Immersive Stories: From Technological Determinism Towards Narrative Determinism [PDF]
Media and CommunicationFollowing the wave of immersive production that occurred between 2015 and 2018, and in the face of new virtual, augmented, and mixed-reality devices, this article discusses the need to move from a technology- or device-focused perspective in the analysis
Jorge Vázquez-Herrero
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Who's afraid of determinism? [PDF]
, 2014 Because of the idealizations involved in the ideas of a total state of the world and of all the laws of nature, the thesis of all-encompassing determinism is unverifiable.
Stevenson, Leslie, Leslie Stevenson
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Virtual Limitations of the Flesh: Merleau-Ponty and the Phenomenology of Technological Determinism [PDF]
, 2021 The debate between instrumentalist and technological determinist positions on the nature of technology characterised the early history of the philosophy of technology.
Swer, Gregory Morgan, Du Toit, Jean
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Technological Universities in Ireland: the New Imperative [PDF]
, 2020 Higher education in Ireland has been characterized for some time as having a distinct two-tier structure. The top tier is comprised of the university sector, which features a number of older and newer entrants. Firmly in second position based on research
Houghton, Frank
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The Hegemonic Character of Techno-Functional Neo-Immanentism and Its Relationship with Culture Wars
Religions, 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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In 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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AI and the resurrection of Technological Determinism [PDF]
, 2021 This paper elaborates on the connection between the AI regulation fever and the generic concept of Social Control of Technology. According to this analysis, the amplitude of the regulatory efforts may reflect the lock-in potential of the technology in ...
Héder, Mihály
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Tegnologiese determinisme: kontoere van ’n konsep
Koers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, 1997 Technological determinism: contours of a concept Technological determinism, which in essence is the concept meaning that ‘technology determines history’, has its roots in eighteenth-century Enlightenment.
Tom Lamey
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Social security of the individual and technological determinism: human dialectics, science and technology [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 The aim of the study is to assess the multidimensional nature of the relationship between the social security of the individual and the new technical and technological reality.
Shilovtsev Andrey +4 more
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Technological determinism and cultural evolution: The importance of cultural diversity in the ethical assessment of artificial intelligence [PDF]
BaštinaThis scholarly inquiry undertakes an examination of the enduring discourse surrounding technological determinism and its profound influence on the trajectory of cultural change.
Baltezarević Borivoje V.
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