MDSA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Andrew Feenberg, Technological Convergence, Bruno Latour
Document Summary
Technology encompasses both the device as well as an understanding of their use or operation of how they fit into a larger set of social circumstances. Slack and wise: technologies are inherently social and cultural - people create and use technologies, activities reflect values and choices. Creation requires time, skills, money, infrastructural support, investments that demand compensation. Research and development that corporations fund aim to either save money or generate revenue by bringing new products to market. Even research of public sector scientists aim to serve institutional demands. Users also shape technological development with demands and needs and how they adapt technology to their daily lives. Ursula franklin: technologies are developed and used within a particular, social, economic and political context. They arise out of social structure, they are grafted on to it, they may reinforce it or destroy it, often in was that are neither foreseen nor foreseeable.
