Getting New Technologies Together: Studies in Making Sociotechnical Order

ISBN-13: 9783110156300 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 388 str.

Cornelis Disco; Barend Van Der Meulen

Opis

Case studies of new technologies in this book are, among others: human genome research, radioactivity, nuclear energy, DNA applications. Getting new technologies together refers to the technical, political, and social negotiations and developments that contribute to make them possible and acceptable to the public. volume.

Spis treści

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Coordination of Ship Propeller Design: Technical Models and the Relation of T. Y. Draco with Queen Elizabeth ?I -- Chapter 2. Means of Coordination in Making Biological Science: On the Mapping of Plants, Animals, and Genes -- Chapter 3. Coordination in Military Socio-technical Networks: Military Needs, Requirements and Guiding Principles -- Chapter 4. Getting an Experiment Together in High Energy Physics: Big Plans, Big Machines, and Bricolage -- Chapter 5. Why Are Chickens Housed in Battery Cages? -- Chapter 6. Aligning Gender and New Technology: The Case of Early Administrative Automation -- Chapter 7. Expectations in Technological Developments: An Example of Prospective Structures to be Filled in by Agency -- Chapter 8. Boundary Maintenance and Radioactive Waste Disposal Technology in the U.S., 1945-1970 -- Chapter 9. Meaningful Boundaries: Symbolic Representations in Heterogeneous Research and Development Projects -- Chapter 10. Antagonistic Patterns and New Technologies -- Chapter 11. Getting Case Studies Together: Conclusions on the Coordination of Sociotechnical Order -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index