Weekly Reading (2021/10/25)
Selections from the Web:
- Alex Pareene: What Do Democrats Do All Day?
- Andrew Key: Group Work
- Andy Oram: Awk: The Power and Promise of a 40-Year-Old Language
- Jörg Nowak: Gas and Labor
- Rebecca E. Karl: The Scissors Gap
Archival Videos
- CBS: The Search: Automatic Machines Research (1954)
- Dimension Films: Computers: Tools for People (1982)
Books and Journal Articles:
Books:
- Edward Gibbon: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1 (1776).
Journal Articles and Chapters:
- Alex Csiszar: “Gaming Metrics Before the Game: Citation and the Bureaucratic Virtuoso,” Gaming the Metrics: Misconduct and Manipulation in Academic Research (2020)
- Andrew Barry: “Technological Zones,” European Journal of Social Theory (2006)
- Elihu Katz: “Why Sociology Abandoned Communication,” The American Sociologist (2009)
- Eugene Garfield: “The Unintended and Unanticipated Consequences of Robert K. Merton,” Social Studies of Science (2004)
- Marshall Bowen: “Environmental Perception and Geographic Change in Southwest Sheridan County,” Nebraska History (1970)
- Murray S. Davis: “That’s Interesting! Towards a Phenomenology of Sociology and a Sociology of Phenomenology,” Philosophy of the Social Sciences (1971)
- Richard Johnson: “What Is Cultural Studies Anyway?,” Social Text (1986)