Values and STS: Yes, Artifacts Have Politics

Posted by Nancy Van House on August 08th 2011 to

Langdon Winner, Do Artifacts Have Politics?

At least skim the following — Winner’s most-remembered example never happened. Does that invalidate his arguments?  (Hint: the 4S conference held a major panel discussion for the 20th anniversary of Winner’s paper.)

Joerges, B. (1999). Do Politics Have Artefacts? Social Studies of Science, 29, 411-431.

Woolgar, S. & Cooper, G. (1999). Do Artefacts Have Ambivalence?: Moses’ Bridges, Winner’s Bridges and Other Urban Legends in S&TS. Social Studies of Science, 29, 433-449.

Joerges, B. (1999). Scams Cannot Be Busted: Reply To Woolgar & Cooper. Social Studies of Science, 29, 450-457.

Nissenbaum, H.; , “How computer systems embody values,” Computer , vol.34, no.3, pp.120, 118-119, Mar 2001
doi: 10.1109/2.910905 URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=910905&isnumber=19651

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