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Science Societies: Resources for Life in a Technoscientific World (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781529229004)
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xWhat role do science and technology play in society? What is the nature of expert knowledge? What is science's relation to democracy?
This introduction to science, technology, and society answers these questions, and more, by exploring contemporary research on topics such as expertise, activism, science policy, and innovation. It offers a comprehensive resource for considering the place that science and technology have in contemporary societies, and the roles that they can and should play.
Accessible to a non-specialist audience, it draws on a rich range of cases and examples, from nuclear activism in India to content moderation in Kenya. Framing science as always social, and society as always shaped by science and technology, it asks: what worlds do we want science and technology to bring into being?
Author: Sarah R. Davies
ISBN-10: 1529229006
ISBN-13: 9781529229004
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/07/2025
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
By Sarah R. Davies
xSarah R Davies is Professor of Technosciences, Materiality, and Digital Cultures in the Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of Vienna, Austria. Her work explores the intersections between science, technology, and society, with a particular focus on digital tools and spaces. Her previous books include Science Communication: Culture, Identity, and Citizenship (2016) and Hackerspaces: Making the Maker Movement (2017).
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