Mstu4020/tech determ
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Fall 2007
Thursday, 5:10 - 6:50 PM
MY 345M
Office hours: Tue., 5 - 6:30 PM, MY 260
Sarah Lohnes, Instructor
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Schedule
- 9/6 Introduction
- 9/13 Tech Determinism & SCOT
- 9/20 The Information Society
- 9/27 CMC in ICTs
- 10/4 Identity
- 10/11 Place and the Blurring of Boundaries
- 10/18 Community
- 10/25 Article Presentations
- 11/1 Social Networks
- 11/8 Interaction
- 11/15 Mobile Communication
- 11/22 No Class -- Thanksgiving
- 11/29 Online Session
- 12/6 The Network Society
- 12/13 Final Presentations
- 12/20 Final Presentations
- Note: updated 10/5/2007
Contents |
Social and Communicative Aspects of Internet Communication Technologies (ICTs)
TOPIC 1: Views on the relationship and role of technology in society
[edit] Session 2: Tech Determinism & SCOT
9/13/07
- Readings
- Marx, L., & Smith, M. R. (1994). Introduction. In M.R. Smith & L. Marx (Eds.), Does technology drive history?: The dilemma of technological determinism (viiii-xv). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. (e-reserve on ClassWeb)
- Heilbroner, R. (1994). Do Machines Make History? In M.R. Smith & L. Marx (Eds.), Does technology drive history?: The dilemma of technological determinism (53-65). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. (e-reserve on ClassWeb)
- Pinch, T., & Bijker, W. (1987). The Social Construction of Facts and Artifacts: Or How the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology Might Benefit Each Other. In W. Bijker, T. Hughes, & T. Pinch (Eds.), The social construction of technological systems: New directions in the sociology and history of technology (17-50). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. (e-reserve on ClassWeb)
- Further Readings (not required)
- Conceptualizing user agency, Bakardjieva
- The social chicken and the technological egg: Educational computing and the technology/society divide, Bromley
- Conceptualizing user agency, Bakardjieva
- Blog
- Create a blog for your research journal. I suggest using either Blogger or Wordpress. Both are free. Blogger is very easy to use, while Wordpress has a few more features (file upload, categories).
- Write your first post: choose 3 questions that have arisen for you from readings and/or discussions in class so far, and reflect on why these are important to you in relation to both your personal and academic interests.
- Wiki
- Create an account for yourself on Studyplace, which houses our course wiki. This will allow you to edit our wiki pages.
- Once you have an account and are logged in, please create a short profile for yourself on the course participants page of this wiki. If you need help editing wiki pages, see the formatting help page, or take the Wikipedia tutorial. You can also stop by a workshop on editing wikis being offered on Wednesday, 9/12, from 3-4 pm in 322 Thompson.
- On the student blogs page, list your name and the URL of your blog.
