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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"social studies of technology"”.
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(Re)visions of the village: building and participating in the Blacksburg Electronic Village
… as a partnership between C&P Telephone of Virginia, Virginia Tech, and the town of Blacksburg. In this thesis, I describe the formation of this partnership and the evolution of the project from early 1991 to the spring of 1996. The focus of this thesis is on the technical and policy …
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An Alchemy of Smoke and Flame: The Politics of Tear Gas Use Against Social Movements in the United States
… yet our historical and political understanding of the technology is relatively limited. The historical framings of tear gas are dominated by deference to state and military claims and the biomedical literature furthers this one-sided approach to the security technology. At the same time, many …