{"product_id":"9783032395689","title":"From Technization to Transformation – Sociological Perspectives on Technology, Media Changes, and Modes of Innovation","description":"\u003ch1\u003eFrom Technization to Transformation – Sociological Perspectives on Technology, Media Changes, and Modes of Innovation\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWerner Rammert\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eSocial Science \/ Media Studies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: DE;\"\u003eThis book offers a coherent introduction to social science research on modern technologies, digital media, and societal innovation. Synthesizing thirty years of theory-building and research findings, the book develops a processual concept of technization and an extended concept of media constellations that help understand long-term societal transformation. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: DE;\"\u003ePart I presents \"Foundational Concepts” that rethink technology studies and the socio-material dynamics arising from the interrelations among economic, political, and cultural practices, and from the co-evolving material and symbolic technologies.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: DE;\"\u003ePart II assembles research-based studies on four path-breaking \"Media Transformations”, from early telecommunications and PCs to actual cases of knowledge- and agent-based Artificial Intelligence. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: DE;\"\u003ePart III provides the foundational texts on \"Innovation and Societal Change” that help understand the rise of a post-Schumpeterian mode of innovation and the transformation towards an accelerated and diversified \"Innovation Society Today\". \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: DE;\"\u003eThe collection of the author’s most relevant essays on technization, mediatization, and innovation processes offers researchers a broad overview and sound suggestions for future research. At the same time, this thorough review is suitable as an introduction for advanced students of sociology and other social sciences; computing, communication, and media studies; and the international STS community.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eWerner Rammert is Professor (em.) of Sociology and of Science and Technology Studies (STS) at the TU Berlin. He was First Speaker of the DFG Research Training Group “Innovation Society Today”. From 1991 to 1999 he was Professor of Sociology at the FU Berlin and a member of the research group “Comparing Societies: From a Historical, Ethnological, and Sociological Perspective”. He co-founded the DFG Research Programme “Socionics”together wirh Computer Scientists. His research interests include: pragmatist theory of technology, social theory of distributed agency and socio-material constellations, the making and use of technologies (telephone, PC, high tech, artificial intelligence, robotics), the ‘technography’ of human-computer- interaction and the long-term ’biography’ of  ‘innovations of society’.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e12 December 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Switzerland\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783032395689\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52370147147916,"sku":"9783032395689","price":143.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783032395689.jpg?v=1786630642","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783032395689","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}