news

10.28.2009

A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (MIT Press) to appear in March 2010

 

05.01.2009

Edwards, Bowker, Jackson, and Williams (co-editors), Special Issue on e-Infrastructure, Journal of the Association for Information Systems

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research websites


Evaluating Information and Communications Technology: Perspectives for a Balanced Approach (Christopher A. Lee, Brian S. Williams, and Paul N. Edwards, 2003)
Web version of report to the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Reviews recent literature on the social impacts of ICTs. Includes executive summary; annotated bibliography summarizing more than 50 books, articles, and websites; transcripts of 8 interviews with leading experts; and a bibliography of over 290 books, articles, and websites.

Atmospheric General Circulation Modeling: A Participatory History (2000)
Funded by the Sloan Foundation under a consulting arrangement with the Center for the History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics. No longer maintained.

Information Technology and Society Project (1998)
A networked, distributed multimedia digital library on the recent history of high technology. The project came to an end in 1998. No longer maintained.