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Culture and Technology: A Primer
Jennifer Daryl Slack
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Description for Culture and Technology: A Primer
Paperback. From mobile phones to surveillance cameras, from fracking to genetically modified food, we live in an age of intense debate about technology's place in our culture. This book is an essential guide and a primer for beginners and a suitable resource for those deeply committed to understanding the new digital culture. Num Pages: 269 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: GTC; JFCD; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 225 x 16. Weight in Grams: 402.
From mobile phones to surveillance cameras, from fracking to genetically modified food, we live in an age of intense debate about technology's place in our culture. Culture and Technology is an essential guide to that debate and its fascinating history. It is a primer for beginners and an invaluable resource for those deeply committed to understanding the new digital culture. The award-winning first edition (2005) has been comprehensively updated to incorporate new technologies and contemporary theories about them. Slack and Wise untangle and expose cultural assumptions that underlie our thinking about technology, stories so deeply held we often don't recognize ... Read more
From mobile phones to surveillance cameras, from fracking to genetically modified food, we live in an age of intense debate about technology's place in our culture. Culture and Technology is an essential guide to that debate and its fascinating history. It is a primer for beginners and an invaluable resource for those deeply committed to understanding the new digital culture. The award-winning first edition (2005) has been comprehensively updated to incorporate new technologies and contemporary theories about them. Slack and Wise untangle and expose cultural assumptions that underlie our thinking about technology, stories so deeply held we often don't recognize ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
269
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781433107757
SKU
V9781433107757
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Ref
99-2
About Jennifer Daryl Slack
Jennifer Daryl Slack is Professor of Communication and Cultural Studies in the Department of Humanities at Michigan Technological University. She is the author of Communication Technologies and Society (1984), co-editor of The Ideology of the Information Age (1987), and editor of Thinking Geometrically (Peter Lang, 2002) and Animations (of Deleuze and Guattari) (Peter Lang, 2003). J. Macgregor Wise ... Read more
Reviews for Culture and Technology: A Primer
With its disarmingly modest tone - always attentive to the needs of the theoretically uninitiated, always ready with contemporary and captivating examples, always extending a hand to readers at every stage to join up as fellow travelers, Jennifer Daryl Slack and J. Macgregor Wise have written `a primer' of the best sort. Their book is an open invitation to begin ... Read more