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1. The Good Life in a Technological Age

   Edited by Philip Brey, Adam Briggle, Edward Spence

   Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

   Modern technology has changed the way we live, work, play, communicate, fight, love, and die. Yet few works have systematically explored these changes in light of their implications for individual and social welfare. How can we conceptualize and evaluate the influence of technology on human...

   Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Culture of Science

   How the Public Relates to Science Across the Globe

   Edited by Martin W. Bauer, Rajesh Shukla, Nick Allum

   Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

   This book offers the first comparative account of the changes and stabilities of public perceptions of science within the US, France, China, Japan, and across Europe over the past few decades. The contributors address the influence of cultural factors; the question of science and religion and its...

   Published September 22nd 2011 by Routledge
3. Internet and Surveillance

   The Challenges of Web 2.0 and Social Media

   Edited by Christian Fuchs, Kees Boersma, Anders Albrechtslund, Marisol Sandoval

   Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

   The Internet has been transformed in the past years from a system primarily oriented on information provision into a medium for communication and community-building. The notion of “Web 2.0”, social software, and social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace have emerged in this...

   Published September 22nd 2011 by Routledge
4. The Politics of Bioethics

   By Alan Petersen

   Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

   Recent rapid advances in the biosciences have led to considerable debate about the social, ethical, and legal implications of research and its applications. The mapping of the human genome, advances in cloning techniques, the harvesting of embryonic stem cells for research, increasing use of...

   Published December 20th 2010 by Routledge
5. Biometrics

   Bodies, Technologies, Biopolitics

   By Joseph Pugliese

   Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

   Biometric technologies, such as finger- or facial-scan, are being deployed across a variety of social contexts in order to facilitate and guarantee identity verification and authentication. In the post-9/11 world, biometric technologies have experienced an extraordinary period of growth as concerns...

   Published July 19th 2010 by Routledge
6. Wired and Mobilizing

   Social Movements, New Technology, and Electoral Politics

   By Victoria Carty

   Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

   This book highlights how online networking offers potential for new forms of activist mobilizing, repertoires, participatory democracy, direct action, fundraising, and civic engagement. It calls for a re-conceptualization of some of the main tenets of contentious and electoral politics, which were...

   Published July 5th 2010 by Routledge
7. Biomedicine as Culture

   Instrumental Practices, Technoscientific Knowledge, and New Modes of Life

   Edited by Regula Valérie Burri, Joseph Dumit

   Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

   This volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on contemporary biomedicine as a cultural practice. It brings together leading scholars from cultural anthropology, sociology, history, and science studies to conduct a critical dialogue on the culture(s) of biomedical practice, discussing its...

   Published June 3rd 2010 by Routledge
8. Global Public Health Vigilance

   Creating a World on Alert

   By Lorna Weir, Eric Mykhalovskiy

   Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

   Global Public Health Vigilance is the first sociological book to investigate recent changes in how global public health authorities imagine and respond to international threats to human health. This book explores a remarkable period of conceptual innovation during which infectious disease,...

   Published April 6th 2010 by Routledge
9. Journalism, Science and Society

   Science Communication between News and Public Relations

   Edited by Martin W. Bauer, Massimiano Bucchi

   Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

   Analyzing the role of journalists in science communication, this book presents a perspective on how this is going to evolve in the twenty-first century. The book takes three distinct perspectives on this interesting subject. Firstly, science journalists reflect on their ‘operating rules’ (...

   Published March 17th 2010 by Routledge
10. Rethinking Disability

    Bodies, Senses, and Things

    By Michael Schillmeier

    Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

    This text is a critical and empirically-based introduction to disability studies. It offers a comprehensive, book-length analysis of disability through the lens of Science and Technology Studies (STS), and presents a practice-oriented discussion of how bodies, senses and things are linked in...

    Published January 26th 2010 by Routledge