The social shaping of technology : how the refrigerator got its hum

By Donald MacKenzie, Judy Wajcman. 1985

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Fairness and Abstraction in Sociotechnical Systems (2019, background): “The SCOT literature documents many examples in which the power of a relevant social group impacted closure, ranging from the Model T Ford to the electric refrigerator, DRM, and Betamax [18, 28, 30, 43].”
Latent life: Concepts and practices of human tissue preservation in the International Biological Program (2013, background): “Much of what has been written about the history of these technologies is associated with the initial circumstances of their innovation for use in homes and on the farm (Cowan, 1985; Freidburg, 2009; Hamilton, 2003; Horowitz, 2006; Petrick, 2006).”
The Globalisation Timeline (2003, background): “In addition, international standards, such as Greenwich Mean Time, were introduced, which improved timetabling and communication for international activities [5].”
The sociomateriality of organisational life: considering technology in management research (2010, background): “Such a relational ontology informs a number of perspectives that are beginning to influence research on technology in the management literature, and which may be characterized with the label “entanglement in practice.””
Communicative Affordances of Mobile Media: Portability, Availability, Locatability, and Multimediality (2015, background): “Affordances help researchers navigate a middle ground between perspectives which posit that actions result from technology (Winner, 1989) or that social forces alone shape technology’s development (MacKenzie, 1985).”
Second Thoughts: Toward a Critique of the Digital Divide (2003, unknown): “Despite several decades of healthy skepticism (Finnegan, 1975; MacKenzie and Wajcman, 1985; Postman, 1993; Smith and Marx, 1994), technological determinism ﬁgures prominently in the rhetoric of computers and the internet.”
How is Technology Made?-That is the Question! (2010, background): “Path-breaking advocacy for this body of work in the history of technology provided the reader edited by MacKenzie and Wajcman (1985).”