Session 5

• Reading List
  1. Woolgar, S. 1991. Configuring the user: The case of usability trials. In A sociology of monsters: Essays on power, technology, and domination, ed. J. Law, 58–99. London: Routledge.
  2. Kling, R. 1992. Audiences, narratives, and human values in social studies of technology. Science, Technology, and Human Values 17(3): 349–65.
  3. Grint, K., and S.Woolgar. 1992. Computers, guns, and roses: What’s social about being shot? Science, Technology, and Human Values 17(3): 366–80.
  4. Rappert, B. 2001. The distribution and resolution of the ambiguities of technology, or why Bobby can’t spray. Social Studies of Science 31(4):557–91.

読後の感想

• usability trial (technology as text)
• technologyをtextとして捉える．
• userとモノの関係．instructionが関係をある程度規定している．
• 循環的定義（humanとnon-human actors）
• 科学技術問題を扱うことで，生の究極目的を問うている．その逆も然り．生の究極目的を問いつつ，科学技術問題を扱う．