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The information age and its new lexicon: Biotechnology as a case in point
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In this paper, the authors focus on biotechnology to illustrate some of the issues involved in the emerging information age and its lexicon, arguing that this new age demands the reinterpretation of basic ideas ranging from scientific vision to theories of properties and property rights.About:
This article is published in Technology in Society.The article was published on 1994-01-01. It has received 3 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Information Age & Reinterpretation.read more
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Problematic publics : A critical review of surveys of public attitudes to biotechnology
TL;DR: The authors discusses a range of recent major surveys of public attitudes toward biotechnology and identifies a number of problematic features of the surveys: the use of predominantly consumerist rather than civic conception of public discourse; the assumption of a unitary "general public," a "cognitive deficit" approach to public understanding of science; and the presumption of a politically neutral and instrumental ist model of science and technology.
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'Talking' and 'Doing' Gene-Technology Politics: A Policy Analysis.
TL;DR: In this article, a new analytical framework that unearths the discursive role biotechnology plays in constructing international environmental policy regimes is presented. But the authors focus on the use of language resources like storylines, metaphors and other rhetorical devices.
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Autonomy and Sovereignty in the Era of Global Restructuring
TL;DR: In the lexicon of the era of global restructuring, the nature of political community and sovereign power has been thrown into question as discussed by the authors, and globalization has become associated with a crisis of the territorial nation-state.
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The structure of scientific revolutions
TL;DR: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions as mentioned in this paper is a seminal work in the history of science and philosophy of science, and it has been widely cited as a major source of inspiration for the present generation of scientists.
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Truth and Method
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
TL;DR: A scientific community cannot practice its trade without some set of received beliefs as discussed by the authors, and these beliefs form the foundation of the educational initiation that prepares and licenses the student for professional practice, which helps ensure that the received beliefs are firmly fixed in the student's mind.
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The essential tension : selected studies in scientific tradition and change
TL;DR: The Essential Tension as discussed by the authors is a collection of previously published essays by Thomas Kuhn to which the author has added two hitherto unpublished articles and a splendid, partly autobiographical preface.
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The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society
TL;DR: This book examines the implications of cybernetics for education, law, language, science, technology, as Norbert Wiener anticipates the enormous impact--in effect, a third industrial revolution--that the computer has had on the authors' lives.