Swedish name: Teknikens idéhistoria
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Course code: 1IH047
Credit points: 7.5
Education level: First cycle
Main Field of Study and progress level:
History of Science and Ideas: First cycle, has only upper-secondary level entry requirements
Grading scale: Pass with distinction, Pass, Fail
Responsible department: Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies
Sundin Bosse
Den kupade handen : historien om människan och tekniken
2., utök. uppl. : Stockholm : Carlsson : 2006 : 362 s. :
ISBN: 91-7331-015-8 (inb.)
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Hughes Thomas Parke
Human-built world : how to think about technology and culture
Chicago : University of Chicago Press : 2004 : 223 s. :
ISBN: 0-226-35933-6
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Nye David E.
Technology matters : questions to live with
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press : cop. 2006 : xiv, 282 s. :
ISBN: 0-262-14093-4
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Bladh Mats
Hughes teori om Stora tekniska system, Historisk Tidsskrift 126, No 1
Historisk tidskrift : 2006 :
http://www.historisktidskrift.se/fulltext/2006-1/pdf/HT_2006_1_069-90_bladh.pdf
Schwartz Cowan Ruth
The Industrial Revolution in the Home: Household Technology and Social Change in the 20th Century Technology and Culture 17, No. 1
Technology and Culture : 1976 :
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3103251
Douglas Susan J
Some Thoughts on the Question "How Do New Things Happen?", Technology and Culture 51, No 2
Technology and Culture : 2010 :
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/technology_and_culture/v051/51.2.douglas.html
Ensmenger Nathan
The Digital Construction of Technology: Rethinking the History of Computers in Society, Technology and Culture 53, No 4
Technology and Culture : 2012 :
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/technology_and_culture/v053/53.4.ensmenger.html
Users as Agents of Technological Change: The Social Construction of the Automobile in the Rural United States Technology and Culture 37, No. 4
Kline R., Pinch T.
Technology and Culture : 1996 :
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3107097
Latour Bruno
Where are the Missing Masses: The Sociology of a Few Mundane Artifacts i Wiebe E. Bijker and John Law, eds., Shaping Technology/Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change
The MIT Press : 1992 :
http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/50-MISSING-MASSES-GB.pdf
Marinetti Filippo Tommaso
The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism,
Le Figaro, Paris : 1909 :
http://www.unknown.nu/futurism/manifesto.html
Marx Leo
Technology: The Emergence of a Hazardous Concept, Technology and Culture 51, no. 3
Technology and Culture : 2010 :
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/technology_and_culture/v051/51.3.marx.html
The Nature of Power: Synthesizing the History of Technology and Environmental History, Technology and Culture 52, No 1
Russell Edmund, Allison James, Finger Thomas, Brown John K., Balogh Brian, Carlson W. Bernard
Technology and Culture : 2011 :
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/technology_and_culture/v052/52.2.russell.html
Strasser Susan
Making Consumption Conspicuous: Transgressive Topics Go Mainstream, Technology and Culture 43, No 4
Technology and Culture : 2002 :
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/technology_and_culture/v043/43.4strasser.html
Winner Langdon
Do Artifacts Have Politics? i Langdon Winner, The whale and the reactor: a search for limits in an age of high technology
University of Chicago Press : 1986 :
A Conversation with Leo Marx on "Technology: The Emergence of a Hazardous Concept"
Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier : 2012 :
https://vimeo.com/43059923
Mandatory
Blum Andrew
Discover the Physical Side of the Internet
Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier : 2012 :
http://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_blum_what_is_the_internet_really.html
Mandatory
Brändén Henrik
"Om Populärvetenskapligt Skrivande
Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier :
http://henrikbranden.se/vetenskapsskribent/att-skriva-popularvetenskap/
Mandatory
"The Technological Golem" in Golem at Large: What You Should Know about Technology
Collins Harry, Pinch Trevor
Cambridge University Press : 1998 :
Mandatory
Edgerton David
"From Innovation to Use: Ten Eclectic Theses on the Historiography of Technology"
History and Technology 16, no 2 : 1999 :
Mandatory
Fischer Claude S.
"'Touch Someone': The Telephone Industry Discovers Sociability"
Technology and Culture, No 1 : 1988 :
http://proxy.ub.umu.se:2191/stable/3105226?seq=1
Mandatory
Kranzberg Melvin
"'Technology and History: 'Kranzberg's Laws'"
Technology and Culture 27, No 3 : 1986 :
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3105385
Mandatory
Latour Bruno
"Opening Pandora's Black Box"
Science in Action, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press : 1987 :
Mandatory
Ogle Maureen
"The How of the Historian - Editor's Picks"
Medium :
https://medium.com/editors-picks/f69e08b57b74
Mandatory
Reid
"How Roads Were Not Built for Cars"
The Guardian, April 13 : 2013 :
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2013/apr/16/roads-not-built-for-cars-book
Mandatory
"The Age of Edison: Radical Invention and the Illuminated World"
Brain Pickings : 2013 :
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/02/28/the-age-of-edison/
Mandatory
Williams James
"Understanding the place of humans in nature" in Illusory Boundary: Technology and the Environment"
Charlotte: University of Virginia Press : 2010 :
Mandatory
"The Modern Moloch.
99 % Invisible. :
http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-76-the-modern-moloch/
Mandatory
Sundin Bosse
Den kupade handen : historien om människan och tekniken
2., utök. uppl. : Stockholm : Carlsson : 2006 : 362 s. :
ISBN: 91-7331-015-8 (inb.)
Search the University Library catalogue
Hughes Thomas Parke
Human-built world : how to think about technology and culture
Chicago : University of Chicago Press : 2004 : 223 s. :
ISBN: 0-226-35933-6
Search the University Library catalogue
Nye David E.
Technology matters : questions to live with
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press : cop. 2006 : xiv, 282 s. :
ISBN: 0-262-14093-4
Search the University Library catalogue
Berner Boel
Expertisen och den moderna husmodern, i Sakernas tillstånd
Carlssons, Stockholm : 1996 :
Bladh Mats
Hughes teori om Stora tekniska system, Historisk Tidsskrift 126, No 1
Historisk tidskrift : 2006 :
http://www.historisktidskrift.se/fulltext/2006-1/pdf/HT_2006_1_069-90_bladh.pdf
Carr Nicholas
Is Google making us stupid?, The Atlantic Magazine (July/August)
The Atlantic Magazine : 2008 :
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/306868/
Schwartz Cowan Ruth
The Industrial Revolution in the Home: Household Technology and Social Change in the 20th Century Technology and Culture 17, No. 1
Technology and Culture : 1976 :
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3103251
Douglas Susan J
Some Thoughts on the Question "How Do New Things Happen?", Technology and Culture 51, No 2
Technology and Culture : 2010 :
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/technology_and_culture/v051/51.2.douglas.html
Edgerton David
Innovation, Technology, or History: What is the Historiography of Technology About?, Technology and Culture 51, No 3
Technology and Culture : 2010 :
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/technology_and_culture/v051/51.3.edgerton.html
Ensmenger Nathan
The Digital Construction of Technology: Rethinking the History of Computers in Society, Technology and Culture 53, No 4
Technology and Culture : 2012 :
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/technology_and_culture/v053/53.4.ensmenger.html
Hughes Thomas P.
The Evolution of Large Technological Systems, i Wiebe E. Bijker, Thomas P. Hughes, & Trevor J. Pinch, red., The Social Construction of Technological Systems
The MIT Press : 1987 :
Users as Agents of Technological Change: The Social Construction of the Automobile in the Rural United States Technology and Culture 37, No. 4
Kline R., Pinch T.
Technology and Culture : 1996 :
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3107097
Kranakis Eda
Patents and Power: European Patent-System Integration in the Context of Globalization, Technology and Culture 48, No 4
Technology and Culture : 2007 :
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/technology_and_culture/v048/48.4kranakis.html
Latour Bruno
Where are the Missing Masses: The Sociology of a Few Mundane Artifacts i Wiebe E. Bijker and John Law, eds., Shaping Technology/Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change
The MIT Press : 1992 :
http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/50-MISSING-MASSES-GB.pdf
Marinetti Filippo Tommaso
The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism,
Le Figaro, Paris : 1909 :
http://www.unknown.nu/futurism/manifesto.html
Marx Leo
Technology: The Emergence of a Hazardous Concept, Technology and Culture 51, no. 3
Technology and Culture : 2010 :
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/technology_and_culture/v051/51.3.marx.html
The Nature of Power: Synthesizing the History of Technology and Environmental History, Technology and Culture 52, No 1
Russell Edmund, Allison James, Finger Thomas, Brown John K., Balogh Brian, Carlson W. Bernard
Technology and Culture : 2011 :
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/technology_and_culture/v052/52.2.russell.html
Shirky Clay
Gin, Technology, and Cognitive Surplus, i Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
The Penguin Press : 2010 :
Strasser Susan
Making Consumption Conspicuous: Transgressive Topics Go Mainstream, Technology and Culture 43, No 4
Technology and Culture : 2002 :
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/technology_and_culture/v043/43.4strasser.html
Swanson Kara W.
The Emergence of the Professional Patent Practitioner, Technology and Culture 50, No 3
Technology and Culture : 2009 :
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/technology_and_culture/v050/50.3.swanson.html
Winner Langdon
Do Artifacts Have Politics? i Langdon Winner, The whale and the reactor: a search for limits in an age of high technology
University of Chicago Press : 1986 :