The social shaping of technology

Pt. 1. Introductory essay and general issues

Introductory essay: the social shaping of technology

1. Do artifacts have politics? / Langdon Winner

2. ModestW̲itness@SecondM̲illennium / Donna Haraway

3. Edison and electric light / Thomas P. Hughes

4. Inventing personal computing / Paul Ceruzzi

5. Constructing a bridge / Eda Kranakis

6. Competing technologies and economic prediction / W. Brian Arthur

7. The social construction of technology / Ronald Kline and Trevor Pinch

8. Redefining the social link: from baboons to humans / Shirley Strum and Bruno Latour

9. Caught in the wheels: the high cost of being a female cog in the male machinery of engineering / Cynthia Cockburn

10. Making 'white' people white / Richard Dyer

Pt. 2. The technology of production

11. The watermill and feudal authority / Marc Bloch

12. The machine versus the worker / Karl Marx

13. Technology and capitalist control / Harry Braverman

14. Social choice in machine design: the case of automatically controlled machine tools / David F. Noble

15. The material of male power / Cynthia Cockburn

16. What machines can't do: politics and technology in the industrial enterprise / Robert J. Thomas

17. Writers, texts and writing acts: gendered user images in word processing software / Jeanette Hofmann

18. Learning by trying: the implementation of configurational technology / James Fleck

19. Working relations of technology production and use / Lucy Suchman

Pt. 3. Reproductive technology

20. The industrial revolution in the home / Ruth Schwartz Cowan

21. A gendered socio-technical construction: the smart house / Anne-Jorunn Berg

22. A woman's place: dolores Hayden on the 'grand domestic revolution' / Moyra Doorly

23. Inserting Grafenberg's IUD into the sex reform movement / Anni Dugdale

24. The decline of the one-size-fits-all paradigm, or, how reproductive scientists try to cope with postmodernity / Nelly Oudshoorn

Pt. 4. Military technology

25. Cold war and white heat: the origins and meanings of packet switching / Janet Abbate

26. Manufacturing gender in military cockpit design / Rachel N. Weber

27. The American Army and the M-16 rifle / James Fallows

28. The Thor-Jupiter controversy / Michael H. Armacost

29. The weapons succession process / Mary Kaldor

30. Theories of technology and the abolition of nuclear weapons / Donald MacKenzie.