Impact of science and technology on society

An argument for retaining the notion of personal property in the products we “buy” in the digital marketplace.

Perspectives on the varied challenges posed by big data for health, science, law, commerce, and politics.

The first digital turn in architecture changed our ways of making; the second changes our ways of thinking.

How humans and technology evolve together in a creative partnership.

The free and open source software movement, from its origins in hacker culture, through the development of GNU and Linux, to its commercial use today.

Leading scholars chart the future of studies on technology and journalism in the digital age.

A short, informal account of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data.

Perspectives from philosophy, psychology religious studies, economics, and law on the possible future of robot-human sexual relationships.

The relationship of texts and maps, and the mappability of literature, examined from Homer to Houellebecq.

The relationship between infrastructure governance and the ways we read and represent waste systems, examined through three waste tracking and participatory sensing projects.

An examination of the uses of data within a changing knowledge infrastructure, offering analysis and case studies from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

An account of technology in Africa from an African perspective, examining hunting in Zimbabwe as an example of an innovative mobile workspace.

Investigations of how the global Cold War shaped national scientific and technological practices in fields from biomedicine to rocket science.

How disruptions and discontinuities caused by the introduction of new technologies often reveal aspects of practice not previously observed.

An examination of digitality not simply as a technical substrate but also as the logical basis for reshaped concepts of labor, subjectivity, and collectivity.

How and why branded bottles of water have insinuated themselves into our daily lives, and what the implications are for safe urban water supplies.

What happens when people turn their everyday experience into data: an introduction to the essential ideas and key challenges of self-tracking.

What it means when media moves from the new to the habitual—when our bodies become archives of supposedly obsolescent media, streaming, updating, sharing, saving.

How philosophers and theorists can find new models for the creation, publication, and dissemination of knowledge, challenging the received ideas of originality, authorship, and the book.

The evolution of a set of fields—including operations research and systems analysis—intended to improve policymaking and explore the nature of rational decision-making.

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

How engineers and agricultural scientists became key actors inFranco''s regime and Spain''s forced modernization.

Analysis and case studies explore the concept of vulnerability, offering a novel and broader approach to understanding the risks and benefits of science and technology.

A cultural theory of the interface as a relation that is both ubiquitous and elusive, drawing on disciplines from cultural theory to architecture.

Explorations of design, use, and reuse of information technology in diverse historical and cultural contexts.

A study of science and technology practices that shows how even emergent aspects of research and development remain entangled with established hierarchies.

The rise and fall of the ringtone industry and its effect on mobile entertainment, music, television, film, and politics.

An exploration of the diverse experiments in digital futures as they advance far from the celebrated centers of technological innovation and entrepreneurship.

An examination of a decade and a half of political controversy, ethical debate, and scientific progress in stem cell research.

An examination of emerging information infrastructures that are intended to increase accountability and effectiveness in partnerships for development aid.

An examination of the Pirate political movement in Europe analyzes its advocacy for free expression and the preservation of the Internet as a commons.

The mobile app as technique and imaginary tool, offering a shortcut to instantaneous connection and entertainment.

On rediscovering surroundings when information goes everywhere.

A roboticist imagines life with robots that sell us products, drive our cars, even allow us to assume new physical form, and more.

An exploration of why we play video games despite the fact that we are almost certain to feel unhappy when we fail at them.

An examination of how the mobile phone has become part of the fabric of society—as did such earlier technologies as the clock and the car.

An account of conflicts within engineering in the 1960s that helped shape our dominant contemporary understanding of technological change as the driver of history.

An examination of software practice in Brazil that reveals both the globalization and the localization of software development.

The evolution of activism against the expansion of copyright in the digital domain, with case studies of resistance including eBook and iTunes hacks.

Why we don''t really want simplicity, and how we can learn to live with complexity.

An anniversary edition of an influential book that introduced a groundbreaking approach to the study of science, technology, and society.

A media guru shows us how to use social media intelligently, humanely, and, above all, mindfully.

An account of how young people in Ghana''s capital city adopt and adapt digital technology in the margins of the global economy.

How social networks, the personalized Internet, and always-on mobile connectivity are transforming—and expanding—social life.

A provocative analysis of what it means to be human in an era of incomprehensible technological complexity and change.

Memoir, clinical writings, and ethnography inform new perspectives on the experience of technology; personal stories illuminate how technology enters the inner life.

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

Why we complain about communication overload even as we seek new ways to communicate.

Behind our computer screens we are all cyborgs: through fantasy we can understand our involvement in virtual worlds.