Most cited papers in Cybernetics and Technology in Society
What are the most cited papers in Cybernetics and Technology in Society?
The most cited paper in Cybernetics and Technology in Society is "The Machine That Changed the World" (Bernard M. Wolf, 1991), with 4,765 citations. Next come "Out of Order" (1,114) and "On Nonscalability" (750).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 96 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Machine That Changed the World Bernard M. Wolf · Journal of International Business Studies | Sep 1991 | 4,765 |
| 2 | Out of Order Stephen Graham, Nigel J. Thrift · Theory Culture & Society | 26 Apr 2007 | 1,114 |
| 3 | On Nonscalability Anna Tsing · Common Knowledge | Aug 2012 | 750 |
| 4 | The wrong bin bag: A turn to ontology in science and technology studies? Steve Woolgar, Javier Lezaun · Social Studies of Science | Jun 2013 | 551 |
| 5 | Preliminary Communication Horst Bickel, JOHN W. GERRARD, EvelynM. Hickmans · The Lancet | Oct 1953 | 500 |
| 6 | Algorithms and their others: Algorithmic culture in context Paul Dourish · Big Data & Society | 24 Aug 2016 | 488 |
| 7 | On Technical Mediation Bruno Latour · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) | 1992 | 487 |
| 8 | Cyborg Urbanization: Complexity and Monstrosity in the Contemporary City Matthew Gandy · International Journal of Urban and Regional Research | Mar 2005 | 467 |
| 9 | Reason and Resonance: A History of Modern Aurality Veit Erlmann | 13 Aug 2010 | 456 |
| 10 | Reassembling Social Science Methods: The Challenge of Digital Devices Evelyn S. Ruppert, John Easton Law, Mike Savage · Theory Culture & Society | 14 May 2013 | 455 |
| 11 | The Project Method (1918) William Heard Kilpatrick · Schools | Mar 2020 | 430 |
| 12 | The Future is Now David A. Kirby · Social Studies of Science | 30 Sep 2009 | 379 |
| 13 | The Connection Machine Daniel Hillis · Lecture notes in physics | 10 Dec 2007 | 376 |
| 14 | Prognosis time: Towards a geopolitics of affect, debility and capacity Jasbir Kaur Puar · Women & Performance a journal of feminist theory | Jul 2009 | 362 |
| 15 | A History of Technology Frederick G. Kilgour · American Journal of Physics | Sep 1955 | 361 |
| 16 | Digital media infrastructures: pipes, platforms, and politics Jean‐Christophe Plantin, Aswin Punathambekar · Media Culture & Society | 20 Dec 2018 | 359 |
| 17 | Technologies of the Imagination: An Introduction David Sneath, Martin Holbraad, Morten Axel Pedersen · Ethnos | Mar 2009 | 334 |
| 18 | Things and Their Parts Kit Fine · Midwest Studies in Philosophy | 1999 | 328 |
| 19 | Cyborg intentionality: Rethinking the phenomenology of human–technology relations Peter‐Paul Verbeek · Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences | 25 Jun 2008 | 309 |
| 20 | Remembering the Technological Unconscious by Foregrounding Knowledges of Position Nigel J. Thrift · Environment and Planning D Society and Space | Feb 2004 | 299 |
| 21 | Engineering and Sociology in a Military Aircraft Project: A Network Analysis of Technological Change John Easton Law, Michel Callon · Social Problems | Jun 1988 | 294 |
| 22 | Do Politics Have Artefacts? Bernward Joerges · Social Studies of Science | Jun 1999 | 272 |
| 23 | The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a philosophy of elemental media Gabriela Capurro · Journal of Communication | Feb 2016 | 270 |
| 24 | Imagining the thinking machine: Technological myths and the rise of artificial intelligence Simone Natale, Andrea Ballatore · Convergence The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies | 20 Jun 2017 | 259 |
| 25 | How to be Universal: Some Cybernetic Strategies, 1943-70 Geof Bowker · Social Studies of Science | Feb 1993 | 255 |
| 26 | Future imaginaries in the making and governing of digital technology: Multiple, contested, commodified Astrid Mager, Christian Katzenbach · New Media & Society | Feb 2021 | 253 |
| 27 | Do Not Despair: There Is Life after Constructivism Wiebe E. Bijker · Science Technology & Human Values | 1993 | 250 |
| 28 | On Technological Expectations Nathan S. Rosenberg · The Economic Journal | Sep 1976 | 241 |
| 29 | The Right to Infrastructure: A Prototype for Open Source Urbanism Alberto Corsín Jiménez · Environment and Planning D Society and Space | 2014 | 236 |
| 30 | Preliminary Communication Colin T. Dollery, David Wilfred Hill, Colin Mailer et al. · The Lancet | Aug 1964 | 234 |
| 31 | On Human Communication Colin Cherry, P. J. Davis · Physics Today | May 1957 | 232 |
| 32 | The First Computational Theory of Mind and Brain: A Close Look at Mcculloch and Pitts's “Logical Calculus of Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity” Gualtiero Piccinini · Synthese | Aug 2004 | 219 |
| 33 | Melancholia as a Desynchronization: Towards a Psychopathology of Interpersonal Time Thomas A. E. Fuchs · Psychopathology | 2001 | 216 |
| 34 | This One Does Not Go Up to 11: The Quantified Self Movement as an Alternative Big Data Practice Dawn Nafus, Jamie Sherman | 2014 | 213 |
| 35 | Foregrounding Sociomaterial Practice in Our Understanding of Affordances: The Skilled Intentionality Framework Ludger van Dijk, Erik Rietveld · Frontiers in Psychology | 9 Jan 2017 | 212 |
| 36 | Technik Comes to America: Changing Meanings of Technology before 1930 Eric Schatzberg · Technology and Culture | Jul 2006 | 212 |
| 37 | CULTURE AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS AS EXPERIMENTAL SYSTEMS Michael M. J. Fischer · Cultural Anthropology | 13 Jan 2007 | 205 |
| 38 | Broken data: Conceptualising data in an emerging world Sarah Pink, Minna Ruckenstein, Robert Willim et al. · Big Data & Society | 2018 | 204 |
| 39 | The New Empiricism Patricia Ticineto Clough · European Journal of Social Theory | Feb 2009 | 201 |
| 40 | Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed Mike Woost · American Ethnologist | Aug 2000 | 199 |
| 41 | Artificial Communication? The Production of Contingency by Algorithms Elena Esposito · Zeitschrift für Soziologie | 15 Aug 2017 | 195 |
| 42 | 'The Very Coinage of Your Brain': The Anatomy of Reality Disjunctures Melvin Pollner · Philosophy of the Social Sciences | Sep 1975 | 191 |
| 43 | The Nature of Things: Dead Labor, Nonhuman Actors, and the Persistence of Marxism Scott Kirsch, Don C. Mitchell · Antipode | Sep 2004 | 186 |
| 44 | A Sociological Study of the Official History of the Perceptrons Controversy Mikel Olazaran · Social Studies of Science | Aug 1996 | 184 |
| 45 | Cultural Techniques: Preliminary Remarks Geoffrey Winthrop‐Young · Theory Culture & Society | 18 Aug 2013 | 182 |
| 46 | From innovation to use: Ten eclectic theses on the historiography of technology David Edgerton · History and Technology | 1999 | 178 |
| 47 | THE VISIBLE HUMAN PROJECT Catherine Waldby | 16 Feb 2010 | 175 |
| 48 | Preliminary Communication Charles Wells, Keith Rawlinson, Lawrence Tinckler et al. · The Lancet | Jul 1961 | 171 |
| 49 | On "Sourcery," or Code as Fetish Wendy Hui Kyong Chun · Configurations | Sep 2008 | 167 |
| 50 | Experimentalsysteme und epistemische Dinge Hans‐Jörg Rheinberger · Max Planck Digital Library | 2015 | 166 |
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