Obligatory Literature
Book
Quan-Haase, Anabel (2012). Technology and Society: Socia Networks, Work, and Inequality. OUP: Canada (304 pp).
Extra literature for PhD candidates:
Turnbull, David (2000). Masons, Tricksters and Cartographers. London: Routledge (263 pp.).
Articles and Book Chapters
Castells, Manuel (2000). Materials for an exploratory theory of the network society. In: British Journal of Sociology, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 5-24.
de Laet, Marianne and Annemarie Mol (2000). The Zimbabwe Bush Pump: Mechanics of a fluid technology. In Social Studies of Science, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 225–263.
Ess, Charles (2010). "Digital media Ethics: Overview, Framework, Resources". In Charles Ess, Digital Media Ethics. Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. 167-225. (pdf per email)
Feng, Patrick and Andrw Feenberg (2008). Thinking about Design: Critical Theory of Technology and the Design Process. In: Philosophy and Design, 105-118.
Fuchs, Christian (2013). Theorising and analysing digital labour: From global value chaines to modes of production. In: The Political Economy of Communication, 2(1), 3-27.
Gehl, Robert W. (2013). 'Why I left Facebook': Stubbornly Refusing to not Exist even After Opting out of Marck Zuckerman's Social Graph. In Unlike Us Reader, edited by Geert Lovink and Miriam Rasch, 220-238. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures.
Graham, Richard (2014). A 'History' of Search Engines: Mapping technologies of Memory, Learning and Discovery. In Society of the Query, edited by René K?nig and Miriam Rasch, 105-120. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures.
Irani, Lilly, Janet Vertesi, Paul Dourish, Kavita Philip, and Rebecca E. Grinter (2010). Postcolonial Computing: A Lens on design and development. In Proceedings of CHI2010, April 10-15, 2010, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Kahn, Peter 1. Why Do We Destroy the Nature We Love? 2. We Don't Know What We're Missing 3. Can Technology Replace Nature?
Patrignani and Whitehouse, Diane (2014). Slow Tech: a quest for good, clean and fair ICT, Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, Vol. 12 Iss: 2, pp.78 - 92
Ramasastry, Anita (2012). Girls Around Me (website article)
Richards, Neil M. (2013). The Dangers of Surveillance. Harvard Law Review, 2013.
van der Velden, Maja (2008). What's love got to do with IT? On ethics and accountability in telling technology stories. In F. Sudweeks, H. Hrachovec, et.al. (Eds), Cultural attitudes towards technology and communication 2008 (pp. 27-39). Murdoch: Murdoch University.
van der Velden, Maja (2014). Re-politicising Participatory Design: What can we learn from Fairphone. Paper presentated at Culture and Technology and Communication (CaTaC14).
van der Velden, Maja (2011). When knowledges meet: Wikipedia and other stories from the contact zone. In Geert Lovink & Nathaniel Tkatz (eds.),Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader.
Verbeek, Peter-Paul (2008). Design Ethics and the Morality of Technological artifacts. In Philosophy and Design, no. 1, pp. 91-103.
Documentaries (video)
Dannoritzer, Cosima (2010). Pyramids of Waste (2010), AKA The Lightbulb Conspiracy. (Doc: 52 mins).
Poulsen, Frank Piasecki (2010)."Blood in the mobile" (82 mins)
Schei, Tonje Hessen (2010). "Play again" (55 mins)
Hoback, Cullen (2013). "Terms and Conditions May Apply" or NRK (2014) Smart eller overv?ket? (28:53 mins)
Vlemmix, Peter (2012). "Panopticum"
Helpful Resources (not obligatory)
COURSE DESIGN
Mueller, P.A. and D.M. Oppenheimer (2014). The Pen is Mightier Than the Keyboard: The Advantages of Longhand over Laptop Note Taking. In Psychological Science (online first)
PROJECT:RECODING (Course theme: Fair Technology)
- VIDEOS
BBC (2012). Secrets of the superbrands: Technology. (Documentary, 49 mins)
Cradle to Cradle: A Strategy of Hope (MIT, 2010, 85 mins).
Cradle to Cradle Design: William McDonough on Eco-Friendly Design (Standford University, 72 mins.).
Cradle to Cradle Design: Waste = Food (by Rob van Hattum, VPRO, 2007)
Leonard, Annie (2010). The Story of Electronics. (8 mins).
Ellen MacArthur Foundation (2014). Rethinking Progress (3:48)
- ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
Blevis, Eli (2007). Sustainable Interaction Design: Invention & Disposal, Renewal & Reuse. CHI 2007 Proceedings
Fry, Tony (2010). On Good design. Introduction to Unsettled: Inkahoots.
Gill, Alison and Abby Mellick Lopes (2012). Recoding abandoned products: Student visual designers experiment to sustain product lives and values. In: Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 233-253.
Jung, Heekyoung, Shaowen Bardzell, Eli Blevis, James Pierce, Erik Stolterman (2011). How Deep Is Your Love: Deep Narratives of Ensoulment and Heirloom Status. International Journal
Muis, Henk (2006). Eternally Yours. In: User Behavior and Technology Development, vol 20, pp 277-293
van der Velden, Maja (2014). Re-politicising Participatory Design: What can we learn from Fairphone. Paper presentated at Culture and Technology and Communication (CaTaC14).
- BOOKS
Fry, Tony (2009). Design Futuring: Sustainability, ethics, and new practice. New York: Berg, 278 pp.
McDonough, William and Michael Braungart (2002). Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the way we make things. New York: North Point Press, 193 pp.
McLellan, Todd (2013). Things Come Apart: A teardown manual for modern living. London: Thames & Hudson, 127 pp.
Walker, Stuart and Giard Jacques (eds) (2013). The Handbook for Design for Sustainability. London: Bloomsbury, 550 pp.
- WEBSITES
The Story of Stuff Project
Re-coding Mac G5
Meeting 2: SCIENCE/KNOWLEDGES
- VIDEO
NRK (2009). A radiant day. (Doc: 42 mins). Article
- ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
Callon, Michel (1986). Some elements of a sociology of translation: Domestication of the scallops and the fishermen of St Brieuc Bay. In: Power, Action and Belief: A New Sociology of Knowledge, edited by John Law. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, pp. 196–233.
Freedman, David H. (2010). Lies, damned lies, and medical science. In: The Atlantic, November issue.
Haraway, Donna (1986). Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective
Ioannidis, John P.A. (2005): Why most published research findings are false. In: Plos Medicine, vol 2, no. 8, e124.
Latour, Bruno (1992). Where are the Missing Masses? Sociology of a Door
Lehrer, Jonah (2010). The truth wears off: Is there something wrong with the scientific method?. In The New Yorker, December 13, 2010.
Lehrer, Jonah (2011). More thoughts on the decline effect. New Yorker Blog, 3 January 2011.
Roosth, Sophia and Susan Silbey (2009). Science and Technology Studies: From Controversies to Post-Humanist Social Theory. In: The Blackwell Companion to Social Theory, 2008, Bryan S. Turner (ed.)
Sismondo, Sergio (2010). An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies. West-Sussex (UK): Wiley-Blackwell (2nd edition)
Verran, Helen, Christie, Michael, Anbins-King, Bryce van Weeren, Trevor & Yunupingu, Wulumdhuna (2007). Designing Digital Knowledge Management Tools with Aboriginal Australians, Digital Creativity, Vol 18, No 3, pp 129-142.
Watson-Verron, Helen and David Turnbul (2007). Science and Other Indigenous Knowledge Systems. In: Handbook of Science and Technology Studies (114-140), Sheila Jasanoff & Gerald E. Markle & James C. Peterson & Trevor Pinch (eds.).
- BOOKS
Asdal, Kristin, Brita Brenna, and Ingunn Moser (eds.) (2007). Technoscience: The politics of interventions. Oslo: Unipub.
Sismondo, Sergio (2010). An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies. West-Sussex (UK): Wiley-Blackwell (2nd edition)
Turnbull, David (2000). Masons, Tricksters and Cartographers. London: Routledge (263 pp.).
Meeting 3: TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY: A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
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RELATED TO "PLAY AGAIN" DOCUMENTARY
Uhls, Yalda et al. (2014). Five days at outdoor education camp without screens improves preteen skills with nonverbal emotion cues. In. Computers in Human Behavior, vol. 39 (Oct), pp. 387-392.
Kramer, Adam D.I., Jamie E. Guillory, and Jeffrey T. Hancock (2014). Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, vol. 111, no. 24.
Krotoski, Aleks (2014). The Digital Human. BBC Podcasts.
Meeting 5: TECHNOLOGY AND ETHICS (with Toni Robertson)
Jonas, Hans (1973). Technology and Responsibility: Reflections on the new tasks of ethics. In: Social Research, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 31-54.
Robertson, Toni (2006). Ethical Issues in Interaction Design. In: Ethics and Information Technology, no. 8, pp. 49–59.
Meeting 8:
Meeting 9: THE LABOUR OF TECHNOLOGY
Wired (23 Oct. 2014). The Laborers Who Keep Dick Pics and Beheadings Out of Your Facebook Feed
Independent (28 Oct. 2014). There are officially more mobile devices than people in the world.
Meeting 10: TECHNOLOGY AND INEQUALITY
Winschiers-Theophilus, Heiek et al. (2010). Being participated: a community approach. In: PDC'10 Proceedings of the 11th Biennial Participatory Design Conference, pp 1-10.
Wiens, Kyle (2012). The shady world of repair manuals: Copyrighted for planned obsolescence.
Meeting 11: COMMUNITY IN THE NETWORK SOCIETY
Castells, Manuel (2007). Community, Power, and Counter-Power in the Network Society. In: International Journal of Communication, no. 1, pp. 238-266.
Ess, Charles (xxx). Self, Community, and Ethics in Digital Mediatized Worlds. In Ess, Charles and Thorseth, May (eds.), Trust and Virtual Worlds: Contemporary Perspectives. New York: Lang, pp. 3-30.
Lovink, Geert (2012). What is the Social in Social media? In: e-flux, no. 40.
Pariser, Eli (2011). Beware of online "filter bubbles" (video, 9 mins.)
Shirky, Clay (2+11). The Political Power of social media. In: Foreign Affairs, no. 28, pp. 28-41.
Twenge, Jean M. (2013). Does Online Social Media Lead to Social Connection or Social Disconnection? In: Journal of College & Character, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 11-20
Meeting 12: TECHNOLOGY-MEDIATED RELATIONSHIPS
Grosser, Benjamin (2014). What Do Metrics Want. How Quantificaion Describes Social Interaction on Facebook. In: Computational Journal, no. 4, November 2014.
Matthias (2014). Delete Facebook (video, 4:52 mins.)
Lodi, Simona (2010). Suicide Machine (website & video, 2:34 mins.)
Meeting 13: THE SURVEILLANCE SOCIETY
Andrejevic, Mark (2014). Wikileaks, Surveillance, and Transparency. In International Journal of Communication, no. 8.
Datatilsynet (2014). Chilling down in Norway (report on Snowden effect)
Introna, Lucas D. and David Woods (2004). Picturing Algorithmic Surveillance: The Politics of Facial Recognition Systems. In Surveillance & Society, vol. 2, no. 2/3, pp. 177-198.
- VIDEO
Onion News Network (2011). CIA's "Facebook" Program Dramatically Cut Agency's Costs (3:32 mins).
NRK (2014) Smart eller overv?ket? (28:53 mins)
Meeting 14: ETHICAL DIMENSIONS OF TECHNOLOGY
Adam, Alison (2005). Delegating and Distributing Morality:Can We Inscribe Privacy Protection in a Machine? In Ethics and Information Technology, vol 7, no. 4, pp. 233-242.
Ess, Charles (2007). Cybernetic pluralism in an emerging global information and computer ethics. In International Review of Information Ethics, vol. 7, no. 9, pp. 94-123.
Feenberg, Andrew (2010). Ten paradoxes of technology. In Techne, 14(1).
Haly, Tim (2012). The unintented consequences of technology (website)
Introna, Lucas D. (2007). Maintaining the reversibility of foldings: Making the ethics (politics) of information technology visible. In Ethics and Information Technology, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 11-25.
Kiran Asle H. (2011) Responsible Design: A Conceptual Look at Interdependent Design–Use Dynamics. In: Philosophy & Technology.
Shilton, Katie (2012). "Value Levers: Building Ethics Into Design": . In: Science Technology & Human Values (23).
STILL UNSORTED
- BOOKS
Lovink, Geert and Nathaniel Tkacz (2011). "Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader. Amsterdam, Institute for Networked Cultures.[ pdf ]
Turnbull, David (2000). Masons, Tricksters and Cartographers. London: Routledge (263 pp.).
- VIDEOS
Michaels, Russel, Simon Ardizzone, and Robert Carrillo Cohen (2006). Hacking Democracy. (81 mins).
ARTICLES
Asdal, Kristin (2008). Enacting things through numbers: Taking nature into account/ing. In Geoforum, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 123-132.
Berg, Anne-Jorunn and Merete Lie (1995). Do Artifacts Have Gender?. Science Technology Human Values, vol. 20, no. 3, pp.332-351.
Callon, Michel (1997). Keynote Speech: Actor-Network Theory - The Market Test. Final version published in John Law and John Hassard (eds), Actor Network Theory and After, Blackwell, 1998.
Carr, Nicholas (2008). Is Google making us stupid?. In: The Atlantic, July/Ag.
Gee, David (2012). The Precautionary Principle (report).
Grisot, Miria (2010). Ordering logics of information practices: a case on heart transplant. English translation of: Grisot, M. (2010): “Ordningslogikker i informasjonspraksiser – en case fra hjertetransplantasjon”. Kapittel 4 i Aanestad M. og Olaussen I. eds. IKT og samhandling i helsesektoren. Digitale lappetepper eller s?ml?s integrasjon? . Tapir Akademisk Forlag.
IARC (2011). IARC classifies radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as possible carcinogenic to humans. (press release)
Joerges, Bernward (1999). Do Politics Have Artefacts?. In Social Studies of Science, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 411-431
Johnson, Deborah G. (2010). Sorting out the question of feminist technology. In: Feminist technology by Linda Layne, Sharra Vostral, and Kate Boyer (eds.)(36-54), University of Illinois.
Mager, Astrid (2012). Algorythmic Ideology: How capitalist society shapes search engines. In Information, Communication & Society Vol. 15, No. 5, June 2012, pp. 769–787
M?rtberg, Christina (1999). Technoscientific challenges in feminism. In NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 7: 1, pp. 47-62
Norwegian Institute of Public health (2012): Low-level radiofrequency electromagnetic fields – an assessment of health risks and evaluation of regulatory practice (English summary). (report)
Philip, Kavita, Irani, Lilly and Paul Dourish (2010). Postcolonial Computing: A Tactical Survey. In Science, Technology, & Human Values, 000(00), pp. 1-27.
Pols, Jeanette (2010). Wonderful Webcams: About Active Gazes and Invisible Technologies. In: Science, Technology & Human Values, (36): 451-473
Star, Susan Leigh (1991). "Power, Technology and the Phenomenology of Conventions: on being allergic to onions". In John Law (ed), A sociology of monsters: Essays on power, technology and domination. London: Routledge, pp. 26-56
Suchman, Lucy (2002). Local accountabilities in technology production
Sundin, Olof (2011). Janitors of knowledge: constructing knowledge in the everyday life of Wikipedia editors. In: Journal of Documentation, Vol. 67 Iss: 5, pp.840 - 862.
van der Velden, Maja and Christina M?rtberg (2012). Between Need and Desire: Exploring Strategies for Gendering Design. In: Science, Technology & Human Values, November, (37): 663-683
Verbeek, Peter-Paul (2006). Materializing Morality: Design Ethics and technological Mediation. In: Science, technology, & Human Values, 31(3):361-380.
Winner, Langdon (1993). Upon Opening the Black Box and Finding It Empty: Social Constructivism and the Philosophy of Technology. In Science, Technology, & Human Values, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 362-378.
Winner, Langdon (1980). Do Artifacts Have Politics?. In Daedalusvol. 109, no. 1, pp. 121-136
Woodhouse, Edward and Jason W. Patton (2008). Design by Society: Science and technology studies and the social shaping of design. InDesign Issues, 20(3):pp. 1-12
Wyatt, Sally (2008). Technological determinism is dead: Long live technological determinism. In The Handbook of Science & Technology Studies, E. Hackett, O. Amsterdamska, M. Lynch and J. Wajcman (eds), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 165-181.
REPORTS
Global Networking Initiative (2010). Inaugural Report 2010
Open Net Society (2011). West Censoring East
WEBSITES
Enough Project (2012). Conflict Minerals
IHRB (2014). Business and Human Rights