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Technology, the Technology Complex and the Paradox of Technological Determinism

open access: yesTechnology Analysis and Strategic Management, 2001
This paper examines the working definitions of the term 'technology' across a range of disciplines such as industrial relations, organizational behaviour, operations management and development economics. The precise 'subdefinition' of technology in use depends on the disciplinary problematic. We develop a conceptual device called the technology complex
James Fleck, John Howells
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Organizing and reframing technological determinism

New Media & Society, 2016
Technological determinism (TD) has been critiqued as reductionist, ahistorical, and simplistic. This article, however, presents its complexity by showing four of its typologies according to the axes of objective/subjective dimensions and regulation/radical change sociologies based on Burrell and Morgan’s Four paradigms for the analysis of social theory.
Fernando de la Cruz Paragas   +1 more
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Epistemic and Technological Determinism in Development Aid

open access: yesScience Technology and Human Values, 2014
Since the turn of the millennium, the major development agencies have been promoting "knowledge for development,'' "ICT for development,'' or the "knowledge economy'' as new paradigms to prompt development in less-developed countries.
Jan Cherlet
exaly   +2 more sources

From Linguistic Determinism to Technological Determinism

open access: yes, 2014
publisher versionFrom Introduction: This article seeks to analyse the link between linguistic determinism, the notion that language determines our thought and the way we perceive our reality, as espoused by the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and contemporary ...
Russell H Kaschula, Andre M Mostert
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