Impact of science and technology on society

The recently-coined term digital religion refers to the understanding that contemporary religion is practiced in both online and offline contexts, and these contexts intersect with one another.

An analysis of the overlooked role of the peripheral vanguard in the context of a network theory of collective action.

Although the Information Age is often described as a new era, a cultural leap springing directly from the invention of modern computers, it is simply the latest step in a long cultural process.

**THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER****THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**A sweeping indictment of the West s culture of complacency and a passionate call to wake up to our new reality from the bold thinkers behind tech giant PalantirOur most brilliant engineering minds once collaborated with government to advance world-changing technologies.

A broad, synthetic philosophy of nature focused on human sociality.

Visual pollution is an emerging, multi-dimensional, subjective, and under studied area of manmade environments that has recently received researchers' focus.

Throughout the history of the Western world, science has possessed an extraordinary amount of authority and prestige.

Stories of teen sexting scandals, cyberbullying, and image-based sexual abuse have become commonplace fixtures of the digital age, with many adults struggling to identify ways to monitor young peoples digital engagement.

Why is science so credible?

Explores the rich and varied interactions between nineteenth-century science and the world of opera for the first time.

Ideal for students and practitioners in science, engineering and medicine, this book gives an insight into science''s place in society.

The first book to draw a direct line between the datafication and prediction techniques of past eugenicists and todays often violent and extractive big data regimes.

Since the earliest days of our species, technology and language have evolved in parallel.

In our digital world, data is power.

The first critical examination of death and remembrance in the digital ageand an invitation to imagine Black digital sovereignty in life and death.

This volume unravels the debates on the Participation Age : Instead of perpetuating visions of social all-inclusion or the digital divide , the collection reclaims collectivity as an effect of technological and historical conditions.

Why computer games can be ethical, how players use their ethical values in gameplay, and the implications for game design.

Defends Kuhn''s evolutionary social epistemology and examines new directions in Kuhn''s view on social constructionism and the sociology of science.

The Nature of Selection is a straightforward, self-contained introduction to philosophical and biological problems in evolutionary theory.

A fresh, provocative and engaging treatment of what science really amounts to in society, and of what it can do.

An analysis of the occupational factors that shape the technology choices made by people who perform the same type of work.

The collision of new technologies, changing business strategies, and innovative storytelling that produced a new golden age of TV.

The classic case for why government must support science-with a new essay by physicist and former congressman Rush Holt on what democracy needs from science todayScience, the Endless Frontier is recognized as the landmark argument for the essential role of science in society and government's responsibility to support scientific endeavors.

Other books remind us of what we already knowthat privacy is under great pressure.

What is life?

How the tools of information technology can support environmental sustainability by tackling problems that span broad scales of time, space, and complexity.

Animal experimentation has long been a controversial issue with impassioned arguments on both sides of the debate.

This book examines the implications of new communication technologies in the light of the most recent work in social and cultural theory and argues that new developments in electronic media, such as the Internet and Virtual Reality, justify the designation of a "e;second media age"e;.

Zu wissen, was im Kopf eines anderen vor sich geht, gehört zu den ältesten Sehnsüchten der Menschheit.

Issues including climate variability, water scarcity, animal welfare and declining biodiversity have led to increasing demands on farmers to conduct and communicate their farming practices so as to protect their 'social licence to farm'.

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In the 21st century, reality television and the Internet have fed public interest in ghosts, UFOs, cryptozoology and other unusual phenomena.

How do we challenge the structures of late capitalism if all possible media through which to do do is inescapably capitalist?

Imagine living in 1958, and knowing that the integrated circuit--the microchip--was about to be invented, and would revolutionize the world.

Describes how radio astronomers made a series of remarkable serendipitous discoveries that changed our understanding of the Universe.

An Introduction to Global Media for the Twenty-First Century provides a thorough introduction to the field of global media today.

Open Science is about how we address the profound challenges which now confront humanity: climate, the food crisis, environmental degradation, resource scarcity and disease; through science communication.

An archaeology of innovation is the first monograph-length investigation of innovation and the innovation process from an archaeological perspective.

Most people believe that science arose as a natural end-product of our innate intelligence and curiosity, as an inevitable stage in human intellectual development.

A comprehensive study of William Herschel''s pivotal discoveries, including an extensive biographical section, eight original papers and full notes.

Few developments have had broader consequences for the public sector than the introduction of the Internet and digital technology.

The Internet Revolution in the Sciences and Humanities takes a new look at C.

This book looks at how science investigates the natural world around us.

Digital information drives participation in politics, the economy, and society.

The main aim of this book is to contribute to the relationship between science and religion.

This book investigates the digital transformation of aid as a form of humanitarian extractivism.

This book reveals how embedded beliefs more so than a lack of scientific knowledge and understanding are creating a cognitive bias toward information that coincides with personal beliefs rather than scientific consensus-and that this anti-science bias exists among liberals as well as conservatives.

Privacy law isn''t working.