Books in the Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society series

This transdisciplinary volume uses notions of resonance and axiology to analyse distributed perception in the form of geological, animal, bacterial, machinic and human co-perceptibilities. In so doing they show that distributed perception is an important for addressing the emergence, persistence, and development of human-animal-machine relations.

This book deals with how to measure innovation in crisis management drawing on data, case studies and lessons learned from different European countries.

This book deals with how to measure innovation in crisis management drawing on data, case studies and lessons learned from different European countries.

Drawing on cases from the world of 'free software', this book examines Rousseau's conception of freedom and its significance in the modern world of science and technology, where so much of our experience and activity is enwrapped by algorithms, from our property to our food, bodies, brains and, by extension, our liberty.

This transdisciplinary volume uses notions of resonance and axiology to analyse distributed perception in the form of geological, animal, bacterial, machinic and human co-perceptibilities. In so doing they show that distributed perception is an important for addressing the emergence, persistence, and development of human-animal-machine relations.

This book analyses communication of university research institutes, with a focus on science communication. Advancing the `decentralisation hypothesis¿, it asserts that communication structures are increasingly built also at `subordinate unit¿ levels of research universities.

Blockchain and Web 3.0 fills the gap in our understanding of blockchain technologies by hosting a discussion of the new technologies in a variety of disciplinary settings.

This book analyses a surprising success story in the field of international environmental policy making; the threat to the ozone layer posed by industrial chemicals, and how it has been averted.

Drawing on a range of methods from across science and technology studies, digital humanities and digital arts, this book presents a comprehensive view of the Big Data phenomenon.

Drawing on a range of methods from across science and technology studies, digital humanities and digital arts, this book presents a comprehensive view of the Big Data phenomenon.

This book dicusses our relationship with other animals and the rise of veterinary medicine, posing important questions about the increasing intensification of animal use for both animal and human health.

This book demonstrates the increasing convergence of interest of some social scientists in the theories, research and findings of the life sciences in building a more interdisciplinary approach to the study of politics.

Highlights how online networking offers potential for fresh forms of activist mobilizing, repertoires, participatory democracy, direct action, fundraising, and civic engagement.

Offers book-length analysis of disability through the lens of Science and Technology Studies (STS). This book is useful to practicing social service workers and readers in the fields of disability studies, sociology of the body/senses, medical sociology and STS.

Biometric technologies, such as finger- or facial-scan, are being deployed across a variety of social contexts in order to facilitate and guarantee identity verification and authentication. This book critically analyses these technologies in terms of the application of biopolitical power - corporate, military and governmental - on the human body.

Describes and analyzes the transformations in global mechanisms for monitoring infectious disease outbreaks that have occurred since the mid-1990s. This book examines early warning outbreak detection, which operates electronically through the Internet to identify infectious disease outbreaks that may lead to international health emergencies.