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Machine Dreams: The Rhetoric of Technology

PWR 1SB - Winter 2013 - Instructor: Brawn, S.
Last Updated: 9-Mar-2015

A guide to resources for PWR 1SB: Machine Dreams: The Rhetoric of Technology. The course focuses on arguments we make about technology, the arguments various technologies produce about us, and, finally, the ways in which rhetoric itself might be productively viewed as a technology for producing arguments.

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Subjects

General and interdisciplinary

Background/Reference Sources

Use these sources to help you pick a topic and to provide context to your research based argument.

The concise encyclopedia of the ethics of new technologies / edited by Ruth Chadwick.
San Diego : Academic Press, c2001.
Green Library » InfoCenter (non-circulating) » QH332 .C66 2001
How things work : the physics of everyday life / Louis A. Bloomfield.
2nd ed. New York : Wiley, c2001.
Green Library » Bender Room (non-circulating) » QC21.2 .B59 2001
New dictionary of the history of ideas / edited by Maryanne Cline Horowitz.
New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, c2005.
Green Library » InfoCenter (non-circulating) » CB9 .N49 2005 V.1
Science, technology, and society : an encyclopedia / Sal Restivo, editor in chief.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Green Library » InfoCenter (non-circulating) » HM846 .S43 2005
Science talk : changing notions of science in American popular culture / Daniel Patrick Thurs.
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007.
SAL1&2 (on-campus shelving) » Stacks » Q125 .T574 2007
(also available as ebook)
Scientific American : how things work today / edited by Michael Wright and M.N. Patel.
1st ed. New York : Crown Publishers, c2000.
Green Library » InfoCenter (non-circulating) » T47 .S43 2000
World at risk : a global issues sourcebook.
Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2002.
SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » JZ1242 .W67 2002

Databases

in addition to these selected databases, try these databases for Science, Technology, and Medicine articles

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  1. African journals online [electronic resource] : AJOL : online access to African journals

    Index of African-published journals covering agricultural sciences, science and technology, health and social sciences. Includes TOCs, ab...

  2. ArticleFirst [electronic resource].

    Contains bibliographic citations describing items listed on the table of contents pages of more than 13,000 journals in science, technolo...

  3. Cambridge books online [electronic resource].

    Cambridge Books Online offers access to eBooks from our world-renowned publishing programme, covering subjects from all disciplines acros...

  4. China academic journals [electronic resource].

    Full-text database of Chinese journals in the world. It contains more than 8,000 journals starting from 1979. 9 Series databases--Physics...

Web Resources

Be sure to evaluate websites by critically examining content, creators, and sources for validity and bias.

How Stuff Works

Great resources for understanding new technology or collecting background on technology development.

TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design)

"Inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers." Content includes science, business, the arts and the global issues facing our world.

NPR

Archives of popular news and information radio shows, such as Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Talk of the Nation. Check these and others for topical stories; browse topics "Health & Science" and "People & Places."