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Module 4 - Social Construction of Technology

This module required me to read two books and seven articles from the Technology and Culture journal.  To read my response, click on the my response link at the end of each citation.  Unfortunately, I cannot provide the articles or books due to copyright restrictions.  You can find most of these articles in Project Muse, however.

Books

Misa, T. (2004). Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.  [my response]

Nye, D. E. (2003). America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. [my response]

Articles

Kranzberg, M.  (1986).  Technology and History:  "Kranzberg's Laws",  Technology and Culture, 27, pp. 544-60.  [my response]

Hounshell, D. A. (1995).  Hughesian history of technology and Chandlerian business history:  Parallels, departures, and critics.  History and Technology, 12, pp. 205-24. [my response]

Kranakis, E. (2005). Book Review, Technology and Culture, 46, pp. 805-12. [my response]

Ceruzzi, P. E. (2005). Moore’s Law and Technological Determinism: Reflections on the History of Technology, Technology and Culture, 46, pp. 584-93. [my response]

Daryl M. Hafter. (2003). The Cost of Inventiveness: Labor’s Struggle with Management’s Machine, Technology and Culture, 44, pp. 102-13. [my response]

Chandra Mukerji. (2003). Intelligent Uses of Engineering and the Legitimacy of State Power, Technology and Culture, 44, pp. 655-76. [my response]

Williams, R. (2000). ’All That Is Solid Melts into Air:’ Historians of Technology in the Information Revolution, Technology and Culture, 41, pp. 641-68.  [my response]