Technology Studies / Edition 1

by Rayvon David Fouche

Overview

Technology Studies is part of the 'Key Issues for the 21st Century' series published by SAGE which brings together collections on those critical issues that will shape our future.

This four-volume set covers:
Volume 1: Conceptualizing Technology
Volume 2: Theorizing Technological Change
Volume 3: Politics of Technology
Volume 4: Technology and Culture

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412933964
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	02/06/2008
Series:	Key Issues for the 21st Century
Edition description:	Four-Volume Set
Pages:	1344
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 3.75(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction - Rayvon Fouche
Volume One
Conceptualizing Technology
The Question Concerning Technology - Martin Heidegger
Technology - Leo Marx
The Emergence of a Hazardous Concept
From Innovation to Use - David Edgerton
Ten Eclectic Theses on the History of Technology
Reflexivity in Technology Studies - Christopher Hamlin
Toward a Technology of Technology (and Science)?
How Machines Make History, and How Historians (and Others) Help Them to Do So - Thomas J Misa
Technik Comes to America - Eric Shatzberg
Changing Meanings of Technology before 1930
The Technological Order - Jacques Ellul
Technology and Science as Ideology - J[um]urgen Habermas
Marx and the Machine - Donald Mac Kenzie
Karl Marx and the Three Faces of Technological Determinism - Bruce Bimber
On the Notion of Technology as Ideology - Robert B Pippin
Prospects
Do Machines Make History? - Robert Heilbroner
Technological Momentum - Thomas Parke Hughes
Hydrogenation in Germany, 1900-1933
Determinism and Indeterminancy in the History of Technology - Philip Scranton
The Machine in the Garden - Leo Marx
Volume Two
Theorizing Technological Change
The Social Construction of Facts and Artefacts - Trevor J Pinch and Wiebe E Bijker
Or, How the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology Might Benefit Each Other
Upon Opening the Black Box and Finding It Empty - Langdon Winner
Social Constructivism and the Philosophy of Technology
Users as Agents of Technological Change - Ronald Kline and Trevor J Pinch
The Social Construction of the Automobile in the Rural United States
The Social Construction of Technology - Hans K Klien and Daniel Lee Kleinmann
Structural Considerations
The Seamless Web - Thomas P Hughes
Technology, Science, Etcetera, Etcetera
Technology and Heterogeneous Engineering - John Law
The Case of the Portuguese Expansion
Technology Is Society Made Durable - Bruno Latour
Mixing Humans and Non-Humans Together - Jim Johnson
The Sociology of a Door-Closer
Society in the Making - Michel Callon
The Study of Technology as a Tool for Sociological Analysis
The Turn to Technology in Social Studies of Science - Steve Woolgar
From Fordism to Flexible Accumulations - David Harvey
Impure Reason - Andrew Feenberg
Technological Dramas - Bryan Pfaffenberger
Machinic Heterogenesis - Felix Guattari
Studying Obduracy in the City - Anique Hommels
Toward a Productive Fusion between Technology Studies and Urban Studies
Bourdieu, Technique and Technology - Jonathan Sterne
Volume Three
Politics of Technology
Do Artifacts Have Politics? - Langdon Winner
Do Politics Have Artifacts? - Bernward Joerges
Do Artefacts Have Ambivalence? - Steve Woolgar and Geoff Cooper
Scams Cannot Be Busted - Bernward Joerges
Reply to Woolgar and Cooper
From the Molar to the Molecular - Pierre L[ac]evy
The Technology of Collective Intelligence
Why the Future Doesn't Need Us - Bill Joy
Cybernetics, Management Science and Technology Policy - Ronald R Kline
The Emergence of 'Information Technology' as a Keyword, 1948-1985
The Immortal Mind - David F Noble
Artificial Intelligence
Welcome to Cyberia - Arturo Escobar
Notes on the Anthropology of Cyberculture
Four Puzzles from Cyberspace - Lawrence Lessig
Emerging Sources of Labor on the Internet - Hector Postigo
The Case of America Online Volunteers
Bodies of Evidence - Sharon Traweek
Law and Order, Sexy Machines and the Erotics of Fieldwork among Physicists
Cybertyping and the Work of Race in the Age of Digital Reproduction - Lisa Nakamura
Our Narcotic Modernity - Avital Ronell
Technological Fetishism and the Techno-Cultural Unconscious - R L Rutsky
Locating the Technological Real - Mark Hansen
Volume Four
Technology and Culture
Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud - Rayvon Fouch[ac]e
African Americans, American Artifactual Culture and Black Vernacular Technological Creativity
Bleaching the Ethiopian - Carolyn Thomas de la Pena
Desegregating Race and Technology through Early E-Ray Experiments
African American Modernism and the Techno-Dialogic - Joel Dinerstein
From John Henry to Duke Ellington
The 'Industrial Revolution' in the Home - Ruth Schwartz Cowan
Household Technology and Social Change in the 20th Century
A Cyborg Manifesto - Donna Haraway
Science, Technology and Socialist Feminism in the Late 20th Century
Reading Cyborgs, Writing Feminism - Anne Balsamo
Reading the Body in Contemporary Culture
Unsettled Discourses - Ruth Oldenziel
What Makes Washday Less Blue? Gender, Nation and Technology Choice in Post-War Canada - Joy Parr
The Job Nobody Wanted - Rachel P Maines
Astronauts in the Sperm World - Nelly Oudshoorn
The Renegotiation of Masculine Identities in Discourses on Male Contraceptives
Potency in All the Right Places - Laura Mamo and Jennifer R Fishman
Viagra as a Technology of the Gendered Body
Fertile Ground - Charis Thompson
Feminist Theorize Reproductive Technologies
Reflections on Gender and Technology Studies - Judy Wajcman
In What State Is the Art?
Sound Studies - Trevor J Pinch and Karin Bijsterveld
New Technologies and Music
Fragility and Noise - Albert Borgmann