Mundane governance :: ontology and accountability /

What is to be made of the outcry when newly issued recycling 'wheelie' bins are discovered to contain microchips for weighing and evaluating householders' rubbish? The angry accusations that speed cameras are generating excessive income for the government? These increasingly widesprea...

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Main Author: Woolgar, Steve
Other Authors: Neyland, Daniel, 1973-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:What is to be made of the outcry when newly issued recycling 'wheelie' bins are discovered to contain microchips for weighing and evaluating householders' rubbish? The angry accusations that speed cameras are generating excessive income for the government? These increasingly widespread reactions to ordinary events and everyday phenomena share a common theme. This book takes these concerns as the starting point for exploring the ways in which relations of governance and accountability in contemporary life are organized around ordinary, everyday pervasive objects and technologies.
Physical Description:1 online resource (305 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191505294
0191505293
9780191762994
0191762997
1306300223
9781306300223

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