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Do Artifacts Have Politics? (THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES: (Theory of…
Do Artifacts Have Politics?
CLASSIFICATIONS:
Designs with political effects in a particular context:
Designs with intended political impact
Designs without "conscious conspiracies or malicious intentions
Inherently political technologies:
Technologies that require a particular social order to function
Technologies that are compatible with, but do not necessarily require a particular form of social order
THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES:
Theory of technological politics:
Naive technological determinism:
Social determination of technology
DISCUSSION:
CONCLUSION:
CONTEXT:
Authoritarian: Authoritarian needs to exist for systems of technology. Ship analogy (Authoritarian), Solar Power (Democratic) vs. Nuclear Power (Authoritarian) Solar Power is beneficially successful. These promote democratic into the system. The more complex the system, the more of a need for a central authority to run it.
Democratic: Democratic technologies inherently have a more wide-spread, decentralized influence of power. Often times coexist. It’s like a scale with a balance. They’re different degrees of power. “2 tech has recurrently existed side by side: 1 authoritarian, 1 democratic, the first system centered powerful, but unstable. The other man centered, but weak. Yet resourceful and durable.”
DEFINITIONS:
Politics:
Technologies: