Donald MacKenzie holds a personal Chair in Sociology at Edinburgh University, where he has taught since 1975. He is the author of Statistics in Britain, 1865-1930: The Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge (Edinburgh University Press, 1981), Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance (MIT Press, 1990) and of Knowing Machines: Essays in Technica...(展开全部)

Donald MacKenzie holds a personal Chair in Sociology at Edinburgh University, where he has taught since 1975. He is the author of Statistics in Britain, 1865-1930: The Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge (Edinburgh University Press, 1981), Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance (MIT Press, 1990) and of Knowing Machines: Essays in Technica...(展开全部)

Technological change is often seen as something that follows its own logic - something we may welcome, or about which we may protest, but which we are unable to alter fundamentally. This reader challenges that assumption and its distinguished contributors demonstrate that technology is affected at a fundamental level by the social context in which it develops. General arguments...(展开全部)

Technology is everywhere, yet a theory of technology and its social dimension remains to be fully developed. Building on the influential book The Social Construction of Technological Systems, this volume carries forward the project of creating a theory of technological development and implementation that is strongly grounded in both sociology and history. The 12 essays address ...(展开全部)

What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media affect the quality of teens’ lives? In this eye-opening book, youth culture and technology expert danah boyd uncovers some of the major myths regarding teens' use of social media. She explores tropes about identity, privacy, safety, danger, and bullying. Ultima...(展开全部)

What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media affect the quality of teens’ lives? In this eye-opening book, youth culture and technology expert danah boyd uncovers some of the major myths regarding teens' use of social media. She explores tropes about identity, privacy, safety, danger, and bullying. Ultima...(展开全部)

《开放:社会化媒体如何影响领导方式》内容简介：我们正处在数字化和网络化的时代。社会化媒体逐渐改变着我们的生活和社会交往方式。微博则彻底颠覆了信息传递的方式和理念，甚至能够瞬间影响到组织的兴衰成败。这两个方面都会对现代社会和组织的领导力产生巨大的冲击和深刻的影响。如何敞开怀抱、拥抱变化、规避风险、真诚沟通，从而有效实施和巩固领导力，是摆在每个管理者面前的迫切问题。《开放:社会化媒体如何影响领导方式》通俗易懂，行文活泼，征引了戴尔、思科、宝洁等世界500强企业的生动案例，以及来自美国国务院等政府部门的案例。通过这些经典的案例，本书巧妙地揭示了如何使用博客、微博等新兴媒体技术，提高效率、增强沟通，让组织机构的领导者在全新的媒体时代游刃有余、脱颖而出、独占鳌头。《开放:社会化媒体如何影响领导方式》是一本关于领导者如何通过开放获得成功的管理书籍，对于如何培养开...(展开全部)

迈克尔·怀特(Michael White)是一颗耀眼的新星，一位世界级畅销书作家。1991年前，他在英国剑桥大学主讲科技发展，尔后成为专业作家。至今他已出版25部作品，包括著名科学家的传记、科学技术史、科技侦探小说等，许多作品已被译成数十种文字，主要有《霍金传》、《达·芬奇传》、《达尔文传》、《托尔金传》、《牛顿传》、《阿西莫夫传》、《子夜奇案》等。 导言 科技是双刃剑

The book suggests a new perspective on the essence of human language. This enormous achievement of our species is best characterized as a communication technology - not unlike the social media on the Net today - that was collectively invented by ancient humans for a very particular communicative function: the instruction of imagination. All other systems of communication in the...(展开全部)

Editorial Reviews Product Description In this age of hypercompetition, the Internet constitutes a powerful tool for inventing radical new business models that will leave your rivals scrambling. But as brain scientist and entrepreneur Jeffrey Stibel explains in Wired for Thought, you have to understand its true nature. The Internet is more than just a series of interconnected co...(展开全部)