The Transformative Capacity of New Technologies: A Theory of Sociotechnical Change

by Ulrich Dolata

Book Overview

Scientific concepts on the co-evolution of technology and society, as well as recent sociotechnical system approaches, focus on the general interrelations between technology, socioeconomic structures, and institutions. Their aim is to study and explain processes and modes of technological change. Rarely, however, have answers been put forward on the related question of processes of socioeconomic and institutional change, provoked by emerging new...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138807842
• ISBN13: 9781138807846
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"