Week 09_Social Construction of Technology

Seminar One: Context and Perspectives For Design in Flux

01. Seamful Spaces: Heterogeneous Infrastructures in Interaction by Janet Vertesi [01 of 02]

02. Seamful Spaces: Heterogeneous Infrastructures in Interaction by Janet Vertesi [02 of 02]

03. Do Artifacts Have Politics by Langdon Winner

Sketch notes taken as part of a “Seminar 01 Interaction and Service Design Concepts” taught by Molly Wright-Steenson at Carnegie Mellon University. Learn more about the course here.

Readings Discussed:

• Janet Vertesi, “Seamful Spaces: Heterogeneous Infrastructures in Interaction,”Science, Technology and Human Values 39.2: 264–284.
• Langdon Winner, “Do Artifacts Have Politics?” Daedalus 109:1 (Winter, 1980): 121–36.