CS213 Lecture 6: Week 6
Document Summary
Foregrounds the interconnectedness within which things appear, are developed, and have. These effects arise through relationships rather than being caused by a particular agent. The concept of sociotechnical system draws our attention to the heterogeneity and abstracted quality of those interconnections: cause effects, effects are results of complex interactions, there are always driving and resisting factors. Sociotechnical systems and networks: multiple different nodes that contribute to how the network operates and functions, complex systems demand complex forms of causality i. e. the drone network. Complex systems that we are entrusting ourselves. Don"t like distinction between systems of use and systems of attraction. In the real world, whoever, people often take positions on tech that mix up these positions which contributes to sloppy, unhelpful arguments. By carefully exploring the four positions, it is possible to unmask such sloppy thinking (including our own) and work toward conversations based on sound, critical thought.
