One of the textbooks I'm using this semester is:
Holmes, David. 2005. Communication Theory: Media, Technology and Society (paperback). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. ISBN: 0-7619-70970-3 prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /
It really lays out the framework, I think of some of the most important questions.
Barbara Walters
Associate Professor of Sociology
Consortial Faculty for the CUNY Online Baccalaureate
Kingsborough Community College
2001 Oriental Boulevard
Brooklyn, NY 11235
Phone/Voicemail: 718-368-5841
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Subject: [CITASA] Will the real sociology of technologies stand up?
Hello CITASA folks.
As many of you know, I work in an I-school (Information school) and am the
only sociologist on the faculty.
Recently I have been asked to define the "sociology of technology/ies" This
has been a surprisingly difficult task.
What I have been doing is staking out boundaries, stating what it is not,
therefore, what I'll have left is what it is, right?
So far I have removed the following, Sociology of Technology/ies may overlap
with--but is NOT science and technology studies, not the sociology of
science, not the sociology of knowledge, not the sociology of
communications, not social informatics, not a bunch of theories like
Structuration/Actor Network/SCOT/SST/Institutionalism/network science etc.
So, I ask you, what is left? What do we do that is unique? What are our core
competencies?
I've found a couple readings that have helped a bit, but I am hoping some of
you can aid me in my quest.
pages 187-216. Is a book chapter in...Current Perspectives in Social Theory:
1997 By Jennifer M. Lehmann, Ben Agger Published by Emerald Group Pub Ltd,
1997
- Saskia Sassen ³Towards a Sociology of Information Technology,² Current
Sociology, May 2002, Vol. 50(3): 365388 SAGE Publications
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