[Air-L] Definition of technology?

[Nathanael Bassett]

Hi Ana,

This is a pretty difficult question actually, one good source I'd definitely recommend on it is Schatzberg's Technology: Critical History of a Concept from 2018.


Nathanael Bassett 
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> On Apr 7, 2020, at 7:23 PM, Ana Visan <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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