“SOCIAL SHAPING OF TECHNOLOGY” IN RELATION TO TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT “Social shaping of Technology”

“Social shaping of Technology”

The communal forming viewpoint in the investigation of technological development loans itself to a comprehending of the somewhat discussed feature of technologies, politicizing the mutual relatives of technological and communal forces which leverage the development, implementation, and discursive facets of technological change. A direct outcome of this observance is the adversity to set up a definitive, or in any way trained, pattern of a priori 'impacts' of technology (MacKenzie 1996 25). An insight which would have exact bearing on the border of technological ...