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Surveillance and transparency are both significant and increasingly
pervasive activities in neoliberal societies. Surveillance is taken
up as a means to achieving security and efficiency; transparency is
seen as a mechanism for ensuring compliance or promoting informed
consumerism and informed citizenship. Indeed, transparency is often
seen as the antidote to the threats and fears of surveillance. This
book adopts a novel approach in examining surveillance practices
and transparency practices together as parallel systems of
accountability. It presents the house of mirrors as a new framework
for understanding surveillance and transparency practices
instrumented with information technology. The volume centers around
five case studies: Campaign Finance Disclosure, Secure Flight,
American Red Cross, Google, and Facebook. A series of themed
chapters draw on the material and provide cross-case analysis. The
volume ends with a chapter on policy implications.
An engaging, accessible survey of the ethical issues faced by engineers, designed for students The first engineering ethics textbook to use debates as the framework for presenting engineering ethics topics, this engaging, accessible survey explores the most difficult and controversial issues that engineers face in daily practice. Written by a leading scholar in the field of engineering and computer ethics, Deborah Johnson approaches engineering ethics with three premises: that engineering is both a technical and a social endeavor; that engineers don't just build things, they build society; and that engineering is an inherently ethical enterprise.
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Feminist Technology (Paperback)
Linda Layne, Sharra Vostral, Kate Boyer; Contributions by Jennifer Aengst, Maia Boswell-Penc, …
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R672
Discovery Miles 6 720
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Is there such a thing as a "feminist technology"? If so, what makes
a technology feminist? Is it in the design process, in the thing
itself, in the way it is marketed, or in the way it is used by
women (or by men)? In this collection, feminist scholars trained in
diverse fields consider these questions by examining a range of
products, tools, and technologies that were specifically designed
for and marketed to women. Evaluating the claims that such products
are liberating for women, the contributors focus on case studies of
menstrual-suppressing birth control pills, home pregnancy tests,
tampons, breast pumps, Norplant, anti-fertility vaccines, and
microbicides. In examining these various products, this volume
explores ways of actively intervening to develop better tools for
designing, promoting, and evaluating feminist technologies.
Recognizing the different needs and desires of women and
acknowledging the multiplicity of feminist approaches, "Feminist
Technology" offers a sustained debate on existing and emergent
technologies that share the goal of improving women's lives.
Contributors are Jennifer Aengst, Maia Boswell-Penc, Kate Boyer,
Frances Bronet, Shirley Gorenstein, Anita Hardon, Deborah G.
Johnson, Linda L. Layne, Deana McDonagh, and Sharra L. Vostral.
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