Definitions

• Social Construction of Technology (Wikipedia)
• Social Shaping of Technology (Wikipedia)

People

• Wiebe Bijker
  • Bijker profile (Wikipedia)
  • Shaping Technology and Building Society (with John Law)
    • Publisher's announcement (M.I.T Press)
  • The Social Construction of Technological Systems (with Thomas Hughes and Trevor Pinch)
    • Book announcement (MIT Press)
    • Social Construction of Facts and Artifacts (summary by Roger Launius)
  • Of Bicycles, Bakelites, and Bulbs: Toward a Theory of Sociotechnical Change (1995)
    • review (by Neill Pollack and Chris Stokes
    • Summary in PowerPoint by Rene Aranzamendez, Ellen Bahr, and Paul Debraski ppt
• Thomas Hughes
  • Hughes profile (Stanford Univ)
  • Hughes profile (M.I.T.)
  • Rescuing Prometheus (1998)
    • review (by Terry J. van der Werff)
  • Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture (2004)
    • review by Emily Thompson
• Donald MacKenzie
  • MacKinzie profile (Wikipedia)
  • MacKenzie home page (Univ of Edinburgh)
  • The Social Shaping of Technology with Judy Wajcman (1985)
    • book announcement (Open Univ Press)
  • Knowing Machines: Essays on Technical Change (1996)
    • book announcment (MIT Press)
    • review (by Neil Pollack)
• Trevor Pinch
  • Pinch home page (Cornell Univ)
  • How Users Matter: The co-construction of users and technology (2003) with Nelly Oudshoorn
    • Book Announcement (MIT Press)
  • The Golem at Large: What You Should Know about Technology (with Harry Collins)
  • Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer (with Frank Trocco)
    • Book announcement (Harvard Univ Press)
    • review (by Marcus Boon)
  • Emulating Sound. What Synthesizers can and can't do: Explorations In the Social Construction of Sound (2002) MS Word doc

Readings

• Boudourides (2003) Constructivism, Education, Science, and Technology
• Brent (2005) Teaching as performance in the electronic classroom
• Brey (1997) The Philosophy of Technology Meets Social Constructionism
• Dafoe (2005) Theoretical Reconciliation: Selectionism on the Social Construction of Technology and the Diffusion of (Military) Innovations pdf
• Dutton, Cheong, and Park (2004) The Social Shaping of a Virtual Learning Environment: The Case of a University-wide Course Management System
• Humphreys (2004) Reframing Social Groups, Closure, and Stabilizaiton in the Social Construction of Technology doc
• Klein and Kleinman (2002) The Social Construction of Technology: Structural Considerations pdf
• Garber (2001) Why Does the Space Shuttle Have Wings? A Look at the Social Construction of Technology in Air and Space jackson, Poole, and Kuhn (2001) The Social Construction of Technology in Studies of the Workplace
• pdf
• Kerr (2001) Toward a Sociology of Educational Technology
• Lehman (2004) A social construciton of technology (SCOT) model of the failure of web-based distance delivery programs in traditional universities pdf
• Litho (2005) ICTs, empowerment and Women in rural Uganda: A SCOT Perspective
• Williams and Edge (1996) What is the Social Shaping of Technology?
• Williams (1997) The Social Shaping Of Information And Communications Technologies

See also ...
Social Constructionism.
Sociology of Knowledge
Actor Network Theory
Activity Theory
Constructivism.
Socio-cultural Theory
Technological Determinism

All links verified September 01, 2008.

September 01, 2008