Author : A. Hanson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 20,57 MB
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137338369
What impact has technology had on cultural meanings, values, and symbols? This anthropological exploration shows how technologies produce novel and sometimes jarring realignments among cultural institutions.
Author : A. Hanson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 22,97 MB
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137338369
What impact has technology had on cultural meanings, values, and symbols? This anthropological exploration shows how technologies produce novel and sometimes jarring realignments among cultural institutions.
Author : Seymour Bosworth
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 2000 pages
File Size : 18,27 MB
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118851791
Computer security touches every part of our daily lives from our computers and connected devices to the wireless signals around us. Breaches have real and immediate financial, privacy, and safety consequences. This handbook has compiled advice from top professionals working in the real world about how to minimize the possibility of computer security breaches in your systems. Written for professionals and college students, it provides comprehensive best guidance about how to minimize hacking, fraud, human error, the effects of natural disasters, and more. This essential and highly-regarded reference maintains timeless lessons and is fully revised and updated with current information on security issues for social networks, cloud computing, virtualization, and more.
Author : Göran Bolin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 24,2 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0415893119
Covering diverse themes such as intellectual property, media and architecture, satellite debris, server farms and search engines, art installations, surveillance, peer-to-peer file-sharing, the construction of techno-history and much more, this book discusses both the culture of technology that we live in today, and culture as technology.
Author : Arnold Pacey
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 22,32 MB
Release : 1985-09-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262660563
The Culture of Technology examines our often conflicting attitudes toward nuclear weapons, biological technologies, pollution, Third World development, automation, social medicine, and industrial decline. It disputes the common idea that technology is "value-free" and shows that its development and use are conditioned by many factors-political and cultural as well as economic and scientific. Many examples from a variety of cultures are presented. These range from the impact of snowmobiles in North America to the use of water pumps in rural India, and from homemade toys in Africa to electricity generation in Britain-all showing how the complex interaction of many influences in every community affects technological practice. Arnold Pacey, who lives near Oxford, England, has a degree in physics and has lectured on both the history of technology and technology policy, with a particular focus on the development of technologies appropriate to Third World needs. He is the author of The Maze of Ingenuity (MIT Press paperback).
Author : Jennifer Daryl Slack
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,48 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780820450070
"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 : Neil Postman
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 31,42 MB
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 030779735X
In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it—with radical consequences for the meanings of politics, art, education, intelligence, and truth.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 21,4 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN :
Author : Neil Leach
Publisher : Academy Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 14,84 MB
Release : 2004-04-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
The old opposition between a digital culture of sensuous, ephemeral images and a tectonic culture of pragmatic building has given way to a new collaboration between the two domains, a 'digital tectonics'. Computer linked fabrication techniques of many kinds have become an integral part of the design process, while new digital tools are allowing engineers and architects to understand in far more detail the behaviour of load carrying surfaces, and to generate new architectural forms. Digital and computer-linked design techniques is one of the hottest topics in architecture and in an ever-expanding world of digital technology this book tackles the practical elements of the field.
Author : Melvin Kranzberg
Publisher : Schocken Books Incorporated
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,99 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
"Leading authorities examine the vital question of the role of the amchine in human history and human destiny"--Cover
