Technology and Society, 2nd Edition: Building Our Sociotechnical Future
- Length: 600 pages
- Edition: 2
- Language: English
- Publisher: The MIT Press
- Publication Date: 2021-08-24
- ISBN-10: 0262539969
- ISBN-13: 9780262539968
- Sales Rank: #1179200 (See Top 100 Books)
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.
Cover Series Page Title Page Copyright Table of Contents Introduction 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 Index Series List
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