Behind our computer screens we are all cyborgs: through fantasy we can understand our involvement in virtual worlds.Cyberspace is first and foremost a mental space. Therefore we need to take a psychological approach to understand our experiences in it. In Interface Fantasy, Andre Nusselder uses the core psychoanalytic notion of fantasy to examine our relationship to computers and digital techno…
Contributions by prominent scholars examining the intersections of environmental philosophy and philosophy of technology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
The realities of the high-tech global economy for women and families in the United States.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
The role that children and youth play in the emerging digital media culture-as consumers targeted by marketing campaigns, as creators of their own digital culture, and as political participants.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Hubungan mikroba dengan semua bentuk kehidupan dapat berupa kehidupan bebas, simbiosis, atau patogenik. Manusia memiliki sel mikroba 10 kali lebih banyak daripada sel mereka sendiri. Bakteri ditemukan di permukaan kulit, di usus, dan bagian tubuh lainnya. Bakteri penyebab penyakit adalah yang paling mengkhawatirkan. Sebagian besar penyakit menular disebabkan oleh bakteri patogen yang memiliki k…
Why it matters that our relationship with nature is increasingly mediated and augmented by technology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
An account of conflicts within engineering in the 1960s that helped shape our dominant contemporary understanding of technological change as the driver of history. In the late 1960s an eclectic group of engineers joined the antiwar and civil rights activists of the time in agitating for change. The engineers were fighting to remake their profession, challenging their fellow engineers to embrace…
This text features investigations into the relationship between organism and artifacts from the perspective of functionality.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"For more than two decades, in such landmark studies as The Second Self and Life on the Screen, Sherry Turkle has challenged our collective imagination with her insights about how technology enters our private worlds. In The Inner History of Devices, she describes her process, an approach that reveals how what we make is woven into our ways of seeing ourselves. She brings together three traditi…
By 2002, all but a handful of countries were connected to the Internet. The intertwining of the Internet and the globalization of finance, corporate governance, and trade raises questions about national models of technology development and property rights. The sudden ability of hundreds of millions of users to gain access to a global communication infrastructure spurred the creation of new firm…