{"id":803,"date":"2003-09-04T13:19:30","date_gmt":"2003-09-04T13:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2003\/09\/04\/social_construction_of_technology.html"},"modified":"2003-09-04T13:19:30","modified_gmt":"2003-09-04T13:19:30","slug":"social_construction_of_technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2003\/09\/04\/social_construction_of_technology.html","title":{"rendered":"social construction of technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In class today, we were introduced to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.umsl.edu\/~rkeel\/280\/soconstr.html\">Social Construction of Technology (SCOT)<\/a> framework\/methodology.  I am certainly not an expert on this approach, but i&#8217;m quite curious to learn more as it&#8217;s the first direct methodology that i&#8217;ve seen to address the socio-political impacts of technology creation and adoption.  All too often in tech-land, we think of efficiency and desire as our metrics of the success of a piece of technology and its adoption.  But there&#8217;s so much more to how and why these items are created and popularized.<\/p>\n<p>Update 11\/06\/03: Ack, given that this is way too high on Google&#8217;s search for SCOT, i thought i&#8217;d give some proper references on the topic.  Anyone who is interested in knowing what SCOT is (not just my version) should read:<\/p>\n<p>Bijker, W. E. (1995). King of the road: the social construction of the safety bicycle. In Of bicycles, bakelites, and bulbs: Toward a theory of sociotechnical change (pp. 19-100). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.<\/p>\n<p>Pinch, T. (1996). The social construction of technology: a review. In R.Fox (Ed.), Technological change (pp. 17-35). Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In class today, we were introduced to the Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) framework\/methodology. I am certainly not an expert on this approach, but i&#8217;m quite curious to learn more as it&#8217;s the first direct methodology that i&#8217;ve seen to address the socio-political impacts of technology creation and adoption. All too often in tech-land, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}