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Author(s): Deborah G. Johnson, Jameson M. Wetmore

ISBN(s): 9780262539968, 0262539969

Edition: 2

File Details: EPUB, 30.00 MB

Year: 2021

Language: English

SKU: EB-37082724 Categories: Politics & Philosophy - Sociology, Society Tags: 0262361825, 9780262361828, Deborah G. Johnson, Jameson M. Wetmore, Society Building, Technology

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ISBN 13:9780262361828
Author: Deborah G. Johnson, Jameson M. Wetmore

Technology and Society, second edition
Building Our Sociotechnical Future

Writings by thinkers ranging from Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain to Bruno Latour that focus on the interconnections of technology, society, and values. Technological change does not happen in a vacuum; decisions about which technologies to develop, fund, market, and use engage ideas about values as well as calculations of costs and benefits. In order to influence the development of technology for the better, we must first understand how technology and society are inextricably bound together. These writings–by thinkers ranging from Bruno Latour to Francis Fukuyama–help us do just that, examining how people shape technology and how technology shapes people. This second edition updates the original significantly, offering twenty-one new essays along with fifteen from the first edition. The book first presents visions of the future that range from technological utopias to cautionary tales and then introduces several major STS theories. It examines human and social values and how they are embedded in technological choices and explores the interesting and subtle complexities of the technology-society relationship. Remedying a gap in earlier theorizing in the field, many of the texts illustrate how race and gender are intertwined with technology. Finally, the book offers a set of readings that focus on the sociotechnical challenges we face today, treating topics that include cybersecurity, geoengineering, and the myth of neutral technology.

Table contents:

I. Visions of a Technological Future
1. The Machine Stops
2. The Prolongation of Life
3. Reproductive Ectogenesis: The Third Era of Human Reproduction and Some Moral Consequences
4. Eight Great Technologies
5. Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us
6. Sultana’s Dream
II. The Relationship between Technology and Society
7. Do Machines Make History?
8. The Social Construction of Facts and Artifacts
9. Technological Momentum
10. Where Are the Missing Masses? The Sociology of a Few Mundane Artifacts
11. Gender: The Missing Factor in STS
III. Technology and Values
12. Do Artifacts Have Politics?
13. Control: Human and Nonhuman Robots
14. White
15. Manufacturing Gender in Commercial and Military Cockpit Design
16. Amish Technology: Reinforcing Values and Building Community
17. Preserving Traditional Knowledge: Initiatives in India
18. Equity in Forecasting Climate: Can Science Save the World’s Poor?
IV. The Complex Nature of Sociotechnical Systems
19. Sociotechnical Complexity: Redesigning a Shielding Wall
20. Fukushima and the Inevitability of Accidents
21. Nature as Infrastructure: Making and Managing the Panama Canal Watershed
22. Conceptions of Control and IT Artefacts: An Institutional Account of the Amazon Rainforest Monitoring System
23. Franken-Algorithms: The Deadly Consequences of Unpredictable Code
24. The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food
25. The Gender Binary Will Not Be Deprogrammed: Ten Years of Coding Gender on Facebook
26. Audible Citizenship and Audiomobility: Race, Technology, and CB Radio
27. Drones for the Good: Technological Innovations, Social Movements, and the State
V. Twenty-First-Century Challenges and Strategies
28. Engineering the Brain: Ethical Issues and the Introduction of Neural Devices
29. Cyber (In)security: Threat Assessment in the Cyber Domain
30. Geoengineering as Collective Experimentation
31. Seven Principles for Equitable Adaptation
32. Socio-Energy Systems Design: A Policy Framework for Energy Transitions
33. Debugging Bias: Busting the Myth of Neutral Technology
34. When Winning Is Losing: Why the Nation That Invented the Computer Lost Its Lead
35. Shaping Technology for the “Good Life”: The Technological Imperative versus the Social Imperative
36. Not Just One Future