Isis Current Bibliography 2006, Vol. 97 - History of Science Society

170 375. Twentieth century after 1950
Dissertation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign, 2004. Adviser: Pickering, Andrew. UMI pub.
no. 3153403. 224 pp.
3754. PRASAD, Amit. “Scientific Culture in the
‘Other’ Theater of ‘Modern Science’: An Analysis of
the Culture of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research
in India.” Soc. Stud. Sci. 35 (2005): 463–489.
3755. PRESTON, Christopher J. “The Promise and
Threat of Nanotechnology: Can Environmental
Ethics Guide Us?” HYLE 11 (2005): 19–44.
3756. REID, Susan E. “The Khruschev Kitchen: Domesticating
the Scientific-Technological Revolution.”
J. Contemp. Hist. 40 (2005): 289–316.
3757. TANG, Jeffrey Donald. “Sound Decisions:
Systems, Standards, and Consumers in American
Audio Technology, 1945–1975.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A
65/11 (2005): 4327.
Dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania, 2004. UMI
pub. no. 3152111. 573 pp.
3758. TARRANT, Donald R. Challenge and Change:
An Illustrated History of Engineering and Geoscience
in Newfoundland and Labrador. (269 pp.; ill.; bibl.;
index.) St. John’s: Association of Professional
Engineers and Geoscientists of Newfoundland and
Labrador, 2002. ISBN: 0973177713.
On developments since 1950. Reviews: [ref. R906]
3759. TRUDEL, Jean-Louis. “Born in War: Canada’s
Postwar Engineers and Toronto’s Ajax Division.” Sci.
Canadensis 21 (1997): 3–27.
3760. WAKSMAN, Steve. “California Noise: Tinkering
with Hardcore and Heavy Metal in Southern
California.” Special Issue: Sound Studies [ref. 3508].
Soc. Stud. Sci. 34 (2004): 675–702.
“This paper explores the ways in which music-based tinkering
played a part in the construction of virtuosity.” (from the
abstract)
3761. WHITNEY, Allison Patricia. “The Eye of
Daedalus: A History and Theory of IMAX Cinema.”
Diss. Abstr. Int. A 66/03 (2005): 798.
Dissertation at the University of Chicago, 2005. Adviser:
Gunning, Tom. UMI pub. no. 3168413. 195 pp.
3762. WISNIOSKI, Matthew H. “Engineers and the
Intellectual Crisis of Technology, 1957–1973.” Diss.
Abstr. Int. A 66/09 (2006): 3437.
Dissertation at Princeton University, 2005. Adviser: Mahoney,
Michael S. UMI pub. no. 3188660. 377 pp.
375-161. COMPUTER AND COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGIES
3763. BISSELL, Chris. “Models and ‘Black Boxes’:
Mathematics as an Enabling Technology in the History
of Communications and Control Engineering.”
Special Issue: Modèles et modélisations, 1950–2000
[ref. 123]. Rev. Hist. Sci. 57 (2004): 305–338.
3764. BLEECKER, Julian C. “The Reality Effect of
Technoscience.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A 65/12 (2005):
4696.
Dissertation at University of California, Santa Cruz, 2004.
Adviser: Haraway, Donna. UMI pub. no. 3157631. 183 pp.
Studies the social, cultural, and political meaning of virtual
reality technology, film-based special effects, and simulation
games.
3765. CAIN, Frank. “Computers and the Cold War:
United States Restrictions on the Export of Computers
to the Soviet Union and Communist China.” J.
Contemp. Hist. 40 (2005): 131–147.
3766. CETKOVSK ´Y, Jiˇrí, and Jaroslav FOLTA.
(Eds.) Polovodičová doba v Československu. Práce
z dějin techniky a pˇrírodních věd, 7. (150 pp.)
Praha: Národní technické muzeum, 2005. ISBN:
8070371463.
Focus on Czech computer development in the first decade of
semiconductors.
3767. COLLINS, Martin. “One World...One Telephone:
Iridium, One Look at the Making of a Global
Age.” Hist. & Tech. 21 (2005): 301–324.
3768. COOPERSMITH, Jonathan. “Does Your
Mother Know What You Really Do? The Changing
Nature and Image of Computer-Based Pornography.”
Hist. & Tech. 22 (2006): 1–25.
3769. GILLESPIE, Tarleton. “Engineering a Principle:
‘End-to-End’ in the Design of the Internet.” Soc.
Stud. Sci. 36 (2006): 427–457.
3770. KOZLOVIC, Anton Karl. “Technophobic
Themes in Pre-1990 Computer Films.” Sci. Cult.
12 (2003): 341–373.
3771. MACKENZIE, Adrian. “These Things Called
Systems: Collective Imaginings and Infrastructural
Software.” Soc. Stud. Sci. 33 (2003): 365–387.
“An ethnographic study of a large software system designed
to control telecommunications infrastructure in rural Australia”
(from the abstract)
3772. MARQUES, Ivan da Costa. “Cloning Computers:
From Rights of Possession to Rights of Creation.”
Special issue on Postcolonial Technoscience
[ref. 657]. Sci. Cult. 14 (2005): 139–160.
3773. MILLER MEDINA, Jessica Eden. “The State
Machine: Politics, Ideology, and Computation in
Chile, 1964–1973.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A 66/11 (2006):
4150.
Dissertation at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005.
Adviser: Mindell, David A. UMI pub. no. 0808538.
3774. MITCHELL, William J. ME++: The Cyborg
Self and the Networked City. (269 pp.; bibl.; index.)
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. ISBN:
0262633132.
3775. NOVEMBER, Joe. “LINC: Biology’s Revolutionary
Little Computer.” Endeavour 28 (2004):
125–131.
3776. PAVRI-GARCIA, Vera. “ ‘Technological Doublespeak’:
Metaphors, Public Policy and the Development
of Canada’s First Domestic Communications
Satellite System, 1966–1970.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A
66/10 (2006): 3783.
Dissertation at the University of Toronto, 2005. UMI pub.
no. NR07703. 257 pp.
3777. THÉBERGE, Paul. “The Network Studio:
Historical and Technological Paths to a New Ideal
in Music Making.” Special Issue: Sound Studies
[ref. 3508]. Soc. Stud. Sci. 34 (2004): 759–781.
On “the network studio, with its emphasis on standardized
technologies and practices and its reliance on the virtual
space of network communications.”
3778. VOSKUHL, Adelheid. “Humans, Machines,
and Conversations: An Ethnographic Study of the