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Helga Nowotny Cultures of Technology and the Quest for Innovation (Hardback)
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- Book Title
- Cultures of Technology and the Quest for Innovation
- Publication Name
- Cultures of Technology and the Quest for Innovation
- Title
- Cultures of Technology and the Quest for Innovation
- Contributor
- Helga Nowotny (Edited by)
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 1845451163
- EAN
- 9781845451165
- ISBN
- 9781845451165
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, History, Social Science
- Topic
- General, Anthropology / General
- Release Year
- 2006
- Release Date
- 01/02/2006
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 229mm
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Weight
- 17 Oz
- Series
- Making Sense of History
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Width
- 6in
- Number of Pages
- 232 Pages
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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 modern science and the onset of modernity in Western societies. Never before has the Baconian dream been so close to becoming reality: wrapped into a globalizing capitalism that seeks ever expanding markets for new products, artifacts and designs and new processes that lead to gains in efficiency, productivity and profit. However, approaching these developments through a wider historical and cultural perspectives, means to raise questions about the plurality of cultures, the interaction between "hardware" and "software" and about the nature of the interfaces where technology meets with economic, social, legal, historical constraints and opportunities. The authors come to the conclusion that inside a seemingly homogenous package and a seemingly universal quest for innovation many differences remain.
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Berghahn Books, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1845451163
ISBN-13
9781845451165
eBay Product ID (ePID)
47020840
Product Key Features
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
General, Anthropology / General
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Genre
Technology & Engineering, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
232 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
17 Oz
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Series Volume Number
9
Lc Classification Number
Hc79.T4 C85 2006
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"...a book that is fundamental to the understanding of technologically developed societies...Innovation matters. Culture matters. And only an understanding of the links between culture and innovation can help us make sense of the world we are building." Technology and Culture, "...a book that is fundamental to the understanding of technologically developed societies...Innovation matters. Culture matters. And only an understanding of the links between culture and innovation can help us make sense of the world we are building." · Technology and Culture
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Cultures of Technology and the Quest for Innovation
Table of Content
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Quest for Innovation and Cultures of Technology Helga Nowotny PART I: ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CULTURE, TECHNOLOGY, AND INNOVATION Chapter 1. Culture and Innovation Thomas P. Hughes Chapter 2. The Unintended Consequences of Innovation: Change and Community at MIT Rosalind Williams Chapter 3. The Vulnerability of Technological Culture Wiebe E. Bijker 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 Delphine Gardey Chapter 5. Suspending Gender? Reflecting on Innovations in Cyberspace Judy Wajcman PART III: PLURALIST HISTORIES OF SCIENCE, INNOVATION, AND WAR Chapter 6. Innovation, Diverse Knowledges, and the Presumed Singularity of Science John V. Pickstone Chapter 7. Scientists on the Battlefield: Cultures and Conflicts Jean-Jacques Salomon 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 Patrick Kupper Chapter 9. The Mining Industry in Traditional China: Intraand Intercultural Comparisons Hans Ulrich Vogel Epilogue: Interdisciplinarity and the Innovation Process How to Organize Spaces of Translation, or, the Politics of Innovation Joachim Nettelbeck Contributors Select Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2006
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lccn
2005-057026
Dewey Decimal
338/.064
Series
Making Sense of History Ser.
Dewey Edition
22
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