How Users Matter

Oudshoorn Nelly Everdina

• Paperback | Engels | Inside Technology
• Users have become an integral part of technology studies. The essays in this volume look at the creative capacity of users to shape technology in all ... Lees meer

Remaking the News

• Hardcover | Engels | Inside Technology
• Leading scholars chart the future of studies on technology and journalism in the digital age. The use of digital technology has transformed the way ne... Lees meer

Unbuilding Cities

Anique Hommels

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• City planning initiatives and redesign of urban structures often become mired in debate and delay. Despite the fact that cities are considered to be d... Lees meer

Memory Practices in the Sciences

Geoffrey C Bowker

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• How the way we hold knowledge about the past--in books, in file folders, in databases--affects the kind of stories we tell about the past. The way we ... Lees meer

The Long Arm of Moore's Law

Cyrus C M Mody

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• How, beginning in the mid 1960s, the US semiconductor industry helped shape changes in American science, including a new orientation to the short-term... Lees meer

Power Lines

Jennifer L Lieberman

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• How electricity became a metaphor for modernity in the United States, inspiring authors from Mark Twain to Ralph Ellison. At the turn of the twentieth... Lees meer

Fighting Traffic

Peter D Norton

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• The fight for the future of the city street between pedestrians, street railways, and promoters of the automobile between 1915 and 1930. Before the ad... Lees meer

Sorting Things Out

Geoffrey C Bowker, Susan Leigh Star

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• A revealing and surprising look at how classification systems can shape both worldviews and social interactions. What do a seventeenth-century mortali... Lees meer

Technology and Society, Second Edition

Deborah G. Johnson, Jameson M. Wetmore

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• Writings by thinkers ranging from Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain to Bruno Latour that focus on the interconnections of technology, society, and values. Techn... Lees meer

Science on the Run

Geoffrey C. (Professor and Director, VID Laboratory, University

• Hardcover | Inside Technology
• In this engaging account, Geoffrey Bowker reveals how Schlumberger devised a method of testing potential oil fields, produced a rhetoric, and secured ... Lees meer

The Languages of Edison's Light

Charles Bazerman

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• Charles Bazerman tells the story of the emergence of electric light as one of symbols and communication. Lees meer

Building the Trident Network

Maggie Mort

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• In Building the Trident Network , Maggie Mort approaches the United Kingdom's Trident submarine and missile system as a sociotechnical network. Drawin... Lees meer

Inventing the Internet

Janet Abbate

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• Janet Abbate recounts the key players and technologies that allowed the Internet to develop; but her main focus is always on the social and cultural f... Lees meer

Bad Call

Harry Collins, Robert Evans, Christopher Higgins

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• How technologies can get it wrong in sports, and what the consequences are--referees undermined, fans heartbroken, and the illusion of perfect accurac... Lees meer

Representation in Scientific Practice Revisited

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• A fresh approach to visualization practices in the sciences that considers novel forms of imaging technology and draws on recent theoretical perspecti... Lees meer

Producing Power

Sonja D Schmid

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• An examination of how the technical choices, social hierarchies, economic structures, and political dynamics shaped the Soviet nuclear industry leadin... Lees meer

Ignorance and Surprise

Matthias Gross

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• The relationship between ignorance and surprise and a conceptual framework for dealing with the unexpected, as seen in ecological design projects. Ign... Lees meer

Sulphuric Utopias

Lukas Engelmann, Christos Lynteris

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• How early twentieth century fumigation technologies transformed maritime quarantine practices and inspired utopian visions of disease-free global trad... Lees meer

Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine

Jess Bier

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• Digital practices in social and political landscapes: Why two researchers can look at the same feature and see different things. Maps are widely belie... Lees meer

Cold War Kitchen

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• The kitchen as political symbol and material reality in the cold war years. Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev's famous "kitchen debate" in 1958 invo... Lees meer

Inside Drones

Kate Conley

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• Drones are hard at work in the sky and around the world. Some rescue swimmers in the ocean, while others deliver food and medical supplies to remote v... Lees meer

Inventing Accuracy

Donald MacKenzie

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• "Mackenzie has achieved a masterful synthesis of engrossing narrative, imaginative concepts, historical perspective, and social concern." Donald MacKe... Lees meer

The Global Biopolitics of the IUD

Chikako Takeshita

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• The biography of a multifaceted technological object, the IUD, illuminates how political contexts shaped contraceptive development, marketing, use, an... Lees meer

The Closed World

Paul N Edwards

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• The Closed World offers a radically new alternative to the canonical histories of computers and cognitive science. Arguing that we can make sense of c... Lees meer