Law & Callon (1992) - The Life and Death of an Aircraft: A Network Analysis of Technical Change

Notes - Garnet Hertz
Updated 30 November 2006



General Thoughts

NOTE: This essay is Chapter 1 (pages 21-52) of Bijker & Law (1992) - Shaping Technology / Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change

Citations

[46] {local, global, network, privacy, mistake, development, invention, innovation, creation} Our proposal is that the shape and fate of technological projects is a function of three interrelated factors... a degree of privacy for project builders to make their mistakes in private, and without interference... the ability to experiment to try things out, and to put them together successfully... [and] the capacity of the project to impose itself as an obligatory point of passage between the two [global and local] networks.

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Contents of Parent Document

Preface - page ix
General Introduction - Wiebe E. Bijker and John Law - page 1
I. DO TECHNOLOGIES HAVE TRAJECTORIES? - page 17
  1. The Life and Death of an Aircraft: A Network Analysis of Technical Change - John Law and Michel Callon - page 21
  2. What is a Patent? - Geof Bowker - page 53
  3. The Social Construction of Fluorescent Lighting, or How an Artifact Was Invented in Its Diffusion Stage - Wiebe E. Bijker - page 75
II. TRAJECTORIES, RESOURCES, AND THE SHAPING OF TECHNOLOGY - page 105
  4. Controversy and Closure in Technological Change: Constructing "Steel" - Thomas J. Misa - page 109
  5. Closing the Ranks: Definition and Stabilization of Radioactive Wastes in the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1954-1960 - Adri de la Bruheze - page 140
  6. Artifacts and Frames of Meaning: Thomas A. Edison, His Managers, and the Cultural Construction of Motion Pictures - W. Bernard Carlson - page 175
III. WHAT NEXT? TECHNOLOGY, THEORY AND METHOD - page 201
  7. The De-Scription of Technical Objects - Madeline Akrich - page 205
  8. Where Are the Missing Masses? The Sociology of a Few Mundane Artifacts - Bruno Latour - page 225
  9. A Summary of a Convenient Vocabulary for the Semiotics of Human and Nonhuman Assemblies - Madeline Akrich and Bruno Latour - page 259
  10. Technology, Testing, Text: Clinical Budgeting in the U.K. National Health Service - Trevor Pinch, Malcolm Ashmore, and Michael Mulkay - page 265
  11. Postscript: Technology, Stability, and Social Theory - John Law and Wiebe E. Bijker - page 290
References - page 309
Contributors - page 327
Index - page 331



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