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The social shaping of technology
Publisher
Open University Press
Publication Date
c1999
Language
English
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From the Book - 2nd ed.
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.
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9780335199136
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