Impact of Science & Technology on Society

A Gallop poll surveyed 506 American teenagers, aged 13 to 18 and discovered the following:- 69% believe in angels - 59% believe in ESP- 55% believe...

Headlines and television news reports feature accounts of reincarnation, the predictions of astrologers, and psychic "miracles." Citizens report UF...

The Times and Financial Times Book of the Year'Enticing' Sunday Times | 'Engaging' Financial Times | 'Essential' Reid Hoffman___As technology acce...

In her career as a science reporter, Nell Greenfieldboyce has reported from inside a space shuttle, the bottom of a coal mine and the control room ...

From Amazon to Tinder, from Google to Deliveroo, there is no facet of human life that the digital revolution has not streamlined and dematerialized...

How gaming intersects with systems like history, bodies, and code Why do we so compulsively play video games? Might it have something to do with ho...

The debate surrounding the transformation of work at the hands of digital technology and the anxieties brought forth by automation, the sharing eco...

A vivid look at China’s shifting place in the global political economy of technology production How did China’s mass manufacturing and “copycat” pr...

The words most commonly associated with the environmental movement—save, recycle, reuse, protect, regulate, restore—describe what we can do to help...

We are often expected to trust technologies, and how they are used, even if we have good reason not to. There is no room to mistrust. Exploring rel...

Science is the study of our world, as it is in its messy reality. Nonetheless, science requires idealization to function—if we are to attempt to un...

The Burden of Choice examines how recommendations for products, media, news, romantic partners, and even cosmetic surgery operations are produced a...

The Burden of Choice examines how recommendations for products, media, news, romantic partners, and even cosmetic surgery operations are produced a...

In this moment of climate precarity, Victorian studies scholar Barbara Leckie considers the climate crisis as a problem of time. Spanning the long ...

Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel demonstrates that archives continually speak to the period’s rising funeral and mourning culture...

The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its domi...

In Unsettled Borders Felicity Amaya Schaeffer examines the ongoing settler colonial war over the US-Mexico border from the perspective of Apache, T...

In Unsettled Borders Felicity Amaya Schaeffer examines the ongoing settler colonial war over the US-Mexico border from the perspective of Apache, T...

Contemporary discussion surrounding the role of the internet in society is dominated by words like: internet freedom, surveillance, cybersecurity, ...

Just what is the “participatory condition”? It is the situation in which taking part in something with others has become both environmental and nor...

'An exciting, astute analysis of how our capacity for desire has been slotted into the grooves of digital capitalism, and made to work for profit -...