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14 Cards in this Set
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Wetmore
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Airbags
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Johnson & Wetmore
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History of STS
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Whitbeck
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Ethics Reasoning
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Ritzer
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McDonaldization/Control - Human vs. Nonhuman Robots
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Pollock
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Work Arounds; Many scripts for a technology; we are shapers and shaped by tech
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Chapman
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Slow Food Movement in Italy; technological imperative (momentum), Moore's Law - if believe it, can make it come true (sometimes bad)
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Wetmore
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Amish - accept certain techs; Ordnung, electricity, horse-and-buggy, Rumspringa
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Kortelainen
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Finnish River - Pelinski - actor network - definition of river changes - transportation system, energy provider, sewer (b/c of pulp mill) then environmental protection; external forces make difference
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Sovacool & Sarwin
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Denmark wind power; US = linear
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Winner
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Politics; 1 - artifacts can settle issues that face a community (bridge); 2 - inherently political technologies require certain political arrangemtns, i.e. atomic bomb/ship
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Dyer
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White Photography; tech shaped by social arrangements & have social conseqeunces; design of artifacts reinforces social ideas already in place
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Weber
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Cockpit - technological bias; regulated by powerful groups
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Marx
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Progress = tech? Histoyr - industrial capitalism - celebrate science & tech; technocratic ideas of progress - power, efficiency, rationality; age of machinery - tech is shallow & materialistic; disassociate tech with progress b/c railroad
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Sarewitz
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Progress - none in poor countries; tech progress doesn't equal social progress; invisible hands - US should encourage tech research but not sway it in any way
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