He also spent several years as a reporter, rock music critic, and contributing editor for Rolling Stone magazine.

This way "transcends the simple categories of 'intended' and 'unintended' altogether", representing "instances in which the very process of technical development is so thoroughly biased in a particular direction that it regularly produces results heralded as wonderful breakthroughs by some social interests and crushing setbacks by others" (Winner, p. 25-6, 1999).

It implies that the process of technological development is critical in determining the politics of an artifact; hence the importance of incorporating all stakeholders in it.

[3] Winner contributed piano and backing vocals to the hoax album The Masked Marauders created by Rolling Stone.

[5][6] Winner is also notable for having written a negative review of one of the most critically acclaimed albums of the 1970's, Neil Young's After the Gold Rush.

Winner's critique is well explained in his article "Information Technology and Educational Amnesia,"[7] and expressed in his satirical lecture, "The Automatic Professor Machine.