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Early Digital Technologies and the Harmonization of Traffic Information Systems in Europe, 1974-96. 早期数字技术与欧洲交通信息系统的协调，1974- 1996。
IF 0.7 3区 哲学
Technology and Culture Pub Date : 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/tech.2026.a980967
Christian Franke, Veit Damm
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The Technological Vagina: Kegel's Perineometer and the Rehabilitation of Womanhood. 技术阴道：凯格尔的会阴计和女性的康复。
IF 0.7 3区 哲学
Technology and Culture Pub Date : 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/tech.2026.a980964
Madeleine S L Ware
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Imperial Networks, African Publics: Telegraphy and News Making in Colonial Nigeria. 帝国网络，非洲公众：尼日利亚殖民地的电报和新闻制作。
IF 0.7 3区 哲学
Technology and Culture Pub Date : 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/tech.2026.a996499
Nnamdi Nnake
{"title":"Imperial Networks, African Publics: Telegraphy and News Making in Colonial Nigeria.","authors":"Nnamdi Nnake","doi":"10.1353/tech.2026.a996499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2026.a996499","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article reinterprets telegraphy in colonial Nigeria not as a precursor to modern communications but as a media infrastructure that reshaped how news circulated, authority operated, and publics formed. Histories of African media have largely overlooked the telegraph, leaving the relationship between telecommunications and mass communication underexamined. Drawing on archival and press sources, the article traces how submarine, inland, and wireless telegraph networks became intertwined with newspapers, radio broadcasting, commercial information, and anti-colonial politics. Rather than treating the telegraph as a singular imperial technology, it approaches telegraphy as a technology-in-use whose meanings emerged through everyday practices, institutional conflicts, material breakdowns, and struggles over access and control. By foregrounding African journalists, technicians, readers, and political actors, the study challenges diffusionist histories of communications technology and argues that colonial media infrastructures were coproduced through imperial ambitions and African forms of appropriation, negotiation, and resistance.</p>","PeriodicalId":49446,"journal":{"name":"Technology and Culture","volume":"67 3","pages":"767-793"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148664759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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More Than a Label: Naming the World Wide Web as an Enabling Practice, 1989-96. 不仅仅是一个标签：将万维网命名为一种使能实践，1989- 1996。
IF 0.7 3区 哲学
Technology and Culture Pub Date : 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/tech.2026.a996505
Deborah Barcella, Gabriele Balbi
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Operators or Experts? Skill, Automation, and Resistance Welding at Ford. 操作员还是专家？技能，自动化和电阻焊接在福特。
IF 0.7 3区 哲学
Technology and Culture Pub Date : 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/tech.2026.a996497
Emy Kim
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Why Concorde Failed: Political Economy and the Limits of Techno-Nationalism. 协和式飞机为何失败：政治经济学与技术民族主义的局限。
IF 0.7 3区 哲学
Technology and Culture Pub Date : 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/tech.2026.a988857
Tom Kelsey
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Cover Essay: Seeing Technical Labor. 封面文章：看技术劳动。
IF 0.7 3区 哲学
Technology and Culture Pub Date : 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/tech.2026.a996495
Nnamdi Nnake
{"title":"Cover Essay: Seeing Technical Labor.","authors":"Nnamdi Nnake","doi":"10.1353/tech.2026.a996495","DOIUrl":"10.1353/tech.2026.a996495","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This essay argues that visual analysis can fundamentally reshape histories of communications technology in Africa. Using photographs from archival and digital collections, it examines how maintenance and repair sustained Nigeria's telegraph network and how images make visible forms of labor, expertise, and technical practice that textual archives often obscure. Rather than treating photographs as illustrations of infrastructure, the essay reads them as historical evidence that reveals the material and social conditions under which telegraph systems operated. Scenes of workshops, linemen, storms, and repair crews expose unstable infrastructures maintained through African technical labor, improvisation, and embodied knowledge. At the same time, the images illuminate the uneven visibility of colonial expertise, since African workers frequently appeared collectively rather than as named individuals. By foregrounding maintenance and repair, the essay contributes to emerging histories of infrastructure, materiality, and technology-in-use while demonstrating the value of visual sources for reconstructing African histories of technology.</p>","PeriodicalId":49446,"journal":{"name":"Technology and Culture","volume":"67 3","pages":"665-678"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148664747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Cold Chains, Uneven Trust: Chinese Eggs and the Politics of Refrigeration. 冷链，不平衡的信任：中国鸡蛋和冷藏政治。
IF 0.7 3区 哲学
Technology and Culture Pub Date : 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/tech.2026.a996502
Zhengfeng Wang
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On the Cover: Cold War Imagery and the History of Technology. 封面：冷战意象与技术史。
IF 0.7 3区 哲学
Technology and Culture Pub Date : 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/tech.2026.a980962
Georgi Georgiev
{"title":"On the Cover: Cold War Imagery and the History of Technology.","authors":"Georgi Georgiev","doi":"10.1353/tech.2026.a980962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2026.a980962","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While radio was central to Cold War conflicts between Western democracies and communist regimes, it largely escaped the period's familiar visual iconography due to the medium's acoustic and clandestine nature. This essay examines over two hundred photographs from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty that document the interaction between employees and technical equipment. It argues that images of the \"radio war\" require analysis on two levels: reconstructing their producers' rhetorical strategies and reading visual details that reveal unintended meanings, particularly the technological constraints shaping daily practice. In this way, a photograph capturing the process of radio technical monitoring on this issue's cover becomes a point of departure for historical inquiry at the intersection of technology, politics, and sound.</p>","PeriodicalId":49446,"journal":{"name":"Technology and Culture","volume":"67 1","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146100920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Before Utility: The MingKwai Typewriter as Democratic Alternative. 在公用事业之前：明葵打字机是民主的选择。
IF 0.7 3区 哲学
Technology and Culture Pub Date : 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/tech.2026.a988850
Miaofeng Yao
{"title":"Before Utility: The MingKwai Typewriter as Democratic Alternative.","authors":"Miaofeng Yao","doi":"10.1353/tech.2026.a988850","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2026.a988850","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Against narratives that equate technological significance with efficiency, scale, or commercial success, this article reframes Lin Yutang's 1947 MingKwai () Chinese typewriter as a deliberate rejection of utility-driven design. Rather than interpreting the MingKwai as a precursor to later digital systems or China's contemporary information infrastructure, the article situates the device within Lin's intellectual project and historical context. It argues that the MingKwai's design-deeply rooted in existing technical precedents and Lin's \"living philosophy\"-sought to bridge writer and typist, expand access to writing, and resist subordination to both machine logic and state authority. The article presents the MingKwai as a democratic alternative within twentieth-century Chinese technological thought.</p>","PeriodicalId":49446,"journal":{"name":"Technology and Culture","volume":"67 2","pages":"371-401"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147870147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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