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Images of Technology in Sociology: Computer as Butterfly and Bat
[Zeitschriftenartikel]
Abstract Computers begin, without being aware of it, to effect a major turn in social science technology research: machine technology, having been left for a long time to engineers and environmentalists, arouses the interest of sociologists, too. The paper highlights the conceptual advances of a new sociolog... mehr
Computers begin, without being aware of it, to effect a major turn in social science technology research: machine technology, having been left for a long time to engineers and environmentalists, arouses the interest of sociologists, too. The paper highlights the conceptual advances of a new sociology of technology, which takes seriously the social constructions of technology of computer scientists and computer users. In the context of an emerging "media ecology", the main argument is about a social scientific mystification of Artificial Intelligence technologies.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Bewusstsein; Kommunikationstechnologie; soziologische Theorie; künstliche Intelligenz; EDV; Metapher; neue Technologie; Technik; Sozialwissenschaft; Techniksoziologie; Sprachgebrauch; Fachsprache; Informationstechnologie; Computer
Klassifikation
Wissenschaftssoziologie, Wissenschaftsforschung, Technikforschung, Techniksoziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
Technological Metaphors; Machinery; Computer technology; History of technology; Technology; Personal computers; Humans; Social sciences; Emerging technology; Social theories; Engineering; Technikbild
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
1990
Seitenangabe
S. 203-227
Zeitschriftentitel
Technology and Culture, 31 (1990) 2
ISSN
0040-165X
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)