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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Society and Technology"”.
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Mains, Drains and Strains: The Emergence of Urban Water and Waste Systems in the United States
It has been concluded that the emergence of water and waste systems was the result of the simultaneous and consubstantial emergence of society and technology in a interactive process that defined urban conditions, the problems associated with those conditions, the solutions to those problems and …
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The Library and the Internet: An Interpretive Study of the State Library of Victoria
… almost as long as writing; their role, purpose and means of operation have changed greatly over the thousands of years of their existence. Technology simpliciter can be understood as humans at work. The way we work shapes the technologies we use just as technologies shape the way we work. That …
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Flickering lights on the eve of destruction: Technology and being in the nuclear war film
This work is a phenomenological and interpretive study of the presentation of self, society and technology in select films which touch on nuclear war. Although nuclear war has been treated in films since at least 1951, few authors have attempted to explore the meaning, technique, aesthetic and …
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The rhetoric of the patent wars: how technology becomes "Common Sense"
… sheds light on questions involving innovation and technology. To answer these questions, I investigate one battle in the so-called "Patent Wars" surrounding mobile computing. I combine classical and modern rhetorical notions of common sense and community with perspectives on society and …
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Designing for the Future: Promoting Ecoliteracy in the Design of Children's Outdoor Play Environments
Rapid development of U.S. cities and towns along with changes in society and technology are dramatically affecting childhood experience. Wild places and vacant lots for kids to play in are disappearing. Parents have limited time to spend with their children and fear letting them play outside alone. …
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The invented eye looks at architecture
Architecture and photography are two aspects of our shared visual culture. The influence exerted by photography on architecture is in a large part due to the power insisting upon "actuality" of what has to be seen in the image. Architectural image expresses the "external" (appearance) but only by …
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The use of the World Wide Web in teaching and learning in higher education : a case study approach
… expected to play in the era of the "information society" and the benefits the increasing use of new technology in teaching and learning within the university will bring. Accordingly, the purpose of this research was to explore the influence of the WWW in teaching and learning in universities. The …
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The living workplace : a conscious work environment for a small publishing company
This thesis is about the oneness of working and living, and about the making of workplaces that support and encourage the idea that one's work can be an integral part of one's life. The opening position is that there is a "paradigm shift" occurring in our society which influences the way that we …
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Rethinking Ethics Assessment in Health Technology Assessment: A Nonlinear Approach
… can be meaningfully integrated into health technology assessment (HTA). The contribution of this dissertation is two-fold. The first is to provide an honest and critical evaluation of current HTA practices, including those that involve ethics assessments and that do not. This evaluation will …
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Delivered: Living and Working with Algorithms
… mediate between companies, workers, and consumers—have caught the attention of organizational scholars, sociologists of work, and science and technology scholars. Attention has been given primarily to algorithmic control—that is, the usage of algorithmic systems to manage workers at a …
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Tracking Technology and Society along the Ottoman Anatolian Railroad, 1890-1914
… a case of foreign-driven modernization and pseudo-colonial investment in the Ottoman Empire and is assigned primary importance as a diplomatic problem aggravating tensions between the European powers in the run-up to World War I. Far less scrutiny has been given to the railroad’s …
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Queering Law and Artificial Intelligence: Towards a Technology Oriented Principle of Equality
… airport security control, policing and criminal justice, online content moderation, hiring processes, and healthcare decisions. These failures disproportionately impact individuals based on ethnicity, sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic status and other intersecting …