Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
About the Book Series
Books in this series consider social science aspects of science studies. Authors discuss how science is socially situated and mediated, how science and technology are shaped by society and society by science and technology. Books will consider the social impact of new technologies.
Apocalyptic Narratives: Science, Risk and Prophecy
1st Edition
By Hauke Riesch
January 09, 2023
Linking literature from the sociological study of the apocalyptic with the sociology and philosophy of science, Apocalyptic Narratives explores how the apocalyptic narrative frames and provides meaning to contemporary, secular and scientific crises focussing on nuclear war, general environmental ...
The Policies and Politics of Interdisciplinary Research: Nanomedicine in France and in the United States
1st Edition
By Séverine Louvel
May 30, 2022
Interdisciplinary research centers are blooming in almost every university, and interdisciplinary research is expected to be a cure-all for the ills of academic science. Do disciplines still matter? To what extent are interdisciplinary problem-solving approaches driven by socioeconomic stakeholders...
Big Data—A New Medium?
1st Edition
Edited
By Natasha Lushetich
November 27, 2020
Drawing on a range of methods from across science and technology studies, digital humanities and digital arts, this book presents a comprehensive view of the big data phenomenon. Big data architectures are increasingly transforming political questions into technical management by determining ...
Emotion in the Digital Age: Technologies, Data and Psychosocial Life
1st Edition
By Darren Ellis, Ian Tucker
October 09, 2020
Emotion in the Digital Age examines how emotion is understood, researched and experienced in relation to practices of digitisation and datafication said to constitute a digital age. The overarching concern of the book is with how emotion operates in, through, and with digital technologies. The...
The Ethics of Ordinary Technology
1st Edition
By Michel Puech
January 24, 2018
Technology is even more than our world, our form of life, our civilization. Technology interacts with the world to change it. Philosophers need to seriously address the fluidity of a smartphone interface, the efficiency of a Dyson vacuum cleaner, or the familiar noise of an antique vacuum cleaner. ...
The Fukushima Effect: A New Geopolitical Terrain
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Hindmarsh, Rebecca Priestley
November 28, 2017
The Fukushima Effect offers a range of scholarly perspectives on the international effect of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown four years out from the disaster. Grounded in the field of science, technology and society (STS) studies, a leading cast of international scholars from the ...
Commodified Bodies: Organ Transplantation and the Organ Trade
1st Edition
By Oliver Decker
November 16, 2016
Commodified Bodies examines the social practice of organ transplantation and trafficking and scrutinises the increasingly neoliberal tendencies in the medical system. It analyses phenomena such as the denomination of human body parts as "raw materials" and "commodities," or the arguments used by ...
The Leisure Commons: A Spatial History of Web 2.0
1st Edition
By Payal Arora
August 19, 2016
There is much excitement about Web 2.0 as an unprecedented, novel, community-building space for experiencing, producing, and consuming leisure, particularly through social network sites. What is needed is a perspective that is invested in neither a utopian or dystopian posture but sees historical ...
Biology and Political Science
1st Edition
By Robert Blank, Samuel M. Hines Jnr.
September 08, 2015
This book demonstrates the increasing interest of some social scientists in the theories, research and findings of life sciences in building a more interdisciplinary approach to the study of politics. It discusses the development of biopolitics as an academic perspective within political science, ...
Information Communication Technology and Social Transformation: A Social and Historical Perspective
1st Edition
By Hugh F. Cline
September 08, 2015
This book argues that information communication technologies are not creating new forms of social structure, but rather altering long-standing institutions and amplifying existing trends of social change that have their origins in ancient times. Using a comparative historical perspective, it ...
The Digital Evolution of an American Identity
1st Edition
By C. Waite
May 21, 2015
The Digital Evolution of an American Identity details how the concept of American individualism is challenged by the digital revolution. As digital media alter our print-dominant culture, assumptions regarding the relationship of the individual to the larger community become increasingly ...
Video Surveillance and Social Control in a Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Fredrika Björklund, Ola Svenonius
May 21, 2015
This edited collection reports the results of a comparative study of video surveillance/CCTV in Germany, Poland, and Sweden. It investigates how video surveillance as technologically mediated social control is affected by national characteristics, with a specific concern for recent political ...