Shaping Technology, Guiding Policy: Concepts, Spaces and Tools - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1840646497 ISBN 13: 9781840646498

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2002

Synopsis

This book makes significant advances in analyzing the relationship between technology and society. It highlights both the policy implications of this relationship and new possibilities for intervention by government, policymakers, managers and the public.

Shaping Technology, Guiding Policy examines and utilizes a variety of recently emerging concepts which highlight the scope for local discretion and choice in the way that technologies are designed and used, as well as the broader structures and systems that may serve to restrict choice. By applying these concepts to an analysis of case studies of various social and technical settings, the book explores their utility for understanding the ways in which contemporary technologies are developed and applied and how they are made to influence society.

Academics and researchers from a wide variety of perspectives will find this new book fascinating reading. Technology policymakers and practitioners will also find the book of great interest.

About this title

About the Author:

Knut Sørensen, Professor of Sociology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway and Robin Williams, Professor of Socio-Economic Research, University of Edinburgh, UK

Review:

`This volume represents the latest thinking of the eminent group of scholars dedicated to our understanding of the "social shaping of technology". They have joined economic historians, evolutionary economists, and those doing studies of innovation, in enriching our understanding of the important yet subtle interactions between technology and society.' -- The late Keith Pavitt, formerly of SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, UK

About this edition

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1840646497
• ISBN 13: 9781840646498
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 424
• Editor: Sørensen Knut H., Williams Robin