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### Technological determinism
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In "What is (a) Digital Society?", **technological determinism** was one of the three key issues framing the course. Wyatt (2023, p.26) defines technological determinism ‘as the belief that technologies are independent of society and that they drive the cultural, political and social forms of a society’. Even though most researchers prefer more nuanced accounts of the relationship between technical and social change, deterministic accounts remain prevalent in policy documents and media reports of AI and other digital technologies, promoting views of technology as outside and beyond human control. This is contrary to the whole BA DS programme.
Reference (in UM Library): Wyatt, S. (2023). Technological determinism: What it is and why it matters. In G. J. Robson & J. Y. Tsou (Eds.), Technology ethics: A philosophical introduction and readings. Routledge.
Summary provided by Sally Wyatt, based on the sources cited.
In "What is (a) Digital Society?", technological determinism was one of the three key issues framing the course. Wyatt (2023, p.26) defines technological determinism ‘as the belief that technologies are independent of society and that they drive the cultural, political and social forms of a society’. Even though most researchers prefer more nuanced accounts of the relationship between technical and social change, deterministic accounts remain prevalent in policy documents and media reports of AI and other digital technologies, promoting views of technology as outside and beyond human control. This is contrary to the whole BA DS programme.
- Reference (in UM Library): Wyatt, S. (2023). Technological determinism: What it is and why it matters. In G. J. Robson & J. Y. Tsou (Eds.), Technology ethics: A philosophical introduction and readings. Routledge.
Summary provided by Sally Wyatt, based on the sources cited.
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### (Digital) Utopianism
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