Langdon Winner
Biographic Data
| ID | 758538 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Langdon Winner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Langdon |
| FAMILY NAME | Winner |
| SIGNATURE | WINNER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9410-8159 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 141 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 31 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Democratic Shaping of Technology
In the 2020 Prague Virtual Conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Langdon Winner was awarded the society’s John D. Bernal Prize jointly with Sharon Traweek. The Bernal Prize is awarded annually to individuals who have made distinguished contributions to the field of STS. Prize recipients include founders of the field of STS, along with outstanding scholars who have devoted their careers to the understanding of the social di…
Section 2. Boundary Disagreements
Do Artifacts Have Politics
Do Artifacts Have Politics
In controversies about technology and society, there is no idea more provocative than the notion that technical things have political qualities. An eagerness to interpret technical artifacts in political language is by no means the exclusive property of critics of large-scale high-technology systems. Hence, the stern advice commonly given those who flirt with the notion that technical artifacts have political qualities: What matters is not techno…
Trust and terror
Internet y los sueños de una renovación democrática
A lo largo de la historia del desarrollo tecnológico en los Estados Unidos, se ha constatado la creencia persistente en que existe una relación entre el avance de la tecnología y un tipo de ideal político, a saber, la convicción de que los nuevos artefactos técnicos revitalizarán la sociedad democrática al aumentar la participación ciudadana y la calidad de esta participación, dotando a los ciudadanos de nuevos y más extendidos recursos políticos…
The Voluntary Complexity Movement
Technology as "Big Magic" and other Myths
Report from the digital diploma mills conference
"An Excerpt from "Technological Determinism
Cyberlibertarian myths and the prospects for community
article Cyberlibertarian myths and the prospects for community Share on Author: Langdon Winner Renssaler Polytechnic Institute Renssaler Polytechnic InstituteView Profile Authors Info & Claims ACM SIGCAS Computers and SocietyVolume 27Issue 3Sept. 1997 pp 14–19https://doi.org/10.1145/270858.270864Published:01 September 1997 42citation1,464DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations42Total Downloads1,464Last 12 Months138Last 6 weeks23 Get Citation AlertsNew Ci…
Durango Declarations Forum Commentary
Who Will We Be in Cyberspace
This article from the author, politial philosopher raises important questions about the kinds of social and political life that people will desire in a higly computerized society
The Gloves Come off
The Enduring Dilemmas of Autonomous Technique
Reply to Mark Elam
My essay on the empty black box seems to have hit some raw nerves. I am grateful to Mark Elam for taking time to respond and I appreciate the passion in his words. Unfortunately, he seems more interested in applying ideological decals and passing peremptory judgments than in addressing any of the issues I posed. Presenting himself in the graceful image of a good ironist, Elam shoots some rather illiberal, nonironic shots at fear and loathing, pre…
The politics of networking technology in health care
Social constructivism
Upon Opening the Black Box and Finding It Empty
What do philosophers need to know about technology? What kind of knowledge do we need to have? And how much? Perhaps it is enough simply to have lived in a society in which a wide variety of technologies are in common use. Drawing upon an everyday understanding of such matters, one can move on to develop general perspectives and theories that may enable us to answer important questions about technology in general. The problem is that one’s grasp …
Democracy in a Technological Society
Citizen virtues in a technological order
Contemporary philosophical discussions about technology mirror a profound distance between technical practice and moral thought. I consider the origins of this gap as reflected in both ancient and modern writings. The philosopher's version of technocracy - rushing forward with the analysis of moral categories in the hope that policy-makers or the public will find them decisive - does nothing to bridge this gap and is, therefore, a forlorn strateg…
Is There a Light Under Our Bushel? Three Modest Proposals for s.t.s
Conflicting interests in science and technology studies
The Whale and the Reactor
questions he poses about the relationship between technical change and political power are pressing ones that can no longer be ignored, and identifying them is perhaps the most a nascent 'philosophy of technology' can expect to achieve at the present time. David Dickson, New York Times Book Review The Whale and the Reactor is the philosopher's equivalent of superb public history. In its pages an analytically trained mind confronts some of the mos…
On the Foundations of Science and Technology Studies
Upon Opening the Black Box and Finding It Empty
What do philosophers need to know about technology? What kind of knowledge do we need to have? And how much? Perhaps it is enough simply to have lived in a society in which a wide variety of technologies are in common use. Drawing upon an everyday understanding of such matters, one can move on to develop general perspectives and theories that may enable us to answer important questions about technology in general. The problem is that one’s grasp …
Citizen virtues in a technological order
Contemporary philosophical discussions about technology mirror a profound distance between technical practice and moral thought. I consider the origins of this gap as reflected in both ancient and modern writings. The philosopher's version of technocracy - rushing forward with the analysis of moral categories in the hope that policy-makers or the public will find them decisive - does nothing to bridge this gap and is, therefore, a forlorn strateg…
Social constructivism
Trust and terror
The political philosophy of alternative technology
Who Will We Be in Cyberspace
This article from the author, politial philosopher raises important questions about the kinds of social and political life that people will desire in a higly computerized society
Reply to Mark Elam
My essay on the empty black box seems to have hit some raw nerves. I am grateful to Mark Elam for taking time to respond and I appreciate the passion in his words. Unfortunately, he seems more interested in applying ideological decals and passing peremptory judgments than in addressing any of the issues I posed. Presenting himself in the graceful image of a good ironist, Elam shoots some rather illiberal, nonironic shots at fear and loathing, pre…
Is There a Light Under Our Bushel? Three Modest Proposals for s.t.s
Autonomous technology
Technology, Reification, and Romanticism
The political philosophy of alternative technology
The Whale and the Reactor
Technē and Politeia
Mythinformation in the high-tech era
The romanticization of the personal computer as a social panacea threatens to blind society to the fact that without guiding wisdom even the best tool can be misused
On the Foundations of Science and Technology Studies
On the Foundations of Science and Technology Studies
The Whale and the Reactor
questions he poses about the relationship between technical change and political power are pressing ones that can no longer be ignored, and identifying them is perhaps the most a nascent 'philosophy of technology' can expect to achieve at the present time. David Dickson, New York Times Book Review The Whale and the Reactor is the philosopher's equivalent of superb public history. In its pages an analytically trained mind confronts some of the mos…
Conflicting interests in science and technology studies
Is There a Light Under Our Bushel? Three Modest Proposals for s.t.s
Democracy in a Technological Society
Citizen virtues in a technological order
Contemporary philosophical discussions about technology mirror a profound distance between technical practice and moral thought. I consider the origins of this gap as reflected in both ancient and modern writings. The philosopher's version of technocracy - rushing forward with the analysis of moral categories in the hope that policy-makers or the public will find them decisive - does nothing to bridge this gap and is, therefore, a forlorn strateg…
The politics of networking technology in health care
Social constructivism
Upon Opening the Black Box and Finding It Empty
What do philosophers need to know about technology? What kind of knowledge do we need to have? And how much? Perhaps it is enough simply to have lived in a society in which a wide variety of technologies are in common use. Drawing upon an everyday understanding of such matters, one can move on to develop general perspectives and theories that may enable us to answer important questions about technology in general. The problem is that one’s grasp …
Reply to Mark Elam
My essay on the empty black box seems to have hit some raw nerves. I am grateful to Mark Elam for taking time to respond and I appreciate the passion in his words. Unfortunately, he seems more interested in applying ideological decals and passing peremptory judgments than in addressing any of the issues I posed. Presenting himself in the graceful image of a good ironist, Elam shoots some rather illiberal, nonironic shots at fear and loathing, pre…
The Enduring Dilemmas of Autonomous Technique
Durango Declarations Forum Commentary
Who Will We Be in Cyberspace
This article from the author, politial philosopher raises important questions about the kinds of social and political life that people will desire in a higly computerized society
The Gloves Come off
"An Excerpt from "Technological Determinism
Cyberlibertarian myths and the prospects for community
article Cyberlibertarian myths and the prospects for community Share on Author: Langdon Winner Renssaler Polytechnic Institute Renssaler Polytechnic InstituteView Profile Authors Info & Claims ACM SIGCAS Computers and SocietyVolume 27Issue 3Sept. 1997 pp 14–19https://doi.org/10.1145/270858.270864Published:01 September 1997 42citation1,464DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations42Total Downloads1,464Last 12 Months138Last 6 weeks23 Get Citation AlertsNew Ci…
Technology as "Big Magic" and other Myths
Report from the digital diploma mills conference
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