Science, Technology and Society

Research Working Papers

This working Paper series is intended to disseminate new work of members of the Programme and postgraduates attached to the Programme to a wider audience. The emphasis is on work in progress or recently completed. The papers will include:

reports of research results;
descriptions of research in progress;
exploratory discussion papers;
conference papers;
responses to work elsewhere.

Information on the research projects and postgraduate opportunities in the Programme can be obtained from the Programme Coordinator:

Dr Brian Martin
Science, Technology and Society
University of Wollongong, Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia
phone: (+61 02) 42213673 - fax: (+61 02) 42215341

Copies of STA Working Papers can be obtained from:

STA Working Papers
Science, Technology and Society
University of Wollongong, Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia
phone: (+61 02) 42213673 - fax: (+61 02) 42215341

Working Paper Series ISSN 1036 501X

No.1 Deconstructing Bruno Latour:

Pam Scott, 'Levers, Laboratories and Latourian Linguistics'
John Schuster, 'Bruno's (No History Required) Tour of the Past'
Mark Rix, 'Latour and Nuclear Strategy:The Big, The Bad, and the Ugly'
April 1991 ISBN 0 86418 153 1

No.2 Power Politics: Explaining the Introduction - or Absence - of Energy Technologies Stewart Russell, April 1991 ISBN 0 86418 154 X
No.3 James Radcliff's Lisdillon Salt Works, Tasmania: a Preliminary Interpretation Brian Rogers, April 1991 ISBN 0 86418 155 8 (Working Papers No. 3 and No. 7 are superceded by Working Paper 11)
No.4 Interests and the Shaping of Technology: an Unresolved Debate Reappears Stewart Russell, April 1991 ISBN 0 86418 156 6
No.5 Machine Metaphors and Conspicuous Production: the Human-Centred Systems Movement and the Re-enchantment of Technology Richard Badham, April 1991 ISBN 0 86418 157 4
No.6 CAD-CAM and Human-Centred Design Richard Badham, April 1991 ISBN 0 86418 158 2
No.7 Lisdillon Revisited: New Light on James Radcliff's Saltworks, Tasmania Brian Rogers, September 1991 ISBN 0 86418 193 0 (Working Papers No. 3 and No. 7 are superceded by Working Paper 11)
No.8 New Industries, Sustainable Cities and the Clever Country Jim Falk, Stewart Russell & Kevin Parker, September 1991 ISBN 0 86418 194 9
No.9 What Happens When Science Goes Bad. The Corruption of Science and the Origin of AIDS: A Study in Spontaneous Generation Louis Pascal, December 1991 ISBN 0 86418 199 X
No.10 Lean Production: the End of History? Christian Berggren, July 1992 ISBN 0 86418 217 1
No.11 Nineteenth Century Salt Manufacturing Sites in Tasmania Brian Rogers, April 1993 ISBN 0 86418 253 8 (Working Paper 11 is not available on Netscape - a hardcopy may be obtained by contacting the Department.)
No.12 The Politics of Telecommunications Reform: A Comparative Study of Australia and New Zealand Richard Joseph, July 1993 ISBN 0 86418 260 0
No.13 Information Technology and the Transformation of the Academic Workplace? Stan Aungles, March 1994 ISBN 0 86418 291 0

Occasional Paper Series

No. 1 Understanding Scientific/Technological Controversy David Mercer, November 1996