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Artificial Knowing
Taylor and Francis 1998; US$ 45.95Artificial Knowing challenges the masculine slant in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) view of the world. Alison Adam admirably fills the large gap in science and technology studies by showing us that gender bias is inscribed in AI-based computer systems. Her treatment of feminist epistemology, focusing on the ideas of the knowing subject, the nature... more...
Virtual Gender
Taylor and Francis 2001; US$ 65.95As yet there has been relatively little published on women's activities in relation to new digital technologies. Virtual Gender brings together theoretical perspectives from feminist theory, the sociology of technology and gender studies with well designed empirical studies to throw new light on the impact of ICTs on contemporary social life. A line-up... more...
Technology Policy
De Gruyter 1994; US$ 154.00Technology Policy: Towards an Integration of Social and Ecological Concerns. more...
Living the Information Society in Asia
International Development Research Centre 2009; US$ 30.00Asian societies are in a period of transition, as people are learn to live with new information and communication technologies (ICTs). Whether at work, at home, at school, or at large, ICTs are having an impact on day-to-day lives. How can mobile phones help to forge relationships within families that have been separated my migration? How do camera... more...
Information, Power, and Politics
Lexington Books 2010; US$ 64.99With the spread of information and communication technologies (ICT)s comes the potential for new social and economic equalities. However, as Information, Power, and Politics: Technological and Institutional Mediations demonstrates, these technologies can also act as an impetus for democratizing information and knowledge. more...
Global Sex
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 17.50Global Sex is the first major work to take on the globalization of sexuality, examining the ways in which desire and pleasure—as well as ideas about gender, political power, and public health—are framed, shaped, or commodified by a global economy in which more and more cultures move into ever-closer contact. more...
Electronic Elections
Princeton University Press 2010; US$ 22.95Since the 2000 presidential election, the United States has been embroiled in debates about electronic voting. Critics say the new technologies invite tampering and fraud. Advocates say they enhance the accuracy of vote counts and make casting ballots easier--and ultimately foster greater political participation. Electronic Elections cuts through... more...
Technology and Psychological Well-being
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 34.00Considers the impact of technology on our lives and ways to ensure technology enhances, rather than damages, our psychological well-being. more...
Makers
Random House 2012; US$ 12.00If a country wants to remain economically vibrant, it needs to manufacture things. In recent years, however, many nations have become obsessed with making money out of selling services, leaving the real business of manufacturing to others. Makers is about how all that is being reversed. Over the past ten years, the internet has democratised... more...
I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did
Free Press 2012; US$ 26.07Social networks, the defining cultural movement of our time, offer many freedoms. But as we work and shop and date over the Web, we are opening ourselves up to intrusive privacy violations by employers, the police, and aggressive data collection companies that sell our information to any and all takers. Through groundbreaking research, Andrews reveals... more...









