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

[Greg Wise]

Wolfgang Schivelbusch's books, Disenchanted Night and The Railway Journey, could be of interest.

Greg Wise

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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 L.
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