Modernity and technology / edited by Thomas J. Misa, Philip Brey, and Andrew Feenberg. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2003. - vi, 421 p. ; 24 cm.

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

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

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