Framing Technology

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-71815-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Framing Technology uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore some of the key issues in technology today, including virtual reality, gender, health, the environment, regulation, the information society, surveillance and globalisation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Green, Lelia

Guinery, Roger

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Abbreviations and glossary

Introduction - Lelia Green

PART I FRAMING THE INDIVIDUAL

1 Technological genders: technology, culture and class

Judy Wajcman

2 Virtual reality fakes the future: cybersex, lies and computer games

David McKie

3 The technology of television

Albert Moran

4 Anticipating tomorrow: technology and the future

Susan Oliver

5 Till death us do part: technology and health

David More and Elizabeth More

PART II FRAMING THE COMMUNAL

6 Regulating technology

Len Palmer

7 Australia's information society: clever enough?

Trevor Barr

8 Universal suffrage? Technology and democracy

Julianne Schultz

9 Dataveillance: delivering 1984

Roger Clarke

10 Electronic neighbourhoods: communicating power in computer-based networks

Lynda Davies and Wayne Harvey

PART III FRAMING THE GLOBAL

11 The multilocals: transnationals and communications technology

Dick Bryan

12 Missing the pos

Über Autor(innen)

Lelia Green lectures in Media Studies at Edith Cowan University. She and Roger Guinery are the principals of a communications consultancy.