Research Catalog

Title

Modernity and technology / edited by Thomas J. Misa, Philip Brey, and Andrew Feenberg.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2003.

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Additional Authors

• Misa, Thomas J.
• Brey, Philip.
• Feenberg, Andrew.

Description

vi, 421 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

Technology > Social aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-407) and index.

Contents

Compelling tangle of modernity and technology / Thomas J. Misa -- I. Modernity theory and technology studies -- Theorizing modernity and technology / Philip Brey -- Modernity theory and technology studies: reflections on bridging the gap / Andrew Feenberg -- Critical theory, feminist theory, and technology studies / Barbara L. Marshall -- II. Technologies of modernity -- Modernity under construction: building the Internet in Trinidad / Don Slater -- Surveillance technology and surveillance society / David Lyon -- Infrastructure and modernity: force, time, and social organization in the history of sociotechnical systems / Paul N. Edwards -- Creativity of technology: an origin of modernity? / Junichi Murata -- III. Changing modernist regimes -- Contested rise of a modernist technology politics / Johan Schot -- Technology, medicine, and modernity: the problem of alternatives / David Hess -- Environmental transformation of the modern order / Arthur P.J. Mol -- Technology, modernity, and development: creating social capabilities in a POLIS / Haider A. Khan -- Modernity and technology - an afterword / Arie Rip.

Call Number

JSE 03-628

ISBN

0262134217 (hc. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2002071754

OCLC

49871676

Title

Modernity and technology / edited by Thomas J. Misa, Philip Brey, and Andrew Feenberg.

Imprint

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2003.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-407) and index.

Added Author

Misa, Thomas J.

Brey, Philip.

Feenberg, Andrew.

Research Call Number

JSE 03-628