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By: Michel Callon
ISBN: 9780262515962
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2011
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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A call for a new form of democracy in which hybrid forums composed of experts and laypeople address such sociotechnical controversies as hazardous waste, genetically modified organisms, and nanotechnology.
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By: Rodrigo Quian Quiroga
ISBN: 9780262549561
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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By: Louis L. Bucciarelli
ISBN: 9780262522120
Readership/Audience: Adult Education
Publication Date: Jan 1996
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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Designing Engineers describes the evolution of three disparate projects: an x-ray inspection system for airports, a photoprint machine, and a residential photovoltaic energy system.
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By: Dominique Vinck
ISBN: 9780262512640
Readership/Audience: Adult Education
Publication Date: Jan 2009
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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A guide to the everyday working world of engineers, written by researchers trained in both engineering and sociology.
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By: Joshua M. Greenberg
ISBN: 9780262514996
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2010
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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How the VCR was transformed from a machine that records television into a medium for movies.
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By: Nelly Oudshoorn
ISBN: 9780262651097
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2005
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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A collection of essays that examines how users shape and are shaped by technology in all phases, from design to use.
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By: Matthias Gross
ISBN: 9780262543989
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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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.
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By: Donald MacKenzie
ISBN: 9780262631471
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 1993
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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"Mackenzie has achieved a masterful synthesis of engrossing narrative, imaginative concepts, historical perspective, and social concern."Thomas P. Hughes, Mellon Professor of the History and Sociology of Science, The University of Pennsylvania
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By: Joeri Bruyninckx
ISBN: 9780262553391
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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By: Christina Dunbar-Hester
ISBN: 9780262534765
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2014
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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An examination of how activists combine political advocacy and technical practice in their promotion of the emancipatory potential of local low-power FM radio.
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By: Charis Thompson
ISBN: 9780262701198
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2007
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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The intertwining of biological reproduction and the personal, political, legal, and technological meanings of reproduction, explored through ethnographic studies and analyzed in the context of science and technology studies and feminist theory.
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By: Karin Bijsterveld
ISBN: 9780262534239
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2017
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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Tracing efforts to control unwanted soundthe noise of industry, city traffic, gramophones and radios, and aircraftfrom the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century.
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By: Donald MacKenzie
ISBN: 9780262632959
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2004
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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A sociological approach to the history of proof, as applied to and performed by computer systems.
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By: Geoffrey C. Bowker
ISBN: 9780262524896
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2008
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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How the way we hold knowledge about the pastin books, in file folders, in databasesaffects the kind of stories we tell about the past.
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By: Sonja D. Schmid
ISBN: 9780262538800
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2015
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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An examination of how the technical choices, social hierarchies, economic structures, and political dynamics shaped the Soviet nuclear industry leading up to Chernobyl.
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By: Pablo J. Boczkowski
ISBN: 9780262552097
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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By: Catelijne Coopmans
ISBN: 9780262525381
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2014
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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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 perspectives on representation.
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By: Wiebe E. Bijker
ISBN: 9780262521949
Readership/Audience: Adult Education
Publication Date: Sep 1994
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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Building on the influential book The Social Construction of Technological Systems, this volume carries forward the project of creating a theory of technological development and implementation that is strongly grounded in both sociology and history.
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By: Lukas Engelmann
ISBN: 9780262538732
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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How early twentieth century fumigation technologies transformed maritime quarantine practices and inspired utopian visions of disease-free global trade.
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By: Chikako Takeshita
ISBN: 9780262547840
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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By: Wiebe E. Bijker
ISBN: 9780262535380
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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By: Gabrielle Hecht
ISBN: 9780262582810
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2009
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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How it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or radiance, which also means radiation in French) became synonymous in France as nowhere else.
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By: Andrew J. Nelson
ISBN: 9780262548946
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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How a team of musicians, engineers, computer scientists, and psychologists developed computer music as an academic field and ushered in the era of digital music.
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By: Anique Hommels
ISBN: 9780262582827
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2008
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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Applying the tools of STS to explore why the "unbuilding of cities"--the reconfiguration and redesign of existing urban structures--becomes a contested and time-consuming process.
