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Showing 1 to 20 of 130 for “"Technology and Society"”.
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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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Centralized planning of science, technology, and society in the Soviet Union and its impact on educational policy, 1966-1984
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Paul Revere's metallurgical ride : craft and proto-industry in early America
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology and Society, 2001.
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Shipbuilding, markets, and technological change in East Boston
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, 1995.
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In the name of truth : sacrifical ideals and American science, 1870-1930
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, 1998.
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Atomic workers, atomic city : labor and community in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1942-1950
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, 1997.
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"Datum for its own annihilation" : feedback, control, and computing, 1916-1945
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, 1996.
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The spindles stop : Lowell, Massachusetts, and Manchester, New Hampshire respond to the collapse of the New England textile industry
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, 1995.
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Catastrophe and control : how technological disasters enhance democracy
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, 1994.
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The needle and the lancet : British acupuncture and the cross-cultural transmission of medical knowledge
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, 1997.
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The emergence of a deaf economy
Thesis: S.B. in Science in Humanities and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology and Society, 2014.
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European Union Policy Against Energy Coercion: An Analysis of EU Energy Security Policy
Energy Security is a necessity of modern society and as technology and society evolve so does the requirement to secure energy to provide stability for state governments. Europe is in a transition period of increasing cohesion and integration, and Russia is leveraging its natural resources to …
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The implication of open innovation and open source to mobile device manufacturers
Innovations largely contribute to a technology company's continuous survival and its competitiveness in the market place. Traditionally most companies employed closed innovation model. They kept their discoveries or inventions highly secret and made no attempt to assimilate information from …
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A framework for resource maintenance and enhancement
Our understanding of how to integrate the goals of development and those of the environment, is our map or instruction manual on practically addressing the current global environmental crisis. Our knowledge provides us with the means by which we can "do things in the world or cope with events …
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New Media and Social Movements. How the Indigenous People of Biafra Movement Has Used the Internet to Mobilise for an Independent Biafran State
… enhance identity construction, framing and discourses for an independent Biafran state against multiple forms of state repressions. The thesis adopted a flexible approach that incorporated three level analysis including a macro-level analysis, which looked at the socio political and …
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Economy electric : techno-economics, neoliberalism, and electricity in the United States
… recent remakings of economic existence and modes of disseminating these forms of life, and does so with particular reference to the crafting of electricity markets in the United States. It draws on more than a year of fieldwork among experts and users involved in electricity exchange. …
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Flesh yours, bones mine : the making of the biomedical subject in Turkey
… of trade. This dissertation tries to understand religious, political and ethical discourses on this emerging economy and how it creates its subjects in Turkey. By drawing analogies from the early days of anatomy and mental health practices and by using a three-fold-corpus (state, body and …
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Governing the shark : predators and people in the twentieth century and beyond
… of shark-human interactions in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It argues that the mid-twentieth century onward saw a series of conjunctures -technological, cultural, and scientific -that thrust sharks and humans into unprecedented levels of contact. This led to both a rise in …
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The expertise of germs : practice, language and authority in American bacteriology, 1899-1924
… bacteriologists feared increasing specialization and conceptual fragmentation. Leading practitioners repeatedly worried that their science constituted a collection of unrelated techniques, carried out in the service to other practical endeavors without the benefit of an underlying theory or …
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The bureaucracy of empathy : vivisection and the question of animal pain in Britain, 1876-1912
… mutually reinforcing connections between science and law and their construction of pain in British regulation of animal experimentation. It investigates the Home Office's implementation of the Cruelty to Animals Act (1876), the first effort anywhere in the world to impose legal restrictions on …
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