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Texts
The following texts are required for this course. Where noted, we will use only a subsection of the text, but too much to be allowed to incorporate the excerpts into the course reader, for copyright reasons; you may choose to rely on library texts or other resources for these works. Many of these texts are widely available second-hand.
- Jonathan Culler. On Deconstruction. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1983. [We will use only Chapter 2. Note: this book is temporarily out-of-print but is widely available second-hand.]
- Paul Dourish. Where the Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. [We will use only Chapter 3.]
- Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz, and Linda L. Shaw. Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes. Chicago, U. Chicago Press, 1995.
- Diana E. Forsythe. Studying Those Who Study Us. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford U.P., 2001. [We will use only chapters 3, 7, and 9]
- E.D. Hirsch. Validity in Interpretation. New Haven: Yale UP, 1973.
- Nelly Oudshoorn and Trevor Pinch, eds. How Users Matter. MIT: MIT Press, 2003.
- Ferdinand de Saussure. Course in General Linguistics. Open Court, 1986. [We will use only Part I: Nature of the Linguistic Sign; a different publisher is fine; this book is widely available second-hand.]
- Lucy Suchman. Plans and Situated Actions. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1987.
- Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores. Understanding Computers and Cognition. Addison-Wesley, 1986.
- STS 634 Course Packet.
All other readings will be made available on-line. Please note that many of the readings that are available on-line are only available if you access the links from within Cornell networks.
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