Princeton Tech/Soc Reading Group
Princeton Tech/Soc brings together students and faculty across campus with an interest in the interrelationships between technology and society. Drawing on Science & Technology Studies and Critical Informatics, we discuss readings that inform our understanding of the mutually shaping dynamics of sociotechnical systems, broadly understood.
The Reading Group is open to undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, and faculty with an interest in this burgeoning field. A tentative list of 2011-2012 readings is below. Please contact the group leader, Janet Vertesi, for more information if you are interested in participating.
Our Facebook group is open to all Princetonians with an interest in this topic.
Welcome!
This year’s focus is on a theme of "policy” defined as explicit contexts that shape sociotechnical encounters such as design, code, bureaucracy, and, occasionally, legal frameworks. We’ll be reading the following works:
- Tarleton Gillespie, Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture (MIT Press, 2007)
- Geof Bowker and Susan Leigh Star, Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences (MIT Press, 1999)
- Paul Dourish and Genevieve Bell, Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing (MIT Press, 2011)
- Adrian MacKenzie, Wirelessness: Radical Empiricism in Network Cultures (MIT Press, 2010)
- Anne Balsamo, Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work (Duke U Press, 2011)
- Donald MacKenzie, An Engine Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets (MIT Press, 2006)
- Lucy Suchman, Human-Machine Re-Configurations (Cambridge, 2007)
- Daniel Suarez, Daemon: A Novel (Penguin, 2009)
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