The social chicken and the technological egg: Educational computing an the technology/society divide

Educational Theory

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 51-65

  Bromley, Hank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

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EID: 0003036928     PISSN: 00132004     EISSN: 17415446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-5446.1997.00051.x     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Patricia J. Williams, The Alchemy of Race and flights (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991), 150.
2. For a comprehensive analysis of the different kinds of stories told about computers and schools, and their various consequences, see the work of Mary Bryson and Suzanne de Castell, who initiated the use of narratology in the area of educational technology, for instance.
3. Mary Bryson and Suzanne de Castell, "Telling Tales out of School: Modernist, Critical, and Postmodern 'True Stores' about Educational Computing," Journal of Educational Computing Research 10 (1994): 191-213.
4. A revised version will appear in Hank Bromley and Michael W. Apple, eds., Education/Technology/Power: Educational Computing as a Social Practice (Albany: SUNY Press, forthcoming).
5. Robert O. McClintock, "Marking the Second Frontier," Teachers College Record 89, no. 3 (Spring 1988), 351.
6. Jo Shuchat Sanders and Antonia Stone, The Neuter Computer: Computers for Girls and Boys (New York: Neal-Schuman, 1986), 13-14.
7. An excellent bibliography of readings in technology studies, selected with an eye to feminist concerns, is Maureen Ebben and Maria Mastronardi, "Women and Information Technology: An Annotated Bibliography," in Women. Information Technology, and Scholarship, ed. H. Jeanie Taylor, Cheris Kramarae, and Maureen Ebben (Urbana, III.: Center for Advanced Study, 1993), in which they list some 250 works, with commentary on each. Shorter lists focused more specifically on women and computers arc available on the Internet aftp://cpsr.org/cpsr/gender/gender.biblio (compiled by Leslie Regan-Shade) and at the end of the document (compiled by the group Bay Area Women in Telecommunications).
8. These threads were perhaps first pulled together comprehensively in Langdon Winner, Autonomous Technology: Technics-Out-of-Control as a Theme in Political Thought (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1977).
9. Corlann Gee Bush, "Women and the Assessment of Technology," in Macbina Ex Dea: Feminist Perspectives on Technology, ed. Joan Rothschild (New York: Pergamon Press, 1983), 154-55.
10. Judy Wajcman, Feminism Confronts Technology (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991).
11. David F. Noble, Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984), xi.
12. Langdon Winner, The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986), 23.
13. Bruce Sterling, speech delivered at the National Academy of Sciences, Convocation on Technology and Education, Washington DC, 10 May 1993.
14. Computer Underground Digest 5, no. 54 (21 July 1993). The full issue is at http://sun.soci.niu.edu/-cudigest/CUDS5/cudSS4.txt
15. Wajcman, Feminism Confronts Technology, 13.
16. Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Trumansburg, N.Y.: Crossing Press, 1984), 110-13.
17. I am borrowing here from Corlann Gee Bush again. She additionally defines an "environmental" ana a "cultural" context, which I have folded into the first two.
18. Michael W. Apple, Education and Power (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982), chap. 1, for a recap of this progression.
19. One instructive pairing is Barbara Welter, "The Cult of True-Womanhood, 1820-1860," American Quarterly 18, no. 2 (Summer 1966), 151-74
20. Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, "The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations Between Women in Nineteenth-Century America," Signs 1, no. 1 (Autumn 1975): 1-29.
21. Bob Lingard, "The Changing State of Policy Production in Education: Some Australian Reflections on the State of Policy Sociology," International Studies in Sociology of Education 3, no. 1 (1993), 25-47.
22. Majid Tehranian, Technologies of Power: Information Machines and Democratic Prospects (Norwood, NJ.: Ablex, 1990)
23. David Lyon, The Information Society: Issues and Illusions (Cambridge, U.K.: Polity Press, 1988).
24. Tehranian, Technologies of Power, 4.
25. Lyon, Information Society, viii.
26. He is writingnot in the United States, where subscription to cable TV has become quite widespread, but in the United Kingdom, where the marketing effort has apparently been less successful.
27. As have a few more widely read works offering broadly similar critiques - for instance, Jennifer Daryl Slack, Communication Technologies and Society: Conceptions of Causality and the Politics of Technological Intervention (Norwood, N.J.: Ablex, 1984), and Frank Webster and Kevin Robins, Information Technology: A Luddite Analysis (Norwood, N.J.: Ablex, 1986).
28. Frank Webster and Kevin Robins, Information Technology: A Luddite Analysis (Norwood, N.J.: Ablex, 1986).
29. For an effort to do just that, Hank Bromley, "Engendering Technology: The Social Practice of Educational Computing" (Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1995).