MSE 596S -- Technology and Social Theory

This has been a really neat examination of technology and its effects on society. The professor was Dr. Jennifer L. Croissant.

My term paper is an examination of music composition and its relation with technology.

Summaries

This class had a very extensive reading list. Here are summaries of the books I read for this class:

• Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology and Ideologies of Western Dominance by Michael Adas
• The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change by David Harvey
• Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance by Donald McKenzie
• Forces of Production by David Noble
• Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology by David Nye
• The Evolution of Useful Things by Henry Petroski
• The Value of Convenience: A Genealogy of Technical Culture by Thomas Tierney
• Controlling Technology: Ethics and the Responsible Engineer by Stephen Unger
• Medieval Technology and Social Change (Ch.1) by White
• In The Age Of The Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power by Shoshana Zuboff

Copyright 1996 Gordon Zaft

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