HSS-1 Technology and Society Reading – 8: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF FACTS AND ARTEFACTS By TREVOR J. PINCH & WIEBE E. BIJKER The article by Trevor J. Pinch and Wiebe E. Bijker “The Social Construction of Facts and Artifacts” talks about the “separation of science from technology” and how the study of science and technology can benefit each other. The authors draw attention to three bodies of literature in science and technology studies: Sociology of science, the science-technology relationship
dofLiving.html Tolmachev, I. (2010, March 15). A history of Photography Part 1: The Beginning. Retrieved Febraury 2014, from tuts+ Photography: http://photography.tutsplus.com/articles/a-history-of-photography-part-1-the-beginning--photo-1908 Wiebe E Bijker, T. P. (1987). The Social Construction of Technological Systems. London: The MIT Press.
Construction of Technology, or Social Constructivism, is a theory introduced by Wiebe Bijker and Trevor Pinch. The theory proposes that the development of technology is an interactive sociotechnical process within relevant social groups (e.g users, producers). As a methodology, social constructivism analyses artefacts in the context of society and explores the dynamics of technological change. According to Pinch and Bijker (1987), social constructivism is “fundamentally a sociological approach towards
How does the development of technology affect our society and social groups? How are our views of the development of technology flawed? In 1993, Langdon Winner set out to assert the significance of these questions when he published Upon Opening the Black Box and Finding It Empty: Social Constructivism and the Philosophy of Technology. He both validly criticizes holes in the considerations of social constructivists and calls for new research into the ethics and morality on the effects of technological
to reveal how that may not be true by showing how technologies have a much more active role on human behavior, and by trying to show how the relationship between humans and non-humans is a much more complex and dynamic that we may assume (Pinch & Wiebe). Now with a better grasp on such a broad concept, where does someone actively fit in one of these systems? Personally, I participate in a number of sociotechnical systems across a range of platforms and devices from simple design to large scale complexity
Technically, We’re Doing it Wrong Technological achievements are a testament to the human race. Technology is the one thing on this planet that is continuing to evolve past us. The irony is that so many people have become blind to the consequences of our actions by the light of our technological achievements. In the 1980’s, engineers and scientists noted being almost entirely motivated by external validation and legitimization which began this trend (Jameson 8). By overcoming the hubris of achievement
As decades and centuries pass, technology evolves. Machines become more efficient, and communication between locations becomes easier. Due to this, the process of doing things changes. Especially with the advent of the Internet, it is important to understand and look deeper into the effects of technology on society, as it is “complexly woven into the circumstances and rhythms of social life” (Gasher, Skinner and Lorimer, 2012, p. 155). For this reason, there are various perspectives on technology
现代西方技术哲学 第8章作业 2015080103 金延燮 Q. 试基于案例分析说明你对技术与社会之间关系的认识？ The human society of the 21st century cannot be separated from technology. Technology and society are becoming more and more correlated and co-dependent as time flows. It has been long since digital devices became an essential part of our daily lives, and humans have started to interact with technological software for a while. This relationship between technology and society can be viewed from two different perspectives. One theory is called
The following paper is an inquiry into my experience with neurofeedback (NFB), through the different problems and questions it raises regarding the old problem of body-mind and object-subject dichotomy, ending in a tentative attempt at applying Gilbert Simondon’s philosophy and notion of the individuation process to the study of the mind and the self, through brain-computer interfaces (BCI) in general and NFB in particular. In a sense, this can be said to fit well with Simondon’s work, where “an
The Jet Engine and Leisure Air Travel Air transport for European tourists got off to a shaky start in the late 1920s.But it was to be thirty years before leisure air travel was to appeal to anyone but the rich and adventurous. High cost, fear of flying and the absence of toilets in early airliners (an unfortunate combination) were the main deterrents; the unpressurized aircraft of the inter-war years were noisy, slow and not especially comfortable despite the efforts of some airlines to make aircraft