المساهمون: Coggon, John, Gola, Swati

مصطلحات موضوعية: Human rights, civil rights, bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAD Bio-ethics, bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PD Science: general issues, bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PD Science: general issues::PDR Impact of science & technology on society

الوصف: This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Global health arguably represents the most pressing issues facing humanity. Trends in international migration and transnational commerce render state boundaries increasingly porous. Human activity in one part of the world can lead to health impacts elsewhere. Animals, viruses and bacteria as well as pandemics and environmental disasters do not recognize or respect political borders. It is now widely accepted that a global perspective on the understanding of threats to health and how to respond to them is required, but there are many practical problems in establishing such an approach. This book offers a foundational study of these urgent and challenging problems, combining critical analysis with practically focused policy contributions. The contributors span the fields of ethics, human rights, international relations, law, philosophy and global politics. They address normative questions relating to justice, equity and inequality and practical questions regarding multi-organizational cooperation, global governance and international relations. Moving from the theoretical to the practical, Global Health and International Community is an essential resource for scholars, students, activists and policy makers across the globe.

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Relation: Science Ethics and Society

URL الوصول: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58745

المؤلفون: Kaldewey, David

مصطلحات موضوعية: Sociology of Science, Sociology of Knowledge, Sociological Theory, Systems Theory, Science, University, Sociology, Wissenschaftssystem, Autonomie, Praxis, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Wissenssoziologie, Soziologische Theorie, Differenzierungstheorie, Systemtheorie, Wissenschaft, Universität, Soziologie, bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PD Science: general issues::PDR Impact of science & technology on society

الوصف: Modern science is defined on one hand as an autotelic pursuit of truth. On the other hand, it also keeps the practical benefit of new knowledge in its sights. David Kaldewey reconstructs the origin and significance of this dual goal by means of historical-sociological semantic analysis. He shows how both objectives condense among a variety of autonomy and practice discourses. The tension between these discourses reveals itself from a differentiation theoretical perspective as constitutive of the dynamics of modern science.
Die moderne Wissenschaft definiert sich einerseits als selbstzweckhaftes Streben nach Wahrheit, andererseits hat sie zugleich den praktischen Nutzen des neuen Wissens im Blick. Die Genese und Bedeutung dieser doppelten Referenz rekonstruiert David Kaldewey mittels historisch-soziologischer Semantikanalysen. Er zeigt, wie die beiden Zielsetzungen in vielfältigen Autonomiediskursen und Praxisdiskursen kondensieren. Die Spannung zwischen diesen Diskursen erweist sich aus einer differenzierungstheoretischen Perspektive als konstitutiv für die Dynamik der modernen Wissenschaft.

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Relation: Science Studies

URL الوصول: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25347

المؤلفون: Williamson, Ben

مصطلحات موضوعية: education, bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education::JNK Organization & management of education::JNKC Curriculum planning & development, bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PD Science: general issues::PDR Impact of science & technology on society

الوصف: An examination of curriculum innovations that are shaped by new ideas about digital media and learning.Although ideas about digital media and learning have become an important area for educational research, little attention has been given to the practical and conceptual implications for the school curriculum. In this book, Ben Williamson examines a series of contemporary curriculum innovations in the United States, Great Britain, and Australia that reflect the social and technological changes of the digital age. Arguing that the curriculum is always both forward- and rearward-looking, Williamson considers how each of these innovations represents a certain way of understanding the past while also promoting a particular vision of the future.The curriculum initiatives are all examples of what Williamson calls “centrifugal schooling,” expressing a vision of education and learning that is decentered, distributed, and dispersed, emphasizing networks and connections. In centrifugal schooling, a curriculum is actively assembled and improvised from a heterogeneous mix of people, groups, coalitions, and institutional structures. Participants in curriculum design and planning include local governments, corporations, foundations, charities, and nongovernmental organizations. Among the curriculum innovations Williamson examines are High Tech High, a charter school network in San Diego that integrates technical and academic education; Opening Minds, a “competence-based” curriculum used in 200 British secondary schools; and Quest to Learn, a “school for digital kids” in New York City (with a sister school in Chicago). He also describes two major partnerships: the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, which advocates for “21st century readiness” for American students; and the Whole Education Alliance in Britain, a network of “third sector” educational organizations.

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URL الوصول: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/26059

المؤلفون: Ito, Mizuko

مصطلحات موضوعية: social media, youth media, children's media, podcast, video-games, videogame, text message, ethnography, Digital Youth Project, media literacymedia ecology, bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education::JNV Educational equipment & technology, computer-aided learning (CAL), bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PD Science: general issues::PDR Impact of science & technology on society

الوصف: An examination of young people's everyday new media practices—including video-game playing, text-messaging, digital media production, and social media use.Conventional wisdom about young people's use of digital technology often equates generational identity with technology identity: today's teens seem constantly plugged in to video games, social networking sites, and text messaging. Yet there is little actual research that investigates the intricate dynamics of youths' social and recreational use of digital media. Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out fills this gap, reporting on an ambitious three-year ethnographic investigation into how young people are living and learning with new media in varied settings—at home, in after-school programs, and in online spaces.Integrating twenty-three case studies—which include Harry Potter podcasting, video-game playing, music sharing, and online romantic breakups—in a unique collaborative authorship style, Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out is distinctive for its combination of in-depth description of specific group dynamics with conceptual analysis.

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URL الوصول: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/26060

المؤلفون: Postigo, Hector

مصطلحات موضوعية: copyright, intellectual property, bic Book Industry Communication::L Law::LN Laws of Specific jurisdictions::LNR Intellectual property law::LNRC Copyright law, bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PD Science: general issues::PDR Impact of science & technology on society, bic Book Industry Communication::U Computing & information technology::UD Digital lifestyle::UDV Digital TV & media centres: consumer/user guides

الوصف: The evolution of activism against the expansion of copyright in the digital domain, with case studies of resistance including eBook and iTunes hacks.The movement against restrictive digital copyright protection arose largely in response to the excesses of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998. In The Digital Rights Movement, Hector Postigo shows that what began as an assertion of consumer rights to digital content has become something broader: a movement concerned not just with consumers and gadgets but with cultural ownership. Increasingly stringent laws and technological measures are more than incoveniences; they lock up access to our “cultural commons.”Postigo describes the legislative history of the DMCA and how policy “blind spots” produced a law at odds with existing and emerging consumer practices. Yet the DMCA established a political and legal rationale brought to bear on digital media, the Internet, and other new technologies. Drawing on social movement theory and science and technology studies, Postigo presents case studies of resistance to increased control over digital media, describing a host of tactics that range from hacking to lobbying.Postigo discusses the movement's new, user-centered conception of “fair use” that seeks to legitimize noncommercial personal and creative uses such as copying legitimately purchased content and remixing music and video tracks. He introduces the concept of technological resistance—when hackers and users design and deploy technologies that allows access to digital content despite technological protection mechanisms—as the flip side to the technological enforcement represented by digital copy protection and a crucial tactic for the movement.

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URL الوصول: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/26064

المؤلفون: Roels, J.A

مصطلحات موضوعية: industrial evolution, thermodynamics, human evolution, economic theory, socio-economic system, Entropy, Information set (game theory), Macroscopic scale, bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCA Economic theory & philosophy, bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCB Macroeconomics, bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PD Science: general issues::PDR Impact of science & technology on society, bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PG Astronomy, space & time::PGK Cosmology & the universe, bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PH Physics::PHH Thermodynamics & heat, bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAJ Evolution

الوصف: The firms and markets of today's complex socio-economic system developed in a spontaneous process termed evolution, in just the same way as the universe, the solar system, the Earth and all that lives upon it. Darwin's theory of evolution clearly demonstrated that evolution involved increasing organization. As we began to explore the molecular basis of life and its evolution, it became equally clear that it depended on the processing and communication of information. This book develops a consistent theory of evolution in its wider sense, examining the information based laws and forces that drive it. Exploring subjects as diverse as economics and the theories of thermodynamics, the author revisits the paradox of the apparent conflict between the laws of thermodynamics and evolution to arrive at a systems theory, tracing a continuous line of evolving information sets that connect the Big-Bang to the firms and markets of our current socio-economic system.

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URL الوصول: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/34547

المؤلفون: Koepsell, David

مصطلحات موضوعية: Philosophy of science, Nanosciences, bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PD Science: general issues::PDR Impact of science & technology on society

الوصف: This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. This book defines 'nanowares' as the ideas and products arising out of nanotechnology. Koepsell argues that these rapidly developing new technologies demand a new approach to scientific discovery and innovation in our society. He takes established ideas from social philosophy and applies them to the nanoparticle world. In doing so he breaks down the subject into its elemental form and from there we are better able to understand how these elements fit into the construction of a more complex system of products, rules and regulations about these products. Where existing research in the field has tended to focus on potential social harm, Koepsell takes a different approach by looking at ways in which developments in distributed design and fabrication can be harnessed to enable wealth creation by those with good ideas but no access to capital. He argues that the key challenge facing us is the error implicit in current intellectual property regimes and presents new modes of relating inventors to artifacts in this new context. In conclusion he offers contractual models which he believes encourage innovation in nano-media by embracing open source and alternative means of protection for innovators.

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URL الوصول: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58694

المؤلفون: Kunze, Rolf-Ulrich

مصطلحات موضوعية: history of technology, technikgeschichte, sozialkonstruktivismus, constructivism, Deutsche Reichsbahn (1920–1945), bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PD Science: general issues::PDR Impact of science & technology on society, bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering & technology

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Die sozialkonstruktivistischen Essays über Technikrituale und Technikakzeptanz bieten an ausgewählten Beispielen und Quellen der 1920er bis 1960er Jahre einen Blick auf einige, zum Teil bislang wenig beachtete Quellenformen aus der Nähe, getragen von dem erkenntnisleitenden Interesse an ihrer identitätsstiftenden, also soziokulturellen Bedeutung, ihrem sozialen Leben in unserem Leben. Dabei geht es um eine Umsetzung der Ansätze der social construction of technology (SCOT).

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Relation: Technikdiskurse : Karlsruher Studien zur Technikgeschichte / Hrsg.: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Fak. für Geistes- u. Sozialwiss., Inst. für Geschichte, Abt. Technikgeschichte

URL الوصول: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/34505

المؤلفون: Böhn, Andreas, Möser, Kurt

مصطلحات موضوعية: history of technology, cultural studies, techniknostalgie, technikgeschichte, kulturwissenschaft, Architektur, Retrowelle, bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PD Science: general issues::PDR Impact of science & technology on society, bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering & technology

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Nostalgie wurde bisher als allgemeine kulturelle Erscheinung, aber kaum in ihrer Relation zur technologischen Entwicklung betrachtet. Der Band enthält neben Beiträgen zur Relevanz von alten Technologien Analysen zu drei technischen Feldern: Mobilität (Auto und Bahn), Architektur und Städtebau (reale und virtuelle Retro-Räume, Historismen in Konstruktion und Design sowie postapokalyptische nostalgiegeladene Utopien) und technische Medien (Photographie, Film und Videospiele).

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Relation: Karlsruher Studien Technik und Kultur

URL الوصول: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/34503

المؤلفون: Flanagin, Andrew J., Metzger, Miriam J.

مصطلحات موضوعية: online media, youth, bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education::JNV Educational equipment & technology, computer-aided learning (CAL), bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PD Science: general issues::PDR Impact of science & technology on society

الوصف: Findings from a survey of youthful Internet users that was designed to assess kids' beliefs about the credibility of online information.How well do children navigate the ocean of information that is available online? The enormous variety of Web-based resources represents both opportunities and challenges for Internet-savvy kids, offering extraordinary potential for learning and social connection but little guidance on assessing the reliability of online information. This book reports on the first large-scale survey to examine children's online information-seeking strategies and their beliefs about the credibility of that information. This Web-based survey of 2,747 children, ages 11 to 18 (and their parents), confirms children's heavy reliance on the Internet. They are concerned about the credibility of online information, but 89 percent believe that “some” to “a lot” of it is believable; and, choosing among several options, they rate the Internet as the most believable information source for entertainment, commercial products, and schoolwork (more credible than books for papers or projects). Most have more faith information found on Wikipedia more than they say others should; and they consider an article on the Web site of Encyclopedia Britannica more believable than the identical article found on Wikipedia. Other findings show that children are appropriately skeptical of trusting strangers they meet online, but not skeptical enough about entertainment and health information found online. Older kids are more rigorous in their assessment of online information than younger ones; younger children are less analytical and more likely to be fooled.

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URL الوصول: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/26070