Wolfgang Schivelbusch's books, Disenchanted Night and The Railway Journey, could be of interest. Greg Wise -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Rich Ling Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2014 12:39 AM To: AoIR mailing list Subject: [Air-L] Reading list on technology and society (with a communication twist) 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 -- Rich L. _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/