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Klappentext For as long as people have developed new technologies, there has been debate over the purposes, shape, and potential for their use. In this exciting collection, a range of contributors, including Sherry Turkle, Lynn Spigel, John Perry Barlow, Langdon Winner, David Nye, and Lord Asa Briggs, discuss the visions that have shaped "new' technologies and the cultural implications of technological adaptation. Focusing on issues such as the nature of prediction, community, citizenship, consumption, and the nation, as well as the metaphors that have shaped public debates about technology, the authors examine innovations past and present, from the telegraph and the portable television to the Internet, to better understand how our visions and imagination have shaped the meaning and use of technology. Zusammenfassung Focusing on issues such as the nature of prediction! community! citizenship! consumption! and the nation! as well as the metaphors that have shaped public debates about technology! this title examines innovations in technology! from the telegraph and the portable television to the Internet. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Technological Visions and the Rhetoric of the New - Marita Sturken and Douglas Thomas 1. "Spinning" Technology: What We Are Not Thinking about When We Are Thinking about Computers - Sherry Turkle 2. Sow's Ears from Silk Purses: The Strange Alchemy of Technological Visionaries - Langdon Winner 3. Mediums and Media - Jeffrey Sconce 4. Mobilities of Time and Space: Technologies of the Modern and the Postmodern - Marita Sturken 5. Man-made Futures! Man-made Pasts - Lord Asa Briggs 6. Portable TV: Studies in Domestic Space Travels - Lynn Spigel 7. Science Fiction Film and the Technological Imagination - Vivian Sobchack 8. Technological Prediction: A Promethean Problem - David E. Nye 9. The Future of Prediction - John Perry Barlow 10. Penguins! Predictions! and Technological Optimism: A Skeptic's View - Wendy M. Grossman 11. Information Superhighways! Virtual Communities! and Digital Libraries: Information Society Metaphors as Political Rhetoric - Peter Lyman 12. Rethinking the Cyberbody: Hackers! Viruses! and Cultural Anxiety - Douglas Thomas 13. Peaceable Kingdoms and New Information Technologies: Prospects for the Nation-State - Carolyn Marvin 14. Somewhere There's a Place for Us: Sexual Minorities and the Internet - Larry Gross 15. Surfin' the Net: Children! Parental Obsolescence! and Citizenship - Sarah Banet-Weiser 16. When the Virtual Isn't Enough - Katie Hafner 17. Place Matters: Journeys through Global and Local Spaces - Richard Chabr'an and Romelia Salinas 18. The Globalization of Everyday Life: Vision and Reality - Jennifer Gibbs! Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach! Joo-Young Jung! Yong-Chan Kim! and Jack Linchaun Qiu About the Contributors Index ...
