UID:
almafu_9960119864102883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 422 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-56370-1
Content:
This book compares resistance to technology across time, nations, and technologies. Three post-war examples - nuclear power, information technology, and biotechnology - are used in the analysis. The focus is on post-1945 Europe, with comparisons made with the USA, Japan, and Australia. Instead of assuming that resistance contributes to the failure of a technology, the main thesis of the book is that resistance is a constructive force in technological development, giving technology its particular shape in a particular context. Whilst many people still believe in the positive contribution made by science and technology, many have become sceptical. By exploring the idea that modernity creates effects that undermine its own foundations, forms and effects of resistance are explored in various contexts. The book presents a unique interdisciplinary study, including contributions from historians, sociologists, psychologists, and political scientists.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Resistance to new technology and its effects on nuclear power, information technology and biotechnology /
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The crisis of 'Progress' /
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Reinterpreting 'Luddism': resistance to new technology in the British Industrial Revolution /
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The changeability of public opinions about new technology: assimilation effects in attitude surveys /
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'Technophobia': a misleading conception of resistance to new technology /
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Patterns of resistance to new technologies in Scandinavia: an historical perspective /
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Henry Ford's relationship to 'Fordism': ambiguity as a modality of technological resistance /
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Resistance to nuclear technology: optimists, opportunists and opposition in Australian nuclear history /
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New technology in Fleet Street, 1975-80 /
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The impact of resistance to biotechnology in Switzerland: a sociological view of the recent referendum /
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The politics of resistance to new technology: semiconductor diffusion in France and Japan until 1965 /
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User resistance to new interactive media: participants, processes and paradigms /
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The impact of anti-nuclear power movements in international comparison /
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In the engine of industry: regulators of biotechnology, 1970-86 /
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Product, process, or programme: three cultures and the regulation of biotechnology /
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Learning from Chernobyl for the fight against genetics? Stages and stimuli of German protest movements -- a comparative synopsis /
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Individual and institutional impacts upon press coverage of sciences: the case of nuclear power and genetic engineering in Germany /
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Forms of intrusion: comparing resistance to information technology and biotechnology in the USA /
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Towards a functional analysis of resistance /
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-59948-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-45518-9
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511563706
