The Center for Science, Technology, and Society
at Santa Clara University presents:
Values in Computer and Information System Design
Graduate Student Workshop


August 1-12, 2005
Santa Clara University

Workshop Directors:
Geoffrey Bowker,  Santa Clara University
Helen Nissenbaum, New York University

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Readings:

Workshop faculty have asked participants to complete this syllabus of readings prior to attending the workshop. (Readings marked with ** are suggested, but not required)

WEEK 1:
01-Aug Politics in Artifacts 
Winner, L. (1986). Do artifacts have politics? In L. Winner, The whale and the reactor (pp. 19-39). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press

Friedman, B. & Nissenbaum, H. (1996) Bias in Computer Systems. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 14 (3), 330-347.

Pfaffenberger, B. (1992). Technological dramas. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 17 (3), 282-312.

Woolgar, S. & Pawluch, D. (1985) Ontological Gerrymandering: The Anatomy of Social Problems Explanations. Social Problems, 32(2), 214-227.

Joerges, B. (1999) Do Politics Have Artefacts? Social Studies of Science, 29 (3), 411-431.

Latour, B. (2004). Which politics for which artifacts? Domus, June 04.
02-Aug Social Shaping of Technology
** Mumford, L. (1964). Authoritarian and democratic technics. Technology and Culture, 5 (1), 1-8.

Sclove, R. (1995) Technology and democracy. New York: Guilford Press.

** Cowan, R. S. (1985). The Industrial Revolution in the Home. In D. MacKenzie & J. Wajcman, (Eds.), The Social Shaping Of Technology: How The Refrigerator Got Its Hum (181-201). Philadelphia: Open University Press. 

Cowan, R. S. (1985). How the Refrigerator Got Its Hum. In D. MacKenzie & J. Wajcman, (Eds.), The Social Shaping Of Technology: How The Refrigerator Got Its Hum (202-218). Philadelphia: Open University Press.

** Doorly, M. (1985) A Woman's Place: Dolores Haydenon the `Grand Domestic Revolution'. In D. MacKenzie & J. Wajcman, (Eds.), The Social Shaping Of Technology: How The Refrigerator Got Its Hum (219-222). Philadelphia: Open University Press.

The Internet Fridge. Caslon Analytics, version January 2005.

Bijker, W.E. (1995). Of bicycles, bakelites, and bulbs: Toward a theory of sociotechnical change. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Ch. 1: Introduction (1-19) and Ch 5: The Politics of Sociotechnical Change (269-290).

Wacjman, J. (2004). Technofeminism. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.
Ch. 2 Technosicence Reconfigured (32-55) and Ch. 5 Metaphor and Materiality (102-130).

MacKenzie, D. (1990).
Inventing Accuracy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Ch. 1: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance (1-26) and Epilogue: Uninventing the Bomb (424-426).

Winner, L. (1993) Upon opening the black box and finding it empty: Social constructivism and philosophy of technology. Science, Technology and Human Values, 18(3), 362-378.
03-Aug Infrastructure Latour, B. Paris: the Invisible City. Chapter 1: Traversing. [explore the interface, it’s not obvious]

Bowker, G. & Star, S. L. (1999). Sorting things out: Classification and its consequences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Ch.7: What a Difference a Name Makes – the Classification of Nursing Work (229-252) and Ch.10: Why Classifications Matter (319-326).

Suchman, L. (1997). Do categories have politics? The language/action perspective reconsidered. In B. Friedman, (Ed.), Human values and the design of computer technology (pp. 91-105). Oxford, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Lansing, J.S. (1991). Priests and programmers: technologies of power in the engineered landscape of Bali. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Introduction: The Gods of the Countryside (3-17),  Ch 2: The Powers of Water (37-49) and Ch. 3: The Waters of Power (50-73).

Bowker, G. Biodiversity Datadiversity.
04-Aug Actor-Network Theory Callon, M. (1986). The Sociology of an Actor-Network: The Case of the Electric Vehicle, in M. Callon, J. Law, and A. Rip (Eds.), Mapping the Dynamics of Science and Technology (19-34), London: Macmillan.

Johnson, J. (1988) Mixing humans and non-humans together: the sociology of a door-closer. Social Problems, 35 (3), 298–310.

Latour, B. (1987) Science in action: How to follow scientists and engineers through society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.  Ch. 6: Centers of Calculation (215-257).

Latour, B. (1996). Aramis, or, the  love of technology.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Prologue: Who Killed Aramis (1-11), Ch.1: An Exciting Innovation (12-50) and Conclusion: Aramis Unloved (289-302).
05-Aug Design Pragmatics Friedman, B., Kahn, P. and Borning, A. Value Sensitive Design and Information Systems. Forthcoming in P. Zhang & D. Galletta (Eds.), Human-Computer Interaction in Management Information Systems: Foundations. New York: M.E. Sharpe.

Flanagan, M., Howe, D. and Nissenbaum, H. (2005). Values in Design: Theory and Practice. (draft).

Vinck, D., (Ed.). (2003) Everyday Engineering: An Ethnography of Design and Innovation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Introduction (1-10), Ch.1: Socio-Technical Complexity: Redesigning a Shielding Wall (13-27) and Epilogue: Approaches to the Ethnography of Technologies (203-226).

Brand, S. (1994) How Buildings Learn: What happens after they’re built. New York: Viking.
File 1: Ch.1: Flow (2-11), Ch. 2: Shearing Layers (12-24) 
File 2: Ch. 9: The Romance of Maintenance (110-131), Ch.12 Built for Change (190-209).
  Related Foundational Readings ** Weber, R. C. (1999). Manufacturing gender in military cockpit design. In D. MacKenzie and J. Wajeman, (Eds.), The social shaping of technology (2nd ed). Buckingham, UK: Open University Press.

** Pinch, T. and Bijker, W. (1992) The Social Construction of Facts and Artifacts: Or How the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology Might Benefit Each Other. In W. Bijker and J. Law (Eds.), Shaping Technology/Building Society. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992,

** Norman, D. (1989) The Design of Everyday Things. New York: Basic Books.

** Cowan, R. S. (1983). More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household
Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave. New York: Basic Books.


WEEK 2:
08-Aug Dan Boneh
Garfinkel, T., Pfaff, B., Chow, J., Rosenblum, M. and Boneh, D. (2003) Terra: A Virtual Machine-Based Platform for Trusted Computing. Proceedings of 19th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), pp 193-206.

Ross, B., Jackson, C., Miyake, N., Boneh, D. and Mitchell, J. (2005) Stronger Password Authentication Using Browser Extensions. Technical Report Stanford-SecLab-TR-2005-1.
Joan Feigenbaum Project Overview and Introductory Material from PORTIA project website

PORTIA Overview presentation
John Sherry Greenberg, J. & Park, T. (1994) Political Ecology. Journal of Political Ecology 1, 1-12.

Prahalad, C.K. & Hammond, A. (2002, September) Serving the World’s Poor, Profitably. Harvard Business Review, pp. 4-11.

Salvador, T., Sherry, J. and Urrutia, A. Less Cyber, More Café: Enhancing Existing Small Businesses Across the Digital Divide with ICTs Intel Corporation.

Sherry, J., Beckwith, R., March, W., Salvador, T. and Barile, S. The Life of the Place: Technology and Communities Intel Corporation.
09-Aug Carl Mitcham Heikkerö, T. Focal Things and Practices - In the West and in Japan. In Technology in Society, forthcoming.

Mitcham, C. (1995) Ethics Into Design. In R. Buchanan and V. Margolin (Eds.). Discovering Design: Explorations in Design Studies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Mitcham, C. (2003) In Memoriam: Ivan Illich: Critic of Professionalized Design. Design Issues 19 (4), 26-30.

Mitcham, C. (2005) Thinking Re-Vernacular Building. Design Issues 21 (1), 32-40.

Mitcham, C. (2005) Values and Valuing. In C. Mitcham (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics. New York: Macmillan Reference.

Terry Winograd Diaz, A. (2005) Through the Google Goggles: Sociopolitical Bias in Search Engine Design. Thesis, Stanford University.

Google. Google Privacy Center.

Honan, M. (2004, April 26)
Don't be afraid of the big bad Gmail. Salon.com.

Hoofnagle, C. (2005, March 4)
Privacy Self Regulation: A Decade of Disappointment. Washington, DC: EPIC.

Introna. L. & Nissenbaum, H. (2000). Shaping the web: Why the politics of search engines matter. The Information Society, 16(3), 1-17.

Metz, C. (2003, February 26) Is Google Invading Your Privacy? PC Magazine.

Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (2004, April 19) Thirty-One Privacy and Civil Liberties Organizations Urge Google to Suspend Gmail

Sheff, D. (2004, September). Google guys. Playboy, 51(9), 55-60, 142-145.
Kjeld Schmidt Carstensen, P., Schmidt, K. and Wiil, U. K. (1999) Supporting Shop Floor Intelligence. Proceedings of the international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work, pp. 111-120.

Schmidt, K. & Simone, C. (1996) Coordination Mechanisms. In Computer Supported Cooperative Work 5(2-3), 155-200.
10-Aug
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11-Aug
Richard Boland Boland, R. (2001). The tyranny of space in organizational analysis. Information and Organization 11, 3–23.

Boland, R. (2003) An Ecology of Distributed Mediated Cognition. In C.Ciborra and C. Angelou (Eds.) Information Systems and Social Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Boland, R and Lyytinen, K. (2005) The Limits of Language in Doing Organizational Work. Draft.
Leigh Star Star, S. L. (1999) The Ethnography of Infrastructure, American Behavioral Scientist, 43: 377-391.

Star, S. L. and Ruhleder, K. (1996) Steps toward an Ecology of Infrastructure: Design and Access for Large Information Spaces, Information Systems Research, 7(1), 111-134.
Nancy van House Van House, N. (2002) Digital Libraries and the Practices of Trust: Networked Environmental InformationSocial Epistemology, 16 (1), 99-114.

Van House, N. (2004). Epistemic Machineries of Environmental Online Communication. Environmental Online Communication. Arno Sharl, ed. Springer; p. 199-208.
11-Aug
Patrick Feng Feng, P. (2000). Rethinking technology, revitalizing ethics: Overcoming barriers to ethical design. Science and Engineering Ethics, 6 (2), 207-220.

Feng, P. (2005). Challenges to user involvmenet: The case of technical standards. In H. Rohracher (Ed.), User involvement in innovation processes: Strategies and limitations from a socio-technical perspective (pp. 107-124). Vienna: Profil-Verlag.
Phoebe Sengers Sengers, P. (2003) The Engineering of Experience. In M. Blythe, A. Monk, K. Overbeeke, & P. Wright (Eds.). Funology: From Usability to Enjoyment.

Sengers, P., Liesendahl, R., Magar, W., Seibert, C., Müller, B., Joachims, T. and Geng, W. (2002)
The Enigmatics of Affect. Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS). London, England.

Sengers, P., Boehner, K., David, S. and Kaye, J. (2005) Reflective Design. Culturally Embedded Computing Group, Cornell Information Science.



This workshop is made possible by:

National Science Foundation Grant Nos. SES-0454775 & SES-0352632
National Science Foundation PORTIA Grant No. CNS-0331542
Ford Foundation's Knowledge, Creativity & Freedom Program



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