The Social Study of Information and Communication Technology : Innovation, Actors, and Contexts

Chrisanthi Avgerou
Hardcover - $381.95

This book is a useful text for advanced students of MIS and ICT courses, and for those studying ICT in related areas: Management and Organization Studies, Cultural Studies, and Technology and Innovation. As ICT's permeate every sphere of society-busi ...

The Enchantments of Technology

Lee Worth Bailey
Paperback - $52.95

In "The Enchantments of Technology, Lee Worth Bailey erases the conventional distinction culture and address it's complex ethical, moral and social implications. Bailey argues that technological society does not simply disenchant the world with its r ...

Technological Visions : The Hopes and Fears That Shape New Technologies

Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach
Paperback - $48.95

For as long as people have developed new technologies, there has been debate over the purposes, shape, and potential for their use. In this exciting collection, a range of contributors, including Sherry Turkle, Lynn Spigel, John Perry Barlow, Langdon ...

The Cybercultures Reader

David Bell
Paper Textbook - $84.95

"The Cybercultures Reader" brings together articles covering the whole spectrum of cyberspace and related new technologies to explore the ways in which these technologies are reshaping cultural forms and practices at the turn of the century. The r ...

Beyond Human : Living with Robots and Cyborgs

Gregory Benford
Hardcover - $37.95

Concepts once purely fiction -- robots, cyborg parts, artificial intelligences -- are becoming part of everyday reality. Soon robots will be everywhere, performing surgery, exploring hazardous places, making rescues, fighting fires, handling heavy go ...

Cyberselfish a Critical Romp Through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech

Paulina Borsook
Paperback - $21.95

Paulina Borsook has been stirring up a ruckus in Silicon Valley since her days as a regular contributor to Wired magazine. She ruffled feathers again with Cyberselfish, a spirited, funny, gimlet-eyed look at the worldview of the digerati -- one she t ...

Radar Days

E. G. Bowen
Paperback - $123.95

In Radar Days, "the father of airborne radar" recounts his personal story of how the first airborne radars were built and brought into use in the Royal Air Force, and of the Tizard mission to the USA in 1940. The story begins with the building of the ...

Ethics of Emerging Technologies : Scientific Facts and Moral Challenges

Thomas F. Budinger
Hardcover - $161.95

An insightful guide to understanding and navigating the ethical issues faced by anyone affected by the ethical dilemmas associated with current and emerging technologies

Ethics of Emerging Technologies provides the background, insight, and tools f ...

Genetic Governance : Health, Risk and Ethics in the Biotech Age

Robin Bunton
Hardcover - $303.95

How is genetic research governed? And how will the new genetics govern our lives?
There is much interest in the potential transformation of life and new therapeutic opportunities brought about by the so-called genetic revolution. Genetics is incr ...

How Images Think

Ron Burnett
Paperback - $28.95

Digital images are an integral part of all media, including television, film, photography, animation, video games, data visualization, and the Internet. In the digital world, spectators become navigators wending their way through a variety of interac ...