Building Our Sociotechnical Future: Technology and Society, second edition

“Adopting the view that ‘technologies don’t just happen,’ this book provides an excellent introduction to understanding the entanglement of technology and society. More than other introductions to science and technology studies, the reader foregrounds the relevance of studying race and gender.”—Nelly Oudshoorn, Professor Emerita, Science, Technology, and Policy Department, University of Twente, The Netherlands “A stimulating collection that examines technology as a transformative force that people must shape in accord with principles of equity and justice.”—Ed Hackett, Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University, and Editor, Science, Technology, & Human Values“Technologies infuse our lives even as they are always filled with our values. This carefully crafted collection helps readers to analyze and reflect critically on our own relationships with technologies, recognizing them as having both technical and social contents. What do you want your relationships with technologies to be? Which values? Which technologies? Dive into this book to figure out how you and your technologies might travel better together.”—Gary Lee Downey, Alumni Distinguished Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Virginia Tech “This is the tech textbook we need now: a vision of decolonized sociotechnical futures, grounded in feminist, antiracist, and global historical analyses. Science fiction classics and computational labor history, engineering ethics and the philosophy of technology, critical take-downs and utopian dreams—this book has it all, carefully introduced and curated by the brilliant editorial team of Johnson and Wetmore.”—Kavita Philip, President’s Excellence Chair in Network Cultures, University of British Columbia