[Air-L] Seeking a short introduction text on technological determinism vs. SCOT

[Andrew Chadwick]

Hi all,

+1 for the Winner piece. I've used it for a long time and it works really well. Also recently I’ve started folding in a bit of Latour’s Reassembling the Social and that seems to work well alongside the Winner piece.

Thanks for the video, Jill!

Yours,

Andy

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On 19 Feb 2018, at 3:15 , Jill Walker Rettberg <Jill.Walker.Rettberg at uib.no<mailto:Jill.Walker.Rettberg at uib.no>> wrote:

I love all these suggestions. I've used Langdon Winner's "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" with students, and it's worked well. It needs a bit of contextualisation, though, and so last year I recorded a YouTube video to help them read it before class, so they'd be better prepared in class. They liked that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kicl0pXAJYQ

We've often used it with the Wyatt piece mentioned below. The other works mentioned sound great too, I'll be checking those out before teaching the concepts next!

Jill


Jill Walker Rettberg
Professor of Digital Culture
University of Bergen

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On 18/02/2018, 16:10, "Nathanael Bassett" <nbasse2 at uic.edu> wrote:

   Hi Carmel,

   I know you said “for undergrads” but I really feel the following pieces are
   very accessible and may be helpful with some guidance. Wyatt’s might be the
   most apropriate:


      - Dafoe, A. (2015). On Technological Determinism: A Typology, Scope
      Conditions, and a Mechanism. *Science, Technology & Human Values, 40*(6),
      1047–1076. http://doi.org/10.1177/0162243915579283
      - Fuller, M. (2015) The Forbidden Pleasures of Media Determining. In
      Ikoniadou, E., & Wilson, S. (Eds.). *Media After Kittler*. New York:
      Rowman & Littlefield International.
      - Wyatt, S. (2014). Technological Determinism Is Dead; Long Live
      Technological Determinism. In Scharff, R. C., & Dusek, V. (2014).
      Philosophy of Technology. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell.


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   On February 18, 2018 at 9:02:58 AM, Carmel Vaisman (carmelv at gmail.com)
   wrote:

   Dear fellows,

   I have been struggling with the task of finding a simple short text for
   undergraduates that introduces the approaches of technological determinism
   (including utopia and dystopia) versus social construction of technology.
   Since the theoretical terrain has since been enriched with actor network
   theories and post phenomenology and so forth, it has become very hard to
   find a text that doesn't complicate this basic framework which fits a
   sophomore introductory level course. Any ideas?

   Thanks in advance,


   Carmel Vaisman, PhD.
   The Multidisciplinary Program in the Humanities
   The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas
   Tel Aviv University
   http://www.absolutecarmel.com
   Twitter: @carmelva
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