[CITASA] Will the real sociology of technologies stand up?

[Fred Stutzman]

Hi Andrea,

Blaise Cronin recently had an article in JOIS on some of these overlaps. 
I've found his bibliography useful in my work.

Cronin, B.  (2008).  The sociological turn in information science.  Journal 
of Information Science, 34(4), 465-475. 
http://jis.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/34/4/465

Best,
Fred



On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Andrea Tapia wrote:

> Hello CITASA folks.
>
> As many of you know, I work in an I-school (Information school) and am the
> only sociologist on the faculty.
>
> Recently I have been asked to define the "sociology of technology/ies" This
> has been a surprisingly difficult task.
> What I have been doing is staking out boundaries, stating what it is not,
> therefore, what I'll have left is what it is, right?
>
> So far I have removed the following, Sociology of Technology/ies may overlap
> with--but is NOT science and technology studies, not the sociology of
> science, not the sociology of knowledge, not the sociology of
> communications, not social informatics, not a bunch of theories like
> Structuration/Actor Network/SCOT/SST/Institutionalism/network science etc.
>
> So, I ask you, what is left? What do we do that is unique? What are our core
> competencies?
>
> I've found a couple readings that have helped a bit, but I am hoping some of
> you can aid me in my quest.
>
>
> 1.     Shields, Mark A. 1997. ³Reinventing Technology in Social Theory.²
> pages 187-216. Is a book chapter in...Current Perspectives in Social Theory:
> 1997 By Jennifer M. Lehmann, Ben Agger Published by Emerald Group Pub Ltd,
> 1997
>
>
> 2.    Saskia Sassen ³Towards a Sociology of Information Technology,² Current
> Sociology, May 2002, Vol. 50(3): 365­388 SAGE Publications
>
>
>
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Fred Stutzman
Ph.D. Student and Teaching Fellow
School of Information and Library Science, UNC-Chapel Hill
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