SOCI 2035

Carleton University
Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology

Winter 2005
Wednesdays 2:35 - 5:25 pm
Southam 417

course syllabus (pdf)
course weblog

Instructor

Anne Galloway
anne.galloway@gmail.com
Office Loeb A701
Tuesday 10-11:15 or by appointment

Themes

Science and technology as culture and practice - from the laboratories of high energy physicists to street uses of mobile technologies.

Schedule & assigned readings

Assignments

Students will be evaluated on a major research project, a film essay and class participation.

Assignment details & due dates

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Jan 5 : Introduction

Lecture
Science & technology in the world

Jan 12 : Science as Culture and Practice I

Lecture
Performing science I : what is scientific practice?

Readings & Discussion
Paul Feyerabend, Science Without Experience
Helen Longino, Science as Social Knowledge (excerpt)

Jan 19 : Science as Culture and Practice II

Lecture
Performing science II : materialities and socialities

Readings & Discussion
Bruno Latour, Give Me a Laboratory and I Will Raise the World
Bruno Latour, Science in Action (excerpt)
Karin Knorr-Cetina, Epistemic Cultures (excerpt)
Sharon Traweek, Beamtimes and Lifetimes (excerpt)

Jan 26 : Film

Minority Report (2002)

Feb 2 : Research

No class. Use this time to work on research projects!

Feb 9 : Inventing Nature

Lecture
Feminist critiques of science & technology

Readings & Discussion
Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs and Women (excerpt)
Evelyn Fox Keller, The Gender/Science System

FILM ESSAY DUE

Feb 16 : Humans and Post-Humans

Lecture
The question of hybrids

Readings & Discussion
JCR Licklider, Man-Computer Symbiosis (excerpt)
Steven Levy, The Strong Claim (excerpt)
Hans Moravec, The Senses Have No Future (excerpt)
Stelarc, Towards the Post-Human (excerpt)

PROJECT PROPOSAL DUE

Feb 23 : NO CLASS

Winter Break Feb 21-25

Mar 2 : The Internet and Computers

Lecture
People, machines and networks

Readings & Discussion
Jane Abbate, Inventing the Internet (excerpt)
Sherry Turkle, What Are We Thinking About When We Think About Computers?

Mar 9 : Cyber-Cultures & Identities

Lecture
Crafting selves and others

Readings & Discussion
Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto
Lisa Nakamura, Race In/For Cyberspace

Mar 16 : Mobile Technologies & Cultures

Lecture
Always-on communications

Readings & Discussion
Richard Ling and Birgitte Yttri, Hyper-Coordination via Mobile Phones in Norway
Howard Rheingold, Smart Mobs (excerpt)

FINAL PROJECT DUE

Mar 23 : Final project presentations

Mar 30 : Final project presentations