his book "The Whale and the Reactor" Langdon Winner asks the question "Do artifacts have politics?". That question has provoked many to look for different dimensions...
provides an antidote to naive technological determinismthe idea
Do Artifacts have Politics?
that technology develops as the sole result of an internal dynamic...
to enforce his edict: "For whites only". Hence Winner's conclusion: not only artifacts have politics, but it's the most perverse of all since they hide their biases...
therefore, it is task-oriented
and impersonal.
* Bowers (1992) claims artifacts have politics by analyzing formalisms of
design or implementation. Main point...
How do such developments change the fabric of everyday existence?
Chapter 2: "Do Artifacts Have Politics
W asks, Can technology "embody specific forms of power...
CS6031 Interactive Media in Society Cristiano Storni Week 10 Assignment Colm Walsh
New media can be considered to be a generic term for the many different forms...
a serious
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challenge in reconnecting young people with politics. As my hon. Friend may be aware, there is now a Cabinet committee on e-democracy...
in response to aggressive competitive bidding by others. The rarity of the real artifacts and political instability in certain countries is also causing problems...
change; the history of the future; cyberutopias
Langdon Winner, Do artifacts have politics?, from The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for
Limits in an Age of High...
Irony is about hu- mor and serious play. It is also a rhetorical strategy and a political method,
one I would like to see more honoured within socialist-feminism...
Continuing the meta-auto-behaviour-change effort started here, Im publishing a few extracts from my PhD thesis as I write it up (mostly from the literature review...
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Part Two. The Political Economy of Property and Commons 5. 6. 7.
Individual Freedom: Autonomy, Information...
developed (Latour and
Woolgar (1986)), followed in the 1980s by the social
construction of artifacts (Bijker et al. 1987) (see
Laboratory Studies: Historical...
has also been historically associated with a high level of
non transparent politics and power play, with no accountability and little respect for truth. In essence...
as a communication device enabling a man to see the world through his desk.
DO ARTIFACTS HAVEPOLITICS by Langdon Winner
Winner's argues that the technology means...
and profit-making participation. In our view this is the result of a pre-electoral political compromise between the current Labour party leadership and several media...
a lot of gold and land out here, normal citizens would believe them. (artifact T) Politics were opened up in new ways from the railroads, and Washington had new...
From 1765 in support of the dissident cause, he produced engravings and other artifacts with political themes. Among these engravings are a depiction of the arrival...
of mass media. According to Fischer, "political cartoon art in a democratic society has been on of the purest artifacts of popular culture, seeking to influence...
