Kevin L Borg
Biographic Data
| ID | 1466953 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin L Borg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin L |
| FAMILY NAME | Borg |
| SIGNATURE | BORG K L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction
This article introduces a fortuitous convergence of five articles on different automobile topics that probe the historical processes of creating, maintaining, and challenging sociotechnical environments. Gijs Mom, David Morris, and Stefan Krebs each explore aural environments in and around cars; David Lucsko and Christopher Neumaier study topics related to the broader environmental movement of the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries. …
Les sens perdus du garagiste. Comment le savoir-faire a été disqualifié dans l'univers automobile américain
Le concept d'incertitude technologique a longtemps été confiné aux recherches en gestion. Mais le phénomène qu'il décrit se manifeste dans la société contemporaine bien au-delà de ce que les médias appellent les « firmes technologiques ». Cet article suggère un champ conceptuel et heuristique plus large pour son application. Il présente une étude de cas portant sur le marché automobile aux États-Unis. Celle-ci montre comment une combinaison de ch…
Auto Mania
Reviewed by: Auto Mania: Cars, Consumers, and the Environment Kevin L. Borg (bio) Auto Mania: Cars, Consumers, and the Environment. By Tom McCarthy. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. xx+347. $32.50. Tom McCarthy has given us a history of twentieth-century American automobile culture for a new generation. Auto Mania traces the complex relationship among cars, consumerism, politics, and the environment in a way sure to be useful to…
Tinkering
Reviewed by: Tinkering: Consumers Reinvent the Early Automobile Kevin Borg (bio) Tinkering: Consumers Reinvent the Early Automobile. By Kathleen Franz. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. Pp. 224. $35. Kathleen Franz has written an interesting, well-researched, and thought-provoking book that touches on a range of topics familiar to readers of this journal. Studying automotive tinkering—which she defines narrowly as the "user mo…
Car Cultures (review)
This collection of ten essays in Berg's Materializing Culture series is framed by Daniel Miller as an attempt "to turn the study of cars into [the study] of car cultures" (p. 30). Following Miller's introductory essay, "Driven Societies," each of the other essays focuses on a particular aspect of contemporary car usage. While the collection is not historical, historians of technology interested in the use, consumption, modification, and meaning o…
The Machine in Me
Reviewed by: The Machine in Me: An Anthropologist Sits among Computer Engineers * Kevin Borg (bio) The Machine in Me: An Anthropologist Sits among Computer Engineers. By Gary Lee Downey. New York: Routledge, 1998. Pp. xiii+288; figures, notes/references, bibliography, index. $80.00 (cloth); $31.99 (paper). This book is not really about computers or engineers. Rather, it is about how humans fashion their identities, their “selves,” through the tec…
The "Chauffeur Problem" in the Early Auto Era
The “Chauffeur Problem” in the Early Auto Era: Structuration Theory and the Users of Technology Kevin Borg (bio) On a summer Sunday in 1906 a New York Times headline told a man-bites-dog story: “Chauffeurs Lord It Over Their Employers.” 1 Chauffeurs became a serious problem for wealthy motorists during the first decade of the twentieth century. They extorted commissions and kickbacks from garage owners, took their employers’ cars out for joyrides…
The "Chauffeur Problem" in the Early Auto Era
The “Chauffeur Problem” in the Early Auto Era: Structuration Theory and the Users of Technology Kevin Borg (bio) On a summer Sunday in 1906 a New York Times headline told a man-bites-dog story: “Chauffeurs Lord It Over Their Employers.” 1 Chauffeurs became a serious problem for wealthy motorists during the first decade of the twentieth century. They extorted commissions and kickbacks from garage owners, took their employers’ cars out for joyrides…
Introduction
This article introduces a fortuitous convergence of five articles on different automobile topics that probe the historical processes of creating, maintaining, and challenging sociotechnical environments. Gijs Mom, David Morris, and Stefan Krebs each explore aural environments in and around cars; David Lucsko and Christopher Neumaier study topics related to the broader environmental movement of the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries. …
Les sens perdus du garagiste. Comment le savoir-faire a été disqualifié dans l'univers automobile américain
Le concept d'incertitude technologique a longtemps été confiné aux recherches en gestion. Mais le phénomène qu'il décrit se manifeste dans la société contemporaine bien au-delà de ce que les médias appellent les « firmes technologiques ». Cet article suggère un champ conceptuel et heuristique plus large pour son application. Il présente une étude de cas portant sur le marché automobile aux États-Unis. Celle-ci montre comment une combinaison de ch…
The "Chauffeur Problem" in the Early Auto Era
The “Chauffeur Problem” in the Early Auto Era: Structuration Theory and the Users of Technology Kevin Borg (bio) On a summer Sunday in 1906 a New York Times headline told a man-bites-dog story: “Chauffeurs Lord It Over Their Employers.” 1 Chauffeurs became a serious problem for wealthy motorists during the first decade of the twentieth century. They extorted commissions and kickbacks from garage owners, took their employers’ cars out for joyrides…
The Machine in Me
Reviewed by: The Machine in Me: An Anthropologist Sits among Computer Engineers * Kevin Borg (bio) The Machine in Me: An Anthropologist Sits among Computer Engineers. By Gary Lee Downey. New York: Routledge, 1998. Pp. xiii+288; figures, notes/references, bibliography, index. $80.00 (cloth); $31.99 (paper). This book is not really about computers or engineers. Rather, it is about how humans fashion their identities, their “selves,” through the tec…
Car Cultures (review)
This collection of ten essays in Berg's Materializing Culture series is framed by Daniel Miller as an attempt "to turn the study of cars into [the study] of car cultures" (p. 30). Following Miller's introductory essay, "Driven Societies," each of the other essays focuses on a particular aspect of contemporary car usage. While the collection is not historical, historians of technology interested in the use, consumption, modification, and meaning o…
Tinkering
Reviewed by: Tinkering: Consumers Reinvent the Early Automobile Kevin Borg (bio) Tinkering: Consumers Reinvent the Early Automobile. By Kathleen Franz. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. Pp. 224. $35. Kathleen Franz has written an interesting, well-researched, and thought-provoking book that touches on a range of topics familiar to readers of this journal. Studying automotive tinkering—which she defines narrowly as the "user mo…
Auto Mania
Reviewed by: Auto Mania: Cars, Consumers, and the Environment Kevin L. Borg (bio) Auto Mania: Cars, Consumers, and the Environment. By Tom McCarthy. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. xx+347. $32.50. Tom McCarthy has given us a history of twentieth-century American automobile culture for a new generation. Auto Mania traces the complex relationship among cars, consumerism, politics, and the environment in a way sure to be useful to…
Les sens perdus du garagiste. Comment le savoir-faire a été disqualifié dans l'univers automobile américain
Le concept d'incertitude technologique a longtemps été confiné aux recherches en gestion. Mais le phénomène qu'il décrit se manifeste dans la société contemporaine bien au-delà de ce que les médias appellent les « firmes technologiques ». Cet article suggère un champ conceptuel et heuristique plus large pour son application. Il présente une étude de cas portant sur le marché automobile aux États-Unis. Celle-ci montre comment une combinaison de ch…
Introduction
This article introduces a fortuitous convergence of five articles on different automobile topics that probe the historical processes of creating, maintaining, and challenging sociotechnical environments. Gijs Mom, David Morris, and Stefan Krebs each explore aural environments in and around cars; David Lucsko and Christopher Neumaier study topics related to the broader environmental movement of the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries. …
Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Advertising (3 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Law (3 works)