This paper reviews the growing body of research that explores 'the social shaping of
technology'(SST)—how the design and implementation of technology are patterned by a …

In recent years numerous articles have been published which advocate a multi-level
perspective (MLP) for the analysis of long-term technological transitions. This paper reviews …

A fascinating examination of technological utopianism and its complicated consequences. In
The Charisma Machine, Morgan Ames chronicles the life and legacy of the One Laptop per …

Social science related disciplines, methods, concepts, and topics remain underutilized, and
perhaps underappreciated, in contemporary energy studies research. To make this case, the …

This book crystallizes and extends the important work Wiebe Bijker has done in the last
decade to found a full-scale theory of sociotechnical change that describes where …

Rich with the voices and stories of participants, these touching, firsthand accounts examine
how women of diverse racial, ethnic, class and religious backgrounds perceive prenatal …

In this study of how daily newspapers in America have developed electronic publishing
ventures, Pablo Boczkowski shows that new media emerge not just in a burst of …

How do common household items such as basic plastic house wares or high-tech digital
cameras transform our daily lives? The Design of Everyday Life considers this question in …

Keep the weather out? Make money for architects and contractors? Walls to hide behind?
Display wealth or good taste? Sites for produc-tive labor and entertaining leisure? Establish …

In this contribution, we investigate how results from the ongoing discussion about e-
Infrastructures can be used to improve the design of IT infrastructures in organizations. We …