Taming monsters: The cultural domestication of new technology

Technology in Society

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 489-504

  Smits, Martijntje ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

MONSTER THEORY; TECHNOLOGICAL RISKS; TECHNOLOGY ETHICS;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

ETHICS; PERCEPTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION;

EID: 33750865685     PISSN: 0160791X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2006.09.008     Document Type: Article

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