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social studies of technology
``` I have enclosed a bibliography that I prepared in response to requests from students in a graduate seminar I am currently running on social studies of technology. This particular list is not complete or systematic; rather, it responds to particular topics that have come up in class. Still, others may find it useful, and you're most welcome to pass it along. I do not endorse all of these books in their entirety, but I do think they represent perspectives that students of the field should engage with. The best starting-point for beginners is MacKenzie and Wajcman.
George Basalla, The Evolution of Technology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Martin Bauer, ed, Resistance to New Technology: Nuclear Power, Information Technology and Biotechnology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Gro Bjerknes, Pelle Ehn, and Morten Kyng, eds, Computers and Democracy: A Scandinavian Challenge, Aldershot, UK: Avebury, 1987.
C. A. Bowers, The Cultural Dimensions of Educational Computing: Understanding the Non-Neutrality of Technology, New York: Teachers College Press, 1988.
Harry Braverman, Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century, New York: Monthly Review Press, 1974.
Louis L. Bucciarelli, Designing Engineers, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994.
Lisa Bud-Frierman, ed, Information Acumen: The Understanding and Use of Knowledge in Modern Business, London: Routledge, 1994.
Graham Button, Technology in Working Order: Studies of Work, Interaction, and Technology, London: Routledge, 1993.
Cynthia Cockburn, Machinery of Dominance: Women, Men, and Technical Know-How, Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1988.
Harry M. Collins, Artificial Experts: Social Knowledge and Intelligent Machines, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990.
Mike Cooley, Architect or Bee?: The Human Price of Technology, London: Hogarth Press, 1987.
Hubert L. Dreyfus, What Computers Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason, New York: Harper and Row, 1972.
Wendy Faulkner and Erik Arnold, eds, Smothered by Invention: Technology in Women's Lives, London: Pluto Press, 1985.
Andrew Feenberg, Critical Theory of Technology, New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Eileen Green, Jenny Owen, and Den Pain, eds, Gendered by Design: Information Technology and Office Systems, London: Taylor and Francis, 1993.
Jurgen Habermas, The Theory of Communicative Action, volume 2: Lifeworld and System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason, Boston: Beacon Press, 1987.
Sally Hacker, Pleasure, Power, and Technology: Some Tales of Gender, Engineering, and the Cooperative Workplace, Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989.
Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays, translated from the German by William Lovitt, New York: Harper and Row, 1977.
Brian Kahin and Janet Abbate, eds, Standards Policy for Information Infrastructure, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995.
Brian Kahin and James Keller, eds, Public Access to the Internet, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995.
Michael E. Kraft and Norman J. Vig, eds, Technology and Politics, Durham: Duke University Press, 1988.
Robert E. Kraut, ed, Technology and the Transformation of White-Collar Work, Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1987.
Martin Lea, ed, Contexts of Computer-Mediated Communication, New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992.
Robert Lilienfeld, The Rise of Systems Theory: An Ideological Analysis, New York: Wiley, 1978.
Georg Lukacs, History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics, translated from the German by Rodney Livingstone, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1971. Originally published in 1923.
Donald MacKenzie and Judy Wajcman, eds, The Social Shaping of Technology: How the Refrigerator Got Its Hum, Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1985.
Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and M. Richard Zinman, eds, Technology in the Western Political Tradition, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993.
Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization, London: Routledge, 1946.
David F. Noble, America by Design: Science, Technology, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977.
David F. Noble, Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation, Oxford University Press, 1986.
Nathan Rosenberg, Inside the Black Box: Technology and Economics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
Joan Rothschild, eds, Women, Technology, and Innovation, Oxford: Pergamon, 1982.
Douglas Schuler and Aki Namioka, eds, Participatory Design: Principles and Practices, Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1993.
Richard E. Sclove, Democracy and Technology, New York: The Guilford Press, 1995.
Susan Leigh Star, ed, The Cultures of Computing, Oxford: Blackwell, 1995.
John Street, Politics and Technology, New York: Guilford Press, 1992.
Lucy A. Suchman, Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human-Machine Communication, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Paul Thompson, The Nature of Work: An Introduction to Debates on the Labour Process, second edition, London: Macmillan, 1989.
Sheila Tobias, Overcoming Math Anxiety, New York: Norton, 1978.
Judy Wajcman, Feminism Confronts Technology, University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991.
Langdon Winner, The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
JoAnne Yates, Control through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. ```
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