ITM 601 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Ursula Franklin, Word Processor, Knitting
29 Nov 2014
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Chapter i - ursula franklin, the real world of technology. Technology has built the houses in which we all live: it can continually extended and remodelled. Technology, like democracy, inclu?es ideas and practices; if includes myths and various models of reality. And like democracy, technology changes the social and individual relationships between us. It has forced us to examine and redefine our notions of power and of accountability. Technology is a system: it entails for more than its individual material components. Technology involves organization, procedures, symbols, new words, equations, and, most of all, a mindset. Like democracy, technology is a multifaceted entity: it includes activities as well as a body of knowledge, structures as well as the act of structuring. Franklin believes in technology as practise: looking at technology as practice, indeed as formalized practice, has some quite interesting consequences.
