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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"technological determinism"”.
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Constrained Choice and Contingency: Military and Economic Competition as the Mechanism for Technological Determinism
… with large-scales of analysis tends to be technologically deterministic. At large scales of analysis, instances of economic and military competition are more common. I argue that economic and military competition is the mechanism that gives rise to emergent deterministic patterns. New …
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A Habermasian-based critical discourse analysis of the ICT strategies of the Centre for e-Innovation, Provincial Government of the Western Cape
… there is, however, a recurrent theme of technological determinism, which is shown to be a cause of the high failure rate of ICT for development projects. Based on the approach of Cukier, Middleton & Bauer (2003) and Cukier, Bauer and Middleton (2004) to operationalising Habermas' validity …
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THE LIMITS OF THE NATIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEMS MODEL: THE CASE OF TURKEY
… new knowledge society without being trapped into technological determinism of the Neo-Schumpeterian approach.
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Technological innovation in forest harvesting
… with a variety of issues revolving around technological change, such as explaining the origins of technological innovation and arguing for or against technological determinism. This thesis reviews a number of theoretical models developed by historians, philosophers, sociologists, and other …
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Consensus & Colonialism: critiquing technologies of the (de)colonial project
… as a term to deconstruct the lure of technological determinism promoting static interpretations of democracy, consensus, and participation, and to describe the impact these interpretations have on intrapersonal and group identity formation.
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Instant message communication and its impact upon written language
… communication upon users. The theory of technological determinism will be defined, discussed in detail, and applied to the research of computerized communication. The concept of language deconstruction (i.e., Internet slang, use of emoticons, and shorthand) in instant messaging will be …
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The Elephant in the Baithak: Tabla and Audio Technological Discourse
… debate regarding recording technology, cultural/technological capital, technological determinism, and agency. I extend Christopher Scales’s (2012) concept of “recording culture” to “live sound culture,” or the behaviors, power struggles, and labor surrounding <em>tabla</em> mic’ing and …
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The Impact Of Artificial Intelligence And Neuro-Linguistic Programming On Candidate Assessment In Talent Acquisition
… to the literature, this study is grounded in Technological Determinism, Machine Learning Theory, Psycholinguistic Theory, and Cognitive Behaviorism. A quantitative correlational approach was used in this study. To investigate the proposed research questions, descriptive statistics, Pearson …
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Extensible business reporting language: an interpretive investigation of the democratisation of financial reporting
… This thesis illustrates that the rhetoric of technological determinism does not yet describe the reality of the relationship between financial reporting and XBRL. However, as XBRL matures, the approach adopted in this thesis may be re-applied to monitor perceptions of XBRL over time.
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The role of Facebook and Twitter in generating social and political change during the 'Arab Spring’ uprisings of Tunisia and Egypt
… sphere (along with the complementary theories of technological determinism and technical and cultural appropriation) the aim of this research was to investigate the role of Facebook and Twitter in generating social and political change during the Arab ‘spring’ uprisings of Tunisia and Egypt. …
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New reproductive and genetic technologies in Canada : towards a policy that manages technology and reproductive rights
… genetic technologies (NRGTs) are influenced by a technological imperative and our society's increasing reliance on the notion of reproductive rights. The unfettered use of the NRGTs may proffer a dystopian and eugenic future to society and to those affected, personally and financially, by the use …
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The Internet as an Anchor: A Comparative Analysis Model of Internet Advocacy and Web Site Production in Japan and the Issue of History Textbook Reform
… models of communication derived from theories of technological determinism and social shaping of technologies. Consistent with technological determinist ideas, the Japanese case demonstrates that as activists rely on the Internet, other media show signs of becoming content for the new medium. …
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Information friction : information technology and military performance
… which thus degrades or improves performance. Technological determinism alone cannot account for the increasing complexity and variable performances of information phenomena. Information friction theory is empirically grounded in a participant-observation study of U.S. special operations in …
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Locating the Indian Gendered Subaltern on Digital Platforms: Digital Activism in #section377 and #metooindia
… disrupts and troubles the traditional notions of technological determinism, particularly in the Global South, and focuses on questions of digital access, participation, and representation of vulnerable communities.
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WEB 2.0: THE INDUSTRY OF PARTICIPATION: An Actor-Network Theory Account of Myspace in the Case of Underground Music
… Web 2.0 embed “narratives of inevitability and technological determinism” (Bigge, 2006: 1) and belong to a long history of studies on the web and networked communication technologies that often have claimed a “revolutionary” role of the next new medium, a history that usually saw the failure of …
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Managing the diffusion of medical technologies
… the value of medical technologies (absolute technological efficacy and relative cost effectiveness). This policy, which is underlain by a model of technological determinism, may be ineffective if other factors influence decision making.Three international (UK and USA) comparative case studies …
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The Rhythm of Our Lives: Popular Music and Cultural Memory in the Age of the Internet and Retro Culture
… feeling’, the concept of hauntology and a soft technological determinism. This framework is used to interpret the empirical data emerging from thirty-eight semi-structured interviews conducted with a cross-generational sample of male and female fans of older popular music aged between eighteen …
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Making wonder tales : an exploration of material writing practice for ecological storymaking
… mainstream contemporary publishing. By avoiding technological determinism and reducing hierarchies of materials, an approach to material writing practice was developed that uses a range of methods to uncover new possibilities for making and sharing stories. The process-centred approach was shared …
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Systems Thinking Applied to Digital Divide
… from each other’s successes and failures. The "technological determinism" mindset, although widely acknowledged, is still embedded in the measurements, and there is a lack of acknowledgement of the complex identity structures in the modern society. This thesis aims to tackle these challenges by …
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Exploring the Impact of Artificial Intelligence in Artistic Practice : A Case Study of Finnish Contemporary Artists
… (including Bourdieu and Marx), perspectives on technological determinism and technophobia, the legal aspects of copyright, authorship, and ownership, as well as Mazzone & Elgammal's framework for the AI workflow." My results show that artists use AI actively. They mainly view AI tools as a way …
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