CMNS 815 - Case studies

CASE STUDIES

Analysis of case-studies on social shaping of technology (SCOT and ANT included):

Berg, A.-J. (1999). A gendered socio-technical construction: The smart house. In D. Mackenzie & J. Wajcman (Eds.), The Social Shaping of Technology (Second ed., pp. 301-313). Buckingham, Philadelphia: Open University Press. [design of a futuristic house - ??]

Bijker, W. E. (1995). Sociohistorical technology studies. In S. Jasanoff, G. E. Markle, J. C. Peterson & T. Pinch (Eds.), Handbook of Science and Technology Studies (pp. 225-256). Thousand Oaks (CA): Sage Publications. [construction of dams and dykes in Holland –?]

Callon, M. (1987). Society in the making: The study of technology as a tool for sociological analysis. In W. Bijker, T. P. Hughes & T. Pinch (Eds.), The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology (Second ed., pp. 83-103). Cambridge, London: MIT Press. [design of the electric car in France - ?]

Dyer, R. (1999). Making white people white. In D. MacKenzie & J. Wajcman (Eds.), The social shaping of technology (Second ed., Vol. 134-137). Buckingham, Philadelphia: Open University Press. [photographic film -?] Is short so it will have to be presented with another article

Hoffman, J. (1999). Writers, texts and writing acts: gendered user images in word processing software. In D. Mackenzie & J. Wajcman (Eds.), The social shaping of technology (Second ed., pp. 222-243). Buckingham and Philadelphia: Open University Press. [development of typewriters and word processing software - who?]

Hughes, T. P. (1987). The evolution of large technological systems. In W. E. Bijker, H. T.P & T. Pinch (Eds.), The social construction of technological systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology (Second ed., pp. 51-82). Cambridge and London: MIT Press. [the electric light and power system - who?]

Johnson, J., & aka Latour, B. (1995). Mixing human and non-humans together: The sociology of the door-closer. In S. L. Star (Ed.), Ecologies of Knowledge: Work and Practices in Science and Technology (pp. 255-277). Albany: SUNY Press. [the door closer - who?]

Kranakis, E. (1999). Constructing the bridge. In D. MacKenzie & J. Wajcman (Eds.), The Social Shaping of Technology (Second ed., Vol. 87-105). Buckingham and Philadelphia: Open University Press. [the design of suspension bridges in France and the US - who?]

Pinch, T., & Bijker, W. E. (1989). The social construction of facts and artefacts: Or how the sociology of science and sociology of technology might benefit from each other. In W. E. Bijker, T. Hughes & T. Pinch (Eds.), The social construction of technological systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology (Second ed. pp. 17-50). Cambridge and London: MIT Press [development of the safety bicycle - who?]

Cockburn, C., & Ormrod, S. (1993). Gender and technology in the making. London, Thousand Oaks (CA), New Delhi: Sage. [whole book on the design and production of the microwave oven - who?]