Mark A Shields
Biographic Data
| ID | 361801 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark A Shields |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark A |
| FAMILY NAME | Shields |
| SIGNATURE | SHIELDS M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Technology and Social Theory (review)
Reviewed by: Technology and Social Theory Mark A. Shields (bio) Technology and Social Theory. By Steve Matthewman. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Pp. xiii+206. $35. More than twenty-five years ago social theorist Randall Collins aptly pointed out that technology was one of sociology’s “unexplored dark spots.” Had he then perused the pages of Technology and Culture, he could have noted that usable social theory was largely missing from the hi…
Resistance to New Technology
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 535 Dr. Nye is professor of American studies, Odense University, Denmark. His most recent books are Electrifying America (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990), which won the 1993 Dexter Prize, and American Technological Sublime (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1994). His next, Consuming Power, will be published by MIT Press in October 1997. Resistance to New Technology: NuclearPower, Information Technology, and Biot…
Resistance to New Technology
Key Priorities for Social Science Research on Cyberspace
Social science research on cyberspace should concentrate on theory development, a national baseline survey of current networking practices, ethnographic case studies of businesses and other networked organizations, the implications of the National Information Infrastructure and multimedia technology for education, and policy options for mitigating socioeconomic and other inequalities that new communication and information technologies exacerbate
Lost in Cyberspace
This article examines the technological modernization of higher education since the mid-1980s with a view toward likely future directions and consequences. Four important questions are addressed: Does instructional computing uniquely add educational value to the learning process? Does CIT exacerbate socioeconomic inequalities? Can on-line education contribute to a revitalized public sphere in cyberspace? Are pressures for commercialization underm…
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Work and Technology in Higher Education
Contents: Preface. M.A. Shields, The Social Construction of Academic Computing. P. Lyman, Is Using a Computer Like Driving a Car, Reading a Book, or Solving a Problem? The Computer as Machine, Text, and Culture. S. Turkle, Paradoxical Reactions and Powerful Ideas: Educational Computing in a Department of Physics. W. Graves, III, Ideologies of Computerization. W.O. Beeman, Stalking the Art Historian. P. McQuillan, Computers and Pedagogy: The Invis…
Work and Technology in Higher Education
Social Evolutionism
Marxism and Ideology
Man in the Age of Technology
The relationship of avowed life satisfaction to public acceptance of and expectations about a nuclear power plant
As part of a longitudinal study of the social and psychological effects of a nuclear plant in Hartsville, Tennessee, this study examined the relationship between avowed life satisfaction and acceptance of a nuclear plant and perceptions about the likelihood of its potential effects. Subjects were 288 residents of the Hartsville area who were privately interviewed in August, 1975. Results indicated no differences between respondents with low- and …
Lost in Cyberspace
This article examines the technological modernization of higher education since the mid-1980s with a view toward likely future directions and consequences. Four important questions are addressed: Does instructional computing uniquely add educational value to the learning process? Does CIT exacerbate socioeconomic inequalities? Can on-line education contribute to a revitalized public sphere in cyberspace? Are pressures for commercialization underm…
The relationship of avowed life satisfaction to public acceptance of and expectations about a nuclear power plant
As part of a longitudinal study of the social and psychological effects of a nuclear plant in Hartsville, Tennessee, this study examined the relationship between avowed life satisfaction and acceptance of a nuclear plant and perceptions about the likelihood of its potential effects. Subjects were 288 residents of the Hartsville area who were privately interviewed in August, 1975. Results indicated no differences between respondents with low- and …
Man in the Age of Technology
Marxism and Ideology
Social Evolutionism
Work and Technology in Higher Education
Key Priorities for Social Science Research on Cyberspace
Social science research on cyberspace should concentrate on theory development, a national baseline survey of current networking practices, ethnographic case studies of businesses and other networked organizations, the implications of the National Information Infrastructure and multimedia technology for education, and policy options for mitigating socioeconomic and other inequalities that new communication and information technologies exacerbate
Lost in Cyberspace
This article examines the technological modernization of higher education since the mid-1980s with a view toward likely future directions and consequences. Four important questions are addressed: Does instructional computing uniquely add educational value to the learning process? Does CIT exacerbate socioeconomic inequalities? Can on-line education contribute to a revitalized public sphere in cyberspace? Are pressures for commercialization underm…
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Work and Technology in Higher Education
Contents: Preface. M.A. Shields, The Social Construction of Academic Computing. P. Lyman, Is Using a Computer Like Driving a Car, Reading a Book, or Solving a Problem? The Computer as Machine, Text, and Culture. S. Turkle, Paradoxical Reactions and Powerful Ideas: Educational Computing in a Department of Physics. W. Graves, III, Ideologies of Computerization. W.O. Beeman, Stalking the Art Historian. P. McQuillan, Computers and Pedagogy: The Invis…
Resistance to New Technology
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 535 Dr. Nye is professor of American studies, Odense University, Denmark. His most recent books are Electrifying America (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990), which won the 1993 Dexter Prize, and American Technological Sublime (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1994). His next, Consuming Power, will be published by MIT Press in October 1997. Resistance to New Technology: NuclearPower, Information Technology, and Biot…
Resistance to New Technology
Technology and Social Theory (review)
Reviewed by: Technology and Social Theory Mark A. Shields (bio) Technology and Social Theory. By Steve Matthewman. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Pp. xiii+206. $35. More than twenty-five years ago social theorist Randall Collins aptly pointed out that technology was one of sociology’s “unexplored dark spots.” Had he then perused the pages of Technology and Culture, he could have noted that usable social theory was largely missing from the hi…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · History (4 works) · Online and Blended Learning (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Higher education (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)