Getting New Technologies Together (eBook, PDF)

Studies in Making Sociotechnical Order
Redaktion: Disco, Cornelis; Meulen, Barend van der

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

How are new sciences and technologies created, coordinated and managed? The case studies in this volume show that technologies are the contingent result of complex processes: social negotiation and coordination between the actors (firms, government agencies, engineers) and planners.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Walter de Gruyter
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783110810721
• Artikelnr.: 53163897

Inhaltsangabe

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