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Social Construction of Technology

2016
The chapter focuses on the Social Construction of Technology approach (SCOT) by Trevor Pinch and Wiebe Bijker, introducing the reader to its initial formulation (1984), and to the subsequent extensions – and sometimes reformulations – elaborated in more than 30 year of empirical research.
Simone Tosoni, Trevor Pinch
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Boundary Objects and the Social Construction of GIS Technology [PDF]

open access: possibleEnvironment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 1998
The social construction of geographical information system (GIS) technology requires two-way relationships between technology and people. GIS technology, like any other technology, is more than a tool; it connects different social groups in the construction of new localized social arrangements.
F Harvey, N Chrisman
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The Technological Construction of Social Power

Social Epistemology, 2008
This essay presents a theory of the role of technology in the distribution and exercise of social power. The paper studies how technical artefacts and systems are used to construct, maintain or strengthen power relations between agents, whether individuals or groups, and how their introduction and use in society differentially empowers and disempowers ...
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Deepfake: a social construction of technology perspective

Current Issues in Tourism, 2020
The advent of deepfake videos, a new form of media manipulation, took the world by storm. Malicious use of this technology for fraud, misrepresentation, and abuse created more perils than opportuni...
Andrei O. J. Kwok, Sharon G. M. Koh
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The Social Construction of Technology: Structural Considerations

Science, Technology, & Human Values, 2002
Although scholarship in the social construction of technology (SCOT) has contributed much to illuminating technological development, most work using this theoretical approach is committed to an agency-centered approach. SCOT scholars have made only limited contributions to illustrating the influence of social structures.
Hans K. Klein, Daniel Lee Kleinman
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On the social construction of geomedia technologies

Communication and the Public, 2019
Geomedia technologies represent an advanced set of digital media devices, hardwares, and softwares. Previous research indicates that these place contingent technologies are currently gaining significant social relevance, and contribute to the shaping of contemporary public lives and spaces.
Karin Fast   +2 more
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The Social Construction of Technological Systems

Social Studies of Science, 1989
The web of human relations which originates, nurtures, and transforms technologies has long deserved attention. Computers, bicycles, natural gas pipelines, and condoms live and have their being in the midst of enormously complicated human networks of production, distribution, and evaluation.
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