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 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 ...
Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi: Social, Political and Environmental Issues
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Hindmarsh
September 11, 2014
Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi is a timely and groundbreaking account of the disturbing landscape of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown amidst an earthquake and tsunami on Japan’s northeast coastline on March 11, 2011. It provides riveting insights into the social and ...
Transparency and Surveillance as Sociotechnical Accountability: A House of Mirrors
1st Edition
Edited
By Deborah G. Johnson, Priscilla M. Regan
July 14, 2014
Surveillance and transparency are both significant and increasingly pervasive activities in neoliberal societies. Surveillance is taken up as a means to achieving security and efficiency; transparency is seen as a mechanism for ensuring compliance or promoting informed consumerism and informed ...
The Social Life of Nanotechnology
1st Edition
Edited
By Barbara Herr Harthorn, John W. Mohr
June 02, 2014
This book addresses the interconnections and tensions between technological development, the social benefits and risks of new technology, and the changing political economy of a global world system as they apply to the emerging field of nanotechnologies. The basic premise, developed throughout the ...
Critique, Social Media and the Information Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Christian Fuchs, Marisol Sandoval
April 17, 2014
In times of global capitalist crisis we are witnessing a return of critique in the form of a surging interest in critical theories (such as the critical political economy of Karl Marx) and social rebellions as a reaction to the commodification and instrumentalization of everything. On one hand, ...
The Good Life in a Technological Age
1st Edition
Edited
By Philip Brey, Adam Briggle, Edward Spence
April 09, 2014
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 ...
Animals, Disease and Human Society: Human-animal Relations and the Rise of Veterinary Medicine
1st Edition
By Joanna Swabe
April 02, 2014
This book explores the history and nature of our dependency on other animals and the implications of this for human and animal health. Writing from an historical and sociological perspective, Joanna Swabe's work discusses such issues as:* animal domestication* the consequences of human exploitation...
Technoculture and Critical Theory: In the Service of the Machine?
1st Edition
By Simon Cooper
March 31, 2014
The author explores the work of major thinkers and cultural movements that have grappled with the complex relationship between technology, politics and culture. Subjects such as the Internet, cloning, warfare, fascism and Virtual Reality are placed within a broad theoretical context which explores ...
Science and the Media: Alternative Routes to Scientific Communications
1st Edition
By Massimiano Bucchi
March 20, 2014
In the days of global warming and BSE, science is increasingly a public issue. This book provides a theoretical framework which allows us to understand why and how scientists address the general public. The author develops the argument that turning to the public is not simply a response to ...
Internet and Emotions
1st Edition
Edited
By Tova Benski, Eran Fisher
October 29, 2013
Nothing seems more far removed from the visceral, bodily experience of emotions than the cold, rational technology of the Internet. But as this collection shows, the internet and emotions intersect in interesting and surprising ways. Internet and Emotions is the fruit of an interdisciplinary ...
The Culture of Science: How the Public Relates to Science Across the Globe
1st Edition
Edited
By Martin W. Bauer, Rajesh Shukla, Nick Allum
June 05, 2013
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 ...