Table of Contents

Contents: Eugene Halton: Preface – Phillip Vannini: Introduction – Phillip Vannini: Material Culture Studies and the Sociology and Anthropology of Technology – Grant Kein: Actor-Network Theory: Translation as Material Culture – Trevor Pinch: The Social Construction of Technology (SCOT): The Old, the New, and the Nonhuman – Ian Woodward: Material Culture and Narrative: Fusing Myth, Materiality, and Meaning – Phillip Vannini: Material Culture and Technoculture as Interaction – Mélanie Roustan: From Embodied Ethnography to the Anthropology of Material Culture: Gaming in the Field – Chaim Noy: On Driving a Car and Being a Family: An Autoethnography – Dylan Tutt/Jon Hindmarsh: The Screen Deconstructed: Video-Based Studies of the Malleable Screen – Tanfer Emin Tunc: Technologies of Consumption: The Social Semiotics of Turkish Shopping Malls – Ingrid Richardson/Amanda Third: Cultural Phenomenology and the Material Culture of Mobile Media – Ariane Hanemaayer: A Grounded Theory Approach to Engaging Technology on the Paintball Field – Chris Tilley: What Gardens Mean – Bryce Merrill: Making It, Not Making It: Creating Music in Everyday Life – Patrick Laviolette: The Death of the Clinic: Domestic Medical Sensoring – Tina Peterson: The Zapper and the Zapped: Microwave Ovens and the People Who Use Them.