Technological determinism is a reductionist theory in assuming that a society's technology progresses by following its own internal logic of efficiency...
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Technology (redirect from Technological)
technology was split between two arguments: technological determinism, and social construction. Technological determinism is the idea that technologies cause...
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Determinism is the metaphysical view that all events within the universe (or multiverse) can occur only in one possible way. Deterministic theories throughout...
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process." Furthermore: "The reason to believe in human agency over technological determinism is that you can then have an economy where people earn their own...
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Kaczynski's particular arguments on technological determinism that the only route available to stopping technological progress is to change the objective...
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Medium theory (section Technological determinism)
for its technological determinism. Raymond Williams, one of the most ardent critics of this concept, believed that technological determinism 'emerges'...
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understood as the counterpart of technological determinism. Technological determinism is the notion that technological change and development are inevitable...
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Daniel Chandler (redirect from Technological imperative)
In “Technological or Media Determinism” (1995), Chandler outlines his five fundamental disagreements with the theory of Technological determinism: Reductionistic:...
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technologies as agents of social and cultural change, such as technological determinism or media imaginaries. A tech-utopia does not disregard any problems...
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theories of technological change reject two of the previous views: the linear model of technological innovation and other, the technological determinism. To challenge...
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Technopoly (section Technological determinism)
characterised by a surplus of information generated by technology, which technological tools are in turn employed to cope with, in order to provide direction...
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Dystopia (redirect from Technological dystopia)
Global Narrative." Explorations in Media Ecology, 1(1), 21–32. "Technological Determinism: Reification". visual-memory.co.uk. Retrieved 29 December 2022...
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Media ecology (section Technological determinism)
determinism. Seeing the biases of media technologies as the primary force for social and cultural change resembles the hard technological determinism...
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Theory of the productive forces (redirect from Productive force determinism)
among different schools of Marxist thinkers. A related concept is technological determinism. On a prescriptive level, this view places a strong emphasis on...
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Social construction of technology (redirect from Technological constructivism)
its social context. SCOT is a response to technological determinism and is sometimes known as technological constructivism. SCOT draws on work done in...
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materialism Marxism Myth of progress Technological determinism Adcock, Robert (2007). "Who's Afraid of Determinism? The Ambivalence of Macro-Historical...
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Technology policy (section Technological determinism)
intelligence and other technological advances that may render the power of man and do the opposite of technological determinism by destroying societies...
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Raudzens, George (1990). "War-Winning Weapons: The Measurement of Technological Determinism in Military History". The Journal of Military History, vol. 54...
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and society over time. The term, which is considered a fourth technological determinism variant, was originally developed by the historian of technology...
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and has been criticised as a form of technological determinism. Cohen maintains that the technological determinism of Marx's summary of his science of...
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Outline of technology (section Technological ages)
processes Technological convergence – Aspect of technological change Technological determinism – Reductionist theory Technological dualism Technological escalation –...
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Technophilia (section Technological utopia)
have a fear of the effects of the technological advancements on society, as do technophobes. Technological determinism is the theory that humanity has little...
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Neo-Luddism Propaganda of the deed Radical environmentalism Technological Determinism The Technological Society (1954/1964) Philosophy of technology Propaganda:...
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Environmental determinism (also known as climatic determinism or geographical determinism) is the study of how the physical environment predisposes societies...
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statement has been considered in the context of technological neutrality, technological determinism, value neutrality, and the instrumentalist philosophy...
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other relativist theories of STS which rejected the dominance of technological determinism, proposing that reality is multiple rather than fixed and prioritizing...
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Futures studies (redirect from Futuristic Technological Concepts)
the systematic, interdisciplinary and holistic study of social and technological advancement, and other environmental trends, often for the purpose of...
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that some of the early work into new media studies was guilty of technological determinism – whereby the effects of media were determined by the technology...
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Collingridge dilemma (category Technological change)
time-consuming." In "The Pacing Problem, the Collingridge Dilemma & Technological Determinism" by Adam Thierer, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center...
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societal standards than by individual conditions. This explains why technological breakthroughs lower the price of commodities and put less advanced producers...
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