Shaping technology/building society
Subtitle: studies in sociotechnical change
By: edited by Wiebe E. Bijker and John Law.
Contributors: Bijker, Wiebe E.; Law, John, 1946-
Series: Inside technology
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
Subjects: Technology -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-326) and index.
Table of contents: title: The life and death of an aircraft : a network analysis of technical change / John Law and Michel Callon; title: What's in a patent? / Geof Bowker; title: The social construction of fluorescent lighting, or how an artifact was invented in its diffusion stage / Wiebe E. Bijker; title: Controversy and closure in technological change : constructing "steel" / Thomas J. Misa; title: Closing the ranks : definition and stabilization of radioactive wastes in the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1945-1960 / Adri de la Bruhèze; title: Artifacts and frames of meaning : Thomas A. Edison, his managers, and the cultural construction of motion pictures / W. Bernard Carlson; title: The de-scription of technical objects / Madeleine Akrich; title: Where are the missing masses? : the sociology of a few mundane artifacts / Bruno Latour.; title: A summary of a convenient vocabulary for the semiotics of human and nonhuman assemblies / Madeleine Akrich and Bruno Latour; title: Technology, testing, text : clinical budgeting in the U.K. national health service / Trevor Pinch, Malcolm Ashmore, and Michael Mulkay; title: Postscript : Technology, stability, and social theory /  John Law and Wiebe E. Bijker.