... of privacy impact assessments and privacy-enhancing technologies. It emphasises the significance of the personal information economy and how much remains to be done to tackle its challenges. It explains that the NCC is keen to promote change, to move beyond dogma by encouraging an enlightened personal...

... profession and women medicalisation motherhood National Treatment Agency NTA prohibition reproductive healthcare technologies of power welfarisation characteristics ascription of deviancy feminist approach identities normalisation responsibilisation technologies of the self Canada comparative...

... and the “making up” of their identities is investigated. It explores the dominant governmental technologies of power from which the key constructions of women as “problematic” drug users emanate in the UK, Canada and the US: punishment and prohibition, medicalisation and welfarisation. It also investigates...

.... They attribute the growth of a technical culture of monitoring and evaluation to increasing government emphasis on social policy after re-democratisation, the expansion of public policy programmes at universities, the development of new information technology capabilities and the influence of international...

...This chapter examines the challenges and opportunities for local civil society posed by digital technologies, especially social media. Drawing upon case studies of local civil society groups in three localities in Wales – Aberystwyth, Cardiff and Swansea – they explored the dynamics...

... technologies (ICTs) and critically discusses cultural beliefs, social norms and life situations that facilitate use and non-use of ICTs in everyday life. Discussing the findings of a recent mixed-methods study on older women’s ICT use, the chapter identifies important commonalities in how older Austrian women...

...This chapter discusses many of the policy ‘levers’ and ‘technologies’ that can be traced through the specifics of policy in other sectors of education (preschool, school, further education (FE) and lifelong learning, and higher education (HE). The chapter notes that its title is drawn from former...

... discourses are involved. In this chapter we use Foucault's concepts of governmentality and biopower to analyse a UNESCO (2004) publication designed to guide youth policy development, and the recently formulated youth policies of Malawi and Lesotho. We examine how youth policies perform as technologies...

... to older people and improve their quality of life. However, while the promotion of smart home initiatives may be sound, technologies could be used in ways that underpin or consolidate ageist, disablist, and oppressive service frameworks. This chapter explores the significance of device communication...

... of children and young people as they relate to the internet and online technologies, drawing on lessons of the recent past in order to look ahead to anticipate what is coming. The chapter presents some guiding principles for research or policy on risks in the form of a theoretical framework. It describes...

...Young people, the so-called ‘Net generation’, constitute a vulnerable group, potentially ‘at risk’ from some of the new information and communication technologies. But what do we know about this age group and their online behaviour? What does current research tell us about children's experiences...

...What opportunities do digital technologies present? How do developments in digital media support scholarship and teaching yet further social justice? Written by two experts in the field, this accessible book is the first to look at scholarly practice in the digital era and consider how it can...

..., and social justice to an enhanced concern with output-centred agendas premised on expedited development and growth. The rolling out of entrepreneurial planning requires the employment of new governance technologies, such as quantitative systems of managerialism and the implementation of a multiplicity...

...This chapter discusses the crucial links between technology and travel behaviours, looking both at traditional transport technologies and the impacts of other technologies. The development of transport technology has enabled us to travel more cheaply, more comfortably, faster and for longer...

...This chapter disconnects from the online world to explore the relationship between sociology and its platforms. It approaches platforms as positions from which to communicate that are facilitated by technological infrastructures in digital or analogue. It also rethinks the relationship between...

... or exploitative. As social media platforms such as Facebook have transitioned from being new and novel to an established and everyday part of social life, the chapter unpacks the emerging social dynamics of social media with an eye towards the future. Techno-dystopian visions of new digital technologies can...

... and legal devices aimed at enabling their participation, and, drawing on jurisprudential analysis of the conceptual underpinnings of the legal concept of jurisdiction, argues these can be understood as technologies of jurisdiction – legal devices which produce jurisdiction. It considers the way in which...

... a range of existing structural inequalities from racial discrimination to poverty affect not only how people are affected by disease but also the extent to which they can benefit (or not) from scientific and technological responses to disease. Both the design and distribution of technologies have ethical...

... Jasanoff Sheila participatory governance Wynne Brian deficit model Irwin Alan participatory technologies delegative democracy genetically modified GM foods invited publics relational approach uninvited publics GM Nation division of labour European Commission Krueger Tobias Water Framework...

... state of economic and technological development, and especially the rise of digital capabilities, makes the adoption of openness, cooperation, and shared ownership and governance a more rational economic choice in meeting the needs and wants of humanity than one based on competition, artificial scarcity...