In addition to the specific tasks you were asked to prepare for next week in your groups (as detailed in the E-mail you will have been sent), among the general resources you could explore to provide background for this seminar and foundations for your essay are:
Matthewman, S. (2011) Technology and Social Theory, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
Roe Smith, M. and Marx, L. (Eds) (1994) Does Technology Drive History? Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press
On social constructionist approaches see:
Bijker, W., Hughes, T. and Pinch, T. (Eds) (2012) (1987) The Social Construction of Technological Systems, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press
The anniversary edition of that text is available as an E-book;
and a book of much wider interest than it sounds about the Moog synthesizer:
Pinch, T. and Trocco, F. (2002) Analog days: the invention and impact of the moog synthesizer, Cambridge: Harvard University Press; also available as an E-book.
On cultural-historical approaches books about energy, neon lighting and railway journeys listed under lecture 1 in the full reading list will provide many ideas for your essays, even if about other topics: e.g.
Schivelbusch, W. (1986) The Railway Journey: the industrialization of time and space in the 19th century, Berkeley: University of California
On actor-network theory
The work of Bruno Latour is essential:
Latour, B. (2005) Reassembling the Social: An introduction to actor-network theory, Oxford: Oxford University Press (available as an E-book).
Bruno Latour's site makes many of his articles available.
Another important thinker in actor-network theory is John Law of the Open University.
