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Underlying the current dynamics of technological developments, their divergence or convergence and the abundance of options, promises and risks they contain, is the quest for innovation, the contributors to this volume argue. The seemingly insatiable demand for novelty coincides with the rise of mod...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bijker, Wiebe E. (Contribuidor), Gardey, Delphine (Contribuidor), Hughes, Thomas P. (Contribuidor), Kupper, Patrick (Contribuidor), Nettelbeck, Joachim (Contribuidor), Nowotny, Helga (Contribuidor, Editor ), Pickstone, John V. (Contribuidor), Salomon, Jean-Jacques (Contribuidor), Vogel, Hans Ulrich (Contribuidor), Wajcman, Judy (Contribuidor), Williams, Rosalind (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2006]
Colección:Making Sense of History ; 9
Temas:
Social history > 1945- > Congresses.
Technological innovations > Congresses.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Quest for Innovation and Cultures of Technology
  • Part I ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CULTURE, TECHNOLOGY, AND INNOVATION
  • Chapter 1: Culture and Innovation
  • Chapter 2: The Unintended Consequences of Innovation: Change and Community at MIT
  • Chapter 3: The Vulnerability of Technological Culture
  • Part II: The Gender Bias of Technological Innovations
  • Chapter 4: Culture of Gender, and Culture of Technology: The Gendering of Things in France's Office Spaces between 1890 and 1930
  • Chapter 5: Suspending Gender? Reflecting on Innovations in Cyberspace
  • Part III: Pluralist Histories of Science, Innovation, and War
  • Chapter 6: Innovation, Diverse Knowledges, and the Presumed Singularity of Science
  • Chapter 7: Scientists on the Battlefield: Cultures and Conflicts
  • Part IV: The Adoption of Innovations in Different Cultural Contexts
  • Chapter 8: From Prophecies of the Future to Incarnations of the Past: Cultures of Nuclear Technology
  • Chapter 9: The Mining Industry in Traditional China: Intraand Intercultural Comparisons
  • Epilogue: Interdisciplinarity and the Innovation Process How to Organize Spaces of Translation, or, the Politics of Innovation
  • Contributors
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index

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