Social Aspects category: 6049 books
by Merve Emre, Sophie Lewis, Annie Menzel
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Feminist writers and scholars consider whether technology has made good on its promise to liberate women—sexually, biologically, economically, and politically.
In Once and Future Feminist, editor and lead essayist Merve Emre turns a critical eye on the role of technology in feminism both...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Controversies in Digital Ethics explores ethical frameworks within digital culture. Through a combination of theoretical examination and specific case studies, the essays in this volume provide a vigorous examination of ethics in a highly individualistic and mediated world. Focusing on specific controversies-privacy,...
by Branden Hookway
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
A cultural theory of the interface as a relation that is both ubiquitous and elusive, drawing on disciplines from cultural theory to architecture.
In this book, Branden Hookway considers the interface not as technology but as a form of relationship with technology. The interface, Hookway proposes,...
by Alicia Kestrell Verlager, E. Cabell Hankinson Gathman, Nicholas A. Knouf
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Memoir, clinical writings, and ethnography inform new perspectives on the experience of technology; personal stories illuminate how technology enters the inner life.
For more than two decades, in such landmark studies as The Second Self and Life on the Screen, Sherry Turkle has challenged our...
by Paula Bialski, Finn Brunton, Mercedes Bunz
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
On contemporary communication in its various human and nonhuman forms
Contemporary communication puts us not only in conversation with one another but also with our machinery. Machine communication—to communicate not just via but also with machines—is therefore the focus of this volume....
Learning Privilege
Lessons of Power and Identity in Affluent Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
How can teachers bridge the gap between their commitments to social justice and their day to day practice? This is the question author Adam Howard asked as he began teaching at an elite private school and the question that led him to conduct a six-year study on affluent schooling. Unfamiliar with...
Educated in Whiteness
Good Intentions and Diversity in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Educators across the nation are engaged in well-meaning efforts to address diversity in schools given the current context of NCLB, Race to the Top, and the associated pressures of standardization and accountability. Through rich ethnographic accounts of teachers in two demographically different secondary...
Studying Human Behavior
How Scientists Investigate Aggression and Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
In Studying Human Behavior, Helen E. Longino enters into the complexities of human behavioral research, a domain still dominated by the age-old debate of “nature versus nurture.” Rather than supporting one side or another or attempting to replace that dichotomy with a different framework for understanding...
Hearts and Minds Without Fear
Unmasking the Sacred in Teacher Preparation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Hearts and Minds Without Fear: Unmasking the Sacred in Teacher Preparation is the first book of its kind that focuses on the critical urgency of integrating creativity, mindfulness, and compassion in which social and ecological justice are forefronted in teacher preparation. This is especially significant...
Marxism and Education beyond Identity
Sexuality and Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
This book seeks to revive dialectical materialist interpretations of sexuality, relevant to K-12 settings and society. Issues addressed include: sexuality and the curriculum, theories of the family, critiques of postmodernism, socialist feminism, and activist tactics/strategies for organizing in K-12 settings.
Interpreting National History
Race, Identity, and Pedagogy in Classrooms and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
How do students’ racial identities work with and against teachers’ pedagogies to shape their understandings of history and contemporary society? Based on a long-term ethnographic study, Interpreting National History examines the startling differences in black and white students' interpretations...
North Korean Defectors in a New and Competitive Society
Issues and Challenges in Resettlement, Adjustment, and the Learning Process
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Ongoing ideological or political conflicts in the modern world have led to appalling human rights violations against North Korean defectors who attempt to escape from their repressive country and seek freedom. Although some North Korean defectors have survived the life-threatening escape journey and...
Science in History
Volume 1: The Emergence of Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
J. D. Bernal's monumental work, Science in History, was the first full attempt to analyse the reciprocal relations of science and society throughout history, from the perfection of the flint hand-axe to the hydrogen bomb. In this remarkable study he illustrates the impetus given to (and the limitations...
Like a Thief in Broad Daylight
Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
The latest book from "the most despicable philosopher in the West" (New Republic) considers the new dangers and radical possibilities set in motion by advances in Big Tech.
In recent years, techno-scientific progress has started to utterly transform our world--changing it almost beyond...