Product Description: Experts analyze how mobile communication is changing daily life and local culture around the world, in both industrialized and developing countries.Mobile communication has become mainstream and even omnipresent. It is arguably the most successful and certainly the most rapidly adopted new technology in the world: more than one of every three people worldwide possesses a mobile phone...read more

Product Description: Social critics and artificial intelligence experts have long prophesized that computers and robots would soon relegate humans to the dustbin of history. Many among the general population seem to have shared this fear of a dehumanized future...read more

Product Description: Hablemos de la paradoja Internet. La paradoja Internet plantea el hecho de que una tecnología social aísle más a las personas. Esta paradoja la han alimentado las conclusiones a las que han llegado distintos investigadores. Por un lado, algunos resultados han apuntado a que un uso intensivo de las nuevas tecnologías, y en ...read more

Product Description: The ever-increasing integration of technology and the human body is attracting attention from religious, business, and political leaders around the world, and the topic promises to be a significant social issue in the 21st century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Perhaps no other technology has done so much to so many, but been studied by so few, as the telephone. Even as its physical size diminishes, the telephone is becoming more important. In Connections, now available in paperback, James E...read more

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Product Description: With the popularity of the Internet, more and more people are turning to their computers for health information, advice, support and services. With its information based firmly on research, The Internet and Health Communication provides an in-depth analysis of the changes in human communication and health care resulting from the Internet revolution...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

U.S. military strategy, particularly the "Star Wars" scenarios, has generated renewed interest in outer space. The implications for the security of nations on Earth and other emerging space policy problems are examined in this volume. People in Space is organized into three sections following an overview by Katz: military activities in space, civilian activities in space, and space as a sociological phenomenon. The authors treat the human uses of outer space as endeavors wherein ordinary policy and sociological processes take place. They offer perspectives on how space policy ought to be and is being formed. Space policy is a new, often emotionally charged field, laden with conflicting ideas, values, and worldviews.