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	Langdon Winner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Langdon Winner is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York since 1990.
		In 1973, Winner graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
		Winner is known for his articles and books on science, technology, and society.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Langdon_Winner (300 words)

	The Whale and the Reactor by Langdon Winner - A Book Review by Scott London
		Winner contends that technologies are not merely aids to human activity but also powerful forces that give meaning and direction to our lives.
		Winner illustrates the dangers of our society's unquestioning faith in technology by examining the concept of "risk" and the practice of "risk assessment" -- one of the ways commonly used for choosing between competing technologies.
		Winner fears that our instruments have become institutions in the making -- that in our time "techne has at last become politeia." The idea that a society might try to guide its sociotechnical development according to self-conscious, critically evaluated standards of form and limit is no longer simply a good idea, it is an imperative.
	www.scottlondon.com /reviews/winner.html (573 words)

	The Scientist : A Wake-Up Call for Technological Somnambulists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In his preface, Winner distinguishes between being a critic of technology and being "antitechnology." He is as devastating in his criticism of the overblown claims of the soft path as he is of the most ardent of technological optimists.
		Winner makes no bones about his preference for the whale and his abhorrence of the reactor—an abhorrence that he attributes to the "indelible features of nuclear" that inevitably must extract a toll in human freedom.
		Indeed, though Winner hardly prescribes, since his is a book of social and philosophic criticism much more than it is a recipe for correcting the social disorders induced by technology, what little prescription he offers tends toward political interventions which themselves are beset with "indelible features which extract a toll in human freedom."
	www.the-scientist.com /article/display/7245 (484 words)

	Society for Philosophy and Technology - volume 1, numbers 3 & 4
		With regard to that, it is also important to point out that, in spite of Winner's negative assessment of the present situation, among the core group of social constructivists there is increasing awareness of the importance of the practical problems related to science and technology studies.
		Although for reasons of time I cannot argue in a definitive way against Winner's criticism of relativism, his general idea is clearly based on a misunderstanding of the nature of the relationship between action, judgment and rationality, as well as on a mistaken view of the kind of relativism assumed by social studies of technology.
		Either Winner is under the philosophical illusion that a marvelous magic wand can be found in a privileged theoretical position, or, worse, he thinks that social groups involved in technological controversies need expert advice about their moral or ethical concerns.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/SPT/v1_n3n4/Aibar.html (3258 words)

	CEWS - Panelist Biographies -Jeff Fager
		Langdon Winner is a political theorist who focuses upon social and political issues that surround modern technological change.
		Winner was born and raised in San Luis Obispo, California.
		Winner is past president of the Society for Philosophy and Technology.
	groups.colgate.edu /cews/archives/2002_2003/people/bios/winner.htm (328 words)

	essays research papers -- Summary of The Whale and the Reactor by Langdon Winner
		Summary of The Whale and the Reactor by Langdon Winner (pp.
		Winner states implicitly that he wishes to add his book to a surprisingly short list of works that can be characterized as "philosophy of technology" (which includes Marx and Heidegger).
		Winner makes a crucial distinction: "technologies are not merely aids to human activity, but also powerful forces acting to reshape that activity and its meaning" (6).
	www.123helpme.com /preview.asp?id=87639 (1580 words)

	COMM 149 - Summary of Winner
		Langdon Winner (1999/1991) published an essay on Silicon Valley that offers a thoughtful look at the personalities and social trends that shaped the former "Valley of the Heart's Delight." As the postcard illustrates, the "valley" was once an agricultural region, famed for its apricots and prunes.
		Winner extends this analysis to suggest that the future of Silicon Valley doesn't necessarily exist in the physical realm at all, but rather in the placeless void of "cyberspace." If this is the future of cities, as Winner suggests, what is the future of public life?
		Winner astutely describes the economic and social divide between high-tech creators - members of an "exclusive community" who are well educated and well paid - and high-tech laborers who are isolated from their managers in virtually every context - other than the freeways:
	www.sjsu.edu /faculty/wooda/s149/149syllabus14winner.html (627 words)

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		Langdon Winner has been appointed to an endowed chair at Rensselaer, the Thomas Phelan Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences.
		In late May 2005 Langdon gave the Tenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture for the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, topic: "Technology Studies for Terrorists: A Short Course".
		Winner has taught at The New School for Social Research, College of the Atlantic, the University of California at Santa Cruz, the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, and MIT and has lectured widely throughout the United States and Europe.
	www.langdonwinner.org /main.html (724 words)

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		Winner is a Professor of Political Science in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
		In fact, Winner himself is careful to point out that determinism should not be rejected “out of hand.” One of the theoretical foundations that he lays is that developments in the scientific and technological spheres “continually outpace the capacity of individuals to adapt” (Winner 3).
		Winner cites these ideas as having strong implications for political thought in that they create a “new class of losers.” This echoes Manuel Castells in Network Society, who describes new IT system-based society as being horizontally constructed so that it excludes certain groups.
	web.mit.edu /skip/Public/28269.2.doc (1009 words)

	NetFuture #145 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Tech Knowledge Revue (Langdon Winner) Science policy and the push for nanotechnology Announcements and Resources Technosapiens Conference DEPARTMENTS About this newsletter ========================================================================== EDITOR'S NOTE On April 9, NetFuture columnist Langdon Winner testified before the congressional Committee on Science in Washington, D.C. He had been asked to speak about nanotechnology and science policy.
		A crucial part of Langdon's testimony was a recommendation for the formation of citizen advisory panels of the sort the Loka Institute (http://www.loka.org) has so effectively advocated in recent years.
		On May 9 Langdon sent me this update: Well, much to everybody's surprise, my modest proposal to Congress -- to institute citizens panels as one way to assess the societal and ethical dimensions of nanotechnology -- actually made it into the nanotech bill that passed the House of Representatives last Wednesday.
	www.praxagora.com /stevet/netfuture/2003/May2003_145.html (3894 words)

	The Chronicle: Daily news: 02/22/2001 -- 01
		Winner plays the role of a slick entrepreneur named L.C. Winner, C.E.O. of EDU-SHAM, Educational Smart Hardware Alma Mater Inc. He delivers a PowerPoint presentation about the future of education and the many products his virtual company is developing, including a "wearable university" that delivers courseware via a university T-shirt.
		Winner says his presentation is a reaction to what he sees as a lack of critical attention to education technology.
		Winner says he's planning a musical sendup of distance education -- a song called "March of the Distant Educators." He says the song will combine the grandeur of "Pomp and Circumstance" with the catchiness of an advertising jingle.
	chronicle.com /free/2001/02/2001022201u.htm (638 words)

	TNO September 1995
		This month's issue features an article by Langdon Winner about the historical precedents for the United States' current public debate about the future of telecommunications technology.
		Langdon Winner Department of Science and Technology Studies Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute langdon_winner@mts.rpi.edu [Adapted from an address given to the Conference on Society and the Future of Computing in Durango, Colorado, June 1995.
		Langdon Winner, "Mythinformation," in The Whale and the Reactor, University of Chicago Press, 1986.
	polaris.gseis.ucla.edu /pagre/tno/september-1995.html (5647 words)

	Febrary 12, 1998-Vol29n20: Political Theorist Langdon Winner to present "Introducing the Automatic Professor Machine" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Political theorist Langdon Winner, professor of political science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and author of several studies in contemporary social thought, challenges the assumptions that technology is necessarily "good," more is "better" and that the curriculum must be computerized as quickly as possible.
		Winner will explore these issues in a performance titled "Introducing the Automatic Professor Machine," a parody of technology in education, at 2 p.m.
		Winner is the author of "Autonomous Technology" and "The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology." He is the editor of "Democracy in a Technological Age," past president of the Society for Philosophy and Technology and a former contributing editor at Rolling Stone.
	www.buffalo.edu /reporter/vol29/vol29n20/n8.html (417 words)

	Langdon Winner: Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Langdon Winner is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NewYork.
		Langdon Winner, "Silicon Valley Mystery House," from Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Space, Michael Sorkin, ed.
		Langdon Winner, "Enthusiasm and Concern: Results of a New Technology Poll," Tech Knowledge Revue 2.1 (February 29, 2000) -- from NetFuture.
	www.alteich.com /links/winner.htm (262 words)

	Introduction to Langdon Winner's Artifact/Ideas and Political Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In this 1991 essay, Winner explains the often overlooked consequences of technology on different aspects of society such as power and wealth, social mobility, and gender equality.
		Winner suggests that when technology is being designed, the possible social effects of it should be looked at ahead of time, so they can be considered and worked on in the design of the technology.
		His main emphasis is that the technology design process should be much more centered on the democratizing or non-democratizing effects of the technology, and not just the technology.
	www.nutball.com /webworld/classes/gilligan/Kenneth/Intro.htm (194 words)

	TECHNOLOGY TODAY: UTOPIA OR DYSTOPIA?
		Winner, Langdon, "Who Will We Be in Cyberspace?" The Information Society 12:1 (January/March 1996a): 63-72.
		Winner, Langdon, "From Octopus to Polymorph: the Moral Dimensions of Large Scale Systems," in Lars Ingelstam, ed., Complex Technical Systems (Stockholm: Swedish Council for Planning and Coordination of Research, 1996b), pp.
		Winner, Langdon, "Social Constructivism: Opening the Black Box and Finding It Empty," Science as Culture 3:16 (Fall 1993): 427-52.
	org.elon.edu /cyber/langdon.htm (8167 words)

	Discussion Questions: Winner, "Mythinformation" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		On page 48 Winner claims that computerization will mainly benefit multinational corporations, huge bureaucracies, and the military.
		On page 51, last paragraph, Winner compares the effects of revolutionaries in the 18th and 19th centuries having guns with people having computers today.
		At the end of the article Winner lists three areas he believes merit serious discussion.
	www.iwu.edu /~jhaefner/GWSP00/winner_qs.htm (213 words)

	Langdon Winner, Composing Cyberspace
		Winner criticizes at length the "revolution" metaphor to describe changes wrought by emerging technologies in the 1980s.
		Find some current examples from newspaper, magazine, TV, or Internet coverage of the computer or network "revolution" and analyze them using questions and criteria suggested by Winner, such as those in ¶s 8, 9, 10.
		To what exent do you agree with Winner's conclusion that "it seems all but impossible for computer enthusiasts to examine critically the ends that might guide the world-shaking developments they anticipate" (¶ 7)?
	www.mhhe.com /socscience/english/holeton/chap5/langdon.mhtml (342 words)

	mrjerz.org: Tech critic Langdon Winner coming to Reno
		Check out Langdon Winner when he makes a trip to Reno on September 25th.
		Langdon Winner, professor of political science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and author, often asks the troubling questions many of us donât want to ask.
		Winner will be speaking on the Linn Reading Room at the Reynolds School of Journalism at 7:00 pm on Septembner 25th.
	www.mrjerz.org /blog/813/tech-critic-langdon-winner-coming-to-reno (174 words)

	netfuture
		The survey was released in advance to NetFuture columnist Langdon Winner so that he could offer commentary for National Public Radio.
		Check out NPR's "Talk of the Nation" today, where Langdon will be the special guest for an hour.
		In the media as well as in conversations of everyday folks, "technology" is praised as the fount of everything that is new and promising in the world, a cornucopia of fabulous jobs, higher incomes, better health, longer lives, and more satisfying ways of living.
	www.frankritter.com /ist110/netfuture.html (3987 words)

	Commodity or Connection?-Two Models of Sustainability
		Langdon Winner, professor of political science in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, will present on Wednesday, January 15 at 7 p.m.
		He is the author of Autonomous Technology, a study of the idea of "technology-out-of-control" in modern social thought, The Whale and The Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology, and Political Artifacts: Design and the Quality of Public Life, which will be published soon.
		In addition to lecturing widely throughout the U.S. and Europe, Winner has taught at The New School for Social Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, College of the Atlantic, the University of California at Santa Cruz, and the University of Leiden in the Netherlands.
	www.hartwick.edu /x1612.xml (197 words)

	RIT - News & Events: Series brings Fagan, Winner
		Close on the heels of Fagan's talk, the Gannett series presents Langdon Winner, author and philosopher of technology.
		Winner wrote the books Autonomous Technology and The Whale and the Reactor, considered by many as classics in the field.
		Professor of science, technology and society at Rennselear Polytechnic Institute, Winner has taught and lectured worldwide.
	www.rit.edu /~930www/NewsEvents/1998/Jan02/fagan.html (284 words)

	Pornography Research: Parents Should Not Use Internet Filtering Software \| Opposing Viewpoints Research Topic
		Langdon Winner is director of graduate studies in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
		Winner asserts that filtering software often pushes repressive social agendas and limits free speech.
		Laws, regulations, police, education, propaganda—these are among the means societies have traditionally employed to promote and defend the values they deem crucial.
	www.bookrags.com /researchtopics/pornography/sub23.html (525 words)

	The Donald W. Reynolds School of Journalism
		RSJ Professor Edward Lenert introduces Langdon Winner to the audience.
		Winner, an author, researcher and former contributing editor at Rolling Stone, spoke to RSJ students, faculty and guests Monday about the ethical dilemmas facing journalists in the high-tech age.
		Not long ago, Winner might have argued that journalists were doing their best to keep citizens informed and aware.
	www.unr.edu /journalism/content/060926/060926page2.htm (673 words)

	Evaluating Information and Communications Technology: Perspectives for a Balanced Approach
		The most commonly cited example from Winner's essay is the height of the bridges over park ways on Long Island.
		Winner's arguments can be important to both creators and consumers of new technology.
		Winner points out that the political nature of certain technologies have been used by both ends of the political spectrum.
	www.si.umich.edu /pne/kellogg/069a.html (1059 words)

	SPT v9n1: Technological Euphoria and Contemporary Citizenship by Langdon Winner
		SPT v9n1: Technological Euphoria and Contemporary Citizenship by Langdon Winner
		As Benjamin Ide Wheeler, President of the University of California, summarized the nation's optimism in the early twentieth century, "America [is] producing a new race characterized by vitality, energy, good cheer, high faith-bearing for its motto in golden letters on a field of blue the celestial bidding, 'Boost, don't knock'" (Brechin 1999, 303).
		In another place I have discussed specific instances of technological euphoria in the U.S. and their effects upon public discourse and public policy (Winner 2003).
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/SPT/v9n1/winner.html (3563 words)

	Science Policy and the Push for Nanotechnology by Langdon Winner
		The following is an abridgment of testimony Langdon Winner delivered before the congressional Committee on Science in Washington, D.C., on April 9, 2003.
		Nanotechnology is an emerging technology with enormous potential to alter our way of life in decades ahead.
		Langdon Winner can be reached at: winner@rpi.edu and at his Web page: http://www.rpi.edu/~winner.
	www.southerncrossreview.org /27/winner.htm (2810 words)

	Langdon Winner: "Information technology, the erosion of trust and surveillance since 9-11" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Langdon Winner: "Information technology, the erosion of trust and surveillance since 9-11"
		Langdon Winner is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Science and Technology studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Co-director of the Center for Cultural Design.
		Winner is a political theorist who focuses upon social and political issues that surround modern technological change.
	www.muhlenberg.edu /cultural/ethics/current/info-age/event1.html (140 words)

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