Technology, Society and Culture: -The Impact of Technology to society and culture

Technology, Society and Culture: -The Impact of Technology to society and culture

Batteau, A. (2010). Technology and culture. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press.

Technology and culture provide a comprehensive overview of anthropological and other concepts investigating the role of technology in learning-the significance of technology for cultural advancement. The book cultivates and compares anthropological dissertation of technology and culture with humanistic and administrative views. The book also uses essential anthropological ideas to identify a board of various techniques, which are both prehistorical and current development. These including adaptation, progress, iconic distinctiveness, and mutual depictions. All this in a framework of shared understandings and misunderstandings. As a result of being an auto mechanic, computer scientist, ethnographer, and aircraft pilot, the author shares his own experience to validate that technologies are cultural creations, encrypting, and hastening the visions and misbeliefs of the societies that yield them (Batteau, 2010).

Bolin, G. (Ed.). (2012). Cultural technologies: the shaping of culture in media and society. Routledge.

Goran Bolin is a Professor of Media & Communication Studies at Sodertorn University. The articles in this book deliberate on the relationship between culture and technology in the world we live in today. Within the sections of the book, religions and technology discussed in detail. A variety of cases in point from national contexts given. The book brings together globally renowned researchers from the social sciences and humanities, covering varied themes. Such themes intellectual property, server farms and search engines, social technologies and epistemology, cybernetic legations, scrutiny, peer-to-peer file-sharing, sound media and nostalgia, and much more. It contains both ancient and current analyses of technological sensations as well as epistemological discussions on the uses of technology. This book broadens the debate between technology, society, and culture. The articles in this volume carry information on how technology has affected the globe at large. The book brings unique and advanced methodologies to technology, and this is crucial for any researcher. (Bolin, 2014).

Ellul, J., & Wilkinson, J. (2011). The technological society: New York, NY: Vintage Books.

As intuitive and prudent nowadays as it was when at first printed in 1954, Jacques Ellul’s. The Technological Society has turn out to be a classic in its field, laying the foundation for all other studies of technology and society that have monitored. The technological society is a book that shows an all-pervading assessment of our technical complexity and the impact of gradually consistent beliefs and values on the future of humanity. Ellul offers penetrating scrutiny of our technological evolution, showing how technology-which began mildly enough as a servant of humankind threatens to revolutionize the human nature itself in its permanent establishment of a surrounding that encounters its culminations.

No dialogue about the vulnerabilities of technology and its inevitable effects on society can instigate without a careful analysis of this book. The author goes through one human-social activity after another and shows how it has been technologized, solidified to be efficient, and abridged in the process. Jacques Ellul persuasively validates how technology continues to intellectualize as the help of humanity. he argues that it will revolutionize the whole thing that prevents the emotional reasoning of its improvement.; It is unless necessary steps taken to move humanity and society at large out of the setting that ‘technique’ is creating to meet its own needs. The book explains how technology has become independent and is in the course of taking over the cultural values of every community. Without an exemption, overthrowing and overpowering these ideals to produce, at last, a robust global ethos in which all non-technological alterations and diversity are common form (Ellul & Wilkinson, 2011).

Pacey, A. (2005). The culture of technology. New York: ACLS History E-Book Project.

The Culture of Technology looks at the often contradictory approaches toward nuclear weapons, natural technologies, pollution, Third World development, automation, social medicine, and industrial decline. It disagrees with the mutual impression that technology is “value-free” and displays that many factors accustom its improvement and use. These factors can be either political, scientific, cultural, or even economic. There are many examples of cultures presented. These vary from the effect of snowmobiles in North America to the use of water pumps in rural India and from domestic-made dolls in Africa to electricity generation in Britain. All these displays how the intricate relations of many in every community affects technological practice. With the experience in physics and technology policies, pacey focuses on the improvement of technologies suitable to Third World country needs (si & yu, 2012).

Weiss, R., & Schneider, J. P. (2014). Closer together, further apart: the effect of technology and the Internet on parenting, work, and relationships. Carefree, AZ: Gentle Path Press.

Closer Together, Further Apart offers a current distinctive understanding of the cultural changes brought about by digital technology and the Internet. It considers how these new connections are impacting not only society, but more specifically, communication in relations through peers. Digital technology has in less than a single age band, intensely and forever changed how people associate and converse with each other. Dialogues and data transmissions that once either were not likely to complete now happen instantaneously. Technological developments are incredibly affecting humanity, compelling us to adjust on numerous levels. As it is with all forms of social-technological change, these developments can cause positive and negative impacts. The book shows how those who engross data and use innovative technologies in healthy ways flourish and vice versa. The articles further discuss the impact of technology on relationships. It also points out how social engagements have been affected due to the advancement of technology (Weiss & Schneider, 2014).