The myths of technology : innovation and inequality

Contents: Wiebe E. Bijker: Foreword - Judith Burnett/Peter Senker/Kathy Walker: Introduction - Alvaro de Miranda: Technological Determinism and Ideology: Questioning the 'Information Society' and the 'Digital Divide' - Richard Sharpe: Inequalities in the Globalised Knowledge-Based Economy - Bernard Kahane: Old Wine in New Bottles: How New Technology Recycles Old Myths - Richard Sharpe: Brains, Generations and One Last Push: Myths Used to Establish and Sustain the Computer Industry - Linda Stepulevage: ERP in Higher Education: The Reinforcement of Myths - Kathy Walker: Reality Check: Interactivity, Reality Television and Empowerment - Delia Langstone: Myths, Crimes and Videotape - Erika Cudworth: Nature, Culture, Technology: Myths and Inequalities in the Posthuman Zoo - Mark Davis/Paul Flowers: Myth and HIV Medical Technologies: Perspectives from the 'Transitions in HIV' Project - Paul Nightingale/Paul Martin: The Myth of the Biotech Revolution - Peter Senker/Joanna Chataway: The Myths of Agricultural Biotechnology - Judith Burnett/Peter Senker/Kathy Walker: Epilogue.