A Hybrid Imagination: Technology in Historical Perspective

by Andrew Jamison, Steen Hyldgaard Christensen, Lars Botin

This book presents a cultural perspective on scientific and technological development. As opposed to the "story-lines" of economic innovation and social construction that tend to dominate both the popular and scholarly literature on science, technology and society (or STS), the authors offer an alternative approach, devoting special attention to the role played by social and cultural movements in the making of science and technology. They show how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031799739
• ISBN13: 9783031799730
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 164 Pages