This class is the first STS class I ever took. It covered on the breadth of the STS field, including readings every week of important or commonly read articles in STS. A schedule\/list of readings is below:<\/p>\n
Unit 1 \u2013 Science and Technology <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Week 1 \u2013 Introducing STS <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tuesday, Sept 1st<\/sup> – No Reading<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Friday, Sept 4th<\/sup> \u2013 Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 3rd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.<\/p>\n Tuesday, Sept 8th<\/sup> – Hacking, Ian. The Social Construction of What? Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1999.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Friday, Sept 11th<\/sup> – Callon, Michel. \u201cSome Elements of a Sociology of Translation.\u201d In The Science Studies Reader, edited by Mario Biagioli. New York: Routledge, 1999.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Keller, Evelyn Fox. A Feeling for the Organism, 10th Anniversary Edition: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock. Macmillan, 1984.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n “Introduction” Kleinman, Daniel Lee, Abby J. Kinchy, and Jo Handelsman, eds. Controversies in science and technology: from maize to menopause. Vol. 1. Univ of Wisconsin Press, 2005.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Friday, Sept 18th<\/sup> – Oreskes, Naomi, and Erik M. Conway. Merchants of doubt: How a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2011.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Haraway, Donna. \u201cSituated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective.\u201d Feminist Studies, 1988, 575\u201399.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Harding, Sandra. \u201cA Socially Relevant Philosophy of Science? Resources from Standpoint Theory\u2019s Controversiality.\u201d Hypatia 19, no. 1 (2004): 25\u201347.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Week 4 \u2013 The Politics of Technology <\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Tuesday, Sept 22nd<\/sup> –\u00a0 Winner, Langdon. “Do artifacts have politics?.” Daedalus (1980): 121-136<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Friday, Sept 25th<\/sup> – Noble, David. “Social Choice in Machine Design:\u00a0 The Case of Automatically Controlled Machine Tools and a Challenge for Labor.” Politics and Society (1978): 313347.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Campbell, Nancy D. “Suspect technologies: scrutinizing the intersection of science, technology, and policy.” Science, Technology & Human Values 30, no. 3 (2005): 374-402.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Seiter, Ellen. \u201cPracticing at Home: Computers, Pianos, and Cultural Capital.” Digital Youth, Innovation, and the Unexpected. Edited by Tara McPherson. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008. 27\u201352.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Week 5 \u2013 The Social Construction of Technology <\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Tuesday, Sept 29th<\/sup> – Bijker, Wiebe E., Thomas Parke Hughes, and T. J. Pinch, eds. The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology. Anniversary ed. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2012.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Friday, Oct 2nd<\/sup> – Oudshoorn, Nelly. Beyond the Natural Body: An Archaeology of Sex Hormones. New York; London: Routledge, 1994.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Collins, Harry, and Trevor Pinch. “The Naked Launch: Assigning Blame for the Challenger Explosion.” In the golem at large: What you should know about technology. Cambridge University Press, 1998.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Layne, Linda L., Sharra Louise Vostral, and Kate Boyer. Feminist technology. University of Illinois Press, 2010.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Unit 2 \u2013 Engineering, Design, Mathematics and Computing <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Week 6 \u2013 Engineering and Computer Education <\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Tuesday, Oct 6th<\/sup>\u00a0 – Downey, Gary Lee, and Juan Lucena. “Weeding out and hiring in: How engineers succeed.” Cyborgs and Citadels: Anthropological Interventions in Emerging Sciences and Technologies (1997): 49-64<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Friday, Oct 9th<\/sup> – Cech, Erin A. “Culture of disengagement in engineering education?.” Science, Technology & Human Values 39, no. 1 (2014): 42-72.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Scott, Kimberly A., Kimberly M. Sheridan, and Kevin Clark. “Culturally responsive computing: a theory revisited.” Learning, Media and Technology<\/em> ahead-of-print (2014): 1-25.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Slaton, Amy E. Race, rigor, and selectivity in US engineering: The history of an occupational color line. Harvard University Press, 2010.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Week 7 \u2013 The Social Studies of Design <\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Tuesday, Oct 13th<\/sup> \u2013 No Class<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Friday (Group Readings), Oct 16th<\/sup> \u2013 30 Minute Mid-Term<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Woodhouse, Edward, and Jason W. Patton. \u201cDesign by Society: Science and Technology Studies and the Social Shaping of Design.\u201d Design Issues 20, no. 3 (2004): 1\u201312.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Nieusma, Dean. “Alternative design scholarship: Working toward appropriate design.” Design Issues 20, no. 3 (2004): 13-24.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Week 8 \u2013 Engineering, Ethics, and Social Justice\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Tuesday, Oct 20th<\/sup> – Johnson, Deborah G., and Jameson M. Wetmore. “STS and ethics: implications for engineering ethics.” The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, (2008): 567-82.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Friday, Oct 23rd<\/sup> \u2013 Franzway, Suzanne, Rhonda Sharp, Julie E. Mills, and Judith Gill. “Engineering ignorance: The problem of gender equity in engineering.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 30, no. 1 (2009): 89-106.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Nieusma, Dean, and Donna Riley. “Designs on development: Engineering, globalization, and social justice.” Engineering Studies 2, no. 1 (2010): 29-59.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Herkert, Joseph R., and David A. Banks. “I have seen the future! Ethics, progress, and the grand challenges for engineering.” International Journal of Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace 1, no. 2 (2012): 109-122.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Week 9 \u2013 Social and Cultural Studies of Mathematics <\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Tuesday, Oct 27th<\/sup> – Restivo, Sal. “The social life of mathematics.” Math Worlds<\/em> (1993): 247-278.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Friday, Oct 30th<\/sup> – Ferreira, Mariana Kawall Leal. “When 1+ 1\u22602: Making mathematics in central Brazil.” American Ethnologist (1997): 132-147.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Eglash, Ron. “When math worlds collide: Intention and invention in ethnomathematics.” Science, Technology & Human Values 22, no. 1 (1997): 79-97.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Martin, Brian. “Mathematics and social interests.” Ethnomathematics: Challenging Eurocentrism in mathematics education (1997): 155-172.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Week 10 \u2013 Computing and Society <\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Tuesday, Nov 3rd<\/sup> – Pollock, Neil. “When is a Work Around? Conflict and Negotiation in Computer Systems Development.” In Technology and Society: Building Our Sociotechnical Future (2009): 423-439.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Friday, Nov 6th<\/sup> – Edwards, P. N., M. S. Mayernik, A. L. Batcheller, G. C. Bowker, and C. L. Borgman. \u201cScience Friction: Data, Metadata, and Collaboration.\u201d Social Studies of Science 41, no. 5 (October 1, 2011): 667\u201390.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Philip, K., Irani, L., & Dourish, P. (2012) Postcolonial computing a tactical survey.” Science, Technology\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 & Human Values, 37(1), 3-29.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Akera, Atsushi. “Voluntarism and the fruits of collaboration: The IBM user group, Share.” Technology and Culture 42, no. 4 (2001): 710-736.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Unit 3 \u2013 Topics in STS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Week 11 \u2013 Social Movements and Environmental Justice <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tuesday, Nov 10th<\/sup> – “Science, Technology, & Social Movements” Hess, Breyman, Campbell, in The Handbook of STS Studies 4th ed.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Friday, Nov 13th<\/sup> – Mascarenhas, Michael. Where the Waters Divide: Neoliberalism, White Privilege, and Environmental Racism in Canada. Lexington Books, 2012.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kinchy, Abby. \u201cEpistemic Boomerang: Expert Policy Advice as Leverage in the Campaign against Transgenic Maize in Mexico.\u201d Mobilization: An International Quarterly 15, no. 2 (2010): 179\u201398.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Costelloe-Kuehn, Brandon. “Exposed science: genes, the environment, and the politics of population health.” New Genetics and Society<\/em> 32, no. 4 (2013): 451-454.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Week 12 \u2013 Social\/Natural Disasters <\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Tuesday, Nov 17th<\/sup> – Perrow, Charles. \u201cNormal Accident at Three Mile Island.\u201d Society 18, no. 5 (1981): 17\u201326.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Friday, Nov 20th<\/sup> – Fortun, Kim. Advocacy after Bhopal: Environmentalism, disaster, new global orders. University of Chicago Press, 2009.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Woodhouse, Edward. “Conceptualizing disasters as extreme versions of everyday life.” Dynamics of Disaster: Lessons on Risk, Response and Recovery (2011): 61-74.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Suzuki, T. \u201cDeconstructing the Zero-Risk Mindset: The Lessons and Future Responsibilities for a Post-Fukushima Nuclear Japan.\u201d Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 67, no. 5 (September 1, 2011): 9\u201318.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Week 13 \u2013 Ecological Economics<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Tuesday, Nov 24th<\/sup> – Duchin, Faye. (2005) “Sustainable Consumption of Food: A Framework for Analyzing Scenarios about Changes in Diets”. Journal of Industrial Ecology 9:1-2. pp 99-114<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gowdy, John. \u201cAvoiding Self-Organized Extinction: Toward a Co-Evolutionary Economics of Sustainability.\u201d International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology 14, no. 1 (February 2007): 27\u201336.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Friday, Nov 27th<\/sup> \u2013 No Class.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Week 14 \u2013 Genetics and DNA <\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Tuesday, Dec 1st<\/sup> – Brewer, Marilynn B., and Linnda R. Caporael. “Selfish genes vs. selfish people: Sociobiology as origin myth.” Motivation and Emotion 14, no. 4 (1990): 237-243.<\/p>\n Friday, Dec 4th<\/sup> – TallBear, Kimberly. Native American DNA: Tribal belonging and the false promise of genetic science. 2013.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fortun, Mike. “For an ethics of promising, or: a few kind words about James Watson.” New Genetics and Society 24, no. 2 (2005): 157-174.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hartigan, John. \u201cIs Race Still Socially Constructed? The Recent Controversy over Race and Medical Genetics.\u201d Science as Culture 17, no. 2 (June 2008): 163\u201393.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Week 15 \u2013 Community and the Good Life <\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Tuesday, Dec 8th<\/sup> – Chapman, Gary. “25 \u2018\u2018Shaping Technology for the \u2018Good Life\u2019: The Technological Imperative versus the Social Imperative\u2019\u2019.” TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY (2004): 445.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dotson, Taylor.\u00a0 Introduction(?).\u00a0 Dissertation (I don’t actually know the title).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Friday, Dec 11th<\/sup> \u2013 Poster Sessions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This class is the first STS class I ever took. It covered on the breadth of the STS field, including readings every week of important or commonly read articles in STS. 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\nWeek 2 \u2013 Social Studies of Science <\/strong><\/p>\n
\nWeek 3 \u2013 Scientific Expertise and Objectivity \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nTuesday, Sept 15th<\/sup> – Wynne, Brian. \u201cMisunderstood Misunderstanding: Social Identities and Public Uptake of Science.\u201d Public Understanding of Science 1 (1992): 281\u2013304.<\/h2>\n