Article ID: CBB000077868

Re-writing the “book of blots”: Critical reflections on histories of technological “failure” (1998)

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Description “This paper argues that historians should not treat `failure' as residing in the technology itself. It is rather a matter of imputation according to socially-embedded criteria of what constitutes success and failure.”


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Authors & Contributors
Bijker, Wiebe E.
Winner, Langdon
Pinch, Trevor J.
MacKenzie, Donald A.
Woolgar, Steve
White, Lynn, Jr.
Journals
Social Studies of Science
Science, Technology and Human Values
Science as Culture
Perspectives on Science
Pacific Historical Review
Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
Publishers
MIT Press
State University of New York Press
Reidel
Publisud
Concepts
Sociology of knowledge
Technology
Sociology
Marine transportation
Proof
Computers and computing
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
Medieval
20th century, late
Places
France
British Isles
Great Britain
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