Impact of science and technology on society Books
Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Beyond Disruption
Book SynopsisPresents views from some of America's experts in the sciences, humanities, and military that scrutinize the rise of post-millennium technologies in today's global society. They contemplate both the benefits and peril carried by the unprecedented speed of these innovations.Trade ReviewI think we've got to have a balance between optimism about what we can do with this technology but also realism about the dark side." - Sam Nunn, American lawyer and politician
£21.20
Hoover Institution Press,U.S. A Hinge of History
Book SynopsisThe world is at an inflection point. Advancing technologies are creating new opportunities and challenges. Great demographic changes are occurring rapidly, with significant consequences. Governance everywhere is in disarray. A new world is emerging. These are some of the key insights to emerge from a series of interdisciplinary roundtables and global expert contributions hosted by the Hoover Institution. In these pages, George P. Shultz and James Timbie examine a range of issues shaping our present and future, region by region. Concrete proposals address migration, reversing the decline of K-12 education, updating the social safety net, maintaining economic productivity, protecting our democratic processes, improving national security, and more. Meeting these transformational challenges will require international cooperation, constructive engagement, and strong governance. The United States is well positioned to ride this wave of change-and lead other nations in doing the same.
£29.71
University of Pittsburgh Press Science Policy and the ValueFree Ideal
Book SynopsisDouglas challenges the traditional value-free ideal, and proposes a new ideal for values in science. She argues that the distinction between junk science and sound science lies in the roles values play at key points throughout science, and that constraining those roles is central to protecting the integrity and objectivity of science.
£38.95
Quest Books,U.S. Digital Dharma A Users Guide to Expanding
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MIT School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P) Centerbook The Center for Advanced Visual
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive history of MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS), told through personal accounts and groundbreaking artwork.In 1967, in a time of student unrest, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology did the unexpected: it established the first academic center for research and collaboration in art, science, and technology. The Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) brought artists to the MIT campus with radical expressions of a rapidly evolving technological era.The brainchild of founding director Gyorgy Kepes, CAVS sought to repair the distance between practitioners of art and engineering within the halls of MIT. The scientist may be an extra brain to the artist, and the engineer may be an extra arm to the artist, whereas the artist can be an extra eye to the scientist and engineer,” said long-time director Otto Piene in Centerbeam, a 1978 film about a CAVS collaboration. As a breeder of new art forms and future-oriented artistic
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John Wiley & Sons Inc The Tech That Comes Next
Book SynopsisChanging the way we use, develop, and fund technology for social change is possible, and it starts with you. The Tech That Comes Next: How Changemakers, Philanthropists, and Technologists Can Build an Equitable World outlines a vision of a more equitable and just world along with practical steps to creating it, appropriately leveraging technology along the way. In the book, you'll find: Strategies for changing culture and investments inside social impact organizationsWays to change technology development so it incorporates more of societyExamples of data, security, and privacy laws and policies that need to change to protect vulnerable populations and advance positive change Ideal for nonprofit leaders, social activists, policymakers, technologists, entrepreneurs, founders, managers, and other business leaders, The Tech That Comes Next belongs in the libraries of anyone who envisions a world in which technology helps advance, rather than hinders, positive social change.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction xi One Where We Are and How We Got Here 1 Two Where Are We Going? 15 Three Changing Technology Culture and Investments Inside Social Impact Organizations 29 Four Changing Technology Development Inside and for Social Impact 63 Five Changing Technology and Social Impact Funding 91 Six Changing Laws and Policies 127 Seven Changing Conditions for Communities 157 Eight Start Building Power for What’s Next 183 Nine Where Will You Go Next? 195 Ten Resources for What Comes Next 205 Notes 221 Index 231
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St Martin's Press The New Breed
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MacMillan Audio Starry Messenger
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£22.49
Hay House Inc The Bigger Picture
Book SynopsisTrade Review‘Although they will perhaps always remain mysterious, psychedelics have also always invited us – and our ancestors – to heed the teachings they have to offer, to reconsider our place in the universe, and to recognize the enigma of our own existence. The Bigger Picture adds substantial new information to our understanding of psychedelics and their potentially momentous significance to the world today. I highly recommend this carefully and convincingly argued, deeply thought-provoking and beautifully written book.’ –Graham Hancock‘The Bigger Picture is an entertaining, insightful, and timely book. Beiner draws on the latest psychedelic science to explain how what we’re learning about these molecules can help us make sense of our social and political challenges in new ways, and he ties together research from a variety of different fields to present a compelling and nuanced argument as to why psychedelic science could change the world for the better.’ –Robin Carhart-Harris, Founder of the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London, and Director of Psychedelics Division, Neuroscape, UCSF‘Beiner is a wise and entertaining guide through the jungle of contemporary psychedelics, bringing much-needed critical thinking to the field’. –Jules Evans, author of Philosophy for Life and Director of the Challenging Psychedelic Experiences Project
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Communications and Mobility
Book SynopsisCommunications and Mobility is a unique, interdisciplinary look at mobility, territory, communication, and transport in the 21st century with extended case studies of three icons of this era: the mobile phone, the migrant, and the container box. Urges scholars in media and communication to return to broader conceptions of the field that include mobility of all kindsinformation, people, and commodities Embraces perspectives from media studies, science and technology studies, sociology, media anthropology, and cultural geography Discusses ideas of virtual and embodied mobility, network geographies, de-territorialization, sedentarism, nomadology, connectivity, containment, and exclusion Integrates the often-neglected transport studies into contemporary communication studies and theories of globalization Trade Review“In sum, this book delivers a rich and nuanced illumination of the impact of the inseparable material and virtual dimensions of media and communications in our contemporary world.” -- Mobile Media and Communication Volume 8 (1) 2020 The book "weaves together perspectives on communication, mobility, territory and transport from various disciplines" and " offers a new and broader theoretical framework... historicizing and culturally contextualising communications, which will deepen and enrich readers` understanding of technologies and mobilities in the contemporary world" – European Journal of Cultural Studies, First Published 13 Jan 2020Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Redefining Communications 1 Part I The Return of Geopolitics 19 1 Communications, Transport, and Territory 21 2 Constituting Europe: Empires, Nations, and Techno]zones 37 Part II Reconceptualizing Communications: Mobilities and Geographies 57 3 Sedentarism, Nomadology, and “New Mobilities” 59 4 Disaggregating Mobilities: Zoning, Exclusion, and Containment 77 5 Geography, Topography, and Topology: Networks and Infrastructures 95 6 The Virtual and the Actual: Being There, Disembodiment, and Deterritorialization 113 Part III The Mobility of People, Information, and Commodities: Case Studies in Communications Geography 131 7 Migration: Changing Paradigms, Embodied Mobilities, and Material Practices 133 8 Mobile Communications and Ubiquitous Connectivity: Technologies of Transformation? 159 9 Containerization as Globalization: The Mobility of Commodities 199 Index 233
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Johns Hopkins University Press Liberation Technology
Book SynopsisHoward, Muzammil M. Hussain, Rebecca MacKinnon, Patrick Meier, Evgeny Morozov, Xiao Qiang, Rafal Rohozinski, Mehdi YahyanejadTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Liberation vs. Control in CyberspaceChapter 1. Liberation TechnologyChapter 2. Liberation vs. Control: The Future of CyberspaceChapter 3. International Mechanisms of Cyberspace ControlsChapter 4. Whither Internet Control?Part II: Liberation Technology in ChinaChapter 5. The Battle for the Chinese InternetChapter 6. China's "Networked Authoritarianism"Part III: Liberation Technology in the Middle EastChapter 7. Ushahidi as a Liberation TechnologyChapter 8. Egypt and Tunisia: The Role of Digital MediaChapter 9. Circumventing Internet Censorship in the Arab WorldChapter 10. Social Media, Dissent, and Iran's Green MovementPart IV: Policy RecommendationsChapter 11. Challenges for International PolicyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Liberation Technology
Book SynopsisHoward, Muzammil M. Hussain, Rebecca MacKinnon, Patrick Meier, Evgeny Morozov, Xiao Qiang, Rafal Rohozinski, Mehdi YahyanejadTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Liberation vs. Control in CyberspaceChapter 1. Liberation TechnologyChapter 2. Liberation vs. Control: The Future of CyberspaceChapter 3. International Mechanisms of Cyberspace ControlsChapter 4. Whither Internet Control?Part II: Liberation Technology in ChinaChapter 5. The Battle for the Chinese InternetChapter 6. China's "Networked Authoritarianism"Part III: Liberation Technology in the Middle EastChapter 7. Ushahidi as a Liberation TechnologyChapter 8. Egypt and Tunisia: The Role of Digital MediaChapter 9. Circumventing Internet Censorship in the Arab WorldChapter 10. Social Media, Dissent, and Iran's Green MovementPart IV: Policy RecommendationsChapter 11. Challenges for International PolicyIndex
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Royal Collins Publishing Company Smart Cities Framework and Practice
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers Your Happiness Was Hacked: Why Tech Is Winning
Book Synopsis"Technology is a great servant but a terrible master. This is the most important book ever written about one of the most significant aspects of our lives--the consequences of our addiction to online technology and how we can liberate ourselves and our children from it."--Dean Ornish, M.D. Founder & President, Preventive Medicine Research Institute, Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF, Author, The SpectrumTechnology: your master, or your friend? Do you feel ruled by your smartphone and enslaved by your e-mail or social-network activities? Digital technology is making us miserable, say bestselling authors and former tech executives Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever. We''ve become a tribe of tech addicts--and it''s not entirely our fault. Taking advantage of vulnerabilities in human brain function, tech companies entice us to overdose on technology interaction. This damages our lives, work, families, and friendships. Swipe-driven dating apps train us to evaluate people like products, diminishing our relationships. At work, we e-mail on average 77 times a day, ruining our concentration. At home, light from our screens is contributing to epidemic sleep deprivation. But we can reclaim our lives without dismissing technology. The authors explain how to avoid getting hooked on tech and how to define and control the roles that tech is playing and could play in our lives. And they provide a guide to technological and personal tools for regaining control. This readable book turns personal observation into a handy action guide to adapting to our new reality of omnipresent technology.
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Penguin Books Ltd Talking to Robots: Tales from Our Human-Robot
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Basic Books Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut in Math
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Basic Books Is Math Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to
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Basic Books Life Is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science
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PublicAffairs Who Can You Trust?: How Technology Brought Us
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Chicago Review Press Haywired: Pointless (Yet Awesome) Projects for
Book SynopsisUnless you live in a haunted house, the eyes on your paintings probably don’t follow you around. However, with a couple of motion sensors, two motors, a few transistors, resistors, diodes, and wires you can convert a Van Gogh print into a macabre masterpiece with a mind of its own. Haywired proves that science can inspire odd contraptions. Create a Mona Lisa that smiles even wider when you approach it. Learn how to build and record a talking alarm, or craft your own talking greeting card. Construct a no-battery electric car toy that uses a super capacitor, or a flashlight that can be charged in minutes, then shine for 24 hours. Written for budding electronics hobbyists, author Mike Rigsby offers helpful hints on soldering, wire wrapping, and multimeter use. Each project is described in step-by-step detail with photographs and circuit diagrams. Includes Web sites listing suppliers and part numbers.Trade Review"The comprehensive book comes with a list of tools and parts, as well as step-by-step photo instructions on how to build everything. So, basically, there's little chance to mess it up." --Nylon For Guys online"Features . . . so-nerdy-they're-cool devices." -- Nylon Guys Magazine
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Paragon House Publishers Souls, Slavery and Survival in the Molonotech Age
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Paragon House Publishers Rediscovery of Awe: Splendor, Mystery, and the
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Paragon House Publishers Understanding Scientific Progress: Aim-Oriented
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Paragon House Publishers Black Light: A Novel Theory of the Universe
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The Library of America Loren Eiseley: Collected Essays on Evolution,
Book SynopsisAn eminent paleontologist with the soul and skill of a poet, Loren Eiseley (1907–1977) was among the twentieth century’s greatest inheritors of the literary tradition of Henry David Thoreau, Charles Darwin, and John Muir, and a precursor to such later writers as Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Dawkins, and Carl Sagan. After decades of fieldwork and discovery as a “bone-hunter” and professor, Eiseley turned late in life to the personal essay, and beginning with the surprise million-copy seller The Immense Journey (1957) he produced an astonishing succession of books that won acclaim both as science and as art. Now for the first time, the Library of America presents his landmark essay collections in a definitive two-volume set.This second volume begins with The Invisible Pyramid (1970), a book of meditations on the origins and possible futures of humankind set against the backdrop of the Apollo 11 landings. As Western civilization attains new heights of scientific awareness and technological skill, is it also blind to its own limits, doomed to destroy itself like the lost civilizations of the ancients or other “spore-bearers” in our evolutionary past? Eiseley makes an urgent, environmentalist plea in these essays: we must protect the planet from which we emerged against our unchecked power to overpopulate and pollute and consume it. The essays in The Night Country (1971) look not to the stars but backward and inward: to the haunted spaces of Eiseley’s lonely Nebraska childhood and to those moments, often dark and unexpected, when chance observations disturb our ordinary understandings of the universe. The naturalist here seeks neither “salvation in facts” nor solace in wild places: encountering an old bone, or a nest of wasps, he recognizes what he calls “the ghostliness of myself,” his own mortality, and the paradoxes of the evolution of consciousness. Shortly before his death, Eiseley made plans for what would be his last book, published posthumously as The Star Thrower (1978). Here are late essays on the life and legacy of Henry David Thoreau, the writer to whom he turned more often than any other; thoughts on the “two cultures” he sought to bring together throughout his career; and on the relations between hard science and “awe before the universe.” Of particular interest are two early stories discovered among his papers, “The Dance of the Frogs” and “The Fifth Planet.” A companion volume gathers The Immense Journey (1957), The Firmament of Time (1960), The Unexpected Universe (1969), and a selection of Eiseley’s uncollected prose.LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.Trade Review“Loren Eiseley’s work changed my life.” —Ray Bradbury“As captivating as today’s best-known science writers might be, no one has ever managed to make the pursuit of knowledge feel more soulful or more immediate than Loren Eiseley did in the essays and books he published in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s.” —Ben Cosgrove, The Daily Beast
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Experiment We Are All Stardust: Scientists Who Shaped Our
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Experiment Know It All: 132 Head-Scratching Questions about
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The Experiment LLC Citizen Scientist
Book SynopsisCITIZEN SCIENTIST is award-winning environmental journalist and author Mary Ellen Hannibal's story of becoming a citizen scientist - and finding more than she bargained for at every turn. She knew she was joining a flourishing community of volunteers who help conserve nature, but she was surprised to learn how this new and tech-enabled movement continues a rich tradition of amateur observation established by writers and naturalists over centuries. And she knew, in the midst of an unprecedented mass extinction, that she would find a shrinking number of species, but she couldn't know how her father's sudden passing would tear open her quest to confront loss.Ultimately, to be a citizen scientist is to intimately examine all the life that still finds a way. So as Hannibal, alongside an inspiring cast of fellow citizen scientists, discovers a wealth of species - by wading into tide pools, tracking hawks, scouring mountains - she also rescues herself from an odyssey of loss, and finds a hopeful and practical way forward.
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Experiment The Angry Chef's Guide to Spotting Bullsh*t in
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Experiment What the Future Looks Like: Scientists Predict
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The Experiment LLC Who's Afraid of AI?
Book SynopsisComputer programs can recognize human faces more reliably than humans can. They've beat us in board games, which requires strategic thinking and intuition, and they bluff better than the world's best poker players. At a breathtaking pace, machines are becoming more skilled at making complex decisions - often better and faster than us.In WHO'S AFRAID OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE?, a concise guide to the most awe-inspiring AI achievements, as well as the most frightening, award-winning author Thomas Ramge expertly explains how machines are learning to learn. Ultimately, he tackles the greatest AI conundrum: What will become of us humans when smart machines become more intelligent than us? What happens to the world when, in many ways, we're made obsolete?
£9.35
Experiment How to Love the Universe: A Scientist's Odes to
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Experiment How to Save the World for Just a Trillion
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Bloomsbury Publishing USA A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the
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Bloomsbury Publishing USA How to Be Multiple: The Philosophy of Twins
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Counterpoint Image Control: Art, Fascism, and the Right to
Book SynopsisSusan Sontag meets Hanif Abdurraqib in this fascinating exploration of the unexpected connections between how we consume images and the insidious nature of Fascism.Images come at us quickly, often without context. A photograph of Syrian children suffering in the wake of a chemical attack segues into a stranger’s pristine Instagram selfie. Before we can react to either, a new meme induces a laugh and a share. While such constant give and take might seem innocent, even entertaining, this barrage of content numbs our ability to examine critically how the world, broken down into images, affects us. Images without context isolate us, turning everything we experience into mere transactions. It is exactly this alienation that leaves us vulnerable to fascism—a reactionary politics that is destroying not only our lives and our nations, but also the planet’s very ability to sustain human civilization. Who gets to control the media we consume? Can we intervene, or at least mitigate the influence of constant content? Mixing personal anecdotes with historical and political criticism, Image Control explores art, social media, photography, and other visual mediums to understand how our culture and our actions are manipulated, all the while building toward the idea that if fascism emerges as aesthetics, then so too can anti-fascism. Learning how to ethically engage with the world around us is the first line of defense we have against the forces threatening to tear that world apart.
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ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc Digital Cognitive Technologies: Epistemology and
Book SynopsisDigital Cognitive Technologies is an interdisciplinary book which assesses the socio-technical foundations of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), which are at the core of the "Knowledge Society." This book addresses eight major issues, analyzed by authors writing from a Human and Social Science and a Science and Technology perspective. The contributions seek to explore whether and how ICTs are changing our perception of time, space, social structures and networks, document writing and dissemination, sense-making and interpretation, cooperation, politics, and the dynamics of collective activity (socio-informatics).Table of ContentsForeword xv Dominique BOULLIER Introduction xxi Claire BROSSAUD and Bernard REBER PART I. CAN ICT TELL HISTORY? 1 Chapter 1. Elements for a Digital Historiography 3 Andrea IACOVELLA Chapter 2. “In Search of Real Time” or Man Facing the Desire and Duty of Speed 23 Luc BONNEVILLE and Sylvie GROSJEAN Chapter 3. Narrativity Against Temporality: a Computational Model for Story Processing 37 Eddie SOULIER PART II. HOW CAN WE LOCATE OURSELVES WITHIN ICT? 57 Chapter 4. Are Virtual Maps used for Orientation? 59 Alain MILON Chapter 5. Geography of the Information Society 71 Henry BAKIS and Philippe VIDAL Chapter 6. Mapping Public Web Space with the Issuecrawler 89 Richard ROGERS PART III. ICT: A WORLD OF NETWORKS? 101 Chapter 7. Metrology of Internet Networks 103 Nicolas LARRIEU and Philippe OWEZARSKI Chapter 8. Online Social Networks: A Research Object for Computer Science and Social Sciences 119 Dominique CARDON and Christophe PRIEUR Chapter 9. Analysis of Heterogenous Networks: the ReseauLu Project 137 Alberto CAMBROSIO, Pascal COTTEREAU, Stefan POPOWYCZ, Andrei MOGOUTOV and Tania VICHNEVSKAIA PART IV. COMPUTERIZED PROCESSING OF SPEECHES AND HYPERDOCUMENTS: WHAT ARE THE METHODOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES? 153 Chapter 10. Hypertext, an Intellectual Technology in the Era of Complexity 155 Jean CLÉMENT Chapter 11. A Brief History of Software Resources for Qualitative Analysis 169 Christophe LEJEUNE Chapter 12. Sea Peoples, Island Folk: Hypertext and Societies without Writing 187 Pierre MARANDA PART V. HOW DO ICT SUPPORT PLURALISM OF INTERPRETATIONS? 203 Chapter 13. Semantic Web and Ontologies 205 Philippe LAUBLET Chapter 14. Interrelations between Types of Analysis and Types of Interpretation 219 Karl M. VAN METER Chapter 15. Pluralism and Plurality of Interpretations 231 François DAOUST and Jules DUCHASTEL PART VI. DISTANCE COOPERATION 245 Chapter 16. A Communicational and Documentary Theory of ICT 247 Manuel ZACKLAD Chapter 17. Knowledge Distributed by ICT: How do Communication Networks Modify Epistemic Networks? 265 Bernard CONEIN Chapter 18. Towards New Links between HSS and Computer Science: the CoolDev Project 283 Grégory BOURGUIN and Arnaud LEWANDOWSKI PART VII. TOWARDS RENEWED POLITICAL LIFE AND CITIZENSHIP 299 Chapter 19. Electronic Voting and Computer Security 301 Stéphan BRUNESSAUX Chapter 20. Politicization of Socio-technical Spaces of Collective Cognition: the Practice of Public Wikis 317 Serge PROULX and Anne GOLDENBERG Chapter 21. Liaising using a Multi-agent System 331 Maxime MORGE PART VIII. IS “SOCIO-INFORMATICS” POSSIBLE? 343 Chapter 22. The Interdisciplinary Dialog of Social Informatics 345 William TURNER Chapter 23. Limitations of Computerization of Sciences of Man and Society 357 Thierry FOUCART Chapter 24. The Internet in the Process of Data Collection and Dissemination 373 Gaël GUEGUEN and Saïd YAMI Conclusion 389 Bernard REBER and Claire BROSSAUD Postscript 397 Roberto BUSA List of Authors 401 Index 405
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Triarchy Press Deserted Devices and Wasted Fences: Everyday
Book SynopsisHow can we imagine a technologized life that deviates from globalized norms and standardization and from our collective obsession with endless growth? In 'Deserted Devices and Wasted Fences', artist and cultural critic Dani Ploeger examines everyday technologies found in places and circumstances that are usually unforeseen by their designers, manufacturers and marketers. He travels through second-hand markets in sub-Saharan Africa, the frontline in the Russo-Ukrainian War, desert landscapes in the Middle East, anti-immigration fences on the EU border and many other sites of turmoil, disruption and surprising convergences. Examining the ways in which technologies that were intended for use in everyday consumer culture start to (mal)function, gain new meanings and are appropriated in these liminal spaces can give us hints at what alternative techno-cultures could look like. This collection of essays provokes unusual perspectives on how technologies might be developed, used and reappropriated in support of people’s personal, local and regional lifeworlds and lifestyles.Trade Review“Highly recommended for all scholars, thinkers, artists… well for anyone with an interest in stuff, things, technology, waste, bodies, consumerism, and so much else that’s going in our crazy, divided and imperilled world. Delivered in wonderfully erudite and insightful, not to mention often plainly hilarious, bite-sized chunks of smart observation and edgy practice across a myriad quotidian but often less visible lives and situations - and all entangled with enough theoretical sophistication to inspire critical reflection in any reader, without drowning them. In this book Ploeger and his diverse collaborators offer an exciting, and sometimes disturbing reflection upon some of the key issues of our time. Not to be missed.”; Joost Fontein, Professor of Anthropology, University of Johannesburg; "I very much recommend this very captivating read of Ploeger’s endeavour to highlight not only the wastages of our ‘throwaway’ society, but also globally explore and posit innovative ways that already exist or could exist to rethink and reappropriate technology, at the same time producing new significatory ways of technological being."; Susan Broadhurst, Professor Emerita of Performance and Technology, Brunel University London / Chair, Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts (DRHA); “This book is gritty and provocative, asking us to review technologies through a radical vision. The festival, the event and the everyday come together in an enticing assemblage. Exceptional in terms of intellectual contributions and vantage point.”; Yasmin Ibrahim, Professor of Digital Economy and Culture, Queen Mary, University of LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Tactical Transgressions: Bashar al-Assad’s phone 2. E-Waste in Cling Film: The symbolic order of technological progress 3. Hi-Tech Everything: A report from the heart of techno-consumerism 4. Eerie Prostheses and Kinky Strap-Ons: Mori’s uncanny valley and ableist ideology 5. The Dirt Inside: Computers and the performance of dust 6. Orodha: The ultimate fetish commodity and its reversal 7. Frugal Phone / Material Medium 8. Positioning the Middle of Nowhere: GPS technology and the desert 9. Sounds of Violence: The affective tonality of high-tech warfare 10. Smart Bombs, Bulldozers and the Technology of Hidden Destruction 11. Smart Technologies and Soviet Guns: The dialectics of postdigital warfare 12. Techno-Mythology on the Border: The pandemic risk society 13. Camera Surveillance and Barbed Wire 14. The Smart Fence is the Message: EU border barriers as violent media 15. The Deluxe Anti-Terrorist Barrier 16. Struggle and Expand: The Delta Works as colonial technology Postscript: Artificial techno-myths
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Muddy Pearl Left to Their Own Devices?: Confident Parenting
Book SynopsisCommunications technology is advancing at such speed, heralding a world of choice and opportunity, that we sometimes struggle to navigate each new turn. And yet, with technology, as with life, we need to equip our children to make good choices and to deal with all the hidden dangers, as well as to take hold of the positive opportunities. Fully revised and updated to keep pace with this quickly changing digital world, Katharine Hill's clear, informative book explores the impact of the digital world on teenagers and younger children. Offering encouragement, wisdom and practical advice on topics such as screen time, social media and consumer culture, as well as how to tackle some of the more serious issues of online bullying, grooming and pornography, this book is a lifeline for parents, carers and teachers in an age of digital confusion. Whether you are a new parent or living with teenagers, a stranger to Snapchat or have 500 followers on Twitter, this book is for mums and dads who want to confidently parent in a world of screens.
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Muddy Pearl Left to Their Own Devices
Book SynopsisIn this wonderfully practical book, Katharine Hill explores the impact of the digital world on teenagers and younger children, addressing everything from screen time, social media and gaming to issues such as the dangers of AI, bullying, grooming and pornography.
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ATF Press Darwin and Evolution: Interfaith Perspectives
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ATF Press L'Impossible Pour Horizon: L'Essence de
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See Sharp Press Corrupted Science: Fraud, Ideology and Politics
Book SynopsisA searing exposÉ of the misuses and misrepresentations of science from the time of Galileo continuing through to the present day, this new edition includes updates on the asbestos industry, the chemicals industry, the sugar industry, the agriculture industry (the abuse of antibiotics), and the automobile industry (lead in gasoline). The final chapter has been expanded to include the full-blooded assault on science mounted by the Trump administration.
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Philosophie Des Sciences Humaines: Tome 1:
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Histoire Philosophique de la Physique
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Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Styles of Thinking in Science and Technology:
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£34.00
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press From Need to Greed: The Changing Role of
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Expuestos / Exposed
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