Josh,
You might contact Bernadette Bensaude Vincent who held a seminar on similar topics, last year in Paris *.
* Séminaire de Master
2: L’innovation en technoscience
Bernadette Bensaude Vincent,
Université Paris 1, 17 rue de la Sorbonne, esc C, 1er étage, salle Halbwachs, Lundi 16h-18h
Ce séminaire propose
une analyse critique de quelques uns de ces slogans. On examinera leurs
conditions d’émergence, leur fonctions (attractive et performative) et les
pratiques qu’ils désignent, comme celles qu’ils dissimulent.
Le séminaire se déroule sous la forme de treize séances de 2h par semaine au Semestre 1 suivies d’une journée complète de séminaire le samedi 7 janvier. Il requiert une participation active des étudiants, et des lectures à chaque séance (10 à 20 pages, souvent en anglais). Il est ouvert aux auditeurs externes.
Hello!I wonder if anyone in the group could point me to a resource or two on the "Laws" and Maxims that seem to pervade the technology industry. I'm thinking of things such as Moore's Law, Brooks' Law, etc. I guess I'm especially looking for some kind of "meta scholarship" on laws and maxims themselves. It's simple enough to find sources that explain or contextualize the laws themselves. but a bit harder to find scholarship on the big picture.A bit of context: I'm working on my dissertation, which involves the rhetoric that technological choices are built upon, and I've stumbled across an allusion to Amara's Law (i.e., People tend to overestimate technology in the short term and underestimate it in the long term.). I got to wondering just how big of a role such laws play in technology decisions.Thanks in advance!-Josh--Joshua Welsh
PhD Candidate, Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication
University of MinnesotaDepartment of Writing Studies214 Nolte Center315 Pillsbury Dr SEMinneapolis, MN 55455
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