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.
Sociotechnical History Books Public
Créée par jacky
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The Victorian Internet de Tom Standage
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 a dit : 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.
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Black Software de Charlton McIlwain, Charlton D. McIlwain
4 étoiles
Activists, pundits, politicians, and the press frequently proclaim today's digitally mediated racial justice activism the new civil rights movement. As …
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Palo Alto’s weather is temperate, its people are educated and enterprising, its corporations are spiritually and materially ambitious and demonstrably …
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Weapons of Math Destruction de Cathy O'Neil
5 étoiles
A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life — and threaten to …
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What the dormouse said de John Markoff
Most histories of the personal computer industry focus on technology or business. John Markoff's landmark book is about the culture …
