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Bijker, W. E. (2004) Technology, Social Construction of. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences.
Bijker, W. E. (1995). King of the road: the social construction of the safety bicycle Of bicycles, bakelites, and bulbs: Toward a theory of sociotechnical change (pp. 19-100). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. Will be scanned. This is long but a lot of it can be skimmed.
Optional but highly recommended — read this before you read Bijker on bicycles: a review of the book in which Bijker lays out his case studies and theory. Rosen, P. (1996). Of Artifacts, Analysis and Alliteration: Theory and Politics in Constructivist Technology Studies. Social Studies of Science, 26(3), 705-711.
Read this one last: Sterne, J., & Leach, J. (2005). The Point of Social Construction and the Purpose of Social Critique Social Epistemology (Vol. 19, pp. 189-198).
Highly recommended: HUMPHREYS, L. (2005) Reframing Social Groups, Closure, and Stabilization in the Social Construction of Technology. Social Epistemology, 19, 231-253.
Other useful readings, FYI:
Bijker, W. E., Hughes, T. P., & Pinch, T. J. (1987). The Social Construction of Technological Systems. Cambridge: MIT Press. This is THE classic — often referred to as “the yellow and black book.”
Ronald Kline; Trevor Pinch. Users as Agents of Technological Change: The Social Construction of the Automobile in the Rural United States Technology and Culture, Vol. 37, No. 4. (Oct., 1996), pp. 763-795.
Pinch, T. J. & Bijker, W. E. (1987). The social construction of facts and artifacts: Or how the sociology of science and the sociology of technology might benefit each other. In W.E.Bijker, T. P. Hughes, & T. J. Pinch (Eds.), The social construction of technological systems : new directions in the sociology and history of technology (pp. 17-50). Cambridge: MIT Press.
KHOO, M. (2005) Technologies Aren’t What They Used to Be: Problematising Closure and Relevant Social Groups Recognizing the Role of the Modern Business Corporation in the Social Construction of Technology. Social Epistemology, 19, 283-285.
Rosen, P. (1993). The social construction of mountain bikes: technology and postmodernity in the cycle industry Social Studies of Science, 23, 479-513.
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