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Googling on Technological determinism I incidentally came across an interesting theory of Social construction of technology. The article on that theory was published on the STS Wiki web site, which examines »the influence of society on science and technology, and the influence of science and technology on society”. It might be a good source of information for those interesting in that particular area.

The Social construction of technology theory was developed by STS scolars and the theory arose from technological determinism. In the context of all that has been said and written in our class on that topic it seems like something we have already been talking about, just didn’t put that name on it.

“SCOT argues that technological innovation is not the result of mythical men who introduce new ‘technologies’ and release them into ‘society,’ starting a series of (un)expected impacts; rather, technological innovation is a complex process of co-construction in which technology and society, to the degree that they could even be conceived separately of one another, negotiate the meaning of new technological artifacts, alter technology through resistance, and construct social and technological frames-of-thought, practices and action.”