Modernity and technology / edited by Thomas J. Misa, Philip Brey, and Andrew Feenberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Misa, Thomas J.

Brey, Philip.

Feenberg, Andrew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology--Social aspects.

Technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (433 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Studies of the co-construction of technology and modernity that lay the foundation for a new, interdisciplinary field.

Contents:

Contents ; Acknowledgments; Workshop Participants; 1 - The Compelling Tangle of Modernity and Technology ; I - Modernity Theory and Technology Studies; 2 - Theorizing Modernity and Technology; 3 - Modernity Theory and Technology Studies: Reflections on Bridging the Gap; 4 - Critical Theory, Feminist Theory, and Technology Studies ; II - Technologies of Modernity ; 5 - Modernity under Construction: Building the Internet in Trinidad ; 6 - Surveillance Technology and Surveillance Society

7 - Infrastructure and Modernity: Force, Time, and Social Organization in the History of Sociotechnical Systems 8 - Creativity of Technology: An Origin of Modernity?; III - Changing Modernist Regimes ; 9 - The Contested Rise of a Modernist Technology Politics ; 10 - Technology, Medicine, and Modernity: The Problem of Alternatives ; 11 - The Environmental Transformation of the Modern Order ; 12 - Technology, Modernity, and Development: Creating Social Capabilities in a POLIS ; 13 - Modernity and Technology-An Afterword; References ; About the Authors ; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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

ISBN:

1-282-09968-X

0-262-27993-2

9780585446768

9786612099687

0-585-44676-8

OCLC:

939263633