Technological visions : the hopes and fears that shape new technologies / edited by Marita Sturken, Douglas Thomas, and Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach.
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
2004.
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| Physical Description: | viii, 371 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction : technological visions and the rhetoric of the new / Marita Sturken and Douglas Thomas
- "Spinning" technology : what we are not thinking about when we are thinking about computers / Sherry Turkle
- Sow's ears from silk purses : the strange alchemy of technological visionaries / Langdon Winner
- Mediums and media / Jeffrey Sconce
- Mobilities of time and space : technologies of the modern and the postmodern / Marita Sturken
- Man-made futures, man-made pasts / Asa Briggs
- Portable TV : studies in domestic space travels / Lynn Spigel
- Science fiction film and the technological imagination / Vivian Sobchack
- Technological prediction : a Promethean problem / David E. Nye
- The future of prediction / John Perry Barlow
- Penguins, predictions, and technological optimism : a skeptic's view / Wendy M. Grossman
- Information superhighways, virtual communities, and digital libraries : information society metaphors as political rhetoric / Peter Lyman
- Rethinking the cyberbody : hackers, viruses, and cultural anxiety / Douglas Thomas
- Peaceable kingdoms and new information technologies : prospects for the nation-state / Carolyn Marvin
- Somewhere there's a place for us : sexual minorities and the Internet / Larry Gross
- Surfin' the Net : children, parental obsolescence, and citizenship / Sarah Banet-Wieser
- When the virtual isn't enough / Katie Hafner
- Place matters : journeys through global and local spaces / Richard Chabrán and Romelia Salinas
- The globalization of everyday life : visions and reality / Jennifer L. Gibbs ... [et al.].