Inside the politics of technology : : agency and normativity in the co-production of technology and society / / Hans Harbers, ed.
Though the old saying claims that man is the measure of all things, the authors of <i>Inside the Politics of Technology</i> argue that the distinction implied between autonomous humans and neutral instruments of technology is an illusion. On the contrary, the technologies humans create s...
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| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (308 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Feb 2021). |
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Table of Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction. Co-Production, Agency, and Normativity / Harbers, Hans
- The Distribution of Agency
- Back to the Drawing Board Inventing a Sociology of Technology / Disco, Cornelis
- Artifacts as Social Agents / Brey, Philip
- Diversity and Distributed Agency in the Design and Use of Medical Video-Communication Technologies / Oudshoorn, Nelly / Brouns, Margo / van Oost, Ellen
- The Mediation of Agency
- Choices and Choosing in Cancer Genetics / Stemerding, Dirk / Nelis, Annemiek
- Artifacts and Attachment: A Post-Script Philosophy of Mediation / Verbeek, Peter-Paul
- Art and Technology Playing Leapfrog: A History and Philosophy of Technoèsis / Kockelkoren, Petran
- The Politics of Agency
- Taking the Socio-Technical Seriously Exploring the Margins for Change in the Traffic and Transport Domain / Elzen, Boelie
- Trapped in the Duality of Structure: An STS Approach to Engineering Ethics / Swierstra, Tsjalling / Jelsma, Jaap
- The Cultural Politics of Prenatal Screening / Popkema, Marcus / Harbers, Hans
- Epilogue. Political Materials - Material Politics / Harbers, Hans
- References
- About the Authors
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects