I recommend Kling’s exploration of technologies: Kling, R. (2000). Learning about information technologies and social change: The contribution of social informatics. The information society, 16(3), 217-232. Best wishes, Alicia
On Apr 7, 2020, at 6:13 PM, Jonathan Cohn <cohn@ualberta.ca> wrote:
Hi Ana, Raymond Williams’ definition for technology in Keywords and “The Technology and the Society” has always helped me. Best, Jonathan
Jonathan Cohn Assistant Professor, Digital Culture English and Film Studies University of Alberta jacohn@gmail.com
New Book: The Burden of Choice: Recommendations, Subversion, and Algorithmic Culture <https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-burden-of-choice/9780813597812>
On Apr 7, 2020, at 8:37 PM, Mark Davis <davismr@unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
Hi Ana,
An excellent short history of the term can be found here:
Mcquire, Scott 2006, ‘Technology’, Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 23, no. 2–3, pp. 253–269.
Drones weren't a thing back then, but the article will give you plenty of stepping off points in terms of thinking about tech. If you can't access it, send me a direct email and I'll drop you a copy.
Best Mark
--- Associate Professor Mark Davis School of Culture and Communication The University of Melbourne
Recent publications: Davis, M 2019, ‘Transnationalising the anti-public sphere: Australian anti-publics and extremist online media’, in M Peucker & D Smith (eds), The Far Right in Contemporary Australia, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, pp. 127–149; Davis, M 2019, ‘A new, online culture war? The communication world of Breitbart.com’, Communication Research and Practice, available: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/22041451.2018.1558790; Davis, M 2018, ‘“Globalist war against humanity shifts into high gear”: Online anti-vaccination websites and “anti-public” discourse’, Public Understanding of Science, available: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0963662518817187; Davis, M 2018, ‘“Culture is inseparable from race”: culture wars from Pat Buchanan to Milo Yiannopolous’, M/C Journal, [S.l.], v. 21, n. 5, Dec 2018. ISSN 14412616. Available at: http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/1484.
On 8/4/20, 10:24 am, "Air-L on behalf of Ana Visan" <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org on behalf of ana.m.visan@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear AoIRs,
I am a migration and border studies scholar researching how technologies (from mobile phones to drones to databases) affect migration journeys. I am not familiar with STS scholarship and I was hoping you could help by pointing me to some (seminal?) works that might help me formulate an all-encompassing definition of technology (or a theoretical approach to it), beyond ICTs—i.e. one that includes biometrics, information exchange databases, but also material objects like drones, and/or one that addresses both technology “used by” as well as technology “used on.”
Many thanks in advance,
Ana
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