Impact of Science & Technology on Society

Smartphone Cultures explores emerging questions about the ways in which this mobile technology and its apps have been produced, represented, regula...

One of the government’s former behavioural scientists reveals how you can do what you want, whilst everybody tries to influence you into doing what...

Exploring computer security as both a social and technical problem

This book shows how the impact of the information revolution stretches far beyond specific developments of computer-based systems and communication...

Exploring computer security as both a social and technical problem

In this lucid critique, Norman Levitt examines the strained relations between science and contemporary society. For the most part, Levitt states, w...

In the twenty-first century, a network society is emerging. Fragmented, visually saturated, characterized by rapid technological change and constan...

The development of Artificial Intelligence has brought with it many new questions, not least the legal, moral and ethical implications of the techn...

To ordinary people, science used to seem infallible. Scientists were heroes, selflessly pursuing knowledge for the common good. More recently, a se...

Steampunk is more than a fandom, a literary genre, or an aesthetic. It is a research methodology turning history inside out to search for alternati...

Psychoanalysis and Digital Culture offers a comprehensive account of our contemporary media environment—digital culture and audiences in particular...

In this book Pragati Rawat and John C. Morris identify and evaluate the impact of factors that can help explain the difference in e-participation, ...

In Science and Social Inequality, Sandra Harding makes the provocative argument that the philosophy and practices of today's Western science, cont...

This book, originally published in 1984, established the need for a strategic managerial response to the new technology, which relies on an underst...

This book investigates the phenomenon of science communication events, as spectacles for legitimising and communicating science to the public. With...

'This is a welcome book. The issues of public understanding of science open many questions. What does "understanding" mean? How does understanding ...

From previous edition:Heidegger, Marcuse, and Ellul warned against the rise of a technological mass culture. Philosophy of technology has since tur...

This book develops new techniques in formal epistemology and applies them to the challenge of Cartesian skepticism. It introduces two formats of ep...

Examining Internet culture in the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the US, this book analyzes videos which entertain both English...

The socio-cultural phenomenon of digital enhancement, that is, the attempt to perfect the subject’s offline life by means of digital media, seduces...