Re: [Air-L] Reading list on technology and society (with a communication twist)
Dear all, Thanks for all the great suggestions for tech. and society books. There are a lot of "old friends" and "new acquaintances" in the suggestions that have been made. As one would expect from this list, there are a lot of books/articles on IT and comm. Indeed I noted a need for that bias in my original mail. That said, one theme for which I haven't seen the foundational book is steam technology. Is this a hole awaiting to be filled? Thanks. Rich L. <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Michael Zimmer <zimmerm@uwm.edu> </div><div>Date:05/03/2014 22:41 (GMT+01:00) </div><div>To: AoIR mailing list <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: [Air-L] Reading list on technology and society (with a communication twist) </div><div> </div>A few more voices to add: Baym, Nancy. "Personal Connections in a Digital Age" Douglas, Susan. "Listening In: Radio And The American Imagination” Gitelman, Lisa. "Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture” Marvin, Carolyn. "When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century” Papacharissi, Zizi. "A Private Sphere: Democracy in a Digital Age” Turkle, Sherry. "Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet” van Dijck, José. "The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media" -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm@uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org On Mar 5, 2014, at 11:36 AM, Lee H. Humphreys <lmh13@cornell.edu> wrote:
Hi Rich,
Among the others that have already been mentioned, here are some old favorites:
Raymond Williams "Television: Technology & Cultural Form" Josh Meyrowitz "No Sense of Place" Roger Silverstone "Television and Everyday life" Jacques Ellul "The Technological Society"
Of course, there's also Innis' "Bias of Communication" and McLuhan's "Understanding Media", which can be fun to teach as well.
I'm also a huge fan of Nick Couldry's book "Media, Society, World.
Cheers, Lee
Lee Humphreys, PhD Assistant Professor Dept. of Communication Cornell University
On Mar 5, 2014, at 2:38 AM, Rich Ling 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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Hi All - I didn't see this book mentioned previously (if it was I apologize for missing it), and it's probably not what you're thinking of as foundational, but David Nye's American Technological Sublime speaks to the importance of steam technology in creating what Nye calls the technological sublime... rs -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of riseling Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 1:45 AM To: Michael Zimmer; AoIR mailing list Subject: Re: [Air-L] Reading list on technology and society (with a communication twist) Dear all, Thanks for all the great suggestions for tech. and society books. There are a lot of "old friends" and "new acquaintances" in the suggestions that have been made. As one would expect from this list, there are a lot of books/articles on IT and comm. Indeed I noted a need for that bias in my original mail. That said, one theme for which I haven't seen the foundational book is steam technology. Is this a hole awaiting to be filled? Thanks. Rich L. <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Michael Zimmer <zimmerm@uwm.edu> </div><div>Date:05/03/2014 22:41 (GMT+01:00) </div><div>To: AoIR mailing list <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: [Air-L] Reading list on technology and society (with a communication twist) </div><div> </div>A few more voices to add: Baym, Nancy. "Personal Connections in a Digital Age" Douglas, Susan. "Listening In: Radio And The American Imagination” Gitelman, Lisa. "Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture” Marvin, Carolyn. "When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century” Papacharissi, Zizi. "A Private Sphere: Democracy in a Digital Age” Turkle, Sherry. "Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet” van Dijck, José. "The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media" -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm@uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org On Mar 5, 2014, at 11:36 AM, Lee H. Humphreys <lmh13@cornell.edu> wrote:
Hi Rich,
Among the others that have already been mentioned, here are some old favorites:
Raymond Williams "Television: Technology & Cultural Form" Josh Meyrowitz "No Sense of Place" Roger Silverstone "Television and Everyday life" Jacques Ellul "The Technological Society"
Of course, there's also Innis' "Bias of Communication" and McLuhan's "Understanding Media", which can be fun to teach as well.
I'm also a huge fan of Nick Couldry's book "Media, Society, World.
Cheers, Lee
Lee Humphreys, PhD Assistant Professor Dept. of Communication Cornell University
On Mar 5, 2014, at 2:38 AM, Rich Ling 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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Rich - Aileen Fyfe’s “Steam-Powered Knowledge” won the 2013 Edelstein Prize from SHOT - if you’re looking for something at the intersections of steam technology and communication, Fyfe’s book is a good place to start. Since steam engines became so deeply embedded in many aspects of industrial society (stationary steam engines in factories, transport via railroads & steamboats, engineering activity to prevent boiler explosions, etc), the literature is vast. Someone already mentioned Schivelbucsh’s “Railway Journey,” which is a brilliant cultural history of a steam-powered technological system. While I’m at it - you might add Melosi’s “Sanitary City” to your list (if it’s not on there already). Andy On Mar 6, 2014, at 1:45 AM, riseling <riseling@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear all,
Thanks for all the great suggestions for tech. and society books. There are a lot of "old friends" and "new acquaintances" in the suggestions that have been made.
As one would expect from this list, there are a lot of books/articles on IT and comm. Indeed I noted a need for that bias in my original mail.
That said, one theme for which I haven't seen the foundational book is steam technology. Is this a hole awaiting to be filled?
Thanks.
Rich L.
<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Michael Zimmer <zimmerm@uwm.edu> </div><div>Date:05/03/2014 22:41 (GMT+01:00) </div><div>To: AoIR mailing list <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: [Air-L] Reading list on technology and society (with a communication twist) </div><div> </div>A few more voices to add:
Baym, Nancy. "Personal Connections in a Digital Age"
Douglas, Susan. "Listening In: Radio And The American Imagination”
Gitelman, Lisa. "Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture”
Marvin, Carolyn. "When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century”
Papacharissi, Zizi. "A Private Sphere: Democracy in a Digital Age”
Turkle, Sherry. "Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet”
van Dijck, José. "The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media"
-- Michael Zimmer, PhD Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm@uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org
On Mar 5, 2014, at 11:36 AM, Lee H. Humphreys <lmh13@cornell.edu> wrote:
Hi Rich,
Among the others that have already been mentioned, here are some old favorites:
Raymond Williams "Television: Technology & Cultural Form" Josh Meyrowitz "No Sense of Place" Roger Silverstone "Television and Everyday life" Jacques Ellul "The Technological Society"
Of course, there's also Innis' "Bias of Communication" and McLuhan's "Understanding Media", which can be fun to teach as well.
I'm also a huge fan of Nick Couldry's book "Media, Society, World.
Cheers, Lee
Lee Humphreys, PhD Assistant Professor Dept. of Communication Cornell University
On Mar 5, 2014, at 2:38 AM, Rich Ling 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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--------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew L. Russell, Ph.D. Director, Program in Science & Technology Studies Assistant Professor, History College of Arts & Letters Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, New Jersey 07030 t. 201-216-5400 || f. 201-216-8245 arussell@stevens.edu || @RussellProf http://www.stevens.edu/cal/sts || http://www.arussell.org Open Standards and the Digital Age: History, Ideology, and Networks (available for pre-order from Cambridge University Press and Amazon.com)
For technology and society readings related to transportation, you should definitely take a look at Jeremy Packer's Mobility Without Mayhem: Safety, Cars, and Citizenship<http://books.google.com/books/about/Mobility_without_Mayhem.html?id=p8TA1d6rswgC>(2008) -Ben Morton University of Iowa On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 8:02 AM, Andrew Russell <arussell@stevens.edu> wrote:
Rich -
Aileen Fyfe's "Steam-Powered Knowledge" won the 2013 Edelstein Prize from SHOT - if you're looking for something at the intersections of steam technology and communication, Fyfe's book is a good place to start. Since steam engines became so deeply embedded in many aspects of industrial society (stationary steam engines in factories, transport via railroads & steamboats, engineering activity to prevent boiler explosions, etc), the literature is vast. Someone already mentioned Schivelbucsh's "Railway Journey," which is a brilliant cultural history of a steam-powered technological system.
While I'm at it - you might add Melosi's "Sanitary City" to your list (if it's not on there already).
Andy
On Mar 6, 2014, at 1:45 AM, riseling <riseling@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear all,
Thanks for all the great suggestions for tech. and society books. There are a lot of "old friends" and "new acquaintances" in the suggestions that have been made.
As one would expect from this list, there are a lot of books/articles on IT and comm. Indeed I noted a need for that bias in my original mail.
That said, one theme for which I haven't seen the foundational book is steam technology. Is this a hole awaiting to be filled?
Thanks.
Rich L.
<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Michael Zimmer < zimmerm@uwm.edu> </div><div>Date:05/03/2014 22:41 (GMT+01:00) </div><div>To: AoIR mailing list <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: [Air-L] Reading list on technology and society (with a communication twist) </div><div> </div>A few more voices to add:
Baym, Nancy. "Personal Connections in a Digital Age"
Douglas, Susan. "Listening In: Radio And The American Imagination"
Gitelman, Lisa. "Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture"
Marvin, Carolyn. "When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century"
Papacharissi, Zizi. "A Private Sphere: Democracy in a Digital Age"
Turkle, Sherry. "Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet"
van Dijck, José. "The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media"
-- Michael Zimmer, PhD Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm@uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org
On Mar 5, 2014, at 11:36 AM, Lee H. Humphreys <lmh13@cornell.edu> wrote:
Hi Rich,
Among the others that have already been mentioned, here are some old favorites:
Raymond Williams "Television: Technology & Cultural Form" Josh Meyrowitz "No Sense of Place" Roger Silverstone "Television and Everyday life" Jacques Ellul "The Technological Society"
Of course, there's also Innis' "Bias of Communication" and McLuhan's "Understanding Media", which can be fun to teach as well.
I'm also a huge fan of Nick Couldry's book "Media, Society, World.
Cheers, Lee
Lee Humphreys, PhD Assistant Professor Dept. of Communication Cornell University
On Mar 5, 2014, at 2:38 AM, Rich Ling 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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t. 201-216-5400 || f. 201-216-8245 arussell@stevens.edu || @RussellProf http://www.stevens.edu/cal/sts || http://www.arussell.org
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