This volume provides a broad-ranging acount of the relationship between politics and technology in the modern world. It shows how political processes and values shape the developmentof technology and, in turn , how new technologies influence the conduct of politics. The core concern of the book is how democratic control can be exercised in all aspects of technological decision- making and how technology can be used to extend demmocracy. Street shows that much publicized 'natural' disasters from the explosions at Chernobyl and Bhopal to the erosion of the ozone layer have politicalas well as technologicalcauses and examines the way in which telecomunications, biotechnology and other technologies are used both to serve and subvert politcal aspirations.
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John Street is Lecturer in Politics at the University of East Anglia in England. He is author of Rebel Rock: The Politics of Popular Music, and coauthor of Deciding Factors in British Politics.
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1. A Few Technicalities.
2. Political Change and Technical Change.
3. The State and Technology.
4. The Politics of Science.
5. The Political Effects of Technology.
6. Choosing Technologies.
7. The Green Solution.
8. The Technical Fix.
9. Democracy and Technology.
2. Political Change and Technical Change.
3. The State and Technology.
4. The Politics of Science.
5. The Political Effects of Technology.
6. Choosing Technologies.
7. The Green Solution.
8. The Technical Fix.
9. Democracy and Technology.
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- PERSP ON GENDER & SCIENCE PB by Harding J in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Our Common Future (Oxford Paperbacks) by World Commission On Environment and Development on page 110, page 144, and Back Matter
- Risk and Culture: An Essay on the Selection of Technological and Environmental Dangers by Mary Douglas on page 60, and Back Matter
- Information Technology: Social Issues Pb by R Finnegan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Man & the Natural World (Penguin Press History) by Keith Thomas on page 154, and Back Matter
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- Science in the Service of Human Rights (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights) by Richard Pierre Claude on page 141, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Mass Media, Politics and Democracy by John Street in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Media Reader: Continuity and Transformation (Published in association with The Open University) by Hugh Mackay in Front Matter, and page 396
- The Scientific Voice by Montgomery in Front Matter
- Postcolonial Politics, The Internet and Everyday Life: Pacific Traversals Online (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics) by M. I. Franklin in Back Matter
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