Science, technology and culture
This book introduces students to cultural studies of science and technology. It equips students with an understanding of science and technology as aspects of culture, and an appreciation of the importance of thinking about science and technology from a cultural studies perspective. Individual chapters focus on topics including popular representations of science and scientists, the place of science and technology in everyday life, and the contests over amateur, fringe and pseudo-science. Each chapter includes case studies ranging from the MMR vaccine to UFOs, and from nuclear war to microwave ovens. It is suitable for students in cultural studies, media studies, sociology and science and technology studies
1 online resource (viii, 159 pages).
9780335224197, 9781280950711, 0335224199, 1280950714
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Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Chapter 01 SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE
The culture bit
Boiled eggs, visible humans and gay brains
The anatomy of this book
Notes
Chapter 02 THINKING ABOUT SCIENCE AND CULTURE
Science in/and/as society
The science of specialness
Weirding science
Postmodern Science Wars
Further reading
Notes
Chapter 03 THINKING ABOUT TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE
A fridge is being delivered
What is technology?
Technology in/and/as society
Following technologies around
Technology and everyday life
Technologies of gender
Thinking about technoscience
Notes
Chapter 04 SCREENING (AND SINGING) SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Science and technology at the movies
Public understanding of science fiction
Film theory goes to the laboratory
Machine music
Further reading
Notes
Chapter 05 THE MOON AND THE BOMB
To infinity
and beyond
Space and the British imagination
Downwind
Further reading
Notes
Chapter 06 UFOLOGISTS, HOBBYISTS AND OTHER BOUNDARY WORKERS
The trouble with boundaries
ScienceCop
The trouble with no boundaries
Further reading
Notes
Chapter 07 PAUSE AND REWIND
Giving good PowerPoint
Nipped and tucked
Notes
Glossary of Key Terms
References
Index
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