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Science, technology and culture /

This book introduces students to cultural studies of science and technology. It equips students with an understanding of science and technology as aspects of culture, and an appreciation of the importance of thinking about science and technology from a cultural studies perspective. Individual chapte...

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Основен автор: Bell, David, 1965 February 12-
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Maidenhead, England ; New York : Open University Press, 2006.
Серия: Issues in cultural and media studies.
Предмети:
Science > Social aspects.
Technology > Social aspects.
Sciences > Aspect social.
Technologie > Aspect social.
SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Social Aspects.
Wetenschap.
Technologie.
Culturele aspecten.
Communication et technologie.
Electronic books.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Science, technology and culture.
Съдържание:
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 01 SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE
  • The culture bit
  • Boiled eggs, visible humans and gay brains
  • The anatomy of this book
  • Notes
  • Chapter 02 THINKING ABOUT SCIENCE AND CULTURE
  • Science in/and/as society
  • The science of specialness
  • Weirding science
  • Postmodern Science Wars
  • Further reading
  • Notes
  • Chapter 03 THINKING ABOUT TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE
  • A fridge is being delivered
  • What is technology?
  • Technology in/and/as society
  • Following technologies around
  • Technology and everyday life
  • Technologies of gender
  • Thinking about technoscience
  • Notes
  • Chapter 04 SCREENING (AND SINGING) SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
  • Science and technology at the movies
  • Public understanding of science fiction
  • Film theory goes to the laboratory
  • Machine music
  • Further reading
  • Notes
  • Chapter 05 THE MOON AND THE BOMB
  • To infinity
  • and beyond
  • Space and the British imagination
  • Downwind
  • Further reading
  • Notes
  • Chapter 06 UFOLOGISTS, HOBBYISTS AND OTHER BOUNDARY WORKERS
  • The trouble with boundaries
  • ScienceCop
  • The trouble with no boundaries
  • Further reading
  • Notes
  • Chapter 07 PAUSE AND REWIND
  • Giving good PowerPoint
  • Nipped and tucked
  • Notes
  • Glossary of Key Terms
  • References
  • Index.

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