Computers are supposed to be smart, yet they frustrate us because they don’t fit how people think. They impose a binary, all-or-nothing approach to a world of stories and analogies. This book proposes a solution: redesigning computer technology and its social institutions.
Katsikides provides articles dealing with technology’s role and its social impact within the new information age. He draws together research devoted to key questions examining the relationship between the various new developments of technological systems and their social impact.
Esthetic Experiments
This book investigates the cultural and political aspects of technology in American society. Presenting critical accounts of writing, media, surveillance, and war, these essays explore the coalescence of technology and text to reformulate the American experience.
Information Infrastructure(s)
This book explores how information infrastructures enable, but also constrain, cooperation across different groups. It questions the role of the material and immaterial objects connecting us—from devices and networks to society itself.
The Future of Post-Human Engineering
Is mass media informational and accurate or disinformational and propagandistic? Neither view is correct. Something vital has been missing from the analysis. This book shows a better way to understand mass media, one that will alter our future.
Towards Efficient Photovoltaic Devices
As solar energy is the only renewable resource capable of adequately meeting today’s total global energy demand, Andrei focuses on the possibilities of optimising dye-sensitised solar cells’ efficiency.