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The social and political construction of technological frames

European Journal of Information Systems, 2005
It is widely accepted that the successful adoption of an information system depends to a great extent on users' perceptions of the information system. It follows then that an understanding of users' cognitive frames should be a key factor in managing the adoption of information systems.
Lin, A., Silva, L.
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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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Boundary Objects and the Social Construction of GIS Technology [PDF]

Environment 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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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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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, Emilia Ljungberg, Lotta Braunerhielm   +2 more
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Socially Constructed Technology

Inquiry, 2000
The main innovation in Questioning Technology is Feenberg?s use of the results of various social constructivist accounts of science and technology to rethink the philosophy of technology. I agree with Feenberg that the social constructivist studies developed by historians and sociologists refute the essentialist account of technology that has been the ...
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Reflection on the Social Construction of Technology in the Philosophy of Technology

The Korean Association of Practical Arts Education, 2023
Technological determinism initially emerged in the relationship between technology and society. In the environment surrounding technology and society, technology determinism and social construction of technology (SCOT) have a tense relationship. This study aims to reveal the characteristics of SCOT by exploring and reflecting on the substantive debates
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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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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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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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