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Technology Studies · Introductory guide

Social shaping & politics of technology

Whose interests and values shape technology?

Overview

Work, gender, institutions, and power shape technological choices. Social shaping and the politics of artifacts overlap, but are not a single school or a claim that technical properties do not matter.

Historical context

1970s–1980s onward · intersecting critical traditions

Key thinkers

Donald MacKenzie · Judy Wajcman · Langdon Winner

Selected reading