To Read

Want to read because of interest in the film industry and the money that makes it go round.

I think this would just be really relevant given the conversations around labour w/ AI in the world today. Plus I really like a book situated in a very specific time and place that explores broad, abstract ideas in that context.

"This book crystallizes and extends the important work Wiebe Bijker has done in the last decade to found a full-scale theory of sociotechnical change that describes where technologies come from and how societies deal with them."
Beyond its material, I think this would be a useful book to learn how to construct theoretical arguments based on situated, specific case studies.
I also think that the idea of sociotechnical change (like long term stuff) is something that I would like to talk about more going ahead, and I'm hopeful this book will help me learn how.

Particularly excited for the chapter on the impact of platforms on institutions of information gathering / dissemination (Chapter 3), but also broadly excited to read a book about the values embedded into platform design. I wonder what's new to say on that front in 2025.

I want to read this because it touches on a lot of different characterisations of computing, as engineering, as theory, as a discipline. It would be nice to learn more about the different discourses in my field.
Found via: Julius Togelius' post on research vs. tinkering