Technological Visions Hopes and Fears That Shape New Technologies

Name: Technological Visions Hopes and Fears That Shape New Technologies
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ISBN: 9781592132270

ISBN-10: 1592132278

ISBN-13: 9781592132270

Edition: 2004

Authors: Marita Sturken, Douglas Thomas, Sandra Ball-Rokeach

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 5/17/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Introduction : technological visions and the rhetoric of the new




"Spinning" technology : what we are not thinking about when we are thinking about computers




Sow's ears from silk purses : the strange alchemy of technological visionaries




Mediums and media




Mobilities of time and space : technologies of the modern and the postmodern




Man-made futures, man-made pasts




Portable TV : studies in domestic space travels




Science fiction film and the technological imagination




Technological prediction : a promethean problem




The future of prediction




Penguins, predictions, and technological optimism : a skeptic's view




Information superhighways, virtual communities, and digital libraries : information society metaphors as political rhetoric




Rethinking the cyberbody : hackers, viruses, and cultural anxiety




Peaceable kingdoms and new information technologies : prospects for the nation-state




Somewhere there's a place for us : sexual minorities and the internet




Surfin' the net : children, parental obsolescence, and citizenship




When the virtual isn't enough




Place matters : journeys through global and local spaces




The globalization of everyday life : visions and reality