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Acting in an Uncertain World

An Essay on Technical Democracy

A call for a new form of democracy in which "hybrid forums" composed of experts and laypeople address such sociotechnical controversies as hazardous waste, genetically modified organisms, and nanotechnology.
Author Michel Callon, Graham Burchell, Pierre Lascoumes, Yannick Barthe
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Pages 298
eISBN 9780262257596
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An Engine, Not a Camera

How Financial Models Shape Markets

A pioneering work in the social studies of finance describes how the emergence of modern finance theory has affected financial markets in fundamental ways—as an engine that shapes them rather than a camera that reproduces their every detail.
Author Donald MacKenzie
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Pages 389
eISBN 9780262252812
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Bioethics in the Age of New Media

An examination of ethical challenges that technology presents to the allegedly sacrosanct idea of the human and a proposal for a new ethics of life rooted in the philosophy of alterity.
Author Joanna Zylinska
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Pages 240
eISBN 9780262257312
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Calculating a Natural World

Scientists, Engineers, and Computers During the Rise of U.S. Cold War Research

How the complex interplay of academic, commercial, and military interests produced an intense period of scientific discovery and technological innovation in computing during the Cold War.
Author Atsushi Akera
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Pages 408
eISBN 9780262254465
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Cold War Kitchen

Americanization, Technology, and European Users

The kitchen as political symbol and material reality in the cold war years.
Author Ruth Oldenziel, Karin Zachmann
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Pages 424
eISBN 9780262151191
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Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture

Media Education for the 21st Century

Shifting the conversation about the "digital divide" from questions of technological access to questions about opportunities for being involved in participatory culture and acquiring the necessary skills.
Author Henry Jenkins
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Pages 142
eISBN 9780262259767
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Control Theory and Systems Biology

A survey of how engineering techniques from control and systems theory can be used to help biologists understand the behavior of cellular systems.
Author Pablo A. Iglesias, Brian P. Ingalls
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Pages 384
eISBN 9780262259712
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Designing Sociable Robots

A blueprint for the design of sociable robots, as well as the story of Kismet, a nascent example.
Author Cynthia L. Breazeal
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Pages 281
eISBN 9780262254113
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Digital Apollo

Human and Machine in Spaceflight

How human pilots and automated systems worked together to achieve the ultimate in flight—the lunar landings of NASA's Apollo program.
Author David A. Mindell
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Pages 456
eISBN 9780262252973
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Digitizing the News

Innovation in Online Newspapers

A study of the development of nonprint publishing by American daily newspapers: how new media emerge by combining existing media structures and practices with new technical capabilities.
Author Pablo Boczkowski
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Pages 255
eISBN 9780262254618
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