You are here

Machine Dreams: The Rhetoric of Technology

PWR 1SB - Winter 2013 - Instructor: Brawn, S.
Last Updated: 21-Dec-2012

Research Skills

Find books
Find images

A guide to resources for PWR 1SB: Machine Dreams: The Rhetoric of Technology. The course focuses on arguments we make about technology, the arguments various technologies produce about us, and, finally, the ways in which rhetoric itself might be productively viewed as a technology for producing arguments.

Subject Librarians

Malgorzata Schaefer
Malgorzata I Schaefer
Head, Information Center
Cecil H. Green Library
(650) 384-5028
Live chat with librarians requires JavaScript.

Subjects

General and interdisciplinary

Background/Reference Sources

Use these sources to help you pick a topic and to provide context to your research based argument.

The concise encyclopedia of the ethics of new technologies / edited by Ruth Chadwick.
San Diego : Academic Press, c2001.
Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating) » QH332 .C66 2001
How things work : the physics of everyday life / Louis A. Bloomfield.
2nd ed. New York : Wiley, c2001.
Engineering » Stacks » QC21.2 .B59 2001
New dictionary of the history of ideas / edited by Maryanne Cline Horowitz.
New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, c2005.
Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating) » CB9 .N49 2005 V.1
Science, technology, and society : an encyclopedia / Sal Restivo, editor in chief.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating) » HM846 .S43 2005
Science talk : changing notions of science in American popular culture / Daniel Patrick Thurs.
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007.
Green » Stacks » Q125 .T574 2007
(also available as ebook)
Scientific American : how things work today / edited by Michael Wright and M.N. Patel.
1st ed. New York : Crown Publishers, c2000.
Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating) » T47 .S43 2000
World at risk : a global issues sourcebook.
Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2002.
Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating) » JZ1242 .W67 2002

Databases

in addition to these selected databases, try these databases for Science, Technology, and Medicine articles

› See all 22 results
  1. History of science, technology, and medicine [electronic resource].

    Describes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science, technology, and m...

  2. Science citation index expanded [electronic resource].

    An international, multidisciplinary index to the literature of science, technology, and biomedicine. Over 4,000 journals representing all...

  3. Burger's medicinal chemistry & drug discovery [electronic resource].

    This is Volume 5: Chemotherapeutic Agents, of Burger's Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Discovery, 6th Edition. This new volume contains crit...

  4. J-STAGE [electronic resource] : Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic

    Presents the Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic (J-STAGE), a system developed by the Japan Science and Techn...

Web Resources

Be sure to evaluate websites by critically examining content, creators, and sources for validity and bias.

How Stuff Works
Great resources for understanding new technology or collecting background on technology development.
TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design)
"Inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers." Content includes science, business, the arts and the global issues facing our world.
NPR
Archives of popular news and information radio shows, such as Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Talk of the Nation. Check these and others for topical stories; browse topics "Health & Science" and "People & Places."