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What is Science Technology Studies(STS)
What is STS :star:
Contemporary Approaches of Technology
Augumentation
Automation
Simulation
Robotics
Advantages of the new definition
It also integrates the concept of sociomaterial assemblage.
it does not include technology as an element to society
it views technology as embodying and reflecting knowledge, social norms, political interests and so forth
it separates technology from society
AQH Definition of Technology
Defintion of Technology
Technology is seen as a key mechanism of social change, moving society forward into new social, cultural, political, and economic ways
Practice
Society
Material Substance
Technique
Knowledge
Two Views on Technology
Dystopian
Focuses on the negative impacts of technology and sees it as corruption in our world
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Utopian
Focuses on the positive impact of innovation of technology and sees it as a way to solve problems and create interesting things
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Concepts :star:
SCOT Concept
Interpretive Flexibility
Closure and Stability
Relevant Social Groups
Wider Context
Transhumanism & AI
3 Main Pillars
Super Longevity
Extension of life
Super Happines
Is achieved through genetics alteration
Achieving pleasure and happiness all the time
Can’t experience the lows of the lows
Super Intelligence
An intellect that greatly exceeds the cognitive performance of humans
AI technology will connect with the human body
Enhance cognition
The End of Absence
Absense of Technology
How people depend on technology
3 Main Perspectives on Surveillance
Capitalism
Rationalization
Power
Technologies impact on "new surveillance"
The use of technical means to extract or create personal data
Three approaches that describe the changes in surveillance
Revolutionary
Cultural
Functional
Community Links in Industrialization
Community Saved
Community Liberated
Community lost
Social Capital
A person or group's way to access valuable resources through a social network
Bonding Social Capital
Bridging Social Capital
Big Data: The 5 V's
Variety
Value
Velocity
Veracity
Volume
Time Periods/History of Technology :star:
Ancient Technology
Rapid changes in understandings about materials such as smelting of iron
Invention of tools like the lever and screw
Stone Age
Hunter gatherer society
Emergence of stone tools
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The Renaissance
The commoditization of information through mass production and dissemination
The invention of the printing press
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The French Revolution and Enlightenment
Development of more advanced military technologies
The publication of the Encyclopédie, the first universal and secular dictionary of human knowledge
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Industrial Revolution
Advancements in machinery and automated processes of production
The First Industrial Revolution was about coal, water and steam, bringing with it the steam engine and innovations that enabled the large scale manufacturing of goods and products, such as textiles.
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Electric Times
Emergence of mass media, through radio, cinema ,television
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Electronic media shapes how we see the world
Information Society
The collection and use of big data for predictive analytics
The creation of a networked society where connectivity is at the centre of influence
Theories :star:
Feenburg Categorization of Theories :
Neutral
Value-Laden
Autonomous
Human Controlled
Determinism
Technological Determinism
proposes that technology is the driving force in developing the structure of society and culture. Technological determinists adhere to the notion that technology directs and shapes social interactions.
Technologies are autonomous and neutral
Social Determinism
sees factors in society as creating specific uses of technology.
-Deterministic ideas leave no room for human choice(humans have choice and responsibility)
Substantavism
Value-Laden
Autonomous
Technology can be used for either liberating or destructive means, according to the nature of technology itself, which establishes and controls itself,which establishes and controls society,rather than by the means and goals of human actors.
Instrumentalism
Serves one purpose
Technologies are neutral and human controlled
Critical Theory
It must be understood within the context of its use and development,it is not simply a means of satisfying goals,but a process which directs a specific mode of living and understanding
Value-Laden
Human Controlled
Technology and its politics
Two approaches / interpretations
creates social order
Inherently Political Technologies
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this perspective identifies certain technologies as political phenomena in
their own right.
Neutrality vs. Value laden
The view of technology being value-laden tends to equate technological development with human progress.
Theories of neutrality describe technology as separate from human activity, with no effect on natural ends.
