it-ourselves feminists do not rely on political organizations, institutions, or authorities. Instead, they use digital networks to build movements that reflect their values and meet the challenges of the current moment, all the while juggling the advantages and limitations of their media tools. Through its practitioner-centered approach, this book sheds light on feminist media activists' shared struggles and best practices at a time when collective organizing for social justice has become more important than ever.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments 1. Hope for a Feminist Future 2. Networked Feminist Organizing 3. Networked Feminist Visibility 4. Networked Feminist Communities 5. Strength in a Feminist Present Notes References Index
£22.50
University of California Press Black Networked Resistance
Book SynopsisBlack Networked Resistance? explores the creative range of Black digital users and their responses to varying forms of oppression, utilizing cultural, communicative, political, and technological threads both on and offline. Raven Maragh-Lloyd demonstrates how Black users strategically rearticulate their responses to oppression in ways that highlight Black publics' historically rich traditions and reveal the shifting nature of both dominance and resistance, particularly in the digital age. Through case studies and interviews, Maragh-Lloyd reveals the malleable ways resistance can take shape and the ways Black users artfully demonstrate such modifications of resistance through strategies of survival, reprieve, and community online. Each chapter grounds itself in a resistance strategy, such as Black humor, care, or archiving, to show the ways that Black publics reshape strategies of resistance over time and across media platforms. Linking singular digital resistance movements while arguinTable of ContentsContents List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1. “The Whole World Is Going to See You, Boo”: “Karens,” Black Humor, and Innocence 2. “Do It for the Culture”: Black Digital Historians Reimagining Access 3. Care as Resistance: Black Women Online 4. Cancel Culture and the Limits of Networked Resistance 5. “The Black Delegation”: Black Evergreen Networks and Futures of Resistance Conclusion Notes References Index
£56.80
University of California Press Black Networked Resistance
Book SynopsisBlack Networked Resistance? explores the creative range of Black digital users and their responses to varying forms of oppression, utilizing cultural, communicative, political, and technological threads both on and offline. Raven Maragh-Lloyd demonstrates how Black users strategically rearticulate their responses to oppression in ways that highlight Black publics' historically rich traditions and reveal the shifting nature of both dominance and resistance, particularly in the digital age. Through case studies and interviews, Maragh-Lloyd reveals the malleable ways resistance can take shape and the ways Black users artfully demonstrate such modifications of resistance through strategies of survival, reprieve, and community online. Each chapter grounds itself in a resistance strategy, such as Black humor, care, or archiving, to show the ways that Black publics reshape strategies of resistance over time and across media platforms. Linking singular digital resistance movements while arguinTable of ContentsContents List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1. “The Whole World Is Going to See You, Boo”: “Karens,” Black Humor, and Innocence 2. “Do It for the Culture”: Black Digital Historians Reimagining Access 3. Care as Resistance: Black Women Online 4. Cancel Culture and the Limits of Networked Resistance 5. “The Black Delegation”: Black Evergreen Networks and Futures of Resistance Conclusion Notes References Index
£22.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Reading Digital Culture
Book SynopsisThis text addresses the changes brought about by the growth of digital communication technologies and the way we think about them. The volume addresses topics ranging from virtual reality, internet commerce, and computer art, to the effects of new technology on work, leisure, and community.Trade Review"Reading Digital Culture reminds its readers that technology cannot be analyzed outside of the realms of power, politics, the social, and democracy. This is a breakthrough book for anyone who wants to understand and critically engage, rather than merely praise, those pedagogical, technological, and communicative forces that are shaping the twenty-first century. A must read." Henry Giroux, Pennsylvania State University. "This is an absorbing and fascinating anthology that is sure to become a classic. It should be required reading for anyone hopeful of understanding, at a deep and profound level, the essences of contemporary digital thought from its leading thinkers. This compilation provokes fresh insights that make it a major contribution to the field." Lynn Hershman, University of California, Davis. "Anyone teaching classes in subjects that intersect with digital culture will be grateful to Trend for this compilation. It contains many classic texts essential for those pursuing digital art production or critique of our technological world. Reading these texts will help raise awareness that creative work with digital media generates many issues and responsibilities." Victoria Vesna, University of California, Los Angeles. "This collection of some 35 essays and excerpts, edited by David Trend, comprises significant writings on digital culture. The material is an important resource for cultural studies. Trend's selection and structuring along with his introductory notes for each section make this a valuable and unique assemblage." Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsIntroduction. Part I: The Machine in the Garden. 1. As We May Think. (Vannevar Bush). 2. Ada. (Sadie Plant). 3. From Virtual Reality to the Virtualization of Reality. (Slavotj Zizek). 4. Speed and Information: cyberspace Alarm! (Paul Virilio). 5. A Manifesto for Cyborgs. (Donna Haraway). 6. Machinic Heterogenesis. (Felix Guattari). Part II: Knowledge and Communication in a Digital Age. 7. Johnny Mnemonic. (William Gibson). 8. The Erotic Ontology of Cyberspace. (Michael Heim). 9. Virtually Female: Body and Code. (Margaret Morse). 10. Hypertext and Critical Theory. (George Landdow). 11. Computers as Theatre. (Brenda Laurel). 12. The Information War. (Hakim Bey). Part III: Living in the Immaterial World. 13. Dilemmas of Transformation in the Age of the Smart Machine. (Shoshana Zuboff). 14. Technology and the Future of Work. (Stanley Aronowitz). 15. The Theory of the Virtual Class. (Arthur Kroker and Michael A. Weinsteing). 16. The Informational Economy. (Manuel Castells). 17. The Global Information Highway: Project for an Ungovernable World. (Herbert Schiller). 18. The Coming Age of the Flesh Machine. Critical Art Ensemble. Part IV: Performing Identity in Cyberspace. 19. Will the Real Body Please Stand Up? Boundary Stories about Virtual Encounters. (Allucquere Rosanne (Sandy) Stone). 20. A Rape in Cyberspace; or, How an Evil Clown, a Haitian Trickster Spirit, Two Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens Turned a Database into a Society. (Julian Dibbell). 21. Women & Children First: Gender and the Settling of the Electronic Frontier. (Laura Miller). 22. We're Teen, We're Queer and We've Got E-mail. (Steve Silberman). 23. Race In/ For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet. (Lisa Nakamura). 24. Who Am We? (Sherry Turkle). Part V: Searching for Community Online. 25. Collective Intelligence. (Pierre Levy). 26. Cyber Democracy: The Internet and the Public Sphere. (Mark Poster). 27. The Virtual Community. (Howard Rheingold). 28. The Virtual Barrio @ the Other Frontier. (Guillermo Gomez-Pena). 29. A Disappearance of Community. (Avital Ronell). Part VI: Reading Digital Culture. 30. History, Theory and Virtual Reality. (Robert Markley). 31. The Seductions of Cyberspace. (N. Katherine Hayles). 32. New Age Mutant Ninja Hackers: Reading MONDO 2000. (Vivian Sobchack). 33. Virtual Skin: Articulating Race in Cyberspace. (Cameron Bailey). 34. Towards a New Media Aesthetic. (Timothy Allen Jackson). 35. The New Smartness. (Andrew Ross). Index.
£107.06
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Reading Digital Culture
Book SynopsisThis text addresses the changes brought about by the growth of digital communication technologies and the way we think about them. The volume addresses topics ranging from virtual reality, internet commerce, and computer art, to the effects of new technology on work, leisure, and community.Trade Review"Reading Digital Culture reminds its readers that technology cannot be analyzed outside of the realms of power, politics, the social, and democracy. This is a breakthrough book for anyone who wants to understand and critically engage, rather than merely praise, those pedagogical, technological, and communicative forces that are shaping the twenty-first century. A must read." Henry Giroux, Pennsylvania State University. "This is an absorbing and fascinating anthology that is sure to become a classic. It should be required reading for anyone hopeful of understanding, at a deep and profound level, the essences of contemporary digital thought from its leading thinkers. This compilation provokes fresh insights that make it a major contribution to the field." Lynn Hershman, University of California, Davis. "Anyone teaching classes in subjects that intersect with digital culture will be grateful to Trend for this compilation. It contains many classic texts essential for those pursuing digital art production or critique of our technological world. Reading these texts will help raise awareness that creative work with digital media generates many issues and responsibilities." Victoria Vesna, University of California, Los Angeles. "This collection of some 35 essays and excerpts, edited by David Trend, comprises significant writings on digital culture. The material is an important resource for cultural studies. Trend's selection and structuring along with his introductory notes for each section make this a valuable and unique assemblage." Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsIntroduction. Part I: The Machine in the Garden. 1. As We May Think. (Vannevar Bush). 2. Ada. (Sadie Plant). 3. From Virtual Reality to the Virtualization of Reality. (Slavotj Zizek). 4. Speed and Information: cyberspace Alarm! (Paul Virilio). 5. A Manifesto for Cyborgs. (Donna Haraway). 6. Machinic Heterogenesis. (Felix Guattari). Part II: Knowledge and Communication in a Digital Age. 7. Johnny Mnemonic. (William Gibson). 8. The Erotic Ontology of Cyberspace. (Michael Heim). 9. Virtually Female: Body and Code. (Margaret Morse). 10. Hypertext and Critical Theory. (George Landdow). 11. Computers as Theatre. (Brenda Laurel). 12. The Information War. (Hakim Bey). Part III: Living in the Immaterial World. 13. Dilemmas of Transformation in the Age of the Smart Machine. (Shoshana Zuboff). 14. Technology and the Future of Work. (Stanley Aronowitz). 15. The Theory of the Virtual Class. (Arthur Kroker and Michael A. Weinsteing). 16. The Informational Economy. (Manuel Castells). 17. The Global Information Highway: Project for an Ungovernable World. (Herbert Schiller). 18. The Coming Age of the Flesh Machine. Critical Art Ensemble. Part IV: Performing Identity in Cyberspace. 19. Will the Real Body Please Stand Up? Boundary Stories about Virtual Encounters. (Allucquere Rosanne (Sandy) Stone). 20. A Rape in Cyberspace; or, How an Evil Clown, a Haitian Trickster Spirit, Two Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens Turned a Database into a Society. (Julian Dibbell). 21. Women & Children First: Gender and the Settling of the Electronic Frontier. (Laura Miller). 22. We're Teen, We're Queer and We've Got E-mail. (Steve Silberman). 23. Race In/ For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet. (Lisa Nakamura). 24. Who Am We? (Sherry Turkle). Part V: Searching for Community Online. 25. Collective Intelligence. (Pierre Levy). 26. Cyber Democracy: The Internet and the Public Sphere. (Mark Poster). 27. The Virtual Community. (Howard Rheingold). 28. The Virtual Barrio @ the Other Frontier. (Guillermo Gomez-Pena). 29. A Disappearance of Community. (Avital Ronell). Part VI: Reading Digital Culture. 30. History, Theory and Virtual Reality. (Robert Markley). 31. The Seductions of Cyberspace. (N. Katherine Hayles). 32. New Age Mutant Ninja Hackers: Reading MONDO 2000. (Vivian Sobchack). 33. Virtual Skin: Articulating Race in Cyberspace. (Cameron Bailey). 34. Towards a New Media Aesthetic. (Timothy Allen Jackson). 35. The New Smartness. (Andrew Ross). Index.
£44.60
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Science and Technology in Society
Book SynopsisThis thoughtful and engaging text challenges the widely held notion of science as somehow outside of society, and the idea that technology proceeds automatically down a singular and inevitable path. Through specific case studies involving contemporary debates, this book shows that science and technology are fundamentally part of society and are shaped by it. Draws on concepts from political sociology, organizational analysis, and contemporary social theory. Avoids dense theoretical debate. Includes case studies and concluding chapter summaries for students and scholars. Trade Review“Kleinman has written a wise and instructive book that is certain to help the next generation of students from all disciplines understand the increasingly critical issues in science, technology, and society.” David Guston, Arizona State University "An excellent book for an introduction to science and technology studies in the context of a social science survey course or seminar." ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Abbreviations. 1. Science is Political/ Technology is Social: Concerns, Concepts, and Questions. Why is Thinking about Science and Technology so Hard?. Technoscience is Social. Technoscience is Political. 2. Ceding Debate: Biotechnology and Agriculture. Biotechnology and the Social Organization of Agriculture and Agri-business. The Discursive Landscape in the Debate over Biotechnology. Conclusions. 3. Rethinking Information Technology: Caught in the World Wide Web. Understanding the Digital Divide. High Technology Education. Politics, Civil Action, and the Internet. Conclusions. 4. Owning Technoscience: Understanding the New Intellectual Property Battles. Intellectual Property, Social Common Sense, and the Knowledge Commons. Intellectual Property and the Information Technology Revolution. Owning Life: Intellectual Property in Biological Materials. Intellectual Property and Innovation. Conclusion. 5. Technoscience in the Third World: The Politics of Indigenous Resources. Introduction. Science, Technology, and Colonialism. From Colonialism to Bio-Colonialism. Towards Equity in the Exchange of Biological Resources. Conclusions. 6. Gender and the Ideology of Merit: Women, Men, Science, and Engineering. “Merit” and Stratification in Science. Women, Men, and Academic Science. Women and Men in Science-Based Industry. Beyond Stratification in Science and Engineering: Artifacts and Research as Gendered. Conclusions. 7. Democracy and Expertise: Citizenship in a High Tech Age. The Limits to Expert Knowledge. The Virtues of Lay Knowledge. Barriers to Democratizing Technoscience and Expertise. Strategies for Overcoming the Obstacles. Conclusions. 8. Confronting the Problem: A Summary and Coda. References. Index.
£94.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Science and Technology in Society
Book SynopsisThis thoughtful and engaging text challenges the widely held notion of science as somehow outside of society, and the idea that technology proceeds automatically down a singular and inevitable path. Through specific case studies involving contemporary debates, this book shows that science and technology are fundamentally part of society and are shaped by it. Draws on concepts from political sociology, organizational analysis, and contemporary social theory. Avoids dense theoretical debate. Includes case studies and concluding chapter summaries for students and scholars. Trade Review“Kleinman has written a wise and instructive book that is certain to help the next generation of students from all disciplines understand the increasingly critical issues in science, technology, and society.” David Guston, Arizona State University "An excellent book for an introduction to science and technology studies in the context of a social science survey course or seminar." ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Abbreviations. 1. Science is Political/ Technology is Social: Concerns, Concepts, and Questions. Why is Thinking about Science and Technology so Hard?. Technoscience is Social. Technoscience is Political. 2. Ceding Debate: Biotechnology and Agriculture. Biotechnology and the Social Organization of Agriculture and Agri-business. The Discursive Landscape in the Debate over Biotechnology. Conclusions. 3. Rethinking Information Technology: Caught in the World Wide Web. Understanding the Digital Divide. High Technology Education. Politics, Civil Action, and the Internet. Conclusions. 4. Owning Technoscience: Understanding the New Intellectual Property Battles. Intellectual Property, Social Common Sense, and the Knowledge Commons. Intellectual Property and the Information Technology Revolution. Owning Life: Intellectual Property in Biological Materials. Intellectual Property and Innovation. Conclusion. 5. Technoscience in the Third World: The Politics of Indigenous Resources. Introduction. Science, Technology, and Colonialism. From Colonialism to Bio-Colonialism. Towards Equity in the Exchange of Biological Resources. Conclusions. 6. Gender and the Ideology of Merit: Women, Men, Science, and Engineering. “Merit” and Stratification in Science. Women, Men, and Academic Science. Women and Men in Science-Based Industry. Beyond Stratification in Science and Engineering: Artifacts and Research as Gendered. Conclusions. 7. Democracy and Expertise: Citizenship in a High Tech Age. The Limits to Expert Knowledge. The Virtues of Lay Knowledge. Barriers to Democratizing Technoscience and Expertise. Strategies for Overcoming the Obstacles. Conclusions. 8. Confronting the Problem: A Summary and Coda. References. Index.
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Harvard University Press Avatars of the Word
Book SynopsisO'Donnell takes a reading on the promise and the threat of electronic technology for our literate future. He reinterprets today's communication revolution through a series of refracted comparisons with earlier revolutionary periods: the transition from oral to written culture, from the papyrus scroll to the codex, from copied manuscript to print.Trade ReviewIt is the contention of James J. O'Donnell in his stimulating and well-written Avatars of the Word that the electronic era does not mean the demise of face-to-face education but its strengthening..."My purpose in writing this book," he states, "has been to make it clearer what is happening or what might happen by thinking about similar transformations in the past." Thus his first five chapters suggest ways of thinking about our own times from the standpoint of Latin late antiquity...Institutions still in place today were established then--churches, law courts, schoolrooms and libraries. The transition from oral to written culture took place and O'Donnell's meditations on the creation of print culture...are lucid, informative, and engrossing. His final four chapters, however, which analyze the humanities vis-a-vis the electronic media and focus on rethinking the modern university, give the book its true originality. "What happens to higher education when every student has a link to a flood of words and images, metastasizing in every imaginable way from around the world, and when every teacher and every student can reach out to each other at all hours of the day and night?" No one knows yet, but O'Donnell's thoughts on the subject are never less than provocative. -- Robert Taylor * Boston Globe *Much of what makes this book useful as a guide to the future is the ways in which O'Donnell challenges us to reconsider the past. Previous "new" media arrivals have tended to supplement rather than supplant their predecessors. The tendency has been to consider the march of progress (from papyrus roll to codex manuscript to printed book) as a serial relay from one technology to the next, an oversimplification that equates the rise of the Internet with the fall of the book. In reality, each time a new medium appears there follows a period of coexistence in which a culture's overall dialogue is broadened. O'Donnell suggests today's new media are on the verge of offering their own benefits. Particularly for humanists, the author envisions the Web's hypermedia doing a better job than books at revealing complex truths. He proposes a new mode of scholarship in which the single-author, linear-narrative monograph becomes part of a larger discourse, where primary and secondary sources exist side by side, as do authors and commentators. -- Peter Meyers * Wired *[James O'Donnell's] approach to the long-term effects of the computer revolution on reading and higher education feels like a bracing, sophisticated exchange of ideas...His purpose is to compare the transformation already begun within the electronic medium to earlier transformations such as those from oral to written culture in ancient Greece, the papyrus scroll to the codex manuscript, and the codex to the printed book...The impression left on this reader is of someone deeply excited by the changes occurring and enthused at the possibilities inherent in the new medium. -- Greg Nixon * Journal of Consciousness Studies *O'Donnell approaches the ever-increasing distinction between a bound volume and a floppy disk by attempting to make clearer "what is happening or what might happen by thinking about similar transformations in the past." [O'Donnell] proves a most engaging guide, highlighting vignettes along man's media highway from rock carvings to offset printing...His illumination of our changing uses of speech impresses with both scholarship and presentation. -- Ralph Hollenbeck * The Citizen *This splendid bound codex is required reading for all the dummkopf literary Cassandras who claim that the Internet will put the book out of business. Nevertheless, O'Donnell thinks there is some kind of information-technology revolution going on, and as both [a] professor of classics and vice-provost for information systems, he is happily placed to write a deeply cultured analysis of what it all means and to draw intriguing historical parallels. * The Guardian *The lesson is that new media seldom drive out old. Instead, they rub along and interact in unanticipated ways. James O'Donnell, a classicist turned infotech guru, explores this ever-shifting ecology of communication in his eloquent new book. -- Boyd Tonkin * The Independent *From the many strands of O'Donnell's academic life he has woven a consideration of the 'connections among speaking, writing, and reading today.' Avatars of the Word is, however, about ever so much more than those connections. The implications and importance of the book's contents are worth serious contemplation by all intellectuals—especially those who contribute to and draw from peer-reviewed scientific literature. The threads of Avatars lead from Socrates and Plato; through the Alexandria and other libraries, codices, Augustine, Cassiodorus, and both old and new liberal arts; to the virtual library, hyperlinking, distance education (and other threatening attributes of the 21st-century university) and the life of the mind in cyberspace. -- Michael A. Keller * Science *Is there room on the shelf for more than one history of reading? James O'Donnell proves there is with his Avatars of the Word. His entertaining and anecdotal style and easy movement between past and present is reminiscent of Alberto Manguel's earlier work A History of Reading...A fascinating and important glimpse of a reading revolution that may affect us all. -- Paul Kincaid * New Scientist *[Avatars of the Word] reflects in lucid, thoughtful, and thought-provoking prose on the textual foundations of Western culture and the evolving connections among the technologies for recording, distributing, and preserving the written word from the late Latin antiquity to our contemporary age of electronic information...O'Donnell points out that improvements and innovations in technology initially tend to be perceived simply as better ways to do familiar tasks. Over time, their cumulative effects, which cannot be foreseen, much less controlled, create new and different environments to which individuals and societies must adapt. In Avatars, O'Donnell has chosen to speak to the positive potential consequences of electronic texts even as he acknowledges that there are other, less desirable possibilities. * College and Research Libraries *Avatars of the World is an extremely wide-ranging, engagingly readable, and thought-provoking book...The closing years of the twentieth century are indeed exciting times for the academic world and perhaps the greatest contribution that Avatars makes is to demonstrate the relevance and involvement of the study of classical antiquity in the debate. Classical scholars and teachers who are concerned for the continued well-being of their discipline in the rapidly advancing information age will enjoy reading it. -- John Hilton * Scholia Reviews *In fulfilling his intentions, the author is interesting to cause one to enter, at any rate in the margins of his book, into frequent discussions with him: I should award him high praise. -- P. G. Naiditch * The Classical Bulletin *The motivating idea behind the book is to offer a comparative examination of different moments of communications technology change: critically, from papyrus roll to codex (a change that I located in O'Donnell's period), but also from oral to written culture, manuscript to print and handwriting to typewriting. -- Ian Saunders * The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: The Scholar in His Study 1. Phaedrus: Hearing Socrates, Reading Plato 2. From the Alexandrian Library to the Virtual Library and Beyond Hyperlink: The Instability of the Text 3. From the Codex Page to the Homepage Hyperlink: The Shrine of Nonlinear Reading 4. The Persistence of the Old and the Pragmatics of the New Hyperlink: Who Owns That Idea? 5. The Ancients and the Moderns: The Classics and Western Civilizations 6. Augustine Today: Linear Narratives and Multiple Pathways 7. The New Liberal Arts: Teaching in the Postmodern World Hyperlink: How Does Teaching Work? 8. What Becomes of Universities? (For Professors Only) 9. Cassiodorus: Or, the Life of the Mind in Cyberspace Bibliographic Notes Index
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Harvard University Press The Cultural Logic of Computation
Book SynopsisGolumbia, who worked as a software designer for more than ten years, argues that computers are cultural all the way downthat there is no part of the apparent technological transformation that is not shaped by historical and cultural processes, or that escapes existing cultural politics.Trade ReviewThe Cultural Logic of Computation is a brilliant, audacious book. It might be described as a rollicking, East Coast version of Alan Liu's The Laws of Cool-- or one part Laws of Cool, one part Seeing Like a State, with more than a dash of Baudrillard and Virilio for brio. Golumbia's argument is that contemporary Western and Westernizing culture is deeply structured by forms of hierarchy and control that have their origins in the development and use of computers over the last 50 years. I look forward to pressing this book on friends and colleagues, starting with anyone who has ever recommended The World is Flat to me. -- Lisa Gitelman, author of Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of CultureThe Cultural Logic of Computation is a fascinating and wise book. It takes us with great care through the history of the computational imagination and logic, from Hobbes and Leibniz to blogging and corporate practice. Its range includes the philosophy of computation, the ideology of the digital revolution, the important areas of children's education and education in general and glimpses of brilliant literary insight. Required reading for the responsible citizen. -- Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakGolumbia is no Luddite; he readily admits that computers have brought a wide range of benefits to society. His chief purpose, though, is to demonstrate that these benefits come at the cost of accepting the technophilic ideology, and changing how we perceive our own essence as human beings. -- Rob Horning * popmatters.com *A work to be read as rawly new in the brute force with which it confronts the disavowed fatal flaw in a contemporary academic disciplinary formation: here, the intractably cultural First Worldism of digital media studies...[A] meticulously crafted polemic. -- Brian Lennon * Electronic Book Review *This is a thought-provoking book, full of interesting ideas that would be valuable to teachers and researchers in the area of contemporary culture...The work should also appeal to general readers who are interested in computerization's effects on culture. -- R. Bharath * Choice *Table of Contents* The Cultural Functions of Computation Part I. Computationalism and Cognition * Chomsky's Computationalism * Genealogies of Philosophical Functionalism Part II. Computationalism and Language * Linguistic Computationalism * Computational Semantics, Digital Textuality Part III. Cultural Computationalism * Computation, Globalization, and Cultural Striation * Computationalism, Striation, and Cultural Authority Part IV. Computationalist Politics * Computationalism and Political Individualism * Computationalism and Political Authority * Epilogue: Computers Without Computationalism * Notes * References * Acknowledgments
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Harvard University Press Medicine Worth Paying For
Book SynopsisThere have been few credible studies of the risks and benefits of widely used medical treatments. Howard Frazier and Frederick Mosteller, leading figures in the field of medical technology assessment, attempt to distill the methods and knowledge base of their highly specialized discipline, with particular reference to medical innovations.Trade ReviewIn Medicine Worth Paying For, the editors…begin by asking ‘How is medicine doing?’ Many of the 14 case studies included suggest a qualified positive assessment… This book is far more than a round of applause for medical advances that have been proven to yield health benefits. The editors criticize the methods by which medical interventions are studied, or, not studied… The editors…[have] distinguished backgrounds in technology assessment…[and] the text itself is highly readable, and sufficiently accessible so that lay readers will find it readily comprehensible. -- Thomas H. Lee * Nature Medicine *[T]his book would be valuable for many audiences, especially for policymakers, because it identifies most of the serious deficiencies in the American health care delivery system and suggests remedial steps that are endorsed by virtually all serious scholars of the problems this nation faces on the scientific side of health care. Health professionals and medical and nursing students, as well as lay readers, should find this book very informative in helping them to understand the issues in present-day health care delivery in the United States. -- Seymour Perry, M.D. * Academic Medicine *This book is grounded in solid reviews of clinical studies, shows awareness of the economic consequences of alternative interventions, and is sensitive to the social and psychological factors that affect the well being of patients. It deserves a wide audience among physicians, other health professionals, and all those responsible for public and private health policy decisions. -- Victor R. Fuchs, Henry J. Kaiser, Jr., Professor, Emeritus, Stanford UniversityThis book is must reading for anyone interested in the role of new technologies in medicine. Two eminent scholars, Professors Frazier and Mosteller, and their colleagues discuss examples of specific new technologies—how they are evaluated, how they are accepted in the market place, and how their impact on the cost and the quality of medical care is evaluated. As the United States and most Western nations struggle with the challenges of containing the rise in the costs of care, while preserving and enhancing the quality of care, the lessons taught in this book will be instructive and sometimes sobering. -- Anthony L. Komaroff, M.D., Director, Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, BostonTable of ContentsPart 1 Background: the nature of inquiry, Howard S. Frazier and Frederick Mosteller; evaluating medical technologies, Frederick Mosteller and Howard S. Frazier. Part 2 Physician performance: laparoscopic cholecystectomy for gallstones, Leon D. Goldman; preserving vision in diabetic retinopathy - the impact of laser treatment, Michael R. Albert and Daniel M. Albert; the treatment of unipolar depression, Howard S. Frazier. Part 3 Perverse financial incentives: kidney transplantation, Miriam E. Adams; epoetin therapy for renal anemia - health policy and quality-of-life perspectives, Jennifer F. Taylor. Part 4 Patient empowerment: the control of postoperative pain, Jane C. Ballantyne et al. Part 5 Monitoring and delivering care: immunization against measles, Donald N. Medearis, Jr; treatment of hypertension, Sidney Klawansky. Part 6 The delivery of routine care - visual and dental health: the contributions of lenses to visual health, Georgianna Marks et al; dentistry, Alexia Antczak-Bouckoms and J.F.C. Tulloch. Part 7 Quality of life and cost-effectiveness: total joint replacement for the treatment of osteoarthritis, Jennifer F. Taylor and Elisabeth Burdick. Part 8 Unanticipated effects of treatment: peptic ulcer, Thomas C. Chalmers; oral contraceptives - post-marketing surveillance and rare, late complications of drugs, Howard S. Frazier and Graham A. Colditz. Part 9 Administrative innovations: surgery and anesthesiology, Debra R. Milamed and John Hedley-Whyte. Part 10 Conclusions and recommendations: improving the health care system, Frederick Mosteller and Howard S. Frazier; innovation-specific improvements, Frederick Mosteller and Howard S. Frazier; recommendations for change, Howard S. Frazier and Frederick Mosteller.
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Harvard University Press After Physics
Book SynopsisHere the philosopher and physicist David Z Albert argues, among other things, that the difference between past and future can be understood as a mechanical phenomenon of nature and that quantum mechanics makes it impossible to present the entirety of what can be said about the world as a narrative of “befores” and “afters.”Trade ReviewValuable for readers seriously interested in scientific metaphysics… Albert offers a piercing analysis of modern physics. -- David Kordahl * Los Angeles Review of Books *This work will influentially speak [to advanced students in both philosophy and physics]. -- P. D. Skiff * Choice *After Physics consists of eight brilliant essays in Albert’s inimitable style exploring connections between fundamental physical theories (in particular quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics) and central issues in metaphysics and epistemology. It will stimulate a great deal of discussion among those interested in matters on the border between physics and philosophy. -- Barry Loewer, Rutgers University
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Princeton University Press Making Mice Standardizing Animals for American
Book SynopsisBlends scientific biography, institutional history, and cultural history to show how genetically standardized mice came to play a central role in contemporary American biomedical research. This work introduces us to mouse "fanciers" who bred mice for different characteristics, and to the structures of modern biomedical research.Trade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2004 "Extremely well written and enjoyable to read... The study of human diseases using standardized animal models has now become routine practice, but its acceptability was established in large part through the use of inbred mice, as Rader convincingly argues."--Rachel A. Ankeny, American Scientist "A brilliant synthesis of scientific, intellectual, and cultural history. Its subject matter is new, and the book's ultimate impact on scientific history will be significant. The product of ten years of research and writing, the tome is polished, cogent, and magnificently documented."--Choice "Karen Rader has written an insightful and, at times, humorous chronological history of the famous Jax mice and their unflagging promoter, C.C. Little... Rader beautifully illustrates the give and take between the scientific community and the general society."--Biology Digest "In this compelling historical analysis, Karen Rader shows how the common mouse (Mus musculus) was transformed into a commodity, manufactured, and marketed not only to American research laboratories, but to politicians, health policy makers, and the members of the general public as well."--Susan E. Lederer, Journal of the History of Biology "Rader's carefully researched and well-produced book will be indispensable reading for everyone interested in the laboratory mouse and more generally in the tools and practices of twentieth-century biomedicine."--Soraya de Chadarevian,Journal of the History of medicine and Allied SciencesTable of ContentsIllustrations ix Acknowledgments xiii Abbreviations xvii INTRODUCTION: Why Mice? 1 CHAPTER ONE: Mice, Medicine, and Genetics: From Pet Rodents to Research Materials (1900-21) 25 CHAPTER TWO: Experiment and Change: Institutionalizing Inbred Mice (1922-30) 59 CHAPTER THREE: Mice for Sale: Commodifying Research Animals (1930-33) 97 CHAPTER FOUR: A New Deal for Mice: Biomedicine as Big Science (1933-40) 135 CHAPTER FIVE: R X Mouse : JAX Mice in Cancer Research (1938-55) 175 CHAPTER SIX: Mouse Genetics as Public Policy: Radiation Risk in Cold War America (1946-56) 221 EPILOGUE: Animals and the New Biology: Oncomouse and Beyond 251 Bibliography 269 Index 293
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Princeton University Press The Harmony of Illusions Inventing PostTraumatic
Book SynopsisArgues that post-traumatic stress disorder is a cultural product put together by the practices, technologies, and narratives with which it is diagnosed, studied, and treated and by the various interests, institutions, and moral arguments mobilizing these efforts. This book includes an account of the treatment of Vietnam veterans with PTSD.Trade ReviewWinner of the 1998 Wellcome Medal for Anthropology as Applied to Medical Problems, Royal Anthropological Institute "Allan Young... would disagree with the notion that [PTSD] has always been with us, arguing that the traumatic memory is a man-made object... His book is a lucid case-study of the way medicine and society have managed to build up this man-made disorder over the past century and a half."--Gerald Weissmann, The London Review of Books "Allan Young has written a splendid and much needed book... Young's book is an invaluable contribution to an emerging and exciting area of scholarship. Intellectually bold, analytically rigorous, and rhetorically compelling, The Harmony of Illusions will both delight and provoke--perhaps even infuriate--friends and foes of the PTSD diagnosis."--Eric Caplan, American Journal of Sociology "The well-researched description of the development of the construct of PTSD within American psychiatric circles makes for fascinating reading as the personalities of the players are presented along with their ideas."--William Yule, The Times Higher Education Supplement "An ambitious and richly informative account of the growth and progress of modern psychiatry itself and particularly of the intimate relationship between that discipline and its broader social and political context. As a model study of the construction of mental illness, this book represents a significant contribution to the history of science and medicine."--Philip Jenkins, American Historical Review "A stringent critique of the diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which came into vogue after the Vietnam war... Young's work is scientific in the best sense, i.e., clear, precise, and free of jargon and polemics."--Kirkus Reviews "Young has produced a fascinating book. It is also very timely given current debates, both within and beyond psychotherapy, about trauma, abuse and its recovery."--Janet Sayers, British Journal of PsychotherapyTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction3Pt. IThe Origins of Traumatic Memory1Making Traumatic Memory132World War I43Pt. IIThe Transformation of Traumatic Memory3The DSM-III Revolution894The Architecture of Traumatic Time118Pt. IIIPost-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Practice5The Technology of Diagnosis1456Everyday Life in a Psychiatric Unit1767Talking about PTSD2248The Biology of Traumatic Memory264Conclusion287Notes291Works Cited299Index321
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Princeton University Press Global Body Shopping An Indian Labor System in
Book SynopsisExplores how flexibility and uncertainty in the IT labor market are constructed and sustained through concrete human actions. Drawing on field research in southern India and in Australia, and folding an ethnography into a political economy examination, this book offers an analysis of the India-based global labor management practice.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2008 Anthony Leeds Prize in Urban Anthropology, Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology "Xiang Biao's book opens a fascinating window... Although addressing a profoundly complex subject, it is intended to be read by people with little background in India or familiarity with the IT industry. Global 'Body Shopping' is an enjoyable and easy read, while offering a detailed and sophisticated critique of the unchallenged embrace of global capitalism. It deserves a wide readership among those with an interest in globalization studies and will be particularly useful for people desiring to find out more about ethnographic work that is global in scope."--Nanlai Cao, Pacific Journal of Anthropology "Xiang Biao's avowed goal at an analysis incorporating ethnography and political economic analysis has long been a requirement for scholars interested in the production and maintenance of transnational work and flexible labor. Global Body Shopping more than lives up to this ideal... I strongly recommend this ethnography as essential reading for scholars interested in questions of globalization, transnationality, and flexible labor."--Mathangi Krishnamurthy, American Ethnologist "Xiang Biao tells the fascinating story of how body shopping brought globalization into the lives of hitherto minimally influenced rural youth and facilitated their movement into the highly volatile global arena of information technology ... he has created a remarkably clear picture of a complex globally dispersed labor chain... Not only does this innovative book provide a strong foundation for scholars interested in this under-researched global labor system, it is a great resource for teaching political and economic geography as well as courses exploring the various facets of globalization."--Monalisa Gangopadhyay, Political Geography "Xiang has produced what may well be the first contribution of a contemporary anthropologist from China to the ethnographic study of global issues... The book is compact, lucid, and jargon-free, making it one of the most accessible ethnographies of how the global migration regime's shift towards temporary skilled labour is changing societies."--Nyiri Pal, Critique of Anthropology "The book provides an important corrective to analyses that ignore the lower end of the IT labour market. The discussion of how Indian community associations contribute to workers' quiescence is a valuable addition to Saxenian's insights regarding how such community associations in places such as Silicon Valley promote entrepreneurship and innovation. Biao also goes beyond Castells' emphasis on exclusion through the digital divide to show how the more glamorous parts of the IT industry are sustained in part by the flexibility provided by body-shopped labour and the social reproduction taken on by local communities, extended families and governments."--Sean O Riain, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research "Xiang Biao's Global Bodyshopping is an outstanding example of multi-sited ethnography and a timely story of globally mobile workers... [Xiang] Biao must be congratulated for his nuanced approach to the subject."--A. Aneesh, International Review of Modern Sociology "The novelty of this work lies in its attempt to study social groups within the context of the ongoing processes of abstraction and virtualism, as these groups develop strategies to participate in global processes... Xiang's book presents the daily lives, the intricate familial and professional negotiations, calculations and strategies, dreams and speculations through which individual Indians in the finger-labour market survive."--Madhava Prasad, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies "[A]n extremely well written-book with mega-doses of anthropology mixed with humour."--Raghunath, Nilanjan, Asian Journal of Social Science "[The book is] remarkable for meticulous research, mastery of details and understanding of the structures and processes of the industry... This book must be read--not only by all social scientists, but by all those enthusiastic votaries and skeptical denouncers of IT as India's present and future."--Samita Sen, Global South "I find the book most instructive in teaching us how political economic analyses sensitive to fine-grained details about the local and everyday life can enrich a global ethnography. What holds the book together is its creative use of socioanthropological methodologies to understand the phenomenon of 'body shopping' peculiar to the information technology (IT) industry... I find his honesty and the unpredictability of his narratives refreshing."--Mark Lawrence Santiago, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography "[A] sterling exemplar of what anthropology is and can be today... In a world of anthropologists never-ending anxiety over the loss of cultures, the loss of their own ability to explain cultures, and the problem of finding new things to study, Xiang's book offers a way out: it shows how one can study a structure within a larger system and explain both how that structure works and how it illuminates the function of the larger system. The combination of a simple explanation (hard-won through fieldwork) of a complex technical and economic system, with the exploration of its effects on social and personal lives of an extended network of families, villages, and corporations scattered around the globe is what makes this the perfect 'Intro to Cultural Anthropology' book in my estimation."--Christopher Kelty, Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in AnthropologyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations, Tables, Boxes vii Acronyms ix Prologue: A Stranger's Adventure xiii Acknowledgments xxi Introduction 1 Body Shopping: Brief Overview 4 Ethnicization, Individualization, and Transnationalization 7 Structure of the Book 11 Chapter 1 The Global Niche for Body Shopping 13 "Financial Democracy" and the Virtual Shortage of IT Labor 14 War for IT Talent and Wall of Regulation 19 Chapter 2: Producing "IT People" in Andhra 24 "D-Shops" and "T-Shops" 26 "Have Lands in Andhra, Have a House in Hyderabad, and Have a Job in America" 30 Producing IT People as a Family Business 34 Chapter 3: Selling "Bodies" and Selling Jobs 39 Fee-Paying Workers and Body Shops in Hyderabad 43 India as the Nexus of Global Body Shopping 48 Chapter 4: Business of "Branded Labor" in Sydney 53 "Marketing and Development Are Totally Different Stories" 57 "Only Indians Can Handle Indians" 59 Overlapping Businesses 62 Same Roof, Different Hats 65 Chapter 5: Agent Chains and Benching 70 Differentiated Circles 75 "Indians Are the Most Dangerous Ones!" 77 Overbooking Seats on the Bench 80 Chapter 6: Compliant Bodies? 82 Interlocks between Body Shops and Community Associations 86 Workers as Intermediaries 90 Relations among Workers: Support Yes, Solidarity No 92 The Way Out 97 Chapter 7: The World System of Body Shopping 100 The United States of America: "Mecca for IT People" 102 Global Gateways: Singapore, Malaysia, and the Middle East 104 U.S. Satellites: The Caribbean and Latin America 107 New Frontiers: "Sind Sie Inder?" and "Is There a German Dream?" 108 Ending Remarks The "Indian Triangle" in the Global IT Industry 110 Appendix: Essay The Remembered Fieldwork Sites: Impressions and Images 117 Biographical Index of Informants 129 Notes 149 References 167 Index 173
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Princeton University Press Digital Formations
Book SynopsisExplores how "digital formations" emerge from the ever-changing intersection of computer-centered technologies and the broad range of social contexts that underlie much of what happens in cyberspace. This book emphasizes the importance of recognizing the specific technical capacities of digital technologies.Trade Review"A valuable contribution to scholarship, and one that I enjoyed reading, Digital Formations takes a unique approach to the subject of information technology. In seeking to build new conceptual frameworks and develop new perspectives, it provides a solid foundation for the elaboration of future empirical and theoretical work on IT and globalization." - Michel S. Laguerre, University of California, Berkeley, author of The Informal City and The Global Ethnopolis "Comprehensive and insightful, Digital Formations will be greeted warmly in the fields that over-lap its concerns. It addresses a most important set of questions concerning the relationship of information technologies to globalization. And this is an urgent topic for social science." - Mark Poster, University of California, Irvine, author of The Mode of Information and What's the Matter with the Internet?"Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction Digital Formations: Constructing an Object of Study by Robert Latham and Saskia Sassen 1 SPACES OF KNOWLEDGE 35 Recombinant Technology and New Geographies of Association by Jonathan Bach and David Stark 37 Electronic Markets and Activist Networks: The Weight of Social Logics in Digital Formations by Saskia Sassen 54 The New Mobility of Knowledge: Digital Information Systems and Global Flagship Networks by Dieter Ernst 89 NETWORKS OF COOPERATION 115 Cooperative Networks and the Rural-Urban Divide by D. Linda Garcia 117 Networks, Information, and the Rise of the Global Internet by Robert Latham 146 The Political Economy of Open Source Software and Why It Matters by Steven Weber 178 DESIGNS AND INSTITUTIONS 213 Designing Information Resources for Transboundary Conflict Early Warning Networks by Hayward R. Alker 215 Discourse Architecture and Very Large-scale Conversation by Warren Sack 242 Transnational Communication and the European Demos by Lars-Erik Cederman and Peter A. Kraus 283 Information Technology and State Capacity in China by Doug Guthrie 312 List of Contributors 339 Index 341
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Princeton University Press Eight Preposterous Propositions
Book SynopsisEvaluates the evidence for the sort of strange-sounding ideas that can shape our lives. This book takes up issues such as global warming, the dangers of cholesterol, and the effectiveness of placebos. It shows readers how to use the tools of science to judge the accuracy of strange ideas and the trustworthiness of ubiquitous experts.Trade Review"Ehrlich insists that, with little homework, anyone can tool up enough mentally to discriminate between the wholly plausible and the downright dodgy."--Anjana Ahuja, The Times (London) "Ehrlich has set himself the heroic task, concealed beneath his flippant title, of confronting the tide of irrationality in what is in effect a manual of scientific reasoning... He has dug consistently deep and marshaled the evidence in masterly style."--Walter Gratzer, Nature "A thoroughly responsible, persuasive collection of science demystification."--Michael Pakenham, Baltimore Sun "Ehrlich impressively covers a wide range of topics, and we are once again reminded of the tentative nature of many assertions made about the world... I believe the vast majority of the readers of this book will learn a good deal, even if they disagree with some of Ehrlich's conclusions."--Peter Lamal, Skeptical Inquirer "U.S. physicist Ehrlich, author of more than 20 books, here calmly and intelligently confronts what has been called a 'tide of irrationality' in modern thinking, including not just the two subjects in the subtitle, but one of great current interest: Is Intelligent Design a Scientific Alternative to Evolution? (The short answer: No.)"--H.J. Kirchhoff, Toronto Globe and Mail "Some of Ehrlich's discussions surprised and enlightened me. Nearly all of them left me smiling in satisfaction that here was both a congenial author and an elegant, critical scientific thinker."--Dr. Richard Isaacman, BridgesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1. Introduction 1 2. Is Homosexuality Primarily Innate? 8 3. Is Intelligent Design a Scientific Alternative to Evolution? 41 4. Are People Getting Smarter or Dumber? 78 5. Can We Influence Matter by Thought Alone? 104 6. Should You Worry about Global Warming? 138 7. Is Complex Life in the Universe Very Rare? 188 8. Can a Sugar Pill Cure You? 222 9. Should You Worry about Your Cholesterol? 263 10. Epilogue 305 Notes 311 Index 337
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Princeton University Press Divine Machines
Book SynopsisOffers an examination of Leibniz's deep and complex engagement with the empirical life sciences of his day, in areas as diverse as medicine, physiology, taxonomy, generation theory, and paleontology. This title shows how these wide-ranging pursuits were not only central to Leibniz's philosophical interests.Trade Review"Smith thus offers a broader historical context than the title suggests. But with Divine Machines, Leibniz himself emerges as a fascinating example of the early modern obsession with the grand questions about life, and is for this reason certainly of interest to historians of science and medicine."--Stephanie Eichberg, British Journal for the History of Science "Smith's ... book affords quite a number of innovative analyses and is due to become a landmark of Leibniz studies."--Francois Duchesneau, HOPOS: Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science "Even in the instances where the reader's doubts linger, Smith's scholarship makes a convincing case and one is required to look anew at Leibniz's most well known commitments. For the contributions it makes in our understandings of Leibniz and for the way in which Leibniz is integrated in the emergence of the life sciences, Divine Machines is highly recommended reading."--Lea F. Schweitz, AestimatioTable of ContentsAbbreviations ix Preface xi Introduction 1 Part One: First Things Chapter One: "Que les philosophes medicinassent": Leibniz's Encounter withMedicine and Its Experimental Context 25 Chapter Two: The "Hydraulico-Pneumatico-Pyrotechnical Machine of Quasi-Perpetual Motion": Leibniz on Animal Economy 59 Part Two: From Animal Economyto Subtle Anatomy Chapter Three: Organic Bodies, Part I: Nature and Structure 97 Chapter Four: Organic Bodies, Part II: Context and Legacy 137 Part Three: The Origins of Organic Form Chapter Five:The Divine Preformation of Organic Bodies 165 Chapter Six: Games of Nature, the Emergence of Organic Form, and theProblem of Spontaneity 197 Part Four: Species Chapter Seven: The Nature and Boundaries of Biological Species 235 Appendixes 1.Directions Pertaining to the Institution of Medicine (1671) 275 2.The Animal Machine (1677) 288 3.The Human Body, Like That of Any Animal, Is a Sort of Machine (1680-86) 290 4.On Writing the New Elements of Medicine (1682-83) 297 5.On Botanical Method (1701) 303 Notes 311 Bibliography 357 Index 375
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Princeton University Press The Everett Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Book SynopsisHugh Everett III was an American physicist best known for his many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, which formed the basis of his PhD thesis at Princeton University in 1957. This book presents the long and short versions of Everett's thesis along with a collection of his explanatory writings and correspondence.Trade Review"What can be said without dispute is that the present editors have done an excellent job in presenting the available material. Their book can be highly recommended to physicists in each of the two parallel branches of the mental universe!"--Peter J. Bussey, Contemporary Physics "This book will be very useful for historians as well any philosophers working on the development of interpretations of quantum theory."--K.-E. Hellwig, Zentralblatt MATH "[T]he book is a mandatory read for anyone interested in the history of the philosophy of quantum mechanics. The editors have skillfully grouped the material according to both chronological order and topical concern, and have added a fair amount of useful annotation, assisting the reader without being overly intrusive. Short but expertly written introductions provide necessary context on the biographical and conceptual dimensions. The book is also a fascinating and rewarding read."--Tilman Sauer, British Journal for the History of Science "In sum: Spinoza's metaphysics has returned in the work of Hugh Everett as physics--as a complete and consistent interpretation of QM that resolves the traditional puzzles of the standard interpretation."--Sheldon Richmond, Philosophy in ReviewTable of ContentsPREFACE xi PART I INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER 1: General Introduction 3 Everett and His Project 3 Everett's Target: The Measurement Problem 5 CHAPTER 2: Biographical Introduction 9 Basement Treasure 9 Life of Everett: The Short Story 10 Origins of the Theory 11 To Split or Not To Split 17 Operations Research 19 The Theory Matures 21 CHAPTER 3: Conceptual Introduction 26 The Quantum Measurement Problem 27 Everett's Proposed Resolution 34 Interpretations of Everett 37 On the Faithful Interpretation of Everett 50 PART II THE EVOLUTION OF THE THESIS 55 CHAPTER 4: Minipaper: Objective versus Subjective Probability (1955) 57 CHAPTER 5: Minipaper: Quantitative Measure of Correlation (1955) 61 CHAPTER 6: Minipaper: Probability in Wave Mechanics (1955) 64 CHAPTER 7: Correspondence: Wheeler to Everett (1955) 71 CHAPTER 8: Long Thesis: Theory of the Universal Wave Function (1956) 72 Introduction 72 Probability, Information, and Correlation 80 Quantum Mechanics 95 Observation 117 Supplementary Topics 133 Discussion 151 Appendix I 159 Appendix II: Remarks on the Role of Theoretical Physics 168 CHAPTER 9: Short Thesis: "Relative State" Formulation of Quantum Mechanics (1957) 173 Introduction 175 Realm of Applicability of the Conventional or "External Observation" Formulation of Quantum Mechanics 175 Quantum Mechanics Internal to an Isolated System 178 Concept of Relative State 179 Observation 183 Discussion 196 CHAPTER 10: Wheeler Article: Assessment of Everett's "Relative State" Formulation of Quantum Theory (1957) 197 PART III THE COPENHAGEN DEBATE 203 CHAPTER 11: Correspondence: Wheeler and Everett (1956) 205 Wheeler to Everett, May 22, 1956 205 Wheeler Notes on Conversation with Petersen, May 3, 1956 207 Wheeler to Everett, May 26, 1956 211 Wheeler to Everett, September 17, 1956 212 CHAPTER 12: Correspondence: Wheeler, Everett, and Stern (1956) 214 Stern to Wheeler, May 20, 1956 215 Wheeler to Stern, May 25, 1956 219 Wheeler to Everett, May 25, 1956 223 CHAPTER 13: Correspondence: Groenewold to Everett (1957) 225 Groenewold to Everett and Wheeler, April 11, 1957 226 CHAPTER 14: Correspondence: Everett and Wiener (1957) 231 Wiener to Wheeler, April 9, 1957 231 Everett to Wiener, May 31, 1957 234 CHAPTER 15: Correspondence: Everett and Petersen (1957) 236 Petersen to Everett, April 24, 1957 236 Everett to Petersen, May 31, 1957 238 CHAPTER 16: Correspondence: Everett and DeWitt (1957) 241 DeWitt to Wheeler, May 7, 1957 242 Everett to DeWitt, May 31, 1957 252 CHAPTER 17: Correspondence: Everett and Frank (1957) 257 Everett to Frank, May 31, 1957 257 Frank to Everett, August 3, 1957 259 CHAPTER 18 Correspondence: Everett and Jaynes (1957) 261 Everett to Jaynes, June 11, 1957 262 PART IV POST-THESIS CORRESPONDENCE AND NOTES 265 CHAPTER 19: Transcript: Conference at Xavier University (1959) 267 CHAPTER 20: Notes: Everett on DeWitt (1970) 280 CHAPTER 21: Notes: Everett on Bell (1971) 283 CHAPTER 22: Correspondence: Jammer, Wheeler, and Everett (1972) 291 Jammer to Wheeler, January 11, 1972 291 Wheeler to Jammer, March 19, 1972 292 Jammer to Everett, August 28, 1973 293 Everett to Jammer, September 19, 1973 294 CHAPTER 23: Transcript: Everett and Misner (1977) 299 CHAPTER 24: Correspondence: Everett and Levy-Leblond (1977) 311 Levy-Leblond to Everett, August 17, 1977 311 Everett to Levy-Leblond, November 15, 1977 313 CHAPTER 25: Correspondence: Everett and Raub (1980) 315 Everett to Raub, April 7, 1980 315 PART V APPENDIXES 317 Appendix A: Everett's Notes on Possible Thesis Titles 319 Appendix B: Early Draft Outline for Long Thesis 321 Appendix C: Universal Wave Function Note 324 Appendix D: Handwritten Draft Introduction to the Long Thesis 326 Appendix E: Handwritten Draft Conclusion to the Long Thesis 348 Appendix F: Handwritten Revisions to the Long Thesis for Inclusion in DeWitt and Graham (1973) 355 Appendix G: Handwritten Notes on Everett's Copy of DeWitt and Graham (1973) 364 CONCLUDING NOTES 367 BIBLIOGRAPHY 369 INDEX 375
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Princeton University Press The Blind Spot
Book SynopsisReveals why our faith in scientific certainty is a dangerous illusion, and how only by embracing science's inherent ambiguities and paradoxes can we truly appreciate its beauty and harness its potential. This book challenges our most sacredly held beliefs about science, technology, and progress.Trade Review"Science has been under siege during the last quarter century, first by critics who charge that science itself is a cultural construct and that scientists import their own belief systems into their research. Retired math professor Byers (How Mathematicians Think) argues that much of the problem lies in what he calls the 'science of certainty.' ... Instead, Byers says, scientists need to recognize 'uncertainty, incompleteness, and ambiguity, the ungraspable, the blind spot, or the limits to reason.'"--Publishers Weekly "Is the idea that anything can be determined with absolute certainty an illusion? ... Byers incorporates many brilliant thinkers and seminal scientific breakthroughs into his discussion, offering the cogent, invigorating argument that only by embracing uncertainty can we truly progress."--Kirkus Reviews "Science deals in certainties, right? Wrong, says Montreal-based mathematician William Byers... He contends that this view is wide of the mark and dangerous, influenced by the human need for everything to be 'certain'."--Alison Flood, Wired "I've sometimes remarked that I think our educational system would benefit if we threw Shakespeare in the trash bin, but required all high-schoolers to read Godel and Cantor (well, their interpreters) ... or perhaps now, just substitute Byers! ... [The Blind Spot] should be read and contemplated by every scientist ... and even applied to their own endeavors."--Math-Frolic! "A passionate, informed manifesto that takes aim at our culture's reigning myth of scientific certainty. Byers would like to debunk that myth, and put in its place a science of wonder that freely acknowledges its 'blind spot'--a metaphor for all that remains inherently and irreducibly unknowable, ambiguous, and mysterious... The Blind Spot is an important book for our time, part of a necessary and pressing debate about how to think, and live, within limits both certain and otherwise."--Alex Good, Quill & Quire "[The Blind Spot] is an enjoyable read and makes several interesting points."--Choice "Byers' breadth of learning is impressive, appealing to chaos theory, quantum mechanics, philosophy and beyond in making his case."--Paul Taylor, Mathematics Today "Byers skillfully evokes questions about science and causes readers to reflect on the implications of the blind spots in mathematics and sciences by drawing on notable works across multiple academic fields. I highly recommend this book for anyone in higher education with an appreciation for the philosophy of mathematics and the sciences."--Ruthmae Sears, Mathematics TeacherTable of ContentsPreface: The Revelation of Uncertainty vii Chapter 1: The Blind Spot 1 Chapter 2: The Blind Spot Revealed 17 Chapter 3: Certainty or Wonder? 38 Chapter 4: A World in Crisis! 59 Chapter 5: Ambiguity 69 Chapter 6: Self-Reference: The Human Element in Science 91 Chapter 7: The Mystery of Number 106 Chapter 8: Science as the Ambiguous Search for Unity 124 Chapter 9: The Still Point 156 Chapter 10: Conclusion: Living in a World of Uncertainty 179 Acknowledgments 187 Notes 189 References 197 Index 203
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Princeton University Press Disrupting Science
Book SynopsisIn the decades following World War II, American scientists were celebrated for their contributions to social and technological progress. They were also widely criticized for their increasingly close ties to military and governmental power--not only by outside activists but from among the ranks of scientists themselves. Disrupting Science tells theTrade ReviewWinner of the 2011 Robert K. Merton Book Award, Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association Honorable Mention for the 2009 Charles Tilly Best Book Award, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section of the American Sociological Association "In Disrupting Science, Kelly Moore attempts to explain how scientists' attitudes about the proper role of science and scientists in public life changed so dramatically within two generations...Moore's well-researched account introduces the pacifists, petition writers, newsletter publishers, and protestors--who doggedly drew attention to the ways that militarism was infiltrating the practice of science in the United States."--Audra J. Wolfe, Science "Disrupting Science is an important scholarly addition to the literature in the sociology of science and history of science. The book's examination of archival sources shows a complex relationship between scientists and the military from 1945 to 1975."--G.D. Oberle, Choice "The book prompts intriguing questions about the professional role, the boundaries by which it is constituted, and the potential consequences of overstepping those boundaries."--Joseph C. Hermanowicz, American Journal of Sociology "As the U.S. government's budget for national and homeland security approaches three-quarters of a trillion dollars in fiscal year 2009, and the roles of science and technology continue to expand in our daily lives, our collective need for nuanced studies of the relations between the military and science is ever more pressing. Moore's thoughtful study points the way."--William J. Astore, H-Net Reviews "Disrupting Science is first rate work... Moore's account serves as an exemplary case study in what she and Scott Frickel have billed in their 2006 book as 'the new political sociology of science.' I expect her new book to be read widely across the discipline."--Steven Epstein, Mobilization "Moore's book is very well-written, scholarly, and impeccably organized, making it a useful reference tool. It is relevant to those interested in political sociology, the 'fact-value' debate in the philosophy of science, questions of science and ideology, and science studies."--Ronjon Paul Datta, Canadian Journal of Sociology "Useful for academics studying the history of science and social movements, this book offers an interesting, unique, and insightful look at the role of scientists in challenging the boundaries of their own expertise and positions of influence. From scientists as elite experts to science 'for the people,' this work offers a captivating glimpse as social movement activists among scientists during this time in history."--Chelsea Schelly, Social Science JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii List of Abbreviations ix CHAPTER 1: Introduction 1 CHAPTER 2: The Expansion and Critiques of Science-Military Ties, 1945-1970 22 CHAPTER 3: Scientists as Moral Individuals: Quakerism and the Society for Social Responsibility in Science 54 CHAPTER 4: Information and Political Neutrality: Liberal Science Activism and the St. Louis Committee for Nuclear Information 96 CHAPTER 5: Confronting Liberalism: The Anti-Vietnam War Movement and the ABM Debate, 1965-1969 130 CHAPTER 6: Doing "Science for the People": Enactments of a New Left Politics of Science 158 CHAPTER 7: Conclusions: Disrupting the Social and Moral Order of Science 190 Notes 215 Bibliography 269 Index 293 -
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Princeton University Press Mathematical Knowledge and the Interplay of
Book SynopsisThis book presents a new approach to the epistemology of mathematics by viewing mathematics as a human activity whose knowledge is intimately linked with practice. Charting an exciting new direction in the philosophy of mathematics, Jose Ferreiros uses the crucial idea of a continuum to provide an account of the development of mathematical knowledgTrade Review"Both philosophers and mathematicians can find ample food for thought in this study."--Choice "Ferreiros has published a fascinating book which consists of an impressive combination of thought-provoking philosophical ideas and mathematical material. As such, it can be interesting for philosophers of mathematics, mathematicians, and other people interested in the topics of mathematical knowledge and mathematical practice."--Joachim Frans, MathScieNetTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Foreword xi 1 On Knowledge and Practices: A Manifesto 1 2 The Web of Practices 17 2.1. Historical Work on Practices 18 2.2. Philosophers Working on Practices 22 2.3. What Is Mathematical Practice, Then? 28 2.4. The Multiplicity of Practices 34 2.5. The Interplay of Practices and Its Basis 39 3 Agents and Frameworks 44 3.1. Frameworks and Related Matters 45 3.2. Interlude on Examplars 55 3.3. On Agents 59 3.4. Counting Practices and Cognitive Abilities 65 3.5. Further Remarks on Mathematics and Cognition 74 3.6. Agents and "Metamathematical" Views 79 3.7. On Systematic Links 83 4 Complementarity in Mathematics 89 4.1. Formula and Meaning 89 4.2. Formal Systems and Intended Models 94 4.3. Meaning in Mathematics: A Tentative Approach 99 4.4. The Case of Complex Numbers 104 5 Ancient Greek Mathematics: A Role for Diagrams 112 5.1. From the Technical to the Mathematical 113 5.2. The Elements: Getting Started 117 5.3. On the Euclidean Postulates: Ruling Diagrams (and Their Reading) 127 5.4. Diagram-Based Mathematics and Proofs 131 5.5. Agents, Idealization, and Abstractness 137 5.6. A Look at the Future-Our Past 147 6 Advanced Math: The Hypothetical Conception 153 6.1. The Hypothetical Conception: An Introduction 154 6.2. On Certainty and Objectivity 159 6.3. Elementary vs. Advanced: Geometry and the Continuum 163 6.4. Talking about Objects 170 6.5. Working with Hypotheses: AC and the Riemann Conjecture 176 7 Arithmetic Certainty 182 7.1. Basic Arithmetic 182 7.2. Counting Practices, Again 184 7.3. The Certainty of Basic Arithmetic 189 7.4. Further Clarifications 195 7.5. Model Theory of Arithmetic 198 7.6. Logical Issues: Classical or Intuitionistic Math? 200 8 Mathematics Developed: The Case of the Reals 206 8.1. Inventing the Reals 207 8.2. "Tenths" to the Infinite: Lambert and Newton 215 8.3. The Number Continuum 221 8.4. The Reinvention of the Reals 227 8.5. Simple Infinity and Arbitrary Infinity 231 8.6. Developing Mathematics 236 8.7. Mathematical Hypotheses and Scientific Practices 241 9 Objectivity in Mathematical Knowledge 247 9.1. Objectivity and Mathematical Hypotheses: A Simple Case 249 9.2. Cantor's "Purely Arithmetical" Proofs 253 9.3. Objectivity and Hypotheses, II: The Case of p() 257 9.4. Arbitrary Sets and Choice 261 9.5. What about Cantor's Ordinal Numbers? 265 9.6. Objectivity and the Continuum Problem 273 10 The Problem of Conceptual Understanding 281 10.1. The Universe of Sets 283 10.2. A "Web-of- Practices" Look at the Cumulative Picture 290 10.3. Conceptual Understanding 296 10.4. Justifying Set Theory: Arguments Based on the Real-Number Continuum 305 10.5. By Way of Conclusion 310 References 315 Index 331
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Princeton University Press Nano Comes to Life
Book SynopsisIncreasingly, scientists are gaining control over matter at the nanometer scale. Spearheaded by physical scientists operating at the interfaces of physics and biology, advances in nanoscience and technology are transforming how people think about life and treat human health.Trade Review"Nano Comes to Life draws on author Sonia Contera’s adventures in molecular-scale engineering to herald the coming of age of nanotechnology, and its promise to re-engineer tissue and transform lives." * New Scientist *"[The photographic section] is truly striking with its visual illustration of laying down single atomic designs and smart insulin-releasing patches containing microneedles."---Simon Cocking, Irish Tech News"[A] succinct study . . . Contera frames this near-future transmaterial science, with its focus on human well-being, as an effort allied to social justice even as it probes existential questions of what it means to be human."---Barbara Kiser, Nature"This is a readable although necessarily technical introduction to the way that physics is coming to biology."---David Lorimer, Paradigm Explorer
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Princeton University Press Things Fall Together
Book Synopsis"A short, provocative manifesto for the programmable materials revolution from the visionary founder of MIT's Self-Assembly Lab"--Trade Review"Finalist for the PROSE Award in Engineering and Technology, Association of American Publishers""Books like Things Fall Together should be required reading for students and veteran designers alike. It’s time for these ideas about material intelligence to leave the lab; to commingle among designers, architects, and engineers; and to start finding their way into reality. Not just as conceptual explorations, but as part of the fabric of our everyday lives."---Luke T. Baker, Metropolis"Things Fall Together upends commonly held presumptions about how the constructed world operates. . . . We need just this kind of bold, cross-disciplinary thinking to unlock the full potential of designed materials—and to realize a future in which materiality is considered at every stage and scale of the design process."---Blaine Brownell, Architect"[Things Fall Together] matter-of-factly, without exaggeration or hype, demonstrates that the seemingly wild idea of a biology-like technology is not impossible. . . . Tibbits has done a remarkable service in packing this gigantic vision into a short, readable book. 'Look what is coming!' he says. And we should look."---Kevin Kelly, Reason"A subtle yet eye-catching book. . . . Things Fall Together provides an insider’s perspective on the materials revolution that lies ahead."---Jenna Collignon, Western Exteriors Magazine"Tibbits' book is a compact, highly readable explanation of the work carried out at the Self-Assembly Lab and some of the other like-minded labs and institutions around the world."---John Hill, A Daily Dose of Architecture Books
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Princeton University Press Fashion Faith and Fantasy in the New Physics of
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWinner of the 2017 PROSE Award in Chemistry & Physics, Association of American Publishers "Physics has been at an awkward impasse for the past century. Two theories--quantum mechanics and general relativity--are widely believed to be true... But they contradict each other in basic ways--they cannot both be entirely true. InFashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe... Roger Penrose, an elder statesman of physics, considers the problem. As intellectually offbeat as he is eminent... he ventures here some novel ways in which the two theories might be reconciled."--Wall Street Journal "Penrose gets to the heart of modern physics' problem with subjectivity in this insightful and provocative pop-sci title... [A] rewarding discussion of scientific stumbles in the search for truth."--Publishers Weekly "It is always inspiring to read Penrose's uncompromisingly independent perspec-tive on physics."--Richard Dawid, Nature "An extremely original, rich, and thoughtful survey of today's most fashionable attempts to decipher the cosmos on its smallest and largest scales."--Science "I can't recommend [Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe] too highly to anyone with a serious interest in fundamental questions about physics."--Peter Woit, Not Even Wrong blog "In standing outside the fray and criticising the central dogmas of fundamental physics, Penrose is playing the role of Einstein, who forced quantum theorists to defend and hone their ideas, and Sir Fred Hoyle, who persistently challenged Big Bang theorists to sharpen their ideas. This is an extremely important role, and long may Penrose fulfill it."--Times Higher Education "[A] beautifully produced, beautifully laid-out and diagrammed book... There is possibly no better or more original expositor than Penrose to draw from. If modern physics theory is of interest to you, you certainly won't want to ignore this book."--Math Frolic "The book is replete with phenomenal visual representations of the physics under discussion, a reminder of Penrose's ability to see and describe physics in a unique way... Ultimately, what is most valuable about the book is the excellent example he offers in how to ask questions."--Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Physics World "Something is rotten in the state of physics... The eminent mathematician and physicist Roger Penrose identifies several possible sources of the rot... He is not one to be intimidated by an overwhelming majority, no matter how illustrious and vocal it is. He sets out his objections politely and with exemplary patience towards the keepers of physics orthodoxy... Time will tell whether any of his judgments are correct. In the meantime, his critics would do well to remember George Bernard Shaw's warning: 'The minority is sometimes right; the majority is always wrong.'"--Graham Farmelo, Guardian "A valuable insight into what one of the most prominent theoretical physicists of recent times makes of reality's relationship to ideas in quantum theory, standard cosmology, and theories that pretend to replace them."--Richard Webb, New Scientist "The strength of this book is how the reader can appreciate science as a human undertaking."--Choice "The most important thing is not exactly what he writes about string theory, cosmology and quantum mechanics in his latest book ... but that a book so wide and deep in its erudition could be written at all. If his successors cannot do the same, science will be all the poorer."--Philip Ball, ProspectTable of ContentsAcknowledgements ix Preface xi Are fashion, faith, or fantasy relevant to fundamental science? xi 1 Fashion 1 1.1 Mathematical elegance as a driving force 1 1.2 Some fashionable physics of the past 10 1.3 Particle-physics background to string theory 17 1.4 The superposition principle in QFT 20 1.5 The power of Feynman diagrams 25 1.6 The original key ideas of string theory 32 1.7 Time in Einstein's general relativity 42 1.8 Weyl's gauge theory of electromagnetism 52 1.9 Functional freedom in Kaluza-Klein and string models 59 1.10 Quantum obstructions to functional freedom? 69 1.11 Classical instability of higher-dimensional string theory 77 1.12 The fashionable status of string theory 82 1.13 M-theory 90 1.14 Supersymmetry 95 1.15 AdS/CFT 104 1.16 Brane-worlds and the landscape 117 2 Faith 121 2.1 The quantum revelation 121 2.2 Max Planck's E = hnu 126 2.3 The wave-particle paradox 133 2.4 Quantum and classical levels: C, U, and R 138 2.5 Wave function of a point-like particle 145 2.6 Wave function of a photon 153 2.7 Quantum linearity 158 2.8 Quantum measurement 164 2.9 The geometry of quantum spin 174 2.10 Quantum entanglement and EPR effects 182 2.11 Quantum functional freedom 188 2.12 Quantum reality 198 2.13 Objective quantum state reduction: a limit to the quantum faith? 204 3 Fantasy 216 3.1 The Big Bang and FLRW cosmologies 216 3.2 Black holes and local irregularities 230 3.3 The second law of thermodynamics 241 3.4 The Big Bang paradox 250 3.5 Horizons, comoving volumes, and conformal diagrams 258 3.6 The phenomenal precision in the Big Bang 270 3.7 Cosmological entropy? 275 3.8 Vacuum energy 285 3.9 Inflationary cosmology 294 3.10 The anthropic principle 310 3.11 Some more fantastical cosmologies 323 4 A New Physics for the Universe? 334 4.1 Twistor theory: an alternative to strings? 334 4.2 Whither quantum foundations? 353 4.3 Conformal crazy cosmology? 371 4.4 A personal coda 391 Appendix A Mathematical Appendix 397 A.1 Iterated exponents 397 A.2 Functional freedom of fields 401 A.3 Vector spaces 407 A.4 Vector bases, coordinates, and duals 413 A.5 Mathematics of manifolds 417 A.6 Manifolds in physics 425 A.7 Bundles 431 A.8 Functional freedom via bundles 439 A.9 Complex numbers 445 A.10 Complex geometry 448 A.11 Harmonic analysis 458 References 469 Index 491
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Princeton University Press The Future of Immortality
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the William A. Douglass Book Prize in Europeanist Anthropology, Society for the Anthropology of Europe""Bernstein uses history as well as the contemporary landscape to riase questions about the chaging status of the category "human" in increasingly medically engineered bodies. In wonderfully thought-provoking passages, she muses over the relationships between body and mind, biology and technology to rethink, enlarge and playfully undermine the understanding of life itself."---Kate Brown, Times Literary Supplement"A magic dwells. . . By holding these different viewpoints up against each other, [and] Bernstein shows us just how intricate the question of what makes us human really is."---Justine Buck Quijada, Politics, Religion, & Ideology
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Princeton University Press The Power of Networks
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewNetworks have played a powerful connective role in human societies since the dawn of agriculture. Brinton and Chiang document and analyze this phenomenon—and reinforce our appreciation of it.—Vint Cerf, Internet pioneerChristopher Brinton and Mung Chiang offer an open and accessible pathway through the complexity of network design and deployment . . . a readily understood, yet commendably deep, analysis of the technology and its operation. . . . To describe this book as a course in digital citizenship would not be to overstate its importance.—John Gilbey, Times Higher Education Christopher Brinton and Mung Chiang both have backgrounds in electrical engineering, which combined with experience of topics like big data analytics allows them to strike an authoritative but accessible tone.—Dominic Lenton, Engineering and Technology The Power of Networks is a well-written and engaging book that I think many readers will find interesting and insightful.—Jason M. Graham, MAA Reviews
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Princeton University Press digitalSTS A Field Guide for Science Technology
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Olga Amsterdamska Award, European Association for the Study of Science and Technology"
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Princeton University Press Prototype Nation
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Francis L.K. Hsu Book Prize, Society for East Asian Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association""Winner of the Joseph Levenson Post-1900 Book Prize, China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies"
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Princeton University Press Power to the Public
Book SynopsisWorth a read for anyone who cares about making change happen.Barack ObamaA powerful new blueprint for how governments and nonprofits can harness the power of digital technology to help solve the most serious problems of the twenty-first centuryAs the speed and complexity of the world increases, governments and nonprofit organizations need new ways to effectively tackle the critical challenges of our timefrom pandemics and global warming to social media warfare. In Power to the Public, Tara Dawson McGuinness and Hana Schank describe a revolutionary new approachpublic interest technologythat has the potential to transform the way governments and nonprofits around the world solve problems. Through inspiring stories about successful projects ranging from a texting service for teenagers in crisis to a streamlined foster care system, the authors show how public interest technology can make the delivery of services to the public more effective and efficient. At its heart, public interest teTrade Review"Should be on the summer reading list of people interested in the opportunities and challenges of technology for public stuff."---Mitchell Weiss, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge"Power to the Public is an accessible and quick read aimed primarily at nontechnologists, with a clear-eyed take that technology is not a panacea. The book makes an important contribution to the literature on how government needs to reform its traditional approach to solving problems."---Jim Fruchterman, Stanford Social Innovation Review"Recommended" * Choice *
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Princeton University Press Dark Data
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] penetrating study of missing (‘dark’) data and its impacts on decisions—skewing stats, enabling fraud, embedding inequity and triggering preventable catastrophes. Advocating ‘data science judo,’ Hand offers expert training, from recognizing when facts are being cherry-picked to designing randomized trials. A book illuminating shadowed corners in science, medicine and policy."---Barbara Kiser, Nature"A tour de force. . . . Hand is a good and able guide to take us through the many aspects of dark data that are potentially skewing our understanding of real world observations and potential scientific breakthroughs. He writes in an accessible and understandable way too."---Simon Cocking, Irish Tech News"Well-written and accessible."---Tim Harford, Undercover Economist"You need to read [Dark Data], and be convinced by David’s reasoning and his examples of cases in which unseen or unreported data play a critical and sometimes even a fatal role. You are likely to walk away with the feeling that the term dark data is indeed a very effective one to arouse both curiosity and suspicion, mixed with happiness that finally a great term was coined by a statistician—and sadness that the statistician is not you."---Xiao-Li Meng, IMS Bulletin"An exploration of a major problem in data analysis with an attempt of classification, analysing causes, mechanisms, and to some extent also suggest mitigations."---Adhemar Bultheel, European Mathematical Society"An excellent guide to the many reasons for caution in interpreting data."---Diane Coyle, Enlightened Economist
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Princeton University Press Science and Scepticism
Book SynopsisTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*PREFACE, pg. xi*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xv*REFERENCES AND ABBREVIATIONS, pg. xvii*Chapter 1. Scepticism and Irrationalism, pg. 3*Chapter 2. Probabilism, pg. 39*Chapter 3. The Inductive Ascent, pg. 79*Chapter 4. The Optimum Aim for Science, pg. 123*Chapter 5. The Optimum Aim Elucidated, pg. 166*Chapter 6. Deductivism and Statistical Explanation, pg. 225*Chapter 7. The Empirical Basis, pg. 247*Chapter 8. Corroboration, pg. 279*Chapter 9. Epilogue, pg. 337*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 356*Index of Symbols, pg. 381*GENERAL INDEX, pg. 383
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Pluto Press Sad by Design On Platform Nihilism Digital
Book SynopsisWe live in a time of engineered intimacy, toxic memes and online addiction. Can we ever break free?Trade Review'Dystopian ... a scathing indictment of a technology that transforms the very notion of self into a sharing platform.' -- Eva Illouz, author of 'Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation''Sad by Design: on Platform Nihilism, despite the title, is not a sad book. It dissects our digital addictions with the dynamite power of critical theory. It's a savage journey into the heart of the digital self, and a wake-up call to break free of our own enslavement' -- Donatella Della Ratta, author of 'Shooting a Revolution: Visual Media and Warfare in Syria''Geert Lovink, who is expertly familiar with digital dynamics - technological as well as social - provides in this book a searing criticism of platform nihilism, considered above all as a perversion of computational design' -- Bernard Stiegler, author of 'The Age of Disruption: Technology and Madness in Computational Capitalism'Table of ContentsSeries Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Society of the Social 1. Overcoming the Disillusioned Internet 2. Social Media as Ideology 3. Distraction and its Discontents 4. Sad by Design 5. Media Network Platform: Three Architectures 6. From Registration to Extermination: On Technological Violence 7. Narcissus Confirmed: Technologies of the Minimal Selfie 8. Mask Design: Aesthetics of the Faceless 9. Memes as Strategy: European Origins and Debates 10. Before Building the Avant-Garde of the Commons Notes Bibliography
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Polity Press Echographies of Television
Book SynopsisIn this important new book, Jacques Derrida talks with Bernard Stiegler about the effect of teletechnologies on our philosophical and political moment. Improvising before a camera, the two philosophers are confronted by the very technologies they discuss and so are forced to address all the more directly the urgent questions that they raise.Trade ReviewJacques Derrida has been awarded the prestigious Theodor W. Adorno-Preis, 2001Table of ContentsList of Illustrations. Translator's Note. Artifactualities: Jacques Derrida. Echographies of Television: Jacques Derrida and Bernard Stiegler. Chapter 1 Right of Inspection. Chapter 2 Artifactuality, Homohegemony. Chapter 3 Acts of Memory: Topolitics and Teletechnology. Chapter 4 Inheritances – and Rhythm. Chapter 5 ‘Cultural Exception': the States of the State, the Event. Chapter 6 The Archive Market: Truth, Testimony, Evidence. Chapter 7 Phonographies: Meaning – from Heritage to Horizon. Chapter 8 Spectrographies. Chapter 9 Vigilances of the Unconscious. The Discrete Image: Bernard Stiegler. Notes
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Screen Culture A Global History
Book SynopsisIn this expansive historical synthesis, Richard Butsch integrates social, economic, and political history to offer a comprehensive and cohesive examination of screen media and screen culture globally from film and television to computers and smart phones as they have evolved through the twentieth and twenty-firstcenturies. Drawing on an enormous trove of research on the USA, Britain, France, Egypt, West Africa, India, China, and other nations, Butsch tells the stories of how media have developed in these nations and what global forces linked them. He assesses the global ebb and flow of media hegemony and the cultural differences in audiences' use of media. Comparisons across time and space reveal two linked developments: the rise and fall of American cultural hegemony, and the consistency among audiences from different countries in the way they incorporate screen entertainments into their own cultures. Screen Cultureoffers a masterful, integrated global history that invites media scholars to see this landscape in a new light. Deeply engaging, the book is also suitable for students and interested general readers.Trade Review�Screen culture is culture lived culture yet industrialized, ubiquitous yet iniquitous, pleasurable yet problematic for audiences around the world. Few scholars have the ambition to encompass both a historical and a global/local perspective, but Richard Butsch takes it all on with aplomb, expertly steering us through a wealth of fascinating archival research to reveal the emerging character of globalized media in this still-new millennium."Sonia Livingstone, author of The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age �Richard Butsch�s highly original and very readable overview of the development of screen cultures is particularly striking in the breadth of its chronological and geographical coverage. His knowledge and scholarship, based on an extensive career, ring out from the text.�Richard Maltby, Flinders University �Screen Culture is a meticulously researched work and a welcome response to the demand for a comprehensive textbook on the history of screen culture� students and scholars of film studies will find this book particularly useful.�Rahul Kumar, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television �The undeniable strength of the book lies in its social historical study of different global screen cultures in modern times. ... The synthesis of sociological analyses of audiences worldwide provides an educated account of the role of media cultures in the everyday lives of people around the globe. This includes the rich contextualization of various phenomena: economic, consumerist, nationalistic, colonial and political factors behind the developments of screen media.�Jukka P. Kortti, Journal of Social HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: A Screen Culture History 1 American Cinema to World War One 2 Global Cinema, 1900-1920 3 The Hollywood Studio Era, 1910s-1940s 4 Global Hollywood, 1920s-1950s 5 Western Television in the Broadcast Era, 1945-1990 6 Post-Colonial Television, 1960s-1990s 7 Digital Screens in the New Millennium 8 Using Digital in the New Millennium 9 Globalized Media in the New Millennium Notes Index
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