Technologies and Societies: The Shaping of People and Things by Ron Westrum
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Technologies and Societies
Summary
This text provides students with a realistic sense of the complexity of technology, of the vulnerability of those who must use and manage it, and of how society and technology can work together more effectively.
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Table of Contents
Part One: Introduction. The shaping of people and things. Part Two: Theory. Marx's theory of technology. the Ogburn generation. Recent theoretical approaches. Part Three: Originators & managers of technology. Inventors & inventions. Invention as a social process. the roles of designers in technology. Innovation: invention & institutions. The sponsership of technology. How sponsers evolve. Part Four: Users of technology. The technology/User interface. Adapting & tinkering. Technocological accidents. The distancing effects of technology. Part Five: Monitoring technology: shaping the present & the future. Social control of technologies. Technology assessment. Foresight & social intelligence. Index.
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CIN0534136443G
9780534136444
0534136443
Technologies and Societies: The Shaping of People and Things by Ron Westrum
Used - Good
Paperback
Cengage Learning, Inc
19981001
394
N/A
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