Social Aspects category: 6049 books
by Noam Shoval, Michal Isaacson
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
The remarkable developments in tracking technologies over the past decade have opened up a wealth of possibilities in terms of research into tourist spatial behaviour. To date, most research in the field has been based on data derived from less objective – hence methodologically problematic – sources....
Global "Body Shopping"
An Indian Labor System in the Information Technology Industry
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2011
How can America's information technology (IT) industry predict serious labor shortages while at the same time laying off tens of thousands of employees annually? The answer is the industry's flexible labor management system--a flexibility widely regarded as the modus operandi of global capitalism...
Pirate Politics
The New Information Policy Contests
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
An examination of the Pirate political movement in Europe analyzes its advocacy for free expression and the preservation of the Internet as a commons.
The Swedish Pirate Party emerged as a political force in 2006 when a group of software programmers and file-sharing geeks protested the police...
African American English and the Achievement Gap
The Role of Dialectal Code Switching
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Many African American children make use of African American English (AAE) in their everyday lives, and face academic barriers when introduced to Standard American English (SAE) in the classroom. Research has shown that students who can adapt and use SAE for academic purposes demonstrate significantly...
For the Children?
Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
“Childhood has never been available to all.” In her opening chapter of For the Children?, Erica R. Meiners stakes the claim that childhood is a racial category often unavailable to communities of color. According to Meiners, this is glaringly evident in the U.S. criminal justice system, where the...
How to Hack a Party Line
The Democrats and Silicon Valley
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
The gripping story of the emergence of a powerful new force in American politics
Sara Miles's How to Hack the Party Line is the first book to explain the political significance of the high-technology industry, and to show the birth of a relationship between the new millionaires of the Information...
God and the Chip
Religion and the Culture of Technology
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Our ancestors saw the material world as alive, and they often personified nature. Today we claim to be realists. But in reality we are not paying attention to the symbols and myths hidden in technology. Beneath much of our talk about computers and the Internet, claims William A. Stahl, is an unacknowledged...
The End of Ignorance
Multiplying Our Human Potential
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
A revolutionary call for a new understanding of how people learn.
The End of Ignorance conceives of a world in which no child is left behind – a world based on the assumption that each child has the potential to be successful in every subject. John Mighton argues that by recognizing the barriers...
We Do Things Differently
The Outsiders Rebooting Our World
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Our systems are failing. Old models—for education, healthcare and government, food production, energy supply—are creaking under the weight of modern challenges. As the world's population heads towards 10 billion, it's clear we need new approaches. In We Do Things Differently, historian and futurologist...
by Richard Silberglitt, Philip S. Anton, David R. Howell
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2002
In 2020, areas of particular importance for technology trends will include biotechnology, nanotechnology, materials technology, and information technology. This report, the companion document to The Global Technology Revolution 2020, Executive Summary (Silberglitt et al., MG-475-NIC, 2006), assesses...
Future Presence
How Virtual Reality Is Changing Human Connection, Intimacy, and the Limits of Ordinary Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
A Wired senior editor and virtual reality expert presents a captivating, candid glimpse into the future "realities" of this emerging technology: how we will use it to form previously impossible relationships, explore new frontiers of intimacy, and how it will forever change human connection.
Heralded...
by Steve Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Steve Fuller has a reputation for setting the terms of debate within science and technology studies. In his latest book, New Frontiers in Science and Technology Studies he charts the debates likely to be of relevance in the coming years.
Should science and technology be treated as separate entities?
What...
by Xavier L. Suarez
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Einstein once famously proclaimed: "Make things as simple as you possibly can, but no simpler." This book is an attempt to do precisely that, and in the process to take lay readers on a voyage all the way from the Big Bang to the human species. In doing so, it avoids both the simplistic...
Transparency and Surveillance as Sociotechnical Accountability
A House of Mirrors
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Surveillance and transparency are both significant and increasingly pervasive activities in neoliberal societies. Surveillance is taken up as a means to achieving security and efficiency; transparency is seen as a mechanism for ensuring compliance or promoting informed consumerism and informed citizenship....