How helpful is Toffler’s (1971) idea of ‘future shock’ to our understanding of our experience of new technology today? AND Critically assess the similarities and differences in foreign policy between the administrations of Bill Clinton and George W.
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This course-work contains two-spread essays:
The first essay is within sociology subject and the second is within politics, please fallow the instructions given.
How helpful is Toffler’s (1971) idea of ‘future shock’ to our understanding of our experience of new technology today?
Requirements for this course work are set below:
1. A total of 1,500 words
2. Essay referencing MUST be in HARVARD style. The system of referencing used is the author date system, and more specifically Harvard. The system consists of two parts: in text citations and full references at the end. The former leads to the later and both will be necessary for reader to find the exact source of the information. List references alphabetically. Where an author has more than one reference, list by date from earliest to most recent. In the case of multiple works in the same year, add a letter 1991a, 1991b. Please ensure that every source referenced appears in the essay bibliography and every reference in the bibliography appears in the essay. The bibliography must be set out alphabetically by the author’s last name. Which will then be at the end of the essay and the bibliography should list the books or the articles. And it must be set out alphabetically by the author’s last name. e.g (Smith, 2007: 4) and so on…
3. Please use a minim of 9 sources, mainly books then articles and online trusty websites.
4. Please include some of the sources below:
• Webster The Information Society Revisited
• Our Failure to Keep up with Technology
• Watch Future Shock (1972)
• Aronowitz, S., Martinson, B. and Menser, M. ed. (1996) Technoscience and Cyberculture. London: Routledge.
• Bell, D. (1974) The Coming of Post-industrial Society. New York: Basic Books.
• Brynjolfsson, E. and McAfee, A. (2014) The second machine age : work, progress, and prosperity in a time of brilliant technologies. First Edition. edn. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
• Dery, M. ed. (1994) Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture. London: Duke University Press.
• Dyson, E. (1998) Release 2.1: A Design for Living in the Digital Age. London: Penguin.
• Harrington 2009 Chapter1 Generating Change and 2 History of Technology
• Lanier, J. (2010) You are not a gadget : a manifesto. 1st edn. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
• Lanier, J. (2013) Who owns the future? First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. edn. New York: Simon & Schuster.
• Lanier, J. (2013) Who owns the future? First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. edn. New York: Simon & Schuster.
• McCarthy and Wright 2004 Chapter1 Living with technology
• McCarthy, J. and Wright, P. (2004) Technology as experience. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
• Papacharissi, Z. (2011) A networked self : identity, community and culture on social network sites. New York: Routledge.
• Papacharissi, Z. (2014) Affective publics : sentiment, technology, and politics. Oxford studies in digital politics. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
• Seel, P. B. (2012) Digital universe : the global telecommunication revolution. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Toffler, A. (1971) Future shock. London: Pan.
Essay 2:
Critically assess the similarities and differences in foreign policy between the administrations of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
Requirements for this course work are set below:
1. A total of 2,500 words
2. Essay referencing MUST be in HARVARD style. The system of referencing used is the author date system, and more specifically Harvard. The system consists of two parts: in text citations and full references at the end. The former leads to the later and both will be necessary for reader to find the exact source of the information. List references alphabetically. Where an author has more than one reference, list by date from earliest to most recent. In the case of multiple works in the same year, add a letter 1991a, 1991b. Please ensure that every source referenced appears in the essay bibliography and every reference in the bibliography appears in the essay. The bibliography must be set out alphabetically by the author’s last name. Which will then be at the end of the essay and the bibliography should list the books or the articles. And it must be set out alphabetically by the author’s last name. e.g (Smith, 2007: 4) and so on…
3. Please use a minim of 9 sources, mainly books then articles, trusty and accessible websites.
4. Please include some of the sources below:
Clinton administration
• Dumbrell, J., President Bill Clinton and US Transatlantic Foreign Policy, Journal of Transatlantic Studies 8(3), 2010, 268–278.
• Miller, L.B., The Clinton Years: Reinventing US Foreign Policy, International Affairs 70(4), 1994, 621–634.
G.W. Bush administration
• Ambrosius, L.E., Woodrow Wilson and George W. Bush: Historical Comparisons of Ends and Means in Their Foreign Policies, Diplomatic History 30(3), 2006, 509–543.
• Haass, R.N., Regime Change and Its Limits, Foreign Affairs 84(4), 2005, 66–78.
• LaFeber, W., The Bush Doctrine, Diplomatic History 26(4), 2002, 543–558.
• Leffler, M.P., 9/11 and American Foreign Policy, Diplomatic History 29(3), 2005, 395–444.
• Miller, S.E., Terrifying Thoughts: Power, Order, and Terror After 9/11, Global Governance 11(2), 2005, 247–271.
• NSS, The National Security Strategy of the United States, available at http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/papers/pmt/exhibits/378/NSS.pdf, 2002.
• Nye, Joseph S., US Power and Strategy after Iraq, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2003, 60–73.