Authors: David S., Jr. Bertolotti.
Hardcover, 153 pages
Publisher: Bowling Green State Univ Popular Pr
Publication Date: 1984-09

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Hardcover, 702 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 2001-08-06


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    Some issues addressed in this Working Group III volume are mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions, managing biological carbon reservoirs, geo-engineering, costing methods, and decision-making frameworks....

Authors: S. Aronowitz.
Library Binding, 288 pages
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 1995-12
Edition: 1

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    Technoculture is culture--such is the proposition posited in Technoscience and Cyberculture, arguing that technology's permeation of the cultural landscape has so irrevocably reconstituted this terrain that technology emerges as the dominant discourse in politics, medicine and everyday life.

Technoscience and Cyberculture is a collection of essays by a range of theorists committed to exploring and developing a method of cultural analysis. The problems addressed--and continuously refigured--in this collection of essays concern the ways in which technology and science relate to one another and organize, orient and effect the landscape and inhabitants of contemporary culture. Although these forces are distinguishable in varying degrees--depending on methodolgy applied--they are currently intertwined to such an extent that to critique one is to implicate the others. That is, to critique science is to recognize it as a complex object which is constituted by technology. Other relationships are similarly interconnected.

This collection is guided by several initial propositions. First, any inquiry into the practice and effects of science must involve a consideration of the actual technological systems and objects themselves. Futhermore, an investigation of current social issues--such as unemployment in the global market, violence in American culture, or the Human Genome project--must consider the deployment of various technologies in cultural institutions, whether legal, medical, media-related or religious. Finally, it must be understood that because of its exalted status in society, in the sense that it almost controls what is "true" or "universal," the role of "Big Science" is more than just one cultural practice among others. Science is not just another cultural practice or discourse, nor is technology just another set of objects. It is therefore the task of Cultural Studies and the undertaking of this volume to continuously reconstruct the way we understand technology, technoscience and cyberculture, and the inextricable links between them.

Contributors: Jody Berland, Philip Boyle, John Broughton, Bill Defazio, Manuel Delanda, Samuel Delany, Arthur Kroker, Emily Martin, Dorothy Nelkin, Steven Perella, Andrew Ross, Sharon Traweek, Ralph Trottier, Lebbeus Woods, Bettina Zolkowen....

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Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: CABI
Publication Date: 1999-08-05


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    During the past few decades, characteristics of the countryside traditionally regarded as immutable have begun to change substantially. This book collects a variety of impressions of these changes in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada. It explores the issues of continuity and change associated with the operation of demographic, socio-economic and political processes as they reshape the countryside. An valuable survey for students and researchers in rural studies and geography, the book is also an indispensable guide for policy makers and professionals concerned with the management and planning of rural resources and the countryside....

Authors: Ziauddin Sardar. Jerome Ravetz.
Hardcover, 161 pages
Publisher: NYU Press
Publication Date: 1996-08-01


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The World Wide Web exploded into public consciousness in 1995, a year which saw the coming of age of the Internet. People are communicating, working, shopping, learning, and entertaining themselves, as well as satisfying carnal desires and even finding God through the simple act of connecting their computers to the wide universe of cyberspace.

We are assured, at the same time, that this progress will have profound effects on work, culture, leisure—everything, including the ways in which we interact with each other. Yet just what these effects will be, how power will be distributed, and what recourse will be available to those adversely affected by the new technologies, are issues that have yet to be negotiated. Aside from the occasional panic over cyber-porn, few have considered the wide-ranging effects of our increasing reliance on interactive technologies.

Cyberfutures offers a close examination of issues that will become increasingly important as computers, networks, and technologies occupy crucial roles in our everyday lives. Comprised of essays from a range of occupational and disciplinary perspectives, including those of Vivian Sobchack and Arturo Escobar, this volume makes essential reading for students in cultural and media studies, anthropology, as well as for citizens interested in considering the larger implications of the Information Superhighway.

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Paperback, 269 pages
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: 2007-12-12
Edition: 1

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems, Operations and Management, DSOM 2007, held in San José, CA, USA, in October 2007 in the course of the 3rd International Week on Management of Networks and Services, Manweek 2007.

The 20 revised full papers and 5 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on decentralized and peer-to-peer management, fault detection and diagnosis, performance tuning and dimensioning, problem detection and mitigation, operations and tools, service accounting and auditing, Web services and management.

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Authors: Carla Brooks Johnston.
Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Publication Date: 1998-07-30


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    Fascination with satellite television and Internet technology has become an obsession. People throughout the world watch television and believe what they see and hear--without realizing that pictures are selected and stories are sometimes distorted. Concurrently, the world's elite are drawn to the increasing availability of news on the Internet, effectively widening the gap between those who have and do not have access to the new technologies. This analysis of the worldwide impact of new communications technologies shows how ordinary citizens can protect themselves from media brainwashing. Interviews from across the globe shed light on this dynamic and on the roles of viewers as victims or victors in different situations. This is a book for the media professional; students and scholars in the fields of journalism, communications, political science, international relations, and business; as well as for government officials and concerned citizens who do not want to be controlled by the media....

Authors: P. Ashwin.
Hardcover, 172 pages
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2005-10-21
Edition: 1

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    Changing Higher Education seeks to make to make sense of the many changes that have taken place in learning and teaching in higher education and offers insights into where teaching and learning might be moving in the future.
Acknowledging the vital influence of Lewis Elton, leading researchers in the field examine and reflect on different aspects of changes to teaching. Focusing on five key areas, they:
· Outline changes in higher education and ways of thinking about teaching and learning that have occurred over the last thirty years
· Inspect the development of students' learning in higher education
· Examine the development of learning technologies in higher education
· Consider accreditation and scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education.
· Develop a framework through which to understand and question the future development of learning and teaching in higher education
Changing HigherEducation provides an in-depth analysis of the changes in learning and teaching that have taken place over the last thirty years. It offers staff and educational developers and those studying postgraduate qualifications in learning and teaching higher education an insightful framework through which to understand and question current and future developments in learning and teaching in higher education.
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Authors: R. Kaplinsky.
Paperback, 107 pages
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 1989-12-31
Edition: 1

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Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Elsevier
Publication Date: 1982-06