{"product_id":"disruptive-fixation-9780691163987","title":"Disruptive Fixation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Winner of the 2018 CITAMS Book Award, Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Anyone holding Sims’s book will have at hand— literally—a reminder of how reformers’ dreams of using technology’s magical power to shape a perfect future tend to persist, even in the face of real-world constraints and ethical concerns.\"\u003cb\u003e---Amy Sue Bix, \u003ci\u003eTechnology and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments xi  Preface xiii  1 Introduction 1  2 Cycles of Disruptive Fixation 24  3 Spatial Fixations 56  4 Pedagogic Fixations 87  5 Amenable and Fixable Subjects 111  6 Community Fixations 139  7 Conclusion: The Resilience of Techno-Idealism 163  Appendix Ethnographic Fixations 179  Notes 185  References 195  Index 207","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403811692887,"sku":"9780691163987","price":66.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691163987.jpg?v=1730484617","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/disruptive-fixation-9780691163987","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}