[Air-L] Definition of technology?

[Alicia Takaoka]

I recommend Kling’s exploration of technologies: 

Kling, R. (2000). Learning about information technologies and social change: The contribution of social informatics. The information society, 16(3), 217-232.

Best wishes,
Alicia 

> On Apr 7, 2020, at 6:13 PM, Jonathan Cohn <cohn at ualberta.ca> wrote:
> 
> 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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