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Technological Determinism versus Social Determinism, a Critical discussion

open access: yesEthiopian Journal of Science and Sustainable Development, 2021
Technology influences the way human beings connect with the outside world in their day-to-day businesses. Adopting new technologies can offer opportunities. It, also, poses threats.
Daniel Tessema
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Power, Ideology, and Technological Determinism

open access: yesEngaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2015
A Commentary on Taylor Dotson’s “Technological Determinism and Permissionless Innovation as Technocratic Governing Mentalities: Psychocultural Barriers to the Democratization of Technology”
David J. Hess
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Journalism in Digital Native Media: Beyond Technological Determinism

open access: yesMedia and Communication, 2020
This article reflects on the conceptualisation and practise of journalism in European digital native media. The way news is produced and consumed in the digital era knocks down the boundaries that once divided professionals, citizens, and activists.
Berta García-Orosa   +2 more
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Developmentalism and Territory: Three Transport Infrastructures in Santa Fe (Argentina, 1957-1971) as Case Studies

open access: yesHistoria y Sociedad, 2021
This study aims to recognize the elements that make up the notion of technological determinism and the power (in a political sense) of technologies in the transformation of a given area.
Camila Costa
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The Practices of Making Innovation Public

open access: yesEngaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2015
A Commentary on Taylor Dotson’s “Technological Determinism and Permissionless Innovation as Technocratic Governing Mentalities: Psychocultural Barriers to the Democratization of Technology”
Sujatha Raman
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Smart city development strategies: Data determinism and technological sovereignty [PDF]

open access: yesSociološki Pregled, 2023
This paper analyzes the role of the citizen through the nexus between the notion of 'the right to the city' and the current challenges of data integrity.
Dimitrijević Lazar A.
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Technology as a field of possibilities: an alternative to the technological pessimism

open access: yesTrilogía Ciencia Tecnología Sociedad, 2012
in the paper I argue that it is inappropriate to see the relationship between man and technology as a confrontation in the sense that technology is influencing human existence to the point that it is out of control ...
Álvaro Monterroza Ríos
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The Hegemonic Character of Techno-Functional Neo-Immanentism and Its Relationship with Culture Wars

open access: yesReligions, 2023
This paper analyzes the social processes that have led to the consolidation of a technocratic secular order and the type of cultural struggle that has made this possible.
Celso Sánchez Capdequí   +2 more
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Senzorij McLuhanus [PDF]

open access: yesIn Medias Res, 2023
In this paper, we analyze some of the basic theses of media theorist Marshall McLuhan and compare them with relevant contemporary theories. Furthermore, having defined the relationship between technological inventions, extensions and technological ...
Darko Kovačić
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About Freedom, Determinism and Technodeterminism [PDF]

open access: yesIn Medias Res, 2012
What is ‘technological determinism’? Was Marshall McLuhan a ‘technological determinist’? The text compares different meanings of the term ‘determinism’.
Sead Alić
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