In contemporary society, technology and social change are two concurrent and important phenomena. New technical practices constantly remind us of our taken-for-granted habits and force us to consider how we structure our lives, as individuals and as members of society. This volume is dedicated to thorough studies of technology and social practices. The purpose is not only to improve our understanding of how to handle and to introduce new artifacts, but also to take advantage of the new practices. They serve as a tool to render the ordinary exotic, thereby increasing our knowledge of how society is organised. As an intellectual endeavour, this book belongs to a cluster of work that tries to give voice to "the ordinary", and the local production of social order and how we make sense to our living with things.		Content Making a thing of things - humans, artefacts, actions Hans Glimell&Oskar Juhlin Traffic behaviour as social interaction - Implications for the design of artificial drivers Oskar Juhlin Interpreting radar - seeing and organization in air traffic control Johan M. Sanne Bridging the gap between designers and ethnographersby using a facilitator Charlotte Wiberg Another kind of freedom - Truckers on masculinity and freedom Eddy Nehls Patriarchal machines and masculine embodiment Ulf Mellström Challenging limits: excerpts from an emerging ethnography of nano physicist Hans Glimell Doing gender! in Academia: The domestications of an information-technological researcher-position Nora Levold Constructing a curing commodity - The case of the curing plate Karin Fernler & Claes-Fredrik Helgesson Netting the infromation infrastructure of Stockholm - An idea travels throughout the world Peter Dobers Construction, reconstruction, or deconstruction: How to write engineering history Mikael Hård
	The authors, coming from disciplines like science and technology studies, organizational theory, informatics, anthropology and history of technology, engage in studies of social activities, such as designers' moving a curing plate for patients with eating disorders out of the clinic and into the home-kitchens, traffic controllers¹ interaction work to get planes safely from airport to airport, and the social demands on an artificial car driver to smoothly blend into its human colleagues in road traffic. They also discuss how peoples' identities are formed by their everyday occupation with technology, such as the role of gender for a female computer scientist or a male lorry driver. The book costs 300 SEK and can be ordered from    BAS Publisher    School of Economics and Commercial Law at Göteborg University    P.O. Box 610 SE 405 30 Göteborg Sweden    Ph. +46 (0)31 773 5416    Facs. +46 (0)31 773 2616    E-mail bas@handels.gu.se