Cecilia Tichi

Bio: Cecilia Tichi is an academic researcher from Vanderbilt University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Print culture & Suffrage. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 2 publications receiving 111 citations.

The Making of Green Knowledge: Environmental Politics and Cultural Transformation

Abstract: The Making of Green Knowledge provides a wide ranging introduction to the politics of the environment and the development of environmental knowledge. Focusing in particular on the quest in recent years for more sustainable forms of socio-economic development, it attempts to place environmental politics within a broad historical perspective, and examines the different political strategies and cultural practices that have emerged. The Making of Green Knowledge is a uniquely personal exploration of the relationship between sustainable development, public participation, and cultural transformation. Through a highly accessible mix of theory, practical analysis and personal reflection it seeks to bring the making of green knowledge to life.

And lead us not into thinking the new is new: a bibliographic case for new media history

Abstract: Must the concept of the study of new media seem so thoroughly ordinary? What does it mean to study new media other than to study media that exist now? Prompted by the 10th anniversary of New Media & Society, this article aims to help rethink and elongate the history of new media studies by merging new media studies and media history literatures.The recursive definition and use of the term `new media' are reviewed. New media need to be understood not as emerging digital communication technologies, so much as media with uncertain terms and uses. Moreover, by recognizing that new media studies quickly become history and that most media history is already new media history, this article calls for a use of both literatures to focus on the renewable nature of media in history. It reflects on a complementary attitude toward history meant to help usher in a sounder future of the study of the past.

Philosophical Tools for Technological Culture: Putting Pragmatism to Work

Abstract: Preliminary Table of Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Tuning Up Technology 2. Technology and Community Life 3. Productive Pragmatism, Critical Theory, and Agape 4. Art, Technoscience, and Social Action 5. Technoscience Education for a Life-Long Curriculum 6. Literacy, Mediacy, and Technological Determinism 7. Populism and the Cult of the Expert 8. Hope, Salvation, and Responsibility 9. The Next Technological Revolution Notes Bibliography Index

Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in Twentieth-Century Japan

Abstract: Japanese industry is the envy of the world for its efficient and humane management practices, yet the origins and implications of "Japanese-style" management are poorly understood. This book claims that Japanese stategies are not particularly novel, or even especially Japanese. The book traces the roots of these practices to scientific management, or Taylorism, an American concept that arrived in Japan at the turn of the 20th century. This imported model was then transformed in Japan's industrial workshops. This study charts Taylorism's Japanese incarnation from the 1920s to the Depression era, wartime mobilization and postwar productivity drives. Taylorism became more than a management tool, as it spread into economic growth, social policy and political authority in modern Japan. This historical and comparative perspective reveals the centrality of Japanese Taylorism to ongoing discussions of Japan's government-industry relations and the evolution of Fordist mass production.

The Cambridge history of the American novel

Abstract: This ambitious literary history traces the American novel from its emergence in the late eighteenth century to its diverse incarnations in the multi-ethnic, multi-media culture of the present day In a set of original essays by renowned scholars from all over the world, the volume extends important critical debates and frames new ones Offering new views of American classics, it also breaks new ground to show the role of popular genres - such as science fiction and mystery novels - in the creation of the literary tradition One of the original features of this book is the dialogue between the essays, highlighting cross-currents between authors and their works as well as across historical periods While offering a narrative of the development of the genre, the History reflects the multiple methodologies that have informed readings of the American novel and will change the way scholars and readers think about American literary history