Modernity and technology / edited by Thomas J. Misa, Philip Brey, and Andrew Feenberg.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2003.Description: vi, 421 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0262134217
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • T14.5 .M63 2003
Online resources:
Contents:
Compelling tangle of modernity and technology / Thomas J. Misa -- I. Modernity theory and technology studies -- Theorizing modernity and technology / Philip Brey -- Modernity theory and technology studies: reflections on bridging the gap / Andrew Feenberg -- Critical theory, feminist theory, and technology studies / Barbara L. Marshall -- II. Technologies of modernity -- Modernity under construction: building the Internet in Trinidad / Don Slater -- Surveillance technology and surveillance society / David Lyon -- Infrastructure and modernity: force, time, and social organization in the history of sociotechnical systems / Paul N. Edwards -- Creativity of technology: an origin of modernity? / Junichi Murata -- III. Changing modernist regimes -- Contested rise of a modernist technology politics / Johan Schot -- Technology, medicine, and modernity: the problem of alternatives / David Hess -- Environmental transformation of the modern order / Arthur P.J. Mol -- Technology, modernity, and development: creating social capabilities in a POLIS / Haider A. Khan -- Modernity and technology - an afterword / Arie Rip.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-407) and index.

Compelling tangle of modernity and technology / Thomas J. Misa -- I. Modernity theory and technology studies -- Theorizing modernity and technology / Philip Brey -- Modernity theory and technology studies: reflections on bridging the gap / Andrew Feenberg -- Critical theory, feminist theory, and technology studies / Barbara L. Marshall -- II. Technologies of modernity -- Modernity under construction: building the Internet in Trinidad / Don Slater -- Surveillance technology and surveillance society / David Lyon -- Infrastructure and modernity: force, time, and social organization in the history of sociotechnical systems / Paul N. Edwards -- Creativity of technology: an origin of modernity? / Junichi Murata -- III. Changing modernist regimes -- Contested rise of a modernist technology politics / Johan Schot -- Technology, medicine, and modernity: the problem of alternatives / David Hess -- Environmental transformation of the modern order / Arthur P.J. Mol -- Technology, modernity, and development: creating social capabilities in a POLIS / Haider A. Khan -- Modernity and technology - an afterword / Arie Rip.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.