[Air-L] Definition of technology?

[Jonathan Cohn]

Hi Ana,
Raymond Williams’ definition for technology in Keywords and “The Technology and the Society” has always helped me.
Best, Jonathan 



Jonathan Cohn
Assistant Professor, Digital Culture
English and Film Studies
University of Alberta
jacohn at gmail.com

New Book: The Burden of Choice: Recommendations, Subversion, and Algorithmic Culture <https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-burden-of-choice/9780813597812>

> On Apr 7, 2020, at 8:37 PM, Mark Davis <davismr at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> Hi Ana,
> 
> An excellent short history of the term can be found here:
> 
> Mcquire, Scott 2006, ‘Technology’, Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 23, no. 2–3, pp. 253–269.
> 
> Drones weren't a thing back then, but the article will give you plenty of stepping off points in terms of thinking about tech. If you can't access it, send me a direct email and I'll drop you a copy.
> 
> Best
> Mark
> 
> 
> ---
> Associate Professor Mark Davis
> School of Culture and Communication
> The University of Melbourne 
> 
> Recent publications: Davis, M 2019, ‘Transnationalising the anti-public sphere: Australian anti-publics and extremist online media’, in M Peucker & D Smith (eds), The Far Right in Contemporary Australia, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, pp. 127–149; Davis, M 2019, ‘A new, online culture war? The communication world of Breitbart.com’, Communication Research and Practice, available: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/22041451.2018.1558790; Davis, M 2018, ‘“Globalist war against humanity shifts into high gear”: Online anti-vaccination websites and “anti-public” discourse’, Public Understanding of Science, available: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0963662518817187; Davis, M 2018, ‘“Culture is inseparable from race”: culture wars from Pat Buchanan to Milo Yiannopolous’, M/C Journal, [S.l.], v. 21, n. 5, Dec 2018. ISSN 14412616. Available at: http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/1484.
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> On 8/4/20, 10:24 am, "Air-L on behalf of Ana Visan" <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org on behalf of ana.m.visan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>    Dear AoIRs,
> 
>    I am a migration and border studies scholar researching how technologies
>    (from mobile phones to drones to databases) affect migration journeys. I am
>    not familiar with STS scholarship and I was hoping you could help by
>    pointing me to some (seminal?) works that might help me formulate an
>    all-encompassing definition of technology (or a theoretical approach to
>    it), beyond ICTs—i.e. one that includes biometrics, information exchange
>    databases, but also material objects like drones, and/or one that addresses
>    both technology “used by” as well as technology “used on.”
> 
>    Many thanks in advance,
> 
>    Ana
> 
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