Syllabus/achievement requirements

Articles and Book 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.

Carr, Nicholas (2008). Is Google making us stupid?. In: The Atlantic, July/Ag.

Ess, Charles (2010). "Digital media Ethics: Overview, Framework, Resources". In Charles Ess, Digital Media Ethics. Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. 167-225.

Feenberg, Andrew (2010). Ten paradoxes of technology. In Techne, 14(1).

Feng, Patrick and Andrw Feenberg (2008). Thinking about Design: Critical Theory of Technology and the Design Process. In: Philosophy and Design, 105-118.

Freedman, David H. (2010). Lies, damned lies, and medical science. In: The Atlantic, November issue.

Gee, David (2012). The Precautionary Principle (report).

Haly, Tim (2012). The unintented consequences of technology (website)

IARC (2011). IARC classifies radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as possible carcinogenic to humans. (press release)

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.

Ioannidis, John P.A. (2005): Why most published research findings are false. In: Plos Medicine, vol 2, no. 8, e124.

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.

Kiran Asle H. (2011) Responsible Design: A Conceptual Look at Interdependent Design–Use Dynamics. In: Philosophy & Technology.

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.

Mager, Astrid (2012). Algorythmic Ideology: How capitalist society shapes search engines. In Information, Communication & Society Vol. 15, No. 5, June 2012, pp. 769–787

Norwegian Institute of Public health (2012): Low-level radiofrequency electromagnetic fields – an assessment of health risks and evaluation of regulatory practice (English summary). (report)

Pols, Jeanette (2010). Wonderful Webcams: About Active Gazes and Invisible Technologies. In: Science, Technology & Human Values, (36): 451-473

Ramasastry, Anita (2012). Girls Around Me (website article)

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.)

Shilton, Katie (2012). "Value Levers: Building Ethics Into Design": . In: Science Tchnology & Human Values (23).

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 Mörtberg (2012). Between Need and Desire: Exploring Strategies for Gendering Design. In: Science, Technology & Human Values, November, (37): 663-683

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 (2006). Materializing Morality: Design Ethics and technological Mediation. In: Science, technology, & Human Values, 31(3):361-380.

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.).

Wiens, Kyle (2012). The shady world of repair manuals: Copyrighted for planned obsolescence.

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

Documentaries (video)

Dannoritzer, Cosima (2010). Pyramids of Waste (2010), AKA The Lightbulb Conspiracy. (Doc: 52 mins).

NRK (2009). A radiant day. (Doc: 42 mins). Article

Poulsen, Frank Piasecki (2010)."Blood in the mobile" (Doc: 82 mins)

Schei, Tonje Hessen (2010). "Play again" (What they do not know, they will not protect. And what they do not protect, they will lose.).

Resources (Extra - not obligatory)

BOOKS

Asdal, Kristin, Brita Brenna, and Ingunn Moser (eds.) (2007). Technoscience: The politics of interventions. Oslo: Unipub. (This book contains the above mentioned articles by Callon (1986), Haraway (1986), and Star (1991), and contains many other interesting articles that address core issues in Science and technology Studies).

Lovink, Geert and Nathaniel Tkacz (2011). "Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader. Amsterdam, Institute for Networked Cultures.[ pdf ]

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.).

DOCUMENTARIES (video)

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)

Michaels, Russel, Simon Ardizzone, and Robert Carrillo Cohen (2006). Hacking Democracy. (documentary, 81 mins).

Leonard, Annie (2010). The Story of Electronics. (documentary, 8 mins).

ARTICLES

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.

Asdal, Kristin (2008). Enacting things through numbers: Taking nature into account/ing. In Geoforum, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 123-132.

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 (2007). Cybernetic pluralism in an emerging global information and computer ethics. In International Review of Information Ethics, vol. 7, no. 9, pp. 94-123.

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.

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 sømløs integrasjon? . Tapir Akademisk Forlag.

Haraway, Donna (1986). Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective

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.

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.

Joerges, Bernward (1999). Do Politics Have Artefacts?. In Social Studies of Science, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 411-431

Lehrer, Jonah (2011). More thoughts on the decline effect. New Yorker Blog, 3 January 2011.

Mörtberg, Christina (1999). Technoscientific challenges in feminism. In NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 7: 1, pp. 47-62

Philip, Kavita, Irani, Lilly and Paul Dourish (2010). Postcolonial Computing: A Tactical Survey. In Science, Technology, & Human Values, 000(00), pp. 1-27.

Richards, Neil M. (2013). The Dangers of Surveillance. Harvard Law Review, 2013.

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

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.

Verbeek, Peter-Paul (2008). Design Ethics and the Morality of Technological artifacts. In Philosophy and Design, no. 1, pp. 91-103.

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.

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, n0. 3, pp. 362-378.

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

Tripathi, Salil (2011). Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference

WEBSITES

Enough Project (2012). Conflict Minerals

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