Sociotechnical History Books Public

Créée par jacky

A list of books I'm working on to weave a critical perspective of technology from its inception to how we depict it today. The relations include gender, labor, race and geopolitical relations.

  1. The Victorian Internet by 

    4 étoiles

    The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers is a 1998 book by …

    jacky says:

    An excellent trace of the entities (private individuals, governments and corporations) that were required and involved in the inception as global communications primarily as a system of governance, then of trade, then of business interest and then lastly of inventing commodities for popular support.

  2. Black Software by ,

    4 étoiles

    Activists, pundits, politicians, and the press frequently proclaim today's digitally mediated racial justice activism the new civil rights movement. As …

  3. Palo Alto by 

    Aucune note

    Palo Alto’s weather is temperate, its people are educated and enterprising, its corporations are spiritually and materially ambitious and demonstrably …

  4. Weapons of Math Destruction by 

    5 étoiles

    A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life — and threaten to …

  5. What the dormouse said by 

    Aucune note

    Most histories of the personal computer industry focus on technology or business. John Markoff's landmark book is about the culture …

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