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bier --- Food science and technology --- Regional documentation --- Belgium --- Boissons --- Commerce --- Dranken --- Geschiedenis --- Handel --- Histoire --- Beer --- Bière --- History --- Bière

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Featuring 28 leading international media scholars, Technics rethinks technology for the contemporary digital era, with cutting-edge theoretical, historiographical, and methodological interventions. The volume’s contributors explore the ideas of Walter Benjamin, Ursula Le Guin, Bernhard Siegert, Gilbert Simondon, and Sylvia Wynter in conjunction with urgent questions concerning algorithmic media, digital infrastructures, generative AI, and geoengineering. An expansive collection of writings on media technologies in the digital age, Technics is an essential resource for students and scholars of film and media studies, digital humanities, science and technology studies, and the philosophy of technology.

ART / Film & Video. --- Film and media studies, philosophy of technology, media theory, science and technology studies, media archaeology, digital humanities.

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In this bold and original study, Jeff Kochan constructively combines the sociology of sientific knowledge (SSK) with Martin Heidegger's early existential conception of science. Kochan shows convincingly that these apparently quite different approaches to science are, in fact, largely compatible, even mutually reinforcing. By combining Heidegger with SSK, Kochan argues, we can explicate, elaborate, and empirically ground Heidegger's philosophy of science in a way that makes it more accessible and useful for social scientists and historians of science. Likewise, incorporating Heideggerian phenomenology into SSK renders SKK a more robust and attractive methodology for use by scholars in the interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). Kochan's ground-breaking reinterpretation of Heidegger also enables STS scholars to sustain a principled analytical focus on scientific subjectivity, without running afoul of the orthodox subject-object distinction they often reject. Science as Social Existence is the first book of its kind, unfurling its argument through a range of topics relevant to contemporary STS research. These include the epistemology and metaphysics of scientific practice, as well as the methods of explanation appropriate to social scientific and historical studies of science. This volume puts concentrated emphasis on the compatibility of Heidegger's existential conception of science with the historical sociology of scientific knowledge, pursuing this combination at both macro- and micro-historical levels. Beautifully written and accessible, this book puts new and powerful tools into the hands of sociologists and historians of science, cultural theorists of science, Heidegger scholars, and pluralist philosophers of science.

History & Philosophy Of Science --- existential conception of science --- history of science --- philosophy of science --- science and technology studies --- social sciences --- sociology of scientific knowledge

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À une époque où les problèmes socio-culturels et politico-économiques prennent une acuité croissante, l’influence continue de la science et de la technologie revêt une importance extrême. L’auteur s’attache à définir un nouveau domaine de l’économie : le « secteur quaternaire ». En redéfinissant les secteurs économiques, il montre une relation spécifique, jusqu’à présent oubliée, entre la science et la technologie, qui détermine un nouveau secteur économique : « le quaternaire », secteur caractérisé par l’action de concevoir, de créer, d’interpréter, d’organiser, de contrôler et de transmettre avec l’aide de la science et de la technique, donnant à ces actes une valeur économique. Le classement traditionnel en trois secteurs : primaire, secondaire, tertiaire, éclate en fonction de ce nouveau critère de la fonction scientifique. Le secteur quaternaire sera le secteur-clef du xxie siècle. Afin de pouvoir identifier le quaternaire comme une ère totalement a-spatiale, l’auteur commence par déterminer le quaternaire dans le temps et dans l’espace. Ensuite, avec l’examen de la division internationale du travail, du comportement et des stades de développement des pays, le quaternaire apparaît comme un instrument susceptible d’arracher les pays pauvres au sous-développement. Enfin, l’auteur décrit une nouvelle phase de l’humanité, usant de la science et de la technologie avec intensité, pouvant engager les pays dans la prospérité. Auparavant les connaissances scientifiques et techniques étaient un privilège réservé à une minorité alors que, dans un avenir proche, elles devraient être étendues à toute l’humanité, grâce à l’accumulation de connaissances et à la capacité de la société de l’information à les mettre à la portée de tous. Cette nouvelle société commandée par le quaternaire, également appelée « société de connaissance », trouvera un nouvel ordre mondial plus juste et équitable.

Social change --- Division of labor --- Changement social --- Division du travail --- Economics --- Science and technology --- Brazil --- Public Administration --- politique publique --- innovation technologique --- recherche technique

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Universities and colleges of higher education in the United Kingdom are subject to ever more rapid changes in their functions, strategies and resources. The recent past has seen the introduction of major initiatives such as information strategies, convergence, franchising, the University of Industry and lifelong and distance learning. These developments impact in a huge way on the provision and standard of information to higher education. Additionally, higher education libraries need to respond to the challenges and opportunities of information and communications technologies (ICTs) including local and wide area networking and digitization, and to major initiatives such as the eLib programme and the Distributed National Electronic Resource, in order to be able to offer their users at all levels a fully integrated and leading-edge service. This authoritative and wide-ranging textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the changing functions of higher education libraries and the organizational cultures in which they operate. It offers an assessment of the impact of such changes on service delivery from both provider and user perspectives, and considers the future role of the academic library. Written in a readable and accessible style, the book focuses on : the library in the institution, users of the academic library, the impacts and opportunities of ICTs, human resources, management and organization of resources, collection and access management, library systems and networks, specialist services, management and professional issues. This textbook is an indispensable introduction to the range of issues facing academic libraries. Invaluable for new information professionals and for students on information and library studies courses, it also makes stimulating reading for education administrators and academic library managers in both higher and further education. While the book considers emerging scenarios in the United Kingdom in depth, it also draws examples from institutions elsewhere in the world, and is of broad international interest.

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