The Social Construction of Technological Systems
By:Wiebe E. Bijker,Thomas Parke Hughes,Trevor J. Pinch
Published on 1987 by MIT Press
The impact of technology on society is clear and unmistakable. The influence ofsociety on technology is more subtle. The 13 essays in this book draw on a wide array of casestudies from cooking stoves to missile systems, from 15thÂ\u00adcentury Portugal to today's AI labs- to outline an original research program based on a synthesis of ideas from the social studies ofscience and the history of technology. Together they affirm the need for a study of technology thatgives equal weight to technical, social, economic, and political questions.
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