Framing Technology / edited by Lelia Green and Roger Guinery.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Guinery, Roger, editor.

Green, Lelia, 1956- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology--Social aspects.

Technology.

Technological innovations--Social aspects.

Technological innovations.

Social change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.) ill

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, England : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

Framing Technology uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore some of the key issues in technology today, including virtual reality, gender, health, the environment, regulation, the information society, surveillance and globalisation.

Contents:

Introduction / Lelia Green

pt. I. Framing the Individual. 1. Technological a/genders: technology, culture and class / Judy Wajcman. 2. Virtual reality fakes the future: cybersex, lies and computer games / David McKie. 3. The technology of television / Albert Moran. 4. Anticipating tomorrow: technology and the future / Susan Oliver. 5. Till death us do part: technology and health / David More and Elizabeth More

pt. II. Framing the Communal. 6. Regulating technology / Len Palmer. 7. Australia's information society: clever enough? / Trevor Barr. 8. Universal suffrage? Technology and democracy / Julianne Schultz. 9. Dataveillance: delivering 1984 / Roger Clarke. 10. Electronic neighbourhoods: communicating power in computer-based networks / Lynda Davies and Wayne Harvey

pt. III. Framing the Global. 11. The multilocals: transnationals and communications technology / Dick Bryan. 12. Missing the post(modern): cores, peripheries and globalisation / Lelia Green.

Notes:

"Ebook published 8 May 2023" -- publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781003416494

1003416497

9781000944693

1000944697

9781000938647

1000938646

OCLC:

1378188773