Framing Technology uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore some of the key issues in technology today, including virtual reality, gender, health, the environment, regulation, the information society, surveillance and globalisation.

AcknowledgmentsContributorsAbbreviations and glossaryIntroduction - Lelia GreenPART I FRAMING THE INDIVIDUAL1 Technological genders: technology, culture and classJudy Wajcman2 Virtual reality fakes the future: cybersex, lies and computer gamesDavid McKie3 The technology of televisionAlbert Moran4 Anticipating tomorrow: technology and the futureSusan Oliver5 Till death us do part: technology and healthDavid More and Elizabeth MorePART II FRAMING THE COMMUNAL6 Regulating technologyLen Palmer7 Australia's information society: clever enough?Trevor Barr8 Universal suffrage? Technology and democracyJulianne Schultz9 Dataveillance: delivering 1984Roger Clarke10 Electronic neighbourhoods: communicating power in computer-based networksLynda Davies and Wayne HarveyPART III FRAMING THE GLOBAL11 The multilocals: transnationals and communications technologyDick Bryan12 Missing the pos