John Kurt Jacobsen

Technical Fouls (eBook, ePUB)

Democracy And Technological Change

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the interaction of ideology, profits, and power, and their combined effect upon technology policy in democracies. It offers a theoretical synthesis of critiques of technology and a theory of how ideas are employed by groups in order to enhance their own power.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429976568
• Artikelnr.: 54108379

Autorenporträt

John Kurt Jacobsen is research associate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Chasing Progress: Ideology, Industry and Dependent Development in Ireland.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Technology as a Cultural System
The Specter of Automation
Aimless Accuracy
Weeding Them Out
Emancipating Nature
Epilogue