The Social Shaping of Technologies

 

Last updated: 6^th October 2006

* Updated : 1^st January 2006

** Updated 6^th October 2006

 

This bibliography contains a number of different elements. The first is references from the social shaping literature, especially, but not only, those dealing with consumer ICTs. In addition, there are some more theoretical contributions from the Social Construction of Technology or Actor-Network traditions, including ones combined with empirical studies. The bibliography also has some contributions from innovation studies, since these are pertinent to shaping theme. There are some references to material focused particularly on users’ roles in the innovation process.  At the end, in a separate section, there are relevant historical studies of particular technologies, although these sometimes overlap with, and hence are repeated in, the first list.

 

 

Akrich, M. (1992) ‘The De-scription of Technical Objects’, in Bijker, W. and Law, J. (eds) Shaping Technology/Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change, MIT Press, Cambridge

 

*Berg, A-J. and Lie, M (1995) ‘Do Artefacts have Gender? Feminism and the Domestication of Technical Artifacts’, Science, Technology and Human Values, Vol..20, No.3, pp.332-351

 

Bijker, W. (1995) Of Bicycles, Bakelites, and Bulbs: Toward a Theory of Socio-Technical Change, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass

 

Cawson, A., Haddon, L. and Miles, I. (1995) The Shape of Things to Consume: Bringing Information Technology into the Home, Avebury, London.

 

Cockburn, C. (1985), Machinery of Dominance: Women, Men and Technical Know-How, Pluto Press, London.

 

Coombs, R., Green, K., Richards, A. and Walsh, V. (eds) (2001) Technology and the Market: Demand, Users and Innovation, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham

 

Dosi, G. (1984) Technical Change and Industrial Transformation: The Theory and An Application to the Semiconductor Industry, Macmillan, London.

 

Dutton, W. (Ed.) (1996) Information and Communication Technologies: Visions and Realities, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

 

Edge, D. (1995) ‘The Social Shaping of Technology’, in Heap, N., Thomas. R.,

 

Einon, G., Mason, R. and Mackay, H. (eds) Information Technology and Society: A Reader, Sage, London, pp.14-32

 

Flichy, P. (1995), Dynamics of Modern Communication: The Shaping and Impact of New Communication Technologies, Sage, London.

 

Forty, A. (1986) Objects of Desire: Design and Society 1750-1980, Thames and Hudson, London, p.200-6.

 

Freeman,, C.., J. Clark, J. and , & L. Soete, .L. (1982).  Unemployment and TTechnical IInnovation: AA SStudy of LLong WWaves and EEconomic DDevelopment,   Westport, CT:  Greenwood Press, Westport, CT.

 

Du Gay, P., Hall, S., Janes, L., Mackay, H. and Negus, K. (1997) Doing Cultural Studies. The Story of the Sony Walkman, Sage, London.

 

Haddon, L. (2002) ‘Information and communication technologies and the role of consumers in innovation’, in McMeekin. A., Green, K., Tomlinson, M. and Walsh, V. (eds) Innovation by demand: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Demand and its Role in Innovation,  Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 151-67

 

Haddon, L. (2005) ‘The Innovatory Use of ICTs’, in Haddon, L, Mante, E., Sapio, B., Kommonen, K-H, Fortunati, L. Kant, A (eds) Everyday Innovators. Researching the Role of Users in Shaping ICTs, Springer, Dordrect, pp.54-66.

 

Haddon, L, Mante, E., Sapio, B., Kommonen, K-H, Fortunati, L. Kant, A (eds) (2005) Everyday Innovators, Researching the Role of Users in Shaping ICTs, Springer, Dordrect,

 

Haddon, L. and Paul, G. (2001) ‘Design in the ICT Industry: The Role of Users’, in Coombs, R, Green, K., Richards, A. and Walsh, V. (eds) Technology and the Market: Demand, Users and Innovation, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp.201-15.

 

Hoogma, R. and Schot, J. (2001) ‘How Innovative are Users? A Critique of Learning-by-Doing-and-Using’, in Coombs, R., Green, K., Richards, A. and Walsh, V. (eds) Technology and the Market: Demand, Users and Innovation, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, pp 216-233

 

Hughs, T. (1987) The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.

 

Joshi, J. (2005) ‘Community-Technology Interfaces in Participatory Planning: Tool or Tokenism?’, in Haddon, L, Mante, E., Sapio, B., Kommonen, K-H, Fortunati, L. Kant, A (eds) Everyday Innovators. Researching the Role of Users in Shaping ICTs, Springer, Dordrect, pp.218-32.

 

Keen, B. (1987) ‘Play It Again Sony: The Origins and Double Life of Home Video Technology’, Science as Culture, No.1, pp.7-42.

 

Lally, E. (2002) At Home with Computers, Berg, Oxford.

 

Latour B (1986) Science in Action. Open University Press, Milton Keynes

 

Law J and Callon M (1992) The Life and Death of an Aircraft: A Network Analysis of Technical Change, in Bijker, W. and Law, J. (eds) Shaping technology/ Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change, Routledge, London, pp 29-52

 

Limonard, S. and de Koning, N. (2005) ‘Dealing with Dilemmas in Pre-Competitive ICT Development Projects: The Construction of ‘The Social’ in Designing New Technologies’, in Haddon, L, Mante, E., Sapio, B., Kommonen, K-H, Fortunati, L. Kant, A (eds) Everyday Innovators. Researching the Role of Users in Shaping ICTs, Springer, Dordrect, pp.168-183.

 

Lindsay, C. (2003) From the Shadows: Users as Designers, Producers, Marketers, Distributors and Technical Support, in Oudshoorn, N and Pinch, T. (2003) How Users Matter. The Co-construction of Users and Technology, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp.29-50.

 

Mackenzie, D. and Wacjman, J. (eds.) (1999, 2^nd Edition) The Social Shaping of Technology, Open University Press, Milton Keynes esp. Part 1 Introductory Essay and General Issues.

 

Mahé, E. (2005) ‘Artistic Deviance and Innovation in Use’, in Haddon, L, Mante, E., Sapio, B., Kommonen, K-H, Fortunati, L. Kant, A (eds) Everyday Innovators. Researching the Role of Users in Shaping ICTs, Springer, Dordrect, pp.121-35.

 

Mallard, A. (2005) ‘Following the Emergence of Unpredictable Uses? New Stakes and Tasks for a Social Scientific Understanding of ICT Uses’, in Haddon, L, Mante, E., Sapio, B., Kommonen, K-H, Fortunati, L. Kant, A (eds) Everyday Innovators. Researching the Role of Users in Shaping ICTs, Springer, Dordrect, pp.39-53.

 

Marvin, C. (1988) When Old Technologies were New: Thinking about Communications in the Late Nineteenth Century, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

 

McKelvey, M. (2001) ‘Internet Entrepreneurship: Why Linux might beat Microsoft’, in Coombs, R., Green, K., Richards, A. and Walsh, V. (eds) Technology and the Market: Demand, Users and Innovation, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, pp 216-233

 

McMeekin. A., Green, K., Tomlinson, M. and Walsh, V. (eds) Innovation by Demand: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Demand and its Role in Innovation. Manchester University Press, Manchester,

 

Molina, A . (1989) The Social Basis of the Microelectronics Revolution. Edinburgh University Pres, Edinburgh

 

Oudshoorn, N and Pinch, T. (2003) How Users Matter. The Co-construction of Users and Technology, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA

 

Pinch, T. and Bijker, W. (1984) ‘The Social Construction of Facts and Artefacts: Or how the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology might Benefit each Other’,  Social Studies of Science, 14: 399-441

 

*Pinch, T. and Bijker, W. (1987) ‘The Social Construction of Facts and Artefacts: Or how the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology might Benefit each Other’,  in Bijker, W. and Hughs, T. (eds) The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and history of Technology, MIT Press, Cambridge,

 

Punie, Y. (2005) ‘The Future of Ambient Intelligence in Europe – The Need for More Everyday Life’, in Silverstone, R. (Ed.) Media, Technology and Everyday Life in Europe, Aldershot: Ashgate

 

Rip, A., Misa, Th. and Schot, J. (1995) Managing Technology in Society: The Approach of Constructive Technology Assessment, Pinter, London

 

Rip, A. and  Schot, J. (2002) ‘Identifying Loci for Influencing the Dynamics of Technological Development’, in Sørensen, K. and Williams, R. (eds) Shaping Technology, Guiding Policy. Concepts, Spaces and Tools, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham

 

Rommes E (2002) Gender Scripts and the Internet: The Design and Use of Amsterdam’s Digital City,  Twente University Press, Enschede

 

Sarkkinen, J. (2005) ‘Test Scenarios and the Excluded User’, in Haddon, L, Mante, E., Sapio, B., Kommonen, K-H, Fortunati, L. Kant, A (eds) Everyday Innovators, Researching the Role of Users in Shaping ICTs, Springer, Dordrect, pp.184-200.

 

Silverstone, R. and Haddon, L. (1996) ‘Design and the Domestication of Information and Communication Technologies: Technical Change and Everyday Life’, in Silverstone, R. and Mansell, R (eds) Communication by Design.  The Politics of Information and Communication Technologies, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 44-74.

 

de Sola Pool, I.(Ed.) (1977) The Social Impact of the Telephone, MIT Press, Cambridge

 

Sørensen, K. and Williams, R. (eds) (2002) Shaping Technology, Guiding Policy. Concepts, Spaces and Tools, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham

 

Sotamaa, O. (2005) ‘Creative User-Centred Design Practices: Lessons from Game Cultures’, in Haddon, L, Mante, E., Sapio, B., Kommonen, K-H, Fortunati, L. Kant, A (eds) Everyday Innovators, Researching the Role of Users in Shaping ICTs, Springer, Dordrect, pp.104-116.

 

Thomke S, von Hippel E (2002) ‘Customers as Innovators: a New Way to Create Value’, Harward Business Review, 80 (2):5-11

 

Tuomi, I. (2002)   Networks of Innovation: Change and Meaning in the Age of the Internet,      Oxford University Press, Oxford

 

Tuomi, I. (2005)   ‘Beyond User-Centric Models of Product Creation’, in Haddon, L, Mante, E., Sapio, B., Kommonen, K-H, Fortunati, L. Kant, A (eds) Everyday Innovators. Researching the Role of Users in Shaping ICTs, Springer, Dordrect, pp.21-38.

 

Vehviläinen, M. (2005) ‘The Construction of ‘Equal Agency’ in the Development of Technology’, in Haddon, L, Mante, E., Sapio, B., Kommonen, K-H, Fortunati, L. Kant, A (eds) Everyday Innovators. Researching the Role of Users in Shaping ICTs, Springer, Dordrect, pp.203-17.

 

Wajcman, J. (2004) Technofeminism, Polity Press, London.

 

Williams, R. (1974) Television: Technology and Cultural Form, Fontana/Collins, Glasgow.

 

*Williams, R. and Edge, D. (1999) ‘The Social Shaping of Technology’, in Dutton, W. (Ed.) Information and Communication Technologies: Visions and Realities, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 53-68

 

Woolgar, S. (1991) ‘Configuring the User: the Case of Usability Trials’, in Law. J (Ed.) A Sociology of Monsters. Routledge, London, pp. 57-99

 

Woolgar, S. (2005) ‘Mobile Back to Front: Uncertainty and Danger in the theory-Technology Relation’ in Ling, R. and Pedersen, P. (eds) Mobile Communications: Renegotiation of the Social Sphere, Springer, London, pp.23-44.

 

Williams, R. and Edge, D. (1999) ‘The Social Shaping of Technology’, in Dutton, W. Society on the Line: Information Politics in the Digital Age, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp.41-43.

 

von Hippel, E. and Katz, R. (2002) ‘Shifting Innovation to Users via Toolkits, Management Science, 48 (7):821-833.

 

Wyatt, S. (2003) ‘Non-Users Also Matter: The Construction of Users and Non-Users of the Internet’, in Oudshoorn, N and Pinch, T. (2003) How Users Matter. The Co-construction of Users and Technology, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp.67-80.

 

 

Contemporary and Historical Studies

 

 

Aronson, S. (1977) ‘”Bell's Electrical Toy. What's the Use?”  The Sociology of Early Telephone Usage', de Sola Pool, I. (Ed.), The Social Impact of the Telephone, MIT Press, Cambridge.

 

Berg, A.-J. (1994), ‘Technological flexibility: Bringing Gender into Technology (or was it the other way round?), in Cockburn, C. and Fürst Dilic, R. (eds) Bringing Technology Home - Gender and technology in a Changing Europe, Open University Press, Buckingham.

(Minitel)

 

Berg, A.-J. (1994), ‘A Gendered Socio-Technical Construction: The Smart House’ in Cockburn, C. & Fürst Dilic, R.(eds) Bringing Technology Home - Gender and Technology in a Changing Europe, Open University Press, Buckingham.

 

Cawson, A., Haddon, L. and Miles, I. (1995) The Shape of Things to Consume: Bringing Information Technology into the Home, Avebury, London.

(Home automation, CD-I, electronic messaging)

 

Douglas, S. (1986) ‘Amateur Operators and American Broadcasting: Shaping the Future of Radio’, in Corn, J. (Ed.), Imagining Tomorrow: History, Technology, and the American Future, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., pp.34-57.

 

Dutton, W. (1999) ‘The Social Shaping of Tele-Access. Inventing our Futures’, in Dutton, W. Society on the Line: Information Politics in the Digital Age, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp.79-110.

 

Fischer, C. (1992) America Calling. A Social History of the Telephone to 1940, University of California Press, Berkley

 

Flichy, P. (1995) Dynamics of Modern Communication: The Shaping and Impact of New Communication Technologies, Sage, London.

 

Du Gay, P., Hall, S., Janes, L., Mackay, H. and Negus, K. (1997) Doing Cultural Studies. The Story of the Sony Walkman, Sage, London.

 

Haddon, L. (1988) ‘The Home Computer: The Making of a Consumer Electronic, Science as Culture, No.2, pp.7-51.

 

Haddon, L. (1999) ‘The Development of Interactive Games’, in Mackay, H. and O’Sullivan, T. (eds) The Media Reader: Continuity and Transformation, Sage, London, pp.305-27.

 

Johnson, L. (1981) ‘Radio and Everyday Life: The Early Years of Broadcasting in Australia, 1922-45, Media, Culture and Society, Vol.3, No. 2, pp.167-78.

 

Kline, R. (2003) ‘Resisting Consumer Technology in Rural America: The Telephone and Electrification’, in Oudshoorn, N and Pinch, T. (2003) How Users Matter. The Co-construction of Users and Technology, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp.51-66.

 

Lasen, A. (2005) ‘History Repeating? A Comparison of the Launch and Uses of Fixed and Mobile Phones’, in Hamill, L. and Lasen, A. (Eds.) Mobile World. Past, Present and Future, Springer, pp.29-60.

 

Marvin, C. (1988) When Old Technologies were New: Thinking about Communications in the Late Nineteenth Century, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

(ICTs: Telephone, electric lights)

 

*Matsuda, M. (2005) ‘Discourses of Keitei in Japan’, in Ito, M., Matsuda, M. and Okabe, D. (eds) Personal, Portable, Pedestrian, Mobile Phones in Japanese Life, MIT Press, Mass. pp.19-40.

(Mobile phone)

 

**Qui, J. (2005)  The Accidental Accomplishment of Little Smart: Understanding the Emergence of a Working Class ICT, paper for the conference ARNIC High-Level Workshop on Wireless Communication and Development, Oct 7-8,

 

Rommes E (2002) Gender Scripts and the Internet: The Design and Use of Amsterdam’s Digital City,  Twente University Press, Enschede

 

Spigel, L. (1992) Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

 

*Sawhaney, H. (2005) ‘Wi-Fi Networks and the Reorganization of Wireline-Wireless Relationships, in Ling, R. and Pedersen, P. (eds) Mobile Communications: Renegotiation of the Social Sphere, Springer, London, pp.45-62.

 

** Sawhaney, H .and Lee, S. (2005) Areas of Innovation: Understanding New Configurational Potentialities of Communication Technologies, Media, Culture and Society, Vol.27, No.3, pp391-414

 

*Tee, R. (2005) ‘Different Directions in the Mobile Internet: Analysing Mobile Internet Services in Japan and Europe’, in Hamill, L. and Lasen, A. (Eds.) Mobile World. Past, Present and Future, Springer, pp.143-60.

 

Taylor, A. and Vincent, J. (2005) ‘An SMS History’, in Hamill, L. and Lasen, A. (Eds.) Mobile World. Past, Present and Future, Springer, pp.75-92.

 

*Watts, L. (2005) ‘Designing the Future: Fables from the Mobile Telecoms Industry’, , in Glotz, P., Bertschi, S. and Locke, C. (eds.) Thumb Culture. The Meaning of Mobile Phones in Society, Transcript, Bielefeld, pp.225-234.

 

Williams, R. (1974) Television: Technology and Cultural Form, Fontana/Collins, Glasgow