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.
Global Public Health Vigilance: Creating a World on Alert
1st Edition
By Lorna Weir, Eric Mykhalovskiy
September 05, 2012
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, ...
Rethinking Disability: Bodies, Senses, and Things
1st Edition
By Michael Schillmeier
September 05, 2012
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 ...
Wired and Mobilizing: Social Movements, New Technology, and Electoral Politics
1st Edition
By Victoria Carty
September 05, 2012
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 ...
Wind Power and Power Politics: International Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Strachan, David Lal, David Toke
July 27, 2012
The aim of the book is to analyse the factors that have influenced wind power outcomes in a range of countries which have featured significant wind power deployment programmes. A central theme is the relationship between patterns of ownership and the outcomes. These flow from different social ...
Science Images and Popular Images of the Sciences
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Weingart, Bernd Huppauf
June 20, 2012
What is a popular image of science and where does it come from? Little is known about the formation of science images and their transformation into popular images of science. In this anthology, contributions from two areas of expertise: image theory and history and the sociology of the sciences, ...
Internet and Surveillance: The Challenges of Web 2.0 and Social Media
1st Edition
Edited
By Christian Fuchs, Kees Boersma, Anders Albrechtslund, Marisol Sandoval
April 20, 2012
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 ...
Biomedicine as Culture: Instrumental Practices, Technoscientific Knowledge, and New Modes of Life
1st Edition
Edited
By Regula Valérie Burri, Joseph Dumit
June 04, 2010
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 ...
Journalism, Science and Society: Science Communication between News and Public Relations
1st Edition
Edited
By Martin W. Bauer, Massimiano Bucchi
March 18, 2010
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’ (...