What books do you recommend, Tom?

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Asked what books he recommends in terms of classic work on technology and culture, Tom Boellstorff had this to offer:

  • Stefan Helmreich, Silicon Second Nature: Culturing Artificial Life in Digital World
  • Tom Standage, The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century’s On-Line Pioneers

Boellstorff, Tom. Interview by author. Personal interview. Irvine, CA, June 12, 2018.

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August 7, 2018 - 2:19pm

Critical Commentary

This artifact is part of a PECE essay on what books have inspired UCI Anthro Faculty throughout the years.

This PECE essay helps to answer the STS Across Borders analytic question: “What people, projects, and products exemplify how this STS formation has developed over time?”

This essay is part of a broader exhibit on UCI Anthro STS.

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English

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Anonymous, "What books do you recommend, Tom?", contributed by Maggie Woodruff, STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 13 August 2018, accessed 28 March 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/what-books-do-you-recommend-tom