Sturken, Marita

Technological Visions : Hopes and Fears That Shape New Technologies

Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Technological Visions and the Rhetoric of the New MARITA STURKEN AND DOUGLAS THOMAS 1(18) 1 "Spinning" Technology: What We Are Not Thinking about When We Are Thinking about Computers SHERRY TURKLE 19(15) 2 Sow's Ears from Silk Purses: The Strange Alchemy of Technological Visionaries LANGDON WINNER 34(14) 3 Mediums and Media JEFFREY SCONCE 48(23) 4 Mobilities of Time and Space: Technologies of the Modern and the Postmodern MARITA STURKEN 71(21) 5 Man-made Futures, Man-made Pasts ASA BRIGGS 92(18) 6 Portable TV: Studies in Domestic Space Travels LYNN SPIGEL 110(35) 7 Science Fiction Film and the Technological Imagination VIVIAN SOBCHACK 145(14) 8 Technological Prediction: A Promethean Problem DAVID E. NYE 159(18) 9 The Future of Prediction JOHN PERRY BARLOW 177(9) 10 Penguins, Predictions, and Technological Optimism: A Skeptic's View WENDY M. GROSSMAN 186(15) 11 Information Superhighways, Virtual Communities, and Digital Libraries: Information Society Metaphors as Political Rhetoric PETER LYMAN 201(18) 12 Rethinking the Cyberbody: Hackers, Viruses, and Cultural Anxiety DOUGLAS THOMAS 219(21) 13 Peaceable Kingdoms and New Information Technologies: Prospects for the Nation-State CAROLYN MARVIN 240(15) 14 Somewhere There's a Place for Us: Sexual Minorities and the Internet LARRY GROSS 255(15) 15 Surfin' the Net: Children, Parental Obsolescence, and Citizenship SARAH BANET-WEISER 270(23) 16 When the Virtual Isn't Enough KATIE HAFNER 293(12) 17 Place Matters: Journeys through Global and Local Spaces RICHARD CHABRÁN AND ROMELIA SALINAS 305(34) 18 The Globalization of Everyday Life: Visions and Reality JENNIFER L. GIBBS, SANDRA J. BALL-ROKEACH, JOO-YOUNG JUNG, YONG-CHAN KIM, AND JACK LINCHUAN QIU 339(20) About the Contributors 359(4) Index 363