Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

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11. Science Images and Popular Images of the Sciences

    Edited by Peter Weingart, Bernd Huppauf

    Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

    What is a popular image of science and where does it come from? Little is known about the formation of science images and their transformation into popular images of science. In this anthology, contributions from two areas of expertise: image theory and history and the sociology of the sciences,...

    Published June 19th 2012 by Routledge
12. Internet and Surveillance

    The Challenges of Web 2.0 and Social Media

    Edited by Christian Fuchs, Kees Boersma, Anders Albrechtslund, Marisol Sandoval

    Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

    The Internet has been transformed in the past years from a system primarily oriented on information provision into a medium for communication and community-building. The notion of “Web 2.0”, social software, and social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace have emerged in this...

    Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
13. The Good Life in a Technological Age

    Edited by Philip Brey, Adam Briggle, Edward Spence

    Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

    Modern technology has changed the way we live, work, play, communicate, fight, love, and die. Yet few works have systematically explored these changes in light of their implications for individual and social welfare. How can we conceptualize and evaluate the influence of technology on human...

    Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
14. The Culture of Science

    How the Public Relates to Science Across the Globe

    Edited by Martin W. Bauer, Rajesh Shukla, Nick Allum

    Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

    This book offers the first comparative account of the changes and stabilities of public perceptions of science within the US, France, China, Japan, and across Europe over the past few decades. The contributors address the influence of cultural factors; the question of science and religion and its...

    Published September 22nd 2011 by Routledge
15. The Politics of Bioethics

    By Alan Petersen

    Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

    Recent rapid advances in the biosciences have led to considerable debate about the social, ethical, and legal implications of research and its applications. The mapping of the human genome, advances in cloning techniques, the harvesting of embryonic stem cells for research, increasing use of...

    Published December 20th 2010 by Routledge
16. Biomedicine as Culture

    Instrumental Practices, Technoscientific Knowledge, and New Modes of Life

    Edited by Regula Valérie Burri, Joseph Dumit

    Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

    This volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on contemporary biomedicine as a cultural practice. It brings together leading scholars from cultural anthropology, sociology, history, and science studies to conduct a critical dialogue on the culture(s) of biomedical practice, discussing its...

    Published June 3rd 2010 by Routledge
17. Journalism, Science and Society

    Science Communication between News and Public Relations

    Edited by Martin W. Bauer, Massimiano Bucchi

    Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

    Analyzing the role of journalists in science communication, this book presents a perspective on how this is going to evolve in the twenty-first century. The book takes three distinct perspectives on this interesting subject. Firstly, science journalists reflect on their ‘operating rules’ (...

    Published March 17th 2010 by Routledge
18. Technoculture and Critical Theory

    In the Service of the Machine?

    By Simon Cooper

    Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

    The author explores the work of major thinkers and cultural movements that have grappled with the complex relationship between technology, politics and culture. Subjects such as the Internet, cloning, warfare, fascism and Virtual Reality are placed within a broad theoretical context which explores...

    Published July 31st 2002 by Routledge
19. Biology and Political Science

    By Robert Blank, Samuel M. Hines Jnr.

    Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

    This book demonstrates the increasing interest of some social scientists in the theories, research and findings of life sciences in building a more interdisciplinary approach to the study of politics. It discusses the development of biopolitics as an academic perspective within political science,...

    Published July 25th 2001 by Routledge
20. Transnational Environmental Policy

    Reconstructing Ozone

    By Reiner Grundmann

    Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

    Transnational Environmental Policy analyses a surprising success story in the field of international environmental policy making: the threat to the ozone layer posed by industrial chemicals, and how it has been averted. The book also raises the more general question about the problem-solving...

    Published March 14th 2001 by Routledge