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What is Social Determinism

Chapter 636
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
The notion that society shapes technology.
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The Networked Effect of Children and Online Digital Technologies
Teresa Sofia Pereira Dias de Castro (University of Minho, Portugal), António Osório (University of Minho, Portugal), and Emma Bond (University Campus Suffolk, UK)
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2255-3.ch636
Abstract
Within the scope of how technology impacts on society three theoretical models: the social shaping of technology (SST), social construction of technology (SCOT) and the Actor-Network theory (ANT) are frameworks that help rethink the embeddedness of technology within society, once each is transformed and transformative of the other. More attention will be given to the ANT approach since it solves the technology/society dualisms unresolved by the previous proposals. This is a flexible epistemological possibility that can reach the ambiguity of contemporary life and the remarkable transformations brought by progress that have changed drastically childhood and children's contemporary lives.
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