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

[riseling]

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 at uwm.edu> </div><div>Date:05/03/2014  22:41  (GMT+01:00) </div><div>To: AoIR mailing list <air-l at 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
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On Mar 5, 2014, at 11:36 AM, Lee H. Humphreys <lmh13 at 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
>> 
>> -- 
>> Rich L.
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