Kate Riordan
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Science and technology are playing increasingly important roles in our lives. New projects in development today will fundamentally shape the world around us, and manipulate our lived experience. But how and why are such important scientific and technological projects chosen, and what are the consequences of this process?
In this book, Kate O'Riordan answers these crucial question. She discovers that many objects, such as genomes and genomic projects,...
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As digital transformations continue to accelerate in the world, discourses of big data have come to dominate in a number of fields, from politics and economics, to media and education. But how can we really understand the digital world when so much of the writing through which we grapple with it remains deeply problematic?
In a compelling new work of feminist critical theory, Bassett, Kember and O'Riordan scrutinise many of the assumptions of...