The Social Life of Nanotechnology (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Harthorn, Barbara Herr; Mohr, John W.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book addresses the interconnections and tensions between technological development, the social benefits and risks of new technology, and the changing political economy of a global world system as they apply to the emerging field of nanotechnologies. The basic premise, developed throughout the volume, is that nanotechnologies have an undertheorized and often invisible social life that begins with their constructed origins and propels them around the globe, across multiple localities, institutions and collaborations, through diverse industries, research labs, and government agencies and into the public sphere. The volume situates nano innovation and development as a modernist science and technology project in a tense and unstable relationship with a fractured, postmodern social world. The book is unique in incorporating and integrating studies of innovation systems along with a focus on the risks and consequences of a globally significant set of emerging technologies. It does this by examining the social and political conditions of their creation, production, emergence, and reception.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136258107
• Artikelnr.: 39266430

Autorenporträt

Barbara Harthorn is Associate Professor in the Department of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. John Mohr is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword John Seely Brown. Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction: The Social
Scientific View Of Nanotechnologies Barbara Herr Harthorn and John W. Mohr
Part I: Constructing the Field of Nanotechnology: The Social Origins of
Nanotechnology 2. Science That Pays for Itself: Nanotechnology and the
Discourse of Science Policy Reform Matthew N. Eisler 3. When Space Travel
And Nanotechology Met at the Fountains of Paradise W. Patrick McCray 4.
Conferences and the Emergence of Nanoscience Cyrus C. M. Mody Part II:
Controlling the Field: The Role of Public Policies, Market Systems,
Scientific Labor, and Globalization in Nanotechnology 5. Is Nanoscale
Collaboration Meeting Nanotechnology's Social Challenge? A Call for
Nano-Normalcy Christopher Newfield 6. Working for Next to Nothing: Labor in
the Global Nanoscientific Community Mikael Johansson 7. Nanotechnology as
Industrial Policy: China and the United States Richard P. Appelbaum, Cong
Cao, Rachel Parker and Yasuyuki Motoyama 8. The Chinese Century? Chinäs
Move Towards Indigenous Innovation: Some Policy Implications Rachel Parker
and Richard P. Appelbaum Part III: Contesting the Field: Knowledge, Power,
and Reflexivity in the Construction of Nanotechnology 9. Nanotechnologies
and Upstream Public Engagement: Dilemmas, Debates, and Prospects? Adam
Corner and Nick Pidgeon 10. Different Uses, Different Responses: Exploring
Emergent Cultural Values Through Public Deliberation Jennifer Rogers-Brown,
Christine Shearer, Barbara Herr Harthorn and Tyronne Martin 11. News Media
Frame Novel Technologies in a Familiar Way: Nanotechnology, Applications,
and Progress Erica Lively, Meredith Conroy, David A. Weaver, and Bruce
Bimber 12. Public Responses to Nanotechnology: Risks to the Social Fabric?
William R. Freudenburg and Mary B. Collins