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  • - Innovation in Online Newspapers
    av Pablo J. (Professor and Director Boczkowski
    128,-

  • av Chikako Takeshita
    556,-

    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.

  • - Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
     
    128,-

  • - Visual Representations, Visual Culture, and Computer Graphics in Design Engineering
    av Kathryn Henderson
    321,-

    In this text, sociologist and art critic Kathryn Henderson offers a perpsective on this topic by exploring the impact of computer graphic systems on the visual culture of engineering design. Henderson shows how designers use drawings both to organize resources, political support and power.

  • - Electronic Music Devices and Computer Encodings in China
    av Basile (Assistant Professor Zimmermann
    128,-

    An examination of the relationship between technical objects and culture in contemporary China, drawing on concepts from science and technology studies. Technical objects constrain what users do with them. They are not neutral entities but embody information, choices, values, assumptions, or even mistakes embedded by designers. What happens when a technology is designed in one culture and used in another? What happens, for example, when a Chinese user is confronted by Roman-alphabet-embedded interfaces? In this book, Basile Zimmermann examines the relationship between technical objects and culture in contemporary China, drawing on concepts from science and technology studies (STS). He presents a new theoretical framework for “culture” based on the notions of waves and forms, which provides a powerful descriptive toolkit for technology and culture. The materials Zimmermann uses to develop and illustrate his theoretical arguments come from three groups of case studies about the use of technical devices in today's China. The first and most extensive group consists of observations of electronic music devices in Beijing; the second is a study of a Chinese networking site, “Happy Network”; and the third is a collection of personal, small-scale observations on the way Chinese characters behave when located in alphabet-encoded devices such as mobile phones, web pages, or printed documents. Zimmermann discusses well-known frameworks from STS and combines them with propositions and topics from Chinese studies. Each of the case studies advances his theoretical argument. Zimmermann's account shows how cultural differences can be integrated into STS research, and how sinologists can turn their attention from ancient texts and traditional art to everyday things in present-day China.

  • - Breast Cancer, Technology, and the Comparative Politics of Health Care
    av University of Michigan) Parthasarathy & Shobita (Associate Professor
    128,-

    A comparative study of genetic testing for breast and ovarian cancer in the United States and Britain that shows the importance of national context in the development and use of science and technology even in an era of globalization.

  • - Probe Microscopy and the Path to Nanotechnology
    av Cyrus C. M. Mody
    128,-

    How networked structures of collaboration and competition within a community of researchers led to the invention, spread, and commercialization of scanning probe microscopy.

  • - The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City
    av Peter D. (Assistant Professor) Norton
    432,-

  • - A Laboratory Study of Multimodal Semiotic Interaction in the Age of Computers
    av Morana (Professor Alac
    128,-

  • - Innovation in a Fragile Future
    av Helga (President Nowotny
    270,-

    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
    av Richard (Max Planck Fellow Rottenburg
    128,-

  • - Toward a Theory of Sociotechnical Change
    av Wiebe E. (Professor of Technology and Society Bijker
    576,-

  • - Biology, Physics, and Change in Science
    av Park (Visiting Assistant Professor Doing
    128,-

  • - Technology, Culture, and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century
    av Karin (Professor of Science Bijsterveld
    606,-

  • - A Study of the Enrollment of People, Knowledge, and Machines
    av Maggie (Lancaster University) Mort
    128,-

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

  • av Joel Genuth, Ivan (Edinboro University of Pennsylvania) Chompalov & Wesley (Professor of Sociology Shrum
    128,-

  • - An Essay on Technical Democracy
    av Michel Callon, Pierre Lascoumes & Yannick Barthe
    603,-

    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.

  • - New Directions in Research and Governance
     
    128,-

  • - Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism
    av Tiago Saraiva
    128,-

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

  • - Microelectronics and American Science
    av Cyrus C. M. (Chair in History of Science Mody
    579,-

  • - Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970
    av Christophe (Professor of the History of Science and Technology Lecuyer
    344,-

    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
    av Donald (University of Edinburgh) Mackenzie
    424,-

    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
    av Edward (Associate Professor Jones-Imhotep
    482,-

  • - The History of an Idea
    av Benoit (Professor Godin
    484,-

  • - Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society
     
    444,-

    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
    av Geoffrey C. (Professor and Director Bowker
    464,-

  • - The Pre-Chernobyl History of the Soviet Nuclear Industry
    av Virginia Tech) Schmid & Sonja D. (Assistant Professor
    603,-

    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
    av Stephen (Associate Professor Hilgartner
    432,-

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

  • - An Ethnography of Design and Innovation
     
    322,-

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

  • - The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies
    av Charis (Professor of Sociology Thompson
    603,-

    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.

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