Culture and Technology Culture and Technology

Culture and Technology

A Primer: Second Edition

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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2014
17 December
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
269
Pages
PUBLISHER
Peter Lang AG
SELLER
Peter Lang AG
SIZE
15.1
MB

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