Politics & Technology

This book explores and compares why and to what extent, national governments decide to control the Internet and how this impacts on crucial socio-economic activities and fundamental civil rights...

_x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ This book explores how the experimental perspective determines what ethical issues new technologies raise and how it helps morally evaluate their introduction...

A timely and groundbreaking account of the disturbing landscape of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown amidst an earthquake and tsunami on Japan’s NE coastline. In providing riveting insights into its background and the disaster management options taken and the political, technical and social rea..

This book explores the technical, political economic and sociocultural implications of technological change. Using an international political economy approach, the author focuses on how the Internet is used by ethnic minorities to communicate...

_x000D_ Offers a range of scholarly perspectives on the international effect of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown four years out from the disaster.  Topics covered include: safety of nuclear energy, radiation risk, nuclear waste management, and development of nuclear energy...

_x005F_x005F_x000D_ Offers a range of scholarly perspectives on the international effect of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown four years out from the disaster. Grounded in the field of science, technology and society (STS) studies, a leading cast of international scholars from the Asia-Pacific,..

This book examines the multiple connections between critical communication theory and surveillance studies by highlighting some major new contributions from communication scholars to our understanding of surveillance as a set of cultural and institutional practices, and especially as an instrument o..

This book examines the multiple connections between critical communication theory and surveillance studies by highlighting some major new contributions from communication scholars to our understanding of surveillance as a set of cultural and institutional practices, and especially as an instrument o..

Yuko Suda examines the Safe Harbor debate, the passenger name record (PNR) dispute, and the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Transactions affair to understand the transfer of personal data from the European Union (EU) to the United States...

This volume explores how the relation between knowledge and the political is developing in the rapidly evolving context of 'knowledge societies'. By analysing how the traditional boundaries and categories of the political are being redefined in the age of communication technologies and information e..

This title provides a concise guide to the way in which politics and space exploration interact...