Smart-Tech Society: Convenience, Control, and Resistance - Softcover

Whitehead, Mark; Collier, William G.A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1035342987 ISBN 13: 9781035342983

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2024

Synopsis

Informed by the latest theoretical developments in studies of the social impacts of digital technology, Smart-Tech Society provides an empirically grounded and conceptually informed analysis of the impacts and paradoxes of smart-technology.

While making life more convenient, smart-tech has also been associated with a loss of privacy and control over decision-making autonomy. Mark Whitehead and William Collier provide a critical analysis of the lived experience of smart-technology, presenting stories of varied social engagements with digital platforms and devices. Chapters explore the myriad contexts in and through which smart-tech insinuates itself within everyday life, the benefits it brings, and the processes through which it is being resisted. Detailed case studies explore the impacts of smart-technology across a broad range of fields including personal health, work, social life, urban management, and politics.

Presenting new empirical evidence and analytical perspectives on the relationships between humans and smart-tech, this book will be of interest to academics and students in the fields of sociology, political science, human geography, and technology studies.

About this title

About the Author

Mark Whitehead, Professor of Human Geography and William G.A. Collier, Researcher, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences,Aberystwyth University, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1035342987
• ISBN 13: 9781035342983
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232