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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781782389644
035 _a(DE-B1597)636616
035 _a(OCoLC)655708363
040 _aDE-B1597
_beng
_cDE-B1597
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050 4 _aHC79.T4
_bC85 2006
072 7 _aSOC002000
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082 0 4 _a338/.064
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
245 0 0 _aCultures of Technology and the Quest for Innovation /
_ced. by Helga Nowotny.
264 1 _aNew York ;
_aOxford :
_bBerghahn Books,
_c[2006]
264 4 _c©2006
300 _a1 online resource (232 p.)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
347 _atext file
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490 0 _aMaking Sense of History ;
_v9
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tList of Illustrations --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction: The Quest for Innovation and Cultures of Technology --
_tPart I ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CULTURE, TECHNOLOGY, AND INNOVATION --
_tChapter 1: Culture and Innovation --
_tChapter 2: The Unintended Consequences of Innovation: Change and Community at MIT --
_tChapter 3: The Vulnerability of Technological Culture --
_tPart II: The Gender Bias of Technological Innovations --
_tChapter 4: Culture of Gender, and Culture of Technology: The Gendering of Things in France’s Office Spaces between 1890 and 1930 --
_tChapter 5: Suspending Gender? Reflecting on Innovations in Cyberspace --
_tPart III: Pluralist Histories of Science, Innovation, and War --
_tChapter 6: Innovation, Diverse Knowledges, and the Presumed Singularity of Science --
_tChapter 7: Scientists on the Battlefield: Cultures and Conflicts --
_tPart IV: The Adoption of Innovations in Different Cultural Contexts --
_tChapter 8: From Prophecies of the Future to Incarnations of the Past: Cultures of Nuclear Technology --
_tChapter 9: The Mining Industry in Traditional China: Intraand Intercultural Comparisons --
_tEpilogue: Interdisciplinarity and the Innovation Process How to Organize Spaces of Translation, or, the Politics of Innovation --
_tContributors --
_tSelect Bibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aUnderlying the current dynamics of technological developments, their divergence or convergence and the abundance of options, promises and risks they contain, is the quest for innovation, the contributors to this volume argue. The seemingly insatiable demand for novelty coincides with the rise of modern science and the onset of modernity in Western societies. Never before has the Baconian dream been so close to becoming reality: wrapped into a globalizing capitalism that seeks ever expanding markets for new products, artifacts and designs and new processes that lead to gains in efficiency, productivity and profit. However, approaching these developments through a wider historical and cultural perspectives, means to raise questions about the plurality of cultures, the interaction between "hardware" and "software" and about the nature of the interfaces where technology meets with economic, social, legal, historical constraints and opportunities. The authors come to the conclusion that inside a seemingly homogenous package and a seemingly universal quest for innovation many differences remain.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)
650 0 _aSocial history
_y1945-
_vCongresses.
650 0 _aTechnological innovations
_vCongresses.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
_2bisacsh
653 _aAnthropology (General), History (General), Political and Economic Anthropology.
700 1 _aBijker, Wiebe E.
_eautore
700 1 _aGardey, Delphine
_eautore
700 1 _aHughes, Thomas P.
_eautore
700 1 _aKupper, Patrick
_eautore
700 1 _aNettelbeck, Joachim
_eautore
700 1 _aNowotny, Helga
_eautore
_ecuratore
700 1 _aPickstone, John V.
_eautore
700 1 _aSalomon, Jean-Jacques
_eautore
700 1 _aVogel, Hans Ulrich
_eautore
700 1 _aWajcman, Judy
_eautore
700 1 _aWilliams, Rosalind
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781782389644
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781782389644
856 4 2 _3Cover
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