Technological visions
Subtitle: the hopes and fears that shape new technologies
By: edited by Marita Sturken, Douglas Thomas, and Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach.
Contributors: Sturken, Marita, 1957-; Thomas, Douglas, 1966-; Ball-Rokeach, Sandra.
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9781592132263; 9781592132270
Subjects: Technology -- Social aspects.; Technology and civilization.; Technological innovations -- History.; Technologie.; Wetenschap.; Sociale aspecten.; Technologie -- Aspect social.; Technologie et civilisation.; Innovations -- Histoire.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : technological visions and the rhetoric of the new / Marita Sturken and Douglas Thomas; title: "Spinning" technology : what we are not thinking about when we are thinking about computers / Sherry Turkle; title: Sow's ears from silk purses : the strange alchemy of technological visionaries / Langdon Winner; title: Mediums and media / Jeffrey Sconce; title: Mobilities of time and space : technologies of the modern and the postmodern / Marita Sturken; title: Man-made futures, man-made pasts / Asa Briggs; title: Portable TV : studies in domestic space travels / Lynn Spigel; title: Science fiction film and the technological imagination / Vivian Sobchack; title: Technological prediction : a Promethean problem / David E. Nye; title: The future of prediction / John Perry Barlow; title: Penguins, predictions, and technological optimism : a skeptic's view / Wendy M. Grossman; title: Information superhighways, virtual communities, and digital libraries : information society metaphors as political rhetoric / Peter Lyman; title: Rethinking the cyberbody : hackers, viruses, and cultural anxiety / Douglas Thomas; title: Peaceable kingdoms and new information technologies : prospects for the nation-state / Carolyn Marvin; title: Somewhere there's a place for us : sexual minorities and the Internet / Larry Gross; title: Surfin' the Net : children, parental obsolescence, and citizenship / Sarah Banet-Wieser; title: When the virtual isn't enough / Katie Hafner; title: Place matters : journeys through global and local spaces / Richard Chabrán and Romelia Salinas; title: The globalization of everyday life : visions and reality / Jennifer L. Gibbs ... [et al.].