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.
The Sociology of Structural Disaster: Beyond Fukushima
1st Edition
By Miwao Matsumoto
May 31, 2023
How and why did credible scientists, engineers, government officials, journalists, and others collectively give rise to a drastic failure to control the threat to the population of the Fukushima disaster? Why was there no effort on the part of inter-organizational networks, well-coordinated in the ...
Innovation in Crisis Management
1st Edition
Edited
By Chiara Fonio, Adam Widera, Tomasz Zwęgliński
February 10, 2023
This book deals with how to measure innovation in crisis management, drawing on data, case studies, and lessons learnt from different European countries. The aim of this book is to tackle innovation in crisis management through lessons learnt and experiences gained from the implementation of mixed...
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...
Blockchain and Web 3.0: Social, Economic, and Technological Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Massimo Ragnedda, Giuseppe Destefanis
March 31, 2021
Blockchain is no longer just about bitcoin or cryptocurrencies in general. Instead, it can be seen as a disruptive, revolutionary technology which will have major impacts on multiple aspects of our lives. The revolutionary power of such technology compares with the revolution sparked by the World ...
Understanding Digital Events: Bergson, Whitehead, and the Experience of the Digital
1st Edition
Edited
By David Kreps
December 18, 2020
This book introduces an events-based approach to understanding digital experience. Focusing on the event-ontologies of Bergson and Whitehead’s process metaphysics, it explores subjective experience and objective reality as unified ‘events’ in the form of concrete slabs of existence. Such slabs are ...
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...
Digitizing Identities: Doing Identity in a Networked World
1st Edition
Edited
By Irma van der Ploeg, Jason Pridmore
August 14, 2020
This book explores contemporary transformations of identities in a digitizing society across a range of domains of modern life. As digital technology and ICTs have come to pervade virtually all aspects of modern societies, the routine registration of personal data has increased exponentially, thus ...
The Globalization of American Infrastructure: The Shipping Container and Freight Transportation
1st Edition
By Matthew Heins
August 14, 2020
This book gives an account of how the U.S. freight transportation system has been impacted and “globalized,” since the 1950s, by the presence of the shipping container. A globally standardized object, the container carries cargo moving in international trade, and it utilizes and fits within the ...
Science, Africa and Europe: Processing Information and Creating Knowledge
1st Edition
Edited
By Martin Lengwiler, Nigel Penn, Patrick Harries
June 30, 2020
Historically, scientists and experts have played a prominent role in shaping the relationship between Europe and Africa. Starting with travel writers and missionary intellectuals in the 17th century, European savants have engaged in the study of nature and society in Africa. Knowledge about realms ...
Transnational Environmental Policy: Reconstructing Ozone
1st Edition
By Reiner Grundmann
June 30, 2020
Transnational Environmental Policy analyses a surprising success story in the field of international environmental policy making: the threat to the ozone layer posed by industrial chemicals, and how it has been averted. The book also raises the more general question about the problem-solving ...