From mobile phones to surveillance cameras, from fracking to
genetically modified food, we live in an age of intense debate about
technology’s place in our culture. Culture and Technology is an
essential guide to that debate and its fascinating history. It is a
primer for beginners and an invaluable resource for those deeply
committed to understanding the new digital culture. The award-winning
first edition (2005) has been comprehensively updated to incorporate
new technologies and contemporary theories about them. Slack and Wise
untangle and expose cultural assumptions that underlie our thinking
about technology, stories so deeply held we often don’t recognize
their influence. The book considers the perceived inevitability of
technological progress, the role of control and convenience, and the
very sense of what technology is. It considers resistance to dominant
stories by Luddites, the Unabomber, and the alternative technology
movement. Most important, it builds an alternative, cultural studies
approach for engaging technological culture, one that considers
politics, economics, space, time, identity, and change. After all,
what we think and what we do make a difference.
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ISBN
9781454195849
Publisert
2018
Utgave
4. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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