Exploring Technology And Social Space

Author : John Macgregor Wise
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997-09-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780761904229

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Exploring Technology and Social Space by John Macgregor Wise Pdf

Examining the fundamental assumptions that we hold about the role of technology in our lives, Technology and Social Space describes the possibilities and limitations of human agency within the new wired world. In a patient and thoughtful style, author J. Macgregor Wise elaborates a critical, philosophical, and epistemological framework from which to better understand our relations to technology and social space. The book argues that most treatments of technology and society arise from a modernist episteme (or set of assumptions) that radically separates humans from technologies, focusing on questions of determination and identity. In an attempt to provide a clearer view of technology and social space, the book explores alternative perspectives centered on notions of agency. Working from within these alternative epistemes, the book turns its attention to the burgeoning technological assemblage of communication and information characterized by the Internet and cyberspace. Technology and Social Space draws on the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari and the actor-network sociology of Bruno Latour, and brings together diverse examples from cyborg films, television, museums, cyberspace, and debates over a New World Information and Communication Order. Ultimately, the book describes the possibilities and limitation of human agency within the new wired world. This groundbreaking volume will be of interest to professionals and academics in popular culture, media studies, mass communication, and sociology.

Author : Deborah Reed-Danahay
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789203547

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Bourdieu and Social Space by Deborah Reed-Danahay Pdf

French sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu’s relevance for studies of spatiality and mobility has received less attention than other aspects of his work. Here, Deborah Reed-Danahay argues that the concept of social space, central to Bourdieu’s ideas, addresses the structured inequalities that prevail in spatial choices and practices. She provides an ethnographically informed interpretation of social space that demonstrates its potential for new directions in studies of mobility, immobility, and emplacement. This book traces the links between habitus and social space across the span of Bourdieu’s writings, and places his work in dialogue with historical and contemporary approaches to mobility.

Author : Turner, Phil,Turner, Susan,Davenport, Elisabeth
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781605660219

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Exploration of Space, Technology, and Spatiality: Interdisciplinary Perspectives by Turner, Phil,Turner, Susan,Davenport, Elisabeth Pdf

"For researchers and scholars working at the intersection of physical, social, and technological space, this book provides critical research from leading experts in the space technology domain"--Provided by the publisher.

Author : Chris Berry,So-yŏng Kim,Lynn Spigel
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816647361

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Electronic Elsewheres by Chris Berry,So-yŏng Kim,Lynn Spigel Pdf

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Author : Mike Michael
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134635214

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Reconnecting Culture, Technology and Nature by Mike Michael Pdf

In this exciting new book, Mike Michael uses case studies of mundane technologies such as the walking boot, the car and the TV remote control to question some of the fundamental dichotomies through which we make sense of the world. Drawing on the insights of Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway and Michel Serres, the author elaborates an innovative methodology through which new hybrid objects of study are creatively constructed, tracing the ways in which the cultural, the natural and the technological interweave in the production of order and disorder. This book critically engages with and draws connections between a wide range of literature including those concerned with the environment, consumption and the body.

Author : David Bell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134540990

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An Introduction to Cybercultures by David Bell Pdf

An Introduction to Cybercultures provides an accessible guide to the major forms, practices and meanings of this rapidly-growing field. From the evolution of hardware and software to the emergence of cyberpunk film and fiction, David Bell introduces readers to the key aspects of cyberculture, including email, the internet, digital imaging technologies, computer games and digital special effects. Each chapter contains `hot links' to key articles in its companion volume, The Cybercultures Reader, suggestions for further reading, and details of relevant websites. Individual chapters examine: · Cybercultures: an introduction · Storying cyberspace · Cultural Studies in cyberspace · Community and cyberculture · Identities in cyberculture · Bodies in cyberculture · Cybersubcultures · Researching cybercultures

Author : Jennifer Daryl Slack,John Macgregor Wise
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0820450073

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Culture + Technology by Jennifer Daryl Slack,John Macgregor Wise Pdf

"Culture + Technology is an essential guide to the fascinating history of these debates, and offers new perspectives that give readers the tools they need to make informed decisions about the role of technology in our lives. In clear and compelling language, Slack and Wise untangle and expose the cultural assumptions that underlie our thinking about technology, stories so deeply held we often don't recognize their influence. The book considers the perceived inevitability of technological advance and our myths about progress. It also looks at sources of resistance to these stories from the Luddites of the 19th century to the Unabomber in our own time. Slack and Wise help readers sift through the confusions about culture and technology that arise in their own everyday lives."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Jean A Pardeck,Roland Meinert,Larry W Kreuger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781000156737

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Social Work by Jean A Pardeck,Roland Meinert,Larry W Kreuger Pdf

Discover why social work must be restructured if it is to remain viable! Social Work: Seeking Relevancy in the Twenty-First Century provides you with a critical examination of the major issues that social work education and practice must confront if social work is to remain as a mainline profession. The book explores issues that are not normally covered in social work literature, such as the challenge of reconstructing the social work profession, the use of technology in social work, and the tension surrounding various social work education curriculums. You will benefit from this thorough discussion of the many problems that the social work profession is facing: a lack of scholarly research, inadequate educational programs, and the use of hypertechnology to educate social work students. Social Work: Seeking Relevancy in the Twenty-First Century examines the epistemological, theoretical, socio/technical, and practice directions that social work has branched into. You'll discover that today's central direction for social work is generated from liberal, postmodern, and increasingly feminist ideological perspectives. In a field where conceptual and theoretical input rarely allow for intellectual diversity, this volume demonstrates that several views are best for inquiry and exploration in social work. Issues discussed include: examining real or unreal social work values by separating them from beliefs, preferences, norms, attitudes, and opinions creating social work course outlines that incorporate practices developed around the globe, allowing for more conceptual and theoretical growth within the field realizing the tremendous difference between communication in the instrumental sense via technology, and in the affective, soul-oriented sense via personal interaction investigating the negative effects of communicating with hypertechnology (modems, e-mail) in the social work profession realizing the need for a greater quantity and quality of social work research to progress further in the field Social Work: Seeking Relevancy in the Twenty-First Century invites you to reinvent social work for today's post-industrial and post-modern era. You will discover a series of challenges that social work must meet and overcome if it is to move into the new century as a relevant and viable profession. You will explore solutions such as increasing scholarship and research among social workers, and decreasing the use of technology (for example, classes held via the Internet) in social work education programs in order to increase the quality of the social work profession.

Author : Sally Munt
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001-06-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0826450040

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Technospaces by Sally Munt Pdf

Science and technology have had a profound effect on the way humans perceive space and time. In this book, an international team of authors explore themes of depth and surface, of real and conceptual space and of human/machine interaction. The collection is organized around the concept of Technospace--the temporal realm where technology meets human practice. In exploring this intersection the contributors initiate debate on a number of important conceptual questions: Is there a clear distinction between the real spaces of the body or the city, and the conceptual space of virtual reality?How are real and metaphorical spaces of electronic cultures quantified and regulated? Is there an ethics of technospace?Historically, the reception of new technologies has been invested with romantic idealism on the one hand and panic on the other. The authors argue that in order for utopian dreams to be tempered by ethical, humanistic needs, we have an urgent need to reveal, reflect upon and evaluate technospace and our relationship to it.

Author : Beth E. Kolko
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Information society
ISBN : 0231118260

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Virtual Publics by Beth E. Kolko Pdf

A collection of interdisciplinary essays that examine how the internet has affected conceptions of community and public life.

Author : Neil Selwyn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429768323

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Telling Tales on Technology by Neil Selwyn Pdf

This title was first published in 2002.The educational potential of information and communications technology (ICT) has been speculated upon endlessly - from the early days of the micro-computer to the present excitement surrounding virtual education and e-learning . Now, with current multi-billion dollar initiatives such as the UK National Grid for Learning and US Technology Literacy Challenge, ICT is an unavoidable element of education. Yet despite a plethora of promises and policies, new technologies have failed to be wholly integrated into education. Telling Tales on Technology critically examines the role of ICT in education and explores how, given its assumed importance, new technology remains a peripheral part of much of what goes on in education. Based on in-depth qualitative studies, the book takes a comprehensive yet questioning look over the past two decades of educational technology policy and practice and positions it within the wider social, cultural, political and economic notion of the information age . Drawing on interviews with students, teachers, politicians and business people as well as comprehensive documentary analysis, this is an essential text for anyone thinking seriously about the use of ICT in education.

Author : Gerard Goggin,Christopher Newell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0742518442

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Digital Disability by Gerard Goggin,Christopher Newell Pdf

Media representation of and for the disabled has been recharged in recent years with the expansion of new media worldwide. Interactive digital communications -- such as the Interact, new varieties of voice and text telephones, and digital broadcasting -- have created a need for a more innovative understanding of new media and disability issues. This engaging analysis offers a global perspective on how people with disabilities are represented as users, consumers, viewers, or listeners of new media, by policymakers, corporations, programmers, and the disabled themselves.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Academic Conferences Limited
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781905305124

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ECEL2006-5th European Conference on e-Learning by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jeremy Packer,Stephen B. Crofts Wiley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136589607

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Communication Matters by Jeremy Packer,Stephen B. Crofts Wiley Pdf

Communication has often been understood as a realm of immaterial, insubstantial phenomena—images, messages, thoughts, languages, cultures, and ideologies—mediating our embodied experience of the concrete world. Communication Matters challenges this view, assembling leading scholars in the fields of Communication, Rhetoric, and English to focus on the materiality of communication. Building on the work of materialist theorists such as Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Friedrich Kittler, and Henri Lefebvre, the essays collected here examine the materiality of discourse itself and the constitutive force of communication in the production of the real. Communication Matters presents original work that rethinks communication as material and situates materialist approaches to communication within the broader "materiality turn" emerging in the humanities and social sciences. This collection will be of interest to researchers and postgraduate students in Media, Communication Studies, and Rhetoric. The book includes images of the digital media installations of Francesca Talenti, Professor, Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Author : Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351882941

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The Resurgence of the State by Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel Pdf

The transnational architecture of global information networks has made territorial borders less significant. Boundaries between spaces are becoming blurred in the evolving information age. But do information and communication technologies networks really lead to a weakening of the nation-state? This volume revisits the 'retreat of the state' thesis and tests its validity in the 21st century. It considers cyberspace as a matter of collective and policy choice, prone to usurpation by governance structures. Governments around the world are already reacting to the information revolution and trying to re-establish their leading role in creating governance regimes for the Information Age. The volume comes at a historical moment when new political dynamics are detected and new conceptual models are sought to categorize the attempts to deal with global/transnational issues. It will intrigue the reader with expert-level analysis of the role of the state in the emerging global/supranational governance structures by providing historical context and conceptualizing trends and social dynamics.