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Exploring Technology and Social Space

Author : John Macgregor Wise
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0761904220
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Technology and Social Space written by John Macgregor Wise and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1997-09-03 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the fundamental assumptions that we hold about the role of technology in our lives, Technology and Social Space describes the possibilities and limitations of human agency within the new wired world. In a patient and thoughtful style, author J. Macgregor Wise elaborates a critical, philosophical, and epistemological framework from which to better understand our relations to technology and social space. The book argues that most treatments of technology and society arise from a modernist episteme (or set of assumptions) that radically separates humans from technologies, focusing on questions of determination and identity. In an attempt to provide a clearer view of technology and social space, the book explores alternative perspectives centered on notions of agency. Working from within these alternative epistemes, the book turns its attention to the burgeoning technological assemblage of communication and information characterized by the Internet and cyberspace. Technology and Social Space draws on the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari and the actor-network sociology of Bruno Latour, and brings together diverse examples from cyborg films, television, museums, cyberspace, and debates over a New World Information and Communication Order. Ultimately, the book describes the possibilities and limitation of human agency within the new wired world. This groundbreaking volume will be of interest to professionals and academics in popular culture, media studies, mass communication, and sociology.

Electronic Elsewheres

Author : Chris Berry
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816647364
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Electronic Elsewheres written by Chris Berry and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some chapters were previously published.

Exploration of Space, Technology, and Spatiality: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Author : Turner, Phil
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1605660213
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Exploration of Space, Technology, and Spatiality: Interdisciplinary Perspectives written by Turner, Phil and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For researchers and scholars working at the intersection of physical, social, and technological space, this book provides critical research from leading experts in the space technology domain"--Provided by the publisher.

Bourdieu and Social Space

Author : Deborah Reed-Danahay
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789203546
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Bourdieu and Social Space written by Deborah Reed-Danahay and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu’s relevance for studies of spatiality and mobility has received less attention than other aspects of his work. Here, Deborah Reed-Danahay argues that the concept of social space, central to Bourdieu’s ideas, addresses the structured inequalities that prevail in spatial choices and practices. She provides an ethnographically informed interpretation of social space that demonstrates its potential for new directions in studies of mobility, immobility, and emplacement. This book traces the links between habitus and social space across the span of Bourdieu’s writings, and places his work in dialogue with historical and contemporary approaches to mobility.

Technospaces

Author : Sally Munt
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826450043
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Technospaces written by Sally Munt and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-06-20 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science and technology have had a profound effect on the way humans perceive space and time. In this book, an international team of authors explore themes of depth and surface, of real and conceptual space and of human/machine interaction. The collection is organized around the concept of Technospace--the temporal realm where technology meets human practice. In exploring this intersection the contributors initiate debate on a number of important conceptual questions: Is there a clear distinction between the real spaces of the body or the city, and the conceptual space of virtual reality?How are real and metaphorical spaces of electronic cultures quantified and regulated? Is there an ethics of technospace?Historically, the reception of new technologies has been invested with romantic idealism on the one hand and panic on the other. The authors argue that in order for utopian dreams to be tempered by ethical, humanistic needs, we have an urgent need to reveal, reflect upon and evaluate technospace and our relationship to it.

Reconnecting Culture, Technology and Nature

Author : Mike Michael
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134635214
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Reconnecting Culture, Technology and Nature written by Mike Michael and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exciting new book, Mike Michael uses case studies of mundane technologies such as the walking boot, the car and the TV remote control to question some of the fundamental dichotomies through which we make sense of the world. Drawing on the insights of Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway and Michel Serres, the author elaborates an innovative methodology through which new hybrid objects of study are creatively constructed, tracing the ways in which the cultural, the natural and the technological interweave in the production of order and disorder. This book critically engages with and draws connections between a wide range of literature including those concerned with the environment, consumption and the body.

An Introduction to Cybercultures

Author : David Bell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113454099X
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Cybercultures written by David Bell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-07 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Introduction to Cybercultures provides an accessible guide to the major forms, practices and meanings of this rapidly-growing field. From the evolution of hardware and software to the emergence of cyberpunk film and fiction, David Bell introduces readers to the key aspects of cyberculture, including email, the internet, digital imaging technologies, computer games and digital special effects. Each chapter contains `hot links' to key articles in its companion volume, The Cybercultures Reader, suggestions for further reading, and details of relevant websites. Individual chapters examine: · Cybercultures: an introduction · Storying cyberspace · Cultural Studies in cyberspace · Community and cyberculture · Identities in cyberculture · Bodies in cyberculture · Cybersubcultures · Researching cybercultures

Culture + Technology

Author : Jennifer Daryl Slack
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820450070
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Culture + Technology written by Jennifer Daryl Slack and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Culture + Technology is an essential guide to the fascinating history of these debates, and offers new perspectives that give readers the tools they need to make informed decisions about the role of technology in our lives. In clear and compelling language, Slack and Wise untangle and expose the cultural assumptions that underlie our thinking about technology, stories so deeply held we often don't recognize their influence. The book considers the perceived inevitability of technological advance and our myths about progress. It also looks at sources of resistance to these stories from the Luddites of the 19th century to the Unabomber in our own time. Slack and Wise help readers sift through the confusions about culture and technology that arise in their own everyday lives."--BOOK JACKET.

Virtual Publics

Author : Beth E. Kolko
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231118262
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book Virtual Publics written by Beth E. Kolko and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of interdisciplinary essays that examine how the internet has affected conceptions of community and public life.

Digital Disability

Author : Gerard Goggin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742518445
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book Digital Disability written by Gerard Goggin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Media representation of and for the disabled has been recharged in recent years with the expansion of new media worldwide. Interactive digital communications -- such as the Interact, new varieties of voice and text telephones, and digital broadcasting -- have created a need for a more innovative understanding of new media and disability issues. This engaging analysis offers a global perspective on how people with disabilities are represented as users, consumers, viewers, or listeners of new media, by policymakers, corporations, programmers, and the disabled themselves.

Social Work

Author : Jean A Pardeck
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000156737
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Social Work written by Jean A Pardeck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover why social work must be restructured if it is to remain viable! Social Work: Seeking Relevancy in the Twenty-First Century provides you with a critical examination of the major issues that social work education and practice must confront if social work is to remain as a mainline profession. The book explores issues that are not normally covered in social work literature, such as the challenge of reconstructing the social work profession, the use of technology in social work, and the tension surrounding various social work education curriculums. You will benefit from this thorough discussion of the many problems that the social work profession is facing: a lack of scholarly research, inadequate educational programs, and the use of hypertechnology to educate social work students. Social Work: Seeking Relevancy in the Twenty-First Century examines the epistemological, theoretical, socio/technical, and practice directions that social work has branched into. You'll discover that today's central direction for social work is generated from liberal, postmodern, and increasingly feminist ideological perspectives. In a field where conceptual and theoretical input rarely allow for intellectual diversity, this volume demonstrates that several views are best for inquiry and exploration in social work. Issues discussed include: examining real or unreal social work values by separating them from beliefs, preferences, norms, attitudes, and opinions creating social work course outlines that incorporate practices developed around the globe, allowing for more conceptual and theoretical growth within the field realizing the tremendous difference between communication in the instrumental sense via technology, and in the affective, soul-oriented sense via personal interaction investigating the negative effects of communicating with hypertechnology (modems, e-mail) in the social work profession realizing the need for a greater quantity and quality of social work research to progress further in the field Social Work: Seeking Relevancy in the Twenty-First Century invites you to reinvent social work for today's post-industrial and post-modern era. You will discover a series of challenges that social work must meet and overcome if it is to move into the new century as a relevant and viable profession. You will explore solutions such as increasing scholarship and research among social workers, and decreasing the use of technology (for example, classes held via the Internet) in social work education programs in order to increase the quality of the social work profession.

North of Empire

Author : Jody Berland
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822388669
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book North of Empire written by Jody Berland and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-07 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly two decades, Jody Berland has been a leading voice in cultural studies and the field of communications. In North of Empire, she brings together and reflects on ten of her pioneering essays. Demonstrating the importance of space to understanding culture, Berland investigates how media technologies have shaped locality, territory, landscape, boundary, nature, music, and time. Her analysis begins with the media landscape of Canada, a country that offers a unique perspective for apprehending the power of media technologies to shape subjectivities and everyday lives, and to render territorial borders both more and less meaningful. Canada is a settler nation and world power often dwarfed by the U.S. cultural juggernaut. It possesses a voluminous archive of inquiry on culture, politics, and the technologies of space. Berland revisits this tradition in the context of a rich interdisciplinary study of contemporary media culture. Berland explores how understandings of space and time, empire and margin, embodiment and technology, and nature and culture are shaped by broadly conceived communications technologies including pianos, radio, television, the Web, and satellite imaging. Along the way, she provides a useful overview of the assumptions driving communications research on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border, and she highlights the distinctive contributions of the Canadian communication theorists Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan. Berland argues that electronic mediation is central to the construction of social space and therefore to anti-imperialist critique. She illuminates crucial links between how space is traversed, how it is narrated, and how it is used. Making an important contribution to scholarship on globalization, Berland calls for more sophisticated accounts of media and cultural technologies and their complex “geographies of influence.”

Telling Tales on Technology

Author : Neil Selwyn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042976832X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Telling Tales on Technology written by Neil Selwyn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2002.The educational potential of information and communications technology (ICT) has been speculated upon endlessly - from the early days of the micro-computer to the present excitement surrounding virtual education and e-learning . Now, with current multi-billion dollar initiatives such as the UK National Grid for Learning and US Technology Literacy Challenge, ICT is an unavoidable element of education. Yet despite a plethora of promises and policies, new technologies have failed to be wholly integrated into education. Telling Tales on Technology critically examines the role of ICT in education and explores how, given its assumed importance, new technology remains a peripheral part of much of what goes on in education. Based on in-depth qualitative studies, the book takes a comprehensive yet questioning look over the past two decades of educational technology policy and practice and positions it within the wider social, cultural, political and economic notion of the information age . Drawing on interviews with students, teachers, politicians and business people as well as comprehensive documentary analysis, this is an essential text for anyone thinking seriously about the use of ICT in education.

Communication Matters

Author : Jeremy Packer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136589600
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Communication Matters written by Jeremy Packer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communication has often been understood as a realm of immaterial, insubstantial phenomena—images, messages, thoughts, languages, cultures, and ideologies—mediating our embodied experience of the concrete world. Communication Matters challenges this view, assembling leading scholars in the fields of Communication, Rhetoric, and English to focus on the materiality of communication. Building on the work of materialist theorists such as Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Friedrich Kittler, and Henri Lefebvre, the essays collected here examine the materiality of discourse itself and the constitutive force of communication in the production of the real. Communication Matters presents original work that rethinks communication as material and situates materialist approaches to communication within the broader "materiality turn" emerging in the humanities and social sciences. This collection will be of interest to researchers and postgraduate students in Media, Communication Studies, and Rhetoric. The book includes images of the digital media installations of Francesca Talenti, Professor, Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

ECEL2006-5th European Conference on e-Learning

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Publisher : Academic Conferences Limited
ISBN 13 : 1905305125
Total Pages : 617 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book ECEL2006-5th European Conference on e-Learning written by and published by Academic Conferences Limited. This book was released on with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Adult Learning in the Digital Age

Author : Neil Selwyn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134248962
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Adult Learning in the Digital Age written by Neil Selwyn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-03-22 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging book sheds light on the ways in which adults in the twenty-first century interact with technology in different learning environments. Based on one of the first large-scale academic research projects in this area, the authors present their findings and offer practical recommendations for the use of new technology in a learning society. They invite debate on: why ICTs are believed to be capable of affecting positive change in adult learning the drawbacks and limits of ICT in adult education what makes a lifelong learner the wider social, economic, cultural and political realities of the information age and the learning society. Adult Learning addresses key questions and provides a sound empirical foundation to the existing debate, highlighting the complex realities of the learning society and e-learning rhetoric. It tells the story of those who are excluded from the learning society, and offers a set of strong recommendations for practitioners, policy-makers, and politicians, as well as researchers and students.

The Resurgence of the State

Author : Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351882945
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book The Resurgence of the State written by Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transnational architecture of global information networks has made territorial borders less significant. Boundaries between spaces are becoming blurred in the evolving information age. But do information and communication technologies networks really lead to a weakening of the nation-state? This volume revisits the 'retreat of the state' thesis and tests its validity in the 21st century. It considers cyberspace as a matter of collective and policy choice, prone to usurpation by governance structures. Governments around the world are already reacting to the information revolution and trying to re-establish their leading role in creating governance regimes for the Information Age. The volume comes at a historical moment when new political dynamics are detected and new conceptual models are sought to categorize the attempts to deal with global/transnational issues. It will intrigue the reader with expert-level analysis of the role of the state in the emerging global/supranational governance structures by providing historical context and conceptualizing trends and social dynamics.