[Air-L] Reading list on technology and society (with a communication twist)

[William J. Moner]

Rich,

James Carey's essays might be of use, particularly this gem about the
telegraph.
http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/theory/Carey-TechnologyandIdeology.pdf

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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William J. Moner
PhD Candidate, Media Studies, University of Texas at Austin
wjmoner at utexas.edu || 512.666.4865 || @williamj


On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:38 AM, Rich Ling <riseling at 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
>
> --
> Rich L.
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