Academic Writing 12

Harvard, Double spaced Due: 30th october 5 PM Sources: 12 File Name: Order 210015584 Business Draw from the sociotechnical debate to discuss the emergence of two technologies - one developed before 1920 and one after. What are the implications of your analysis for our understanding of technological innovations? You are advised to choose technologies we have been discussing in the lectures and seminars. Please choose one of the four following essay topics. The essay should be 2,000 words (+/- 10%), and should employ Harvard referencing and maintain professional levels of style, spelling and punctuation. Please note that lack of use of in-text citations and of essential readings given in the module leads to automatic fail. Recommended readings: • Jonhs, A. (2002) ‘How to Acknowledge a Revolution’, The American Historical Review, vol. 107, no. 1, pp. 106-125 • Eisenstein, E. (2002) ‘An Unacknowledge Revolution Revisited’, The American Historical Review, vol.107, no.1, pp. 87-105 Further readings: • Latour, B. (1992) ‘’Where Are the Missing Masses? The Sociology of a Few Mundane Artifacts’’ In Shaping Technology/Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change. Cambridge MIT Press. pp.225-258. [Electronic] Available at: [login to view URL] • Grint, K. & Woolgar, S. (1997) The machine at work: technology, work, and organization. Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA, Polity Press ; Published in the USA by Blackwell.