Author: William Gosling
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811545928
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Culture’s Engine offers an insightful and penetrating analysis of the enduring relationship between technology and society. William Gosling explores in absorbing historical detail how humans have experienced change through a sequence of technological revolutions, each giving rise to new social organisation, which in turn influences the shape and timing of the next such revolution. Gosling argues that it is through this dialogue that successful technology sets the direction and pace of all cultural evolution. The state of technology at any time is the major influence on the world, and not just the material world. This book then is not a history of technology, still less of science. It fundamentally questions how technology and social forces interact, leading to these successive revolutions and their outcomes.
Culture’s Engine
Author: William Gosling
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811545928
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Culture’s Engine offers an insightful and penetrating analysis of the enduring relationship between technology and society. William Gosling explores in absorbing historical detail how humans have experienced change through a sequence of technological revolutions, each giving rise to new social organisation, which in turn influences the shape and timing of the next such revolution. Gosling argues that it is through this dialogue that successful technology sets the direction and pace of all cultural evolution. The state of technology at any time is the major influence on the world, and not just the material world. This book then is not a history of technology, still less of science. It fundamentally questions how technology and social forces interact, leading to these successive revolutions and their outcomes.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811545928
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Culture’s Engine offers an insightful and penetrating analysis of the enduring relationship between technology and society. William Gosling explores in absorbing historical detail how humans have experienced change through a sequence of technological revolutions, each giving rise to new social organisation, which in turn influences the shape and timing of the next such revolution. Gosling argues that it is through this dialogue that successful technology sets the direction and pace of all cultural evolution. The state of technology at any time is the major influence on the world, and not just the material world. This book then is not a history of technology, still less of science. It fundamentally questions how technology and social forces interact, leading to these successive revolutions and their outcomes.
Engines of Culture
Author: Daniel M. Fox
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781351294041
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9781351294041
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages :
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Algorithms and Subjectivity
Author: Eran Fisher
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000545997
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
In this thought-provoking volume, Eran Fisher interrogates the relationship between algorithms as epistemic devices and modern notions of subjectivity. Over the past few decades, as the instrumentalization of algorithms has created knowledge that informs our decisions, preferences, tastes, and actions, and the very sense of who we are, they have also undercut, and arguably undermined, the Enlightenment-era ideal of the subject. Fisher finds that as algorithms enable a reality in which knowledge is created by circumventing the participation of the self, they also challenge contemporary notions of subjectivity. Through four case-studies, this book provides an empirical and theoretical investigation of this transformation, analyzing how algorithmic knowledge differs from the ideas of critical knowledge which emerged during modernity – Fisher argues that algorithms create a new type of knowledge, which in turn changes our fundamental sense of self and our concept of subjectivity. This book will make a timely contribution to the social study of algorithms and will prove especially valuable for scholars working at the intersections of media and communication studies, internet studies, information studies, the sociology of technology, the philosophy of technology, and science and technology studies.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000545997
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
In this thought-provoking volume, Eran Fisher interrogates the relationship between algorithms as epistemic devices and modern notions of subjectivity. Over the past few decades, as the instrumentalization of algorithms has created knowledge that informs our decisions, preferences, tastes, and actions, and the very sense of who we are, they have also undercut, and arguably undermined, the Enlightenment-era ideal of the subject. Fisher finds that as algorithms enable a reality in which knowledge is created by circumventing the participation of the self, they also challenge contemporary notions of subjectivity. Through four case-studies, this book provides an empirical and theoretical investigation of this transformation, analyzing how algorithmic knowledge differs from the ideas of critical knowledge which emerged during modernity – Fisher argues that algorithms create a new type of knowledge, which in turn changes our fundamental sense of self and our concept of subjectivity. This book will make a timely contribution to the social study of algorithms and will prove especially valuable for scholars working at the intersections of media and communication studies, internet studies, information studies, the sociology of technology, the philosophy of technology, and science and technology studies.
The Organization of Knowledge
Author: Jack Andersen
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 178714531X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Through different theoretical and analyses glasses, this book critically examines the organization of knowledge as it is involved in matters of digital communication, the social, cultural, and political consequences of classifying, and how particular historical contexts shape ideas of information and what information to classify and record.
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 178714531X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Through different theoretical and analyses glasses, this book critically examines the organization of knowledge as it is involved in matters of digital communication, the social, cultural, and political consequences of classifying, and how particular historical contexts shape ideas of information and what information to classify and record.
The Garden Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Arts and Sciences
Author: Charles Knight
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
The Irrigation Age
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
Towards Zero Management Learning Organisations
Author: Ted O'Keeffe
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1598582275
Category : Management
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1598582275
Category : Management
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Garden Magazine and Home Builder
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
The Gasoline Engine on the Farm
Author: Xenophon Whiting Putnam
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Farm engines
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Farm engines
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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