Impact of Science & Technology on Society

Rethinking Science, Technology, and Social Change challenges the prevailing notion that science and technology are constructed or socially shaped. ...

In recent decades, scientific theories have postulated the existence of many universes beyond our own. The details and implications of these theori...

Few thinkers have been as influential upon current discussions and theoretical practices in the age of media archaeology, philosophy of technology,...

In today’s society where the development of digital technologies is emerging, it is important to take into consideration the development of individ...

This provocative, deeply personal book explores how women experience mental health care differently than men—and lays out how the system must chang...

Years before the advent of music streaming, Sirius and XM established satellite radio services that attracted paying subscribers through their ever...

The contributors to Captivating Technology examine how carceral technologies such as electronic ankle monitors and predictive-policing algorithms a...

Conspiracy Theories and the Failure of Intellectual Critique argues that conspiracy theories, including those that conflict with official accounts ...

Critical and Clinical Cartographies rethinks medical and design pedagogies in the context of both the Affective and Digital Turns that are occurrin...

Over the last four decades computers and the internet have become an intrinsic part of all our lives, but this speed of development has left relate...

How can we interpret cyberspace? What is the place of the embodied human agent in the virtual world? This innovative collection examines the emerg...

How can we interpret cyberspace? What is the place of the embodied human agent in the virtual world? This innovative collection examines the emerg...

In the networked twenty-first century, digital platforms have significantly influenced capital accumulation and digital culture. Platforms, such as...

′If you′ve ever felt like we′re going nowhere fast, and you′d like to know why - preferably sometime before you die - read this book′ - James Der D...

In The Mangle of Practice (1995), the renowned sociologist of science Andrew Pickering argued for a reconceptualization of research practice as a “...

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to prod...

On one level, this is an intriguing account of expat life in Shanghai's International settlement in the early 20th century. On another level is cha...

Does science have all the answers? Can it even deal with abstract reasoning beyond the world we experience? How can we ensure that the physical wo...

In The Mangle of Practice (1995), the renowned sociologist of science Andrew Pickering argued for a reconceptualization of research practice as a “...

During the mid 90′s, around the time the Internet became popular, it became apparent that there was still one critical issue holding back limitle...

From Robocop to the Terminator to Eve 8, no image better captures our deepest fears about technology than the cyborg, the person who is both flesh ...

How did human beings acquire imaginations that can conjure up untrue possibilities? How did the Universe become self-aware? In The Runes of Evoluti...

During the mid 90′s, around the time the Internet became popular, it became apparent that there was still one critical issue holding back limitle...

For some, automation will usher in a labor-free utopia; for others, it signals a disastrous age-to-come. Yet whether seen as dream or nightmare, au...

Social critics and artificial intelligence experts have long prophesized that computers and robots would soon relegate humans to the dustbin of his...

The 21st century offers a dizzying array of new technological developments: robots smart enough to take white collar jobs, social media tools that ...

The experiences in families, communities, and peer-groups that help young African American women "swim against the tide" of the white, male science...

A Player’s Guide to the Post-Truth Condition: The Name of the Game presents sixteen short, readable chapters designed to leverage our post-truth co...