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  • - Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism
    af Tiago Saraiva
    93,95 kr.

    How the breeding of new animals and plants was central to fascist regimes in Italy, Portugal, and Germany and to their imperial expansion.

  • af Chikako Takeshita
    468,95 kr.

    The biography of a multifaceted technological object, the IUD, illuminates how political contexts shaped contraceptive development, marketing, use, and users.The intrauterine device (IUD) is used by 150 million women around the world. It is the second most prevalent method of female fertility control in the global South and the third most prevalent in the global North. Over its five decades of use, the IUD has been viewed both as a means for women's reproductive autonomy and as coercive tool of state-imposed population control, as a convenient form of birth control on a par with the pill and as a threat to women's health. In this book, Chikako Takeshita investigates the development, marketing, and use of the IUD since the 1960s. She offers a biography of a multifaceted technological object through a feminist science studies lens, tracing the transformations of the scientific discourse around it over time and across different geographies.Takeshita describes how developers of the IUD adapted to different social interests in their research and how changing assumptions about race, class, and female sexuality often guided scientific inquiries. The IUD, she argues, became a “politically versatile technology,” adaptable to both feminist and nonfeminist reproductive politics because of researchers' attempts to maintain the device's suitability for women in both the developing and the developed world. Takeshita traces the evolution of scientists' concerns—from contraceptive efficacy and product safety to the politics of abortion—and describes the most recent, hormone-releasing, menstruation-suppressing iteration of the IUD. Examining fifty years of IUD development and use, Takeshita finds a microcosm of the global political economy of women's bodies, health, and sexuality in the history of this contraceptive device.

  • - The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City
    af Peter D. (Assistant Professor) Norton
    416,95 kr.

  • - A Laboratory Study of Multimodal Semiotic Interaction in the Age of Computers
    af Morana (Professor Alac
    93,95 kr.

  • - Innovation in a Fragile Future
    af Helga (President Nowotny
    296,95 kr.

    An influential scholar in science studies argues that innovation tames the insatiable and limitless curiosity driving science, and that society's acute ambivalence about this is an inevitable legacy of modernity.

  • - A Parable of Development Aid
    af Richard (Max Planck Fellow Rottenburg
    93,95 kr.

  • - Toward a Theory of Sociotechnical Change
    af Wiebe E. (Professor of Technology and Society Bijker
    573,95 kr.

  • - Biology, Physics, and Change in Science
    af Park (Visiting Assistant Professor Doing
    93,95 kr.

  • - Technology, Culture, and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century
    af Karin (Professor of Science Bijsterveld
    608,95 kr.

  • - A Study of the Enrollment of People, Knowledge, and Machines
    af Maggie (Lancaster University) Mort
    93,95 kr.

    A sociotechnical study of production contingencies in the United Kingdom's Trident submarine and missile system.

  • af Joel Genuth, Ivan (Edinboro University of Pennsylvania) Chompalov & Wesley (Professor of Sociology Shrum
    93,95 kr.

  • - The Co-Construction of Users and Technology
     
    488,95 kr.

    Users have become an integral part of technology studies. The essays in this volume look at the creative capacity of users to shape technology in all phases, from design to implementation. Using a variety of theoretical approaches, including a feminist focus on users and use (in place of the traditional emphasis on men and machines), concepts from semiotics, and the cultural studies view of consumption as a cultural activity, these essays examine what users do with technology and, in turn, what technology does to users. The contributors consider how users consume, modify, domesticate, design, reconfigure, and resist technological development—and how users are defined and transformed by technology.The essays in part I show that resistance to and non-use of a technology can be a crucial factor in the eventual modification and improvement of that technology; examples considered include the introduction of the telephone into rural America and the influence of non-users of the Internet. The essays in part II look at advocacy groups and the many kinds of users they represent, particularly in the context of health care and clinical testing. The essays in part III examine the role of users in different phases of the design, testing, and selling of technology. Included here is an enlightening account of one company's design process for men's and women's shavers, which resulted in a "Ladyshave" for users assumed to be technophobes. Taken together, the essays in How Users Matter show that any understanding of users must take into consideration the multiplicity of roles they play—and that the conventional distinction between users and producers is largely artificial.

  • af Louis L. Bucciarelli
    488,95 kr.

    Designing Engineers describes the evolution of three disparate projects: an x-ray inspection system for airports, a photoprint machine, and a residential photovoltaic energy system.

  • - Innovation in Online Newspapers
    af Pablo J. (Professor and Director Boczkowski
    93,95 kr.

  • af Janet (Virginia Tech) Abbate
    448,95 kr.

    Janet Abbate recounts the key players and technologies that allowed the Internet to develop; but her main focus is always on the social and cultural factors that influenced the Internet's design and use.

  • - New Directions in Research and Governance
     
    93,95 kr.

  • af Geoffrey C. (Professor and Director Bowker
    398,95 kr.

    How the way we hold knowledge about the past--in books, in file folders, in databases--affects the kind of stories we tell about the past.

  • - Microelectronics and American Science
    af Cyrus C. M. (Chair in History of Science Mody
    493,95 kr.

  • - Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970
    af Christophe (Professor of the History of Science and Technology Lecuyer
    476,95 kr.

    A history of the innovative practices in the San Francisco-area electronics industry that paved the way for the rise of the computer industry in Silicon Valley.

  • - How Financial Models Shape Markets
    af Donald (University of Edinburgh) Mackenzie
    368,95 kr.

    In An Engine, Not a Camera, Donald MacKenzie argues that the emergence of modern economic theories of finance affected financial markets in fundamental ways. These new, Nobel Prize-winning theories, based on elegant mathematical models of markets, were not simply external analyses but intrinsic parts of economic processes.Paraphrasing Milton Friedman, MacKenzie says that economic models are an engine of inquiry rather than a camera to reproduce empirical facts. More than that, the emergence of an authoritative theory of financial markets altered those markets fundamentally. For example, in 1970, there was almost no trading in financial derivatives such as "futures." By June of 2004, derivatives contracts totaling $273 trillion were outstanding worldwide. MacKenzie suggests that this growth could never have happened without the development of theories that gave derivatives legitimacy and explained their complexities.MacKenzie examines the role played by finance theory in the two most serious crises to hit the world's financial markets in recent years: the stock market crash of 1987 and the market turmoil that engulfed the hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management in 1998. He also looks at finance theory that is somewhat beyond the mainstream—chaos theorist Benoit Mandelbrot's model of "wild" randomness. MacKenzie's pioneering work in the social studies of finance will interest anyone who wants to understand how America's financial markets have grown into their current form.

  • - Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in the Cold War
    af Edward (Associate Professor Jones-Imhotep
    463,95 kr.

  • - The History of an Idea
    af Benoit (Professor Godin
    438,95 kr.

  • - Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society
     
    573,95 kr.

    Scholars from communication and media studies join those from science and technology studies to examine media technologies as complex, sociomaterial phenomena.In recent years, scholarship around media technologies has finally shed the assumption that these technologies are separate from and powerfully determining of social life, looking at them instead as produced by and embedded in distinct social, cultural, and political practices. Communication and media scholars have increasingly taken theoretical perspectives originating in science and technology studies (STS), while some STS scholars interested in information technologies have linked their research to media studies inquiries into the symbolic dimensions of these tools. In this volume, scholars from both fields come together to advance this view of media technologies as complex sociomaterial phenomena. The contributors first address the relationship between materiality and mediation, considering such topics as the lived realities of network infrastructure. The contributors then highlight media technologies as always in motion, held together through the minute, unobserved work of many, including efforts to keep these technologies alive.ContributorsPablo J. Boczkowski, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Finn Brunton, Gabriella Coleman, Gregory J. Downey, Kirsten A. Foot, Tarleton Gillespie, Steven J. Jackson, Christopher M. Kelty, Leah A. Lievrouw, Sonia Livingstone, Ignacio Siles, Jonathan Sterne, Lucy Suchman, Fred Turner

  • - Classification and Its Consequences
    af Geoffrey C. (Professor and Director Bowker
    328,95 kr.

  • - The Pre-Chernobyl History of the Soviet Nuclear Industry
    af Virginia Tech) Schmid & Sonja D. (Assistant Professor
    493,95 kr.

    An examination of how the technical choices, social hierarchies, economic structures, and political dynamics shaped the Soviet nuclear industry leading up to Chernobyl.

  • - Knowledge and Control in the Genomics Revolution
    af Stephen (Associate Professor Hilgartner
    383,95 kr.

    How the regimes governing biological research changed during the genomics revolution, focusing on the Human Genome Project.

  • - An Ethnography of Design and Innovation
     
    333,95 kr.

    A guide to the everyday working world of engineers, written by researchers trained in both engineering and sociology.

  • - The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies
    af Charis (Professor of Sociology Thompson
    473,95 kr.

    The intertwining of biological reproduction and the personal, political, legal, and technological meanings of reproduction, explored through ethnographic studies and analyzed in the context of science and technology studies and feminist theory.

  • - Essays on the Future of Journalism Scholarship in the Digital Age
    af Pablo J. Boczkowski
    443,95 kr.

    Leading scholars chart the future of studies on technology and journalism in the digital age.

  • - An Essay on Technical Democracy
    af Michel Callon, Pierre Lascoumes & Yannick Barthe
    508,95 kr.

    A call for a new form of democracy in which "hybrid forums" composed of experts and laypeople address such sociotechnical controversies as hazardous waste, genetically modified organisms, and nanotechnology.