What is Technological Determinism

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A doctrine focusing on the technological evolution of information and communication system rather than on their interaction and their subordination to the society that developed them. Learn more in: Digital Parrhesia 2.0: Moving beyond Deceptive Communications Strategies in the Digital World

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The idea that technology is a social structure or force, the effects of which cannot be avoided or mitigated. Most arguments about this have been about the nature and degree of social influence over, or social construction of technology. Learn more in: Framing Pedagogy, Diminishing Technology: Teachers Experience of Online Learning Software

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A perspective that views technology as an exogenous variable which has independent effects on non-technical phenomenon. Learn more in: Towards Digital Governance in UK Local Public Services?

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An approach that privileges the tools of social change over the actors that employ them, thus elevating social media above human agency. Learn more in: Organizing With Self-Organization?: The Ramifications of the Strategic Use of Facebook in Informal Civic Activism

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The idea that technology drives change. Learn more in: Reflective Learning in the Digital Age: Insights from Confucius and Mezirow

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A philosophical stance that, in its most extreme form, views technology as and autonomous force and the primary driver of change in the modern world. Technological determinists believe that technological considerations tend to minimize or eliminate social, human, and organizational factors during the development and diffusion of a product. Learn more in: Bringing the User into the Project Development Process

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The idea that technology is the fabric of the material world, thereby determining its very survival and continuity. Learn more in: Mobile Phones Influence on Journalism Practice in Africa

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Theorizing social phenomena (including technological development) in ways that privilege technological variables while neglecting relevant non-technological ones. Learn more in: Digital Divide Redux: Why the Greatest Gap is Ideological

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The idea that technology dictates the direction of its social structure and cultural values. Changes in technology are the primary source for changes in society. Learn more in: Running After Time: Temporality, Technology, and Power

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A concept based on the assumption that technologies shape societies more than vice versa. Various strands of this theoretical concept generally emphasize that technological development directly influences how far political organizations can provide online services and information, and indirectly produces greater incentives for political organizations to do so, as far as the general public is wired. Learn more in: Online Participation and Digital Divide: An Empirical Evaluation of U.S. Midwestern Municipalities

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Argues that technology frames thought. Learn more in: From Linguistic Determinism to Technological Determinism

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The notion that technology shapes society. Learn more in: The Networked Effect of Children and Online Digital Technologies

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This approach places technology as the pivotal factor in bringing about social change. Technologies are seen as autonomous inventions that have direct effects on social life. Learn more in: What Use is Domestication Theory to Information Systems Research?

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The belief that a society is driven by technology, which is the result of weakness of social structure or culture from Andrew Feenberg. Learn more in: What's a “Technician” to Do?: Theorizing and Articulating MOOC Maintenance Concerns