nettime: social studies of technology (fwd)

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I have enclosed a bibliography that I prepared in response to requests from
students in a graduate seminar I am currently running on social studies of
technology.  This particular list is not complete or systematic; rather,
it responds to particular topics that have come up in class.  Still, others
may find it useful, and you're most welcome to pass it along.  I do not
endorse all of these books in their entirety, but I do think they represent
perspectives that students of the field should engage with.  The best
starting-point for beginners is MacKenzie and Wajcman.


George Basalla, The Evolution of Technology, Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1988.

Martin Bauer, ed, Resistance to New Technology: Nuclear Power, Information
Technology and Biotechnology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Gro Bjerknes, Pelle Ehn, and Morten Kyng, eds, Computers and Democracy: A
Scandinavian Challenge, Aldershot, UK: Avebury, 1987.

C. A. Bowers, The Cultural Dimensions of Educational Computing: Understanding
the Non-Neutrality of Technology, New York: Teachers College Press, 1988.

Harry Braverman, Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the
Twentieth Century, New York: Monthly Review Press, 1974.

Louis L. Bucciarelli, Designing Engineers, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994.

Lisa Bud-Frierman, ed, Information Acumen: The Understanding and Use of
Knowledge in Modern Business, London: Routledge, 1994.

Graham Button, Technology in Working Order: Studies of Work, Interaction, and
Technology, London: Routledge, 1993.

Cynthia Cockburn, Machinery of Dominance: Women, Men, and Technical Know-How,
Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1988.

Harry M. Collins, Artificial Experts: Social Knowledge and Intelligent
Machines, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990.

Mike Cooley, Architect or Bee?: The Human Price of Technology, London: Hogarth
Press, 1987.

Hubert L. Dreyfus, What Computers Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason,
New York: Harper and Row, 1972.

Wendy Faulkner and Erik Arnold, eds, Smothered by Invention: Technology in
Women's Lives, London: Pluto Press, 1985.

Andrew Feenberg, Critical Theory of Technology, New York: Oxford University
Press, 1991.

Eileen Green, Jenny Owen, and Den Pain, eds, Gendered by Design: Information
Technology and Office Systems, London: Taylor and Francis, 1993.

Jurgen Habermas, The Theory of Communicative Action, volume 2: Lifeworld and
System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason, Boston: Beacon Press, 1987.

Sally Hacker, Pleasure, Power, and Technology: Some Tales of Gender,
Engineering, and the Cooperative Workplace, Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989.

Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays,
translated from the German by William Lovitt, New York: Harper and Row, 1977.

Brian Kahin and Janet Abbate, eds, Standards Policy for Information
Infrastructure, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995.

Brian Kahin and James Keller, eds, Public Access to the Internet, Cambridge:
MIT Press, 1995.

Michael E. Kraft and Norman J. Vig, eds, Technology and Politics, Durham: Duke
University Press, 1988.

Robert E. Kraut, ed, Technology and the Transformation of White-Collar Work,
Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1987.

Martin Lea, ed, Contexts of Computer-Mediated Communication, New York:
Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992.

Robert Lilienfeld, The Rise of Systems Theory: An Ideological Analysis, New
York: Wiley, 1978.

Georg Lukacs, History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics,
translated from the German by Rodney Livingstone, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1971.
Originally published in 1923.

Donald MacKenzie and Judy Wajcman, eds, The Social Shaping of Technology: How
the Refrigerator Got Its Hum, Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1985.

Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and M. Richard Zinman, eds, Technology in
the Western Political Tradition, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993.

Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization, London: Routledge, 1946.

David F. Noble, America by Design: Science, Technology, and the Rise of
Corporate Capitalism, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977.

David F. Noble, Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial
Automation, Oxford University Press, 1986.

Nathan Rosenberg, Inside the Black Box: Technology and Economics, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Joan Rothschild, eds, Women, Technology, and Innovation, Oxford: Pergamon,
1982.

Douglas Schuler and Aki Namioka, eds, Participatory Design: Principles and
Practices, Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1993.

Richard E. Sclove, Democracy and Technology, New York: The Guilford Press,
1995.

Susan Leigh Star, ed, The Cultures of Computing, Oxford: Blackwell, 1995.

John Street, Politics and Technology, New York: Guilford Press, 1992.

Lucy A. Suchman, Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human-Machine
Communication, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Paul Thompson, The Nature of Work: An Introduction to Debates on the Labour
Process, second edition, London: Macmillan, 1989.

Sheila Tobias, Overcoming Math Anxiety, New York: Norton, 1978.

Judy Wajcman, Feminism Confronts Technology, University Park: Pennsylvania
State University Press, 1991.

Langdon Winner, The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of
High Technology, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.

JoAnne Yates, Control through Communication: The Rise of System in American
Management, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.


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