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1 IIT Department of Social Sciences SOC 356 TRANSFORMATIVE TECHNOLOGIES: Computing Spring 2012 Instructor: Michael Castelle Course time: Tue, Thu 10:00am-11:15am Office hours: Thursday, 12pm-1pm Course Description This course presents a long-term sociological and anthropological perspective on technologies and techniques relating to the present-day networked personal computer. We begin by considering early manifestations of writing, literacy, printing, organization and bureaucracy; we will then consider the relation between technology and the sciences, before focusing on the radical changes in computing which emerged in the second half of the 20th century, including multi-user operating systems, databases, the software industry, computer games, Internet cultures, simulation and design, quantitative finance and social network sites. [Administrivia Deleted] Course Readings Key: (**) required; (P) for student presentation. Week 1.1 (Tuesday, 1/10/12) Introduction to Course Overview of course; summarization of syllabus. Week 1.2 (Thursday, 1/12/12) Introduction to Course, Con't. (**) Ihde, D. (1990). Technology and the Lifeworld: From Garden to Earth. Indiana University Press. - Ch.1: From Garden to Earth, pp (**) Gell, A. (1988). Technology and magic. Anthropology Today Vol. 4, No. 2, pp Week 2 (Tuesday, 1/17/12; Thursday, 1/19/12) Technologies and Techniques (**) Boas, F. (1938 [1963]). The Mind of Primitive Man. The Free Press. - Ch. 11: The mind of primitive man and the progress of culture, pp (**) (P) Mauss, M. (1936). Sociology and Psychology: Essays. Routledge & Kegan. - Part IV: Body techniques, pp (P) Joulian, F. Significant tools and signifying monkeys: the question of body techniques and elementary actions on matter among apes and early hominids, in From Tools to Symbols:

2 From Early Hominids to Modern Humans (d Errico & Backwell, eds.) Witwatersrand University Press. Week 3 (Tuesday, 1/24/12; Thursday, 1/26/12) Writing & Literacy (**) Lévi-Strauss, C. (1955 [1992]). Tristes Tropiques. Penguin Books. - Chapter 28: A writing lesson, pp (**) (P) Finnegan, R. (1988). Literacy and Orality. Blackwell. - Chapter 1: Introduction, pp Chapter 2: Communication and technology, pp Chapter 3: Speech, language, and non-literacy: the Limba of Sierra Leone, pp Chapter 4: Literacy vs. non-literacy: the significance of literature in non-literate cultures, pp Chapter 9: Postscript, pp (P) Yates, F. (1966). The Art of Memory. University of Chicago Press. - Chapter 1: The three Latin sources for the classical art of memory, pp Week 4 (Tuesday, 1/31/12; Thursday, 2/2/12) Printing (**) Clanchy, M.T. (1983) Looking back from the invention of printing, in Resnick, D.P. (ed.), Literacy in Historical Perspective, pp (**) Crystal, D. (2004) Stories of English, Selections. (**) Blair, A. (2003). Reading Strategies for Coping with Information Overload, ca ", Journal of the History of Ideas. In-Class Film: Connections (1978) Episode 4: "Faith in Numbers" Week 5 (Tuesday, 2/7/12; Thursday, 2/9/12) Organization and Bureaucracy (**) Weber, M. (1922 [1946]) "Bureaucracy", From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. pp (**) Giddens, A. (1987), The Nation-State and Violence. University of California Press. - Chapter 2: The traditional state: domination and military power, pp (P) Beniger, J. The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society. - Chapter 9: Revolution in generalized control: Data processing and bureaucracy. (P) Hull, M.S. (2003). "The file: agency, authority, and autography in an Islamabad bureaucracy" in Language and Communication, v. 23, pp Week 6.1 (Tuesday, 2/14/12) Scientific Norms; Technoscience

3 (**) Merton, R.K. (1942) The normative structure of science. In: The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations (1973). - Chapter 1: Literature. - Chapter 2: Laboratories. Week 6.2 (Thursday, 2/16/12) [No presentations this week] - Chapter 3: Machines. Week 7.1: (Tuesday, 2/21/12) Technoscience, Con t. - Chapter 4: Insiders Out. Week 7.2: (Thursday, 2/23/12) Information Theory and Cybernetics (**) Gleick, J. (2010). The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood, Selections. (**) (P) Hayles, N. Katherine. How We Became Posthuman, Selections. (P) Haraway, D. (1991) A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century, in Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, Routledge, pp Week 8.1: (Tuesday, 2/28/12) Information Theory and Cybernetics Pt. 2: Presentations + MIDTERM REVIEW Week 8.2: (Thursday, 3/1/12) MIDTERM Week 9: (Tuesday, 3/6/12; Thursday, 3/8/12) Counterculture and Tools (**) Turner, F. (2006). From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism, Selections. (**) Lévi-Strauss, C. (1968). The Savage Mind. University of Chicago Press. - Chapter 1: The science of the concrete. (P) Illich, I. (1973). Tools for Conviviality, Selections. (P) Ceruzzi, P. (1998 [2003]). A History of Modern Computing. - Chapter 7: The Personal Computer,

4 Whole Earth Catalog [in-class] Week 10 (Tuesday, 3/13/12; Thursday, 3/15/12) UNIX and Hacking (**) Silberschatz, A., Galvin P., and Gagne G. Operating Systems Concepts, 7 th Edition, Selections. (**) (P) Levy, S. (1984). Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, Selections. (**) (P) Kidder, T. (2000) The Soul of a New Machine, Selections. Week 11: SPRING BREAK Week 12 (Tuesday, 3/27/12; Thursday, 3/29/12) Databases, Programming, and the Software Industry (**) Campbell-Kelly, M. (2003) From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: A History of the Software Industry, Selections. (**) (P) Golumbia, D. (2009) Cultural Logic of Computation. Harvard University Press. - Chapter 6: Computation, globalization, and cultural striation. (P) Bowker, G. & Star, S.L. (1999) Sorting Things Out, MIT Press. - Chapter 4: Classification, coding and coordination. (P) Carlsson, C. (ed.) (1990). Bad Attitude : The Processed World Anthology, Selections. Week 13 (Tuesday, 4/3/12; Thursday, 4/5/12) The Internet and "Virtual" Worlds (**) Wright, A. (2007) Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages - Chapter 11: The Web That Wasn't. (**) Hayles, N. Katherine 'The Condition of Virtuality'. in The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media (Lunenfeld, ed.) (**) (P) Dibbell, J. (1993) "A Rape in Cyberspace (Or TINYSOCIETY, and How to Make One)" (P) Abbate, J. (1999) Inventing the Internet. - Chapter 3: The most neglected element: users transform the ARPANET. Week 14 (Tuesday, 4/10/12; Thursday, 4/12/12) Contemporary Software 1: Design, Simulation, and Games (**) Turkle, Sherry (2009). Simulation and its Discontents, pp (P) Henderson, K. (1999). On line and on paper : visual representations, visual culture, and computer graphics in design engineering. (P) Golub, A. (2010) "Being in the World (of Warcraft): Raiding, Realism, and Knowledge Production in a Massively Multiplayer Online Game", Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 83, No. 1. Week 15: (Tuesday, 4/17/12; Thursday, 4/19/12)

5 Contemporary Software 2: Consumption: From Finance to Facebook (**) Campbell, C. (1987). "Modern Autonomous Imaginative Hedonism." The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism. (**) (P) Zwick, D. (2006). The Epistemic Consumption Object and Postsocial Consumption: Expanding Consumer-Object Theory in Consumer Research. in Consumption, Markets and Culture, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp (P) Knorr Cetina, K. (2009). The Architecture of Information in Financial Markets." To appear as Chapter 6 in Maverick Markets: Cultural Structures of a Global Financial Form. Week 16.1 (Tuesday, 4/24/12) Conclusion: Networks and Centers of Calculation Society - Chapter 5: Tribunals of Reason. - Chapter 6: Centers of Calculation. Week 16.2 (Thursday, 4/26/12): FINAL REVIEW AND/OR PRESENTATIONS Other Recommended Books Mitcham, Carl (1994). Thinking Through Technology: The Path Between Engineering and Philosophy. University of Chicago Press. We will not be reading this book in class, but this is probably the best English-language book summarizing and contrasting the various philosophical perspectives on the meaning of technology. Other Resources: Galvin Library IIT s Galvin Library is an excellent resource with many books and periodicals available on the social studies of technology, philosophy of technology, and history of computing. By Week 2, many of the books used in this class should be available on reserve. Other Resources: Writing Center The writing center is located in Siegel Hall, Rooms You may sign up to reserve a specific time, but walk-in appointments are also possible. See:

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