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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]
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