Summary
Overview
Key Readings
Technology, in its current usage, can most simply be understood to have three components: artifacts, practices, and knowledge. Artifacts are the material objects that exist in the world. Practices are the methods and techniques used to interact with artifacts and knowledge represents the underlying theoretical and conceptual paradigms that influence technology in different cultural contexts. Using these components as the framework, this four volume major work traces the intellectual, scholarly, and public evolution of technology studies and ultimately questions whether technologies are truly autonomous within the societies they inhabit and whether or not technological changes drive social changes. Rayvon David Fouch presents the evolving conceptualizations of technology to understand the ways in which technology has shaped global society.
Technology Studies is part of the Key Issues ...
Editor's Introduction
Technology is a defining component of modern society. Everywhere we look, technology mediates our existence. From the various time-keeping devices that wake us up in the morning, to the multiple forms of transportation systems that daily move people from one location to another, to data networks that support global communications, our interactions with technology are common. Yet, our experiences with technology are far from routine. Much effort and energy has gone into envisioning, creating, designing, manufacturing, and distributing the technology that inhabits our world. But like the development of any network or system that has global implications, questions about its effects on the human condition will be generated. Often these questions, instead of being investigated, are pushed aside in the never-ending quest for ...
Table of Contents
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Volume 1: Conceptualizing Technology
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1. The Question Concerning Technology
Martin Heidegger
1977
The Question Concerning Technology
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2. Technology: The Emergence of a Hazardous Concept
Leo Marx
1997
Social Research
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3. From Innovation to Use: Ten Eclectic Theses on the Historiography of Technology
David Edgerton
1999
History and Technology
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4. Reflexivity in Technology Studies: Toward a Technology of Technology (and Science)?
Christopher Hamlin
1992
Social Studies of Science
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5. How Machines Make History, and How Historians (and Others) Help Them to Do So
Thomas Misa
1988
Science, Technology, & Human Values
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6. Technik Comes to America: Changing Meanings of Technology before 1930
Eric Schatzberg
2006
Technology and Culture
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7. Ideas of Technology: The Technological Order
Jacques Ellul | John Wilkinson
1962
Technology and Culture
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8. Technology and Science as “Ideology”
Jürgen Habermas
1970
Toward a Rational Society: Student Protest, Science, and Politics
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Donald Mackenzie
1996
Knowing Machines Essays on Technical Change
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10. Karl Marx and the Three Faces of Technological Determinism
Bruce Bimber
1990
Social Studies of Science
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11. On the Notion of Technology as Ideology: Prospects
Robert Pippin
1995
Technology, Pessimism and Postmodernism
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Robert Heilbroner
1967
Technology and Culture
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13. Technological Momentum in History: Hydrogenation in Germany 1898–1933
Thomas Hughes
1969
Past and Present
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14. Determinism and Indeterminacy in the History of Technology
Philip Scranton
1994
Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism
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Leo Marx
1956
The New England Quarterly
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Volume 2: Theorizing Technological Change
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Trevor Pinch
1984
Social Studies of Science
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Langdon Winner
1993
Science, Technology, & Human Values
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Ronald Kline
1996
Technology and Culture
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19. The Social Construction of Technology: Structural Considerations
Hans Klein
2002
Science, Technology, & Human Values
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20. The Seamless Web: Technology, Science, Etcetera, Etcetera
Thomas Hughes
1986
Social Studies of Science
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21. Technology and Heterogeneous Engineering: The Case of Portuguese Expansion
John Law
1987
The Social Construction of Technical Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology
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22. Technology is Society Made Durable
Bruno Latour
1991
A Sociology of Monsters: Essays on Power, Technology and Domination, A Sociological Review Monograph
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23. Mixing Humans and Nonhumans Together: The Sociology of a Door-Closer
Jim Johnson
1988
Social Problems
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24. Society in the Making: The Study of Technology as a Tool for Sociological Analysis
Michel Callon
1987
The Social Construction of Technical Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology
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25. The Turn to Technology in Social Studies of Science
Steve Woolgar
1991
Science, Technology, & Human Values
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26. From Fordism to Flexible Accumulation
David Harvey
1990
The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change
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27. Impure Reason
Andrew Feenberg
1999
Questioning Technology
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Bryan Pfaffenberger
1992
Science, Technology, & Human Values
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Félix Guattari
1993
Rethinking Technologies
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Anique Hommels
2005
Science, Technology, & Human Values
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31. Bourdieu, Technique and Technology
Jonathan Sterne
2003
Cultural Studies
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Volume 3: Politics of Technology
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32. Do Artifacts Have Politics?
Langdon Winner
1980
Daedalus
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33. Do Politics Have Artefacts?
Bernward Joerges
1999
Social Studies of Science
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34. Do Artefacts Have Ambivalence? Moses’ Bridges, Winner's Bridges and Other Urban Legends in S&TS
Steve Woolgar
1999
Social Studies of Science
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35. Scams Cannot Be Busted: Reply to Woolgar & Cooper
Bernward Joerges
1999
Social Studies of Science
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36. From the Molar to the Molecular: The Technology of Collective Intelligence
Pierre Lévy
1999
Collective Intelligence: Mankind's Emerging World in Cyberspace
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37. Why the Future Doesn't Need Us
Bill Joy
2000
Wired
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Ronald Kline
2006
Technology and Culture
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39. The Immortal Mind: Artificial Intelligence
David Noble
1997
The Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention
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40. Welcome to Cyberia: Notes on the Anthropology of Cyberculture
Arturo Escobar
1994
Current Anthropology
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41. Four Puzzles from Cyberspace
Lawrence Lessig
2000
Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
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42. Emerging Sources of Labor on the Internet: The Case of America Online Volunteers
Hector Postigo
2003
International Review of Social History Special Supplement: Labor History of the Information Revolution
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43. Bodies of Evidence: Law and Order, Sexy Machines, and the Erotics of Fieldwork among Physicists
Sharon Traweek
1995
Choreographing History
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44. Cybertyping and the Work of Race in the Age of Digital Reproduction
Lisa Nakamura
2002
Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet
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Avital Ronell
1993
Rethinking Technologies
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46. Technological Fetishism and the Techno-Cultural Unconscious
R. Rutsky
1999
High Techné: Art and Technology from the Machine Aesthetic to the Posthuman
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47. Locating the Technological Real
Mark Hansen
2000
Embodying Technesis: Technology Beyond Writing
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Volume 4: Technology and Culture
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Rayvon Fouché
2006
American Quarterly
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49. “Bleaching the Ethiopian”: Desegregating Race and Technology through Early X-Ray Experiments
Carolyn de la Peña
2006
Technology and Culture
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50. African American Modernism and the Techno-Dialogic: From John Henry to Duke Ellington
Joel Dinerstein
2003
Swing the Machine: Modernity, Technology, and African American Culture between the World Wars
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51. The “Industrial Revolution” in the Home: Household Technology and Social Change in the 20th Century
Ruth Cowan
1976
Technology and Culture
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52. A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century1
Donna Haraway
1991
Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
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53. Reading Cyborgs, Writing Feminism: Reading the Body in Contemporary Culture
Anne Balsamo
1996
Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women
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Ruth Oldenziel
1999
Making Technology Masculine: Men, Women, and Modern Machines in America, 1870–1945
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55. What Makes Washday Less Blue? Gender, Nation, and Technology Choice in Postwar Canada
Joy Parr
1997
Technology and Culture
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Rachel Maines
1999
The Technology of Orgasm “Hysteria,” the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction
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Nelly Oudshoorn
2004
Men and Masculinities
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58. Potency in All the Right Places: Viagra as a Technology of the Gendered Body
Laura Mamo
2001
Body & Society
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59. Fertile Ground: Feminists Theorize Reproductive Technologies
Charis Thompson
2005
Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies
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60. Reflections on Gender and Technology Studies: In What State is the Art?
Judy Wajcman
2000
Social Studies of Science
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61. Sound Studies: New Technologies and Music
Trevor Pinch
2004
Social Studies of Science
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Albert Borgmann
1999
Hold On to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium
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