Emily Martin's 'The Egg and the Sperm' is also a useful addition! On Wed, 2014-03-05 at 09:58 -0500, William J. Moner wrote:
Rich,
James Carey's essays might be of use, particularly this gem about the telegraph. http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/theory/Carey-TechnologyandIdeolog...
Also, you might consider Susan Douglas' Inventing American Broadcasting if you're interested in how the concept of the amateur collides with corporate and military interests in broadcast regulation.
Best, William
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On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:38 AM, Rich Ling <riseling@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear all,
I am trying to think of a readings list on technology and society. I want to have a bit of a bias towards communication, but that it not the only technology. I have put together the following list. The two areas that I realize I don't have much on is steam technology (is there a book similar to Eisenstein for steam?) and transport/automobilism. These are mostly books. Key articles are also of interest.
My current list (starting with the older technologies) is as follows:
· The Printing press as a agent of change, Eisenstein
· Shaping the day, Glennie and Thrift
· Latitude, Sobel
· The Victorian internet, Standage
· The Control Revolution, Beniger
· Technics and civilization, Mumford
· Electrifying America: Social meanings of a new technology, David Nye
· When old technologies were new, Marvin
· The social construction of technical systems, Bijker
· America Calling, Fischer
· Crabgrass Frontier, Jackson
· Virtual communities, Rheingold
· The rise of the network society, Castells
· 6 Degrees, Watts
· Taken for grantedness (maybe New Tech, New Ties), Ling
· Configuring the User as Everybody: Oudshoorn, Rommes, Stinestra
· Sociology beyond societies, Urry
· In the Age of the Smart Machine, Zuboff
· Play between worlds, Taylor
· Where the action is, Dourish
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