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

[Susie Pratt]

these two reading groups/lists (in an STSish vein) may be of interest

http://itu.dk/tip/?p=1834 //IT University of Copenhagen

http://tcrgmelbourne.wordpress.com/ //Melbourne Uni

--
Susanne Pratt, Ph.D. Candidate
Journalism and Media Research Centre @ UNSW

http://susannepratt.com/


On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Anders Fagerjord <
anders.fagerjord at media.uio.no> wrote:

> Dear Rich,
>
> I think you would be interested in, and possibly provoked by, a text by
> Bruno Latour. For example, Latour, B. (2005). Reassembling the social: An
> introduction to Actor-network-theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
>
> All the best,
>
> --anders
>
> Anders Fagerjord, dr. art
> Associate professor of media studies
>
> Department of Media Studies, University of Oslo
>
> Norwegian Media Technology Lab,  Gjøvik University College
>
>
>
> 5. mars 2014 kl. 08:38 skrev Rich Ling <riseling at gmail.com>:
>
> > 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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